I’ve been pretty impressed with how many fun fall activities both Cole and Bennett have been doing at school lately. Bennett has had a field trip to the library, hosted a tea party for the parents, and roasted pumpkin seeds. Cole has gone to the pumpkin patch, learned how to curl, and made pumpkin pie. One…
Category: Snacks
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
When I eat a pumpkin cream cheese muffin, it always reminds me of when Cole was first born. It was September and the leaves were just starting to change, the mornings were becoming colder, but the last remnants of summer heat lingered in the afternoons. I used to take walks with my mom to Starbucks…
Sweet Potato Brownies
I’ve been disheartened by my family’s lack of interest in yams and sweet potatoes so I stopped using them for a while, but when I was in the grocery store the other day the sweet potatoes seemed to be calling to me and I couldn’t help grabbing a few of them. I wasn’t exactly sure what to…
Cherry Clafoutis
It’s a funny thing with cherries in my house; sometimes they get gobbled up so quickly I barely get to enjoy any of them, and other times they sit in the fridge untouched for days. On one of those occasions where a big bag of cherries was threatening to go bad due to lack of interest…
Edamame Hummus
My boys were first introduced to edamame beans at daycare. Cole came home asking for ‘Mommy Beans’ and it took me a little while to figure out what he was talking about. So I bought edamame beans and we all enjoyed sitting around the table together, popping the shiny green beans out of their tough shells…
Raspberry Cream Cheese Muffins
Sometimes for lunch I like to make muffins and serve them warm out of the oven with butter, sliced cheese and fruit. This is one of my favourite lunches, so I didn’t even think twice when I packed Cole a couple muffins for his daycare lunch, along with fruit and cheese. Well, did I ever get…
Holy Crap
I’d like to introduce you all to Holy Crap cereal. Yes, that’s right, it’s actually called Holy Crap. I just couldn’t resist trying a cereal with that name, could you? This delicious stuff is gluten free, lactose free, sugar free and nut free. It’s made up of chia, hemp hearts, buckwheat, dried fruit and cinnamon. You don’t need…
Oatmeal Smoothies
Oatmeal in a smoothie? It may sound strange, but it’s actually delicious! I first came across this concept on Gina’s Skinny Recipes. You must check out her site if you haven’t already, it’s one of my favourite places to find recipes for low fat food that tastes great. She wrote a post about a healthy oatmeal shake known as Avena,…
“Baked” Oatmeal in a Mug
I recently posted about Chocolate Cake in a Mug, where I showed you how to bake a single-serving chocolate cake in only a few minutes. That got me to thinking, would this work for baked oatmeal too? I adore baked oatmeal, but most mornings I don’t have the time to bake it. So I tried applying the principles of…
Homemade Graham Crackers
Sometimes there’s nothing more satisfying than making something at home that you would normally buy in a package, especially when it tastes just as good, if not better. The great thing about making food from scratch is that you can make it so much healthier. These graham crackers have no refined sugar, very little oil,…
Food and Whine 