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A tip for how to perfectly char a tortilla! I don’t know why I was so intimidated by it before, but I only recently started to char my Siete tortillas (my favorite are the coconut cassava) over the open flame on my range. For years I’ve roasted bell peppers this way, but I was stuck in the skillet-tortilla-heating method for …
Allow me to give you my tips on how to make the perfect homemade salad dressing. Allow me to give you my tips on how to make the perfect homemade salad dressing. A truly great salad dressing starts with great ingredients! You know I love a high quality EVOO, then either citrus or vinegar, then a mustard to help emulsify …
I want to show you an easy way to organize your food storage containers that is truly life changing. It makes me SO HAPPY. Not all of our food storage containers are glass. So before you @me with the comments, just don’t. The glass containers are nearly all glasslock brand I think. The silicone replacement lids for round containers are …
There was a time when I couldn’t go a few hours between meals without a major blood sugar crash. Then there were many years when I stopped eating grains all together, I even remember (some of you may, too) thinking “oats are just horse food.” Sigh. There are truly only a handful of things about nutrition I still wholeheartedly stand …
We recently released brand new Balanced Bites Spices in regular sized jars, and with that launch came a handful of questions. In this post, I’m going to share answers to your questions as well as the background on why we made the shift to regular sized jars (away from large jars), and what I learned in the process. First, let …
While sheltering-in-place my husband & I have done our best to support our favorite small businesses by buying from them directly online, and I encourage you to do the same! If you are looking for a way to shop and support small businesses online in the U.S., I’ve rounded up some of my favorites (with discount codes where applicable) so …
Balanced Bites Spices are now here in new, regular-sized jars. Ready to spice up your kitchen and make meals so much easier? Balanced Bites Spices are here for you. If you’ve been cooking with spice blends from Practical Paleo or The 21-Day Sugar Detox Daily Guide and you’re feeling totally O-V-E-R-I-T with blending them yourself, going to multiple stores for …
Is your kitchen overdue for a deep clean? If so, join our #BBKITCHENCLEANOUT challenge! Earlier this year, we kicked off a kitchen clean-out challenge that was a full 12 days long. Now that we’re midway through summer, we want to bring you an abbreviated version of our kitchen clean-out challenge that’s just 5 days. Take the next 5-days and tackle one …
In the last few weeks while staying at home, we have done our best to source proteins from what’s available in stores, swaps available on Instacart, and generally being flexible with whatever cuts we are able to get. I want to take this moment to both: 1) give you the permission to simply buy whatever protein you are able to …
Work-from-home tips are easy to come by as someone who’s been at it for the last decade. I have a few tricks up my sleeve on how to be productive without losing your mind! Here are my top 5 work-from-home tips: 1. EXERCISE OR GET DRESSED (ideally first thing). If you can, get a workout in first thing, maybe just after …