A calmer way to look at bloodwork without panic, cherry-picking, or false reassurance. Most portal lab results manage to be both overly dramatic and oddly unhelpful at the same time. You get the email. You open the PDF or the app. Something is red. Something else is bold. Something says normal even though you feel
A simpler way to feed people well when your brain is already full. Sometimes I feel that deciding what’s for dinner every day is a ridiculous use of human intelligence. I do not think meal planning needs to become a hobby, an aesthetic, or a minor religion. It just needs to make life easier, which
Why I started building the tools I wished already existed. A month after I finished my nutrition certification, I attended an online conference for nutrition business owners. Four children make travel and airfare for work deeply unappealing, and I prefer to save that sort of effort for family trips to Australia to see my in-laws.
I loved Malt-O-Meal muffins as a kid. Not just eating them but making them. By six years old I could follow the box instructions on my own, perched on a step stool like a tiny food scientist. There was something deeply satisfying about measuring, stirring, portioning, and then watching the oven do its thing. The
I’ve made this beef shank regularly of late. It’s one of those meals that feels slightly ambitious, yet requires very little from you once it’s in the oven. Bone-in shank is collagen-rich and deeply savoury — but it only turns tender if you treat it properly: covered, low heat, and enough time for the connective
There was a season of my life where I was taking a lot of herbs. Not recklessly. Intentionally. Thoughtfully. But still… a lot. I was navigating autoimmune issues, trying to support my immune system without suppressing it. Some things clearly helped. Lion’s mane felt supportive. Eleuthero felt steadying. Certain blends made me feel more resilient.
On MTHFR, COMT, and Building a Resilient Terrain I have a habit of reading food labels like I’m trying to crack some hidden code. To be fair, modern nutrition and ingredient labels do contain quite a lot of enigmatic information. Years ago, when my husband and I were coworkers, he watched me in a grocery
Last summer we went camping. Four kids. Smoke drifting through the trees. Spotty sleep. Electrolytes in the bag because I wasn’t going to lean full zero water filter without replenishing. You know, the restorative wilderness reset. Somewhere in the stretch leading up to that annual camping trip, I switched from Rasa Bold to their cacao
For someone who has run a food blog for the better part of eight years, it’s borderline ridiculous that I’ve never written down my chicken soup. Probably because it’s not fancy. It’s just what we do. I Instant Pot a whole organic chicken. Usually organic. Sometimes pastured. I’m more careful about chicken than I am