Homemade Guacamole { + A Review of Food Should Taste Good Chips}

October 10, 2014 by Margaret Anne 7 Comments

This no-fail homemade guacamole goes great on chips, burritos, burgers, tacos, and much more! The ingredients are so simple, the flavor is out of this world, and it can be adapted in so many ways.

Despite their health benefits, I’m not usually one to buy avocados.

Unless I know I’ll be making a batch of guacamole soon.

Avocados are a real funny thing. One minute their as hard as a rock, the next their waaaaay too soft and are completely unusable. So I buy the rock hard (green) avocados, wait until they’re just starting to go soft, and then make a batch of the world’s best homemade guacamole.

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Honey Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls

October 6, 2014 by Margaret Anne 37 Comments

These honey whole wheat dinner rolls are beautifully golden brown with a soft and fluffy texture! They take less than 45 minutes to prepare, start to finish, and are so much healthier for you than their store-bought counterparts.

If you can believe it, whole wheat doesn’t mean hard as a rock/flavorless.

And these soft, super delicious rolls prove it. Before I started eating real food, I had never noticed the whole wheat flour sitting INCHES away from the bleached “enriched” white flour I used to buy. Now I would rather use white whole wheat flour over all-purpose any day, although I do make a few exceptions.

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Natural Living Monday 10/5

October 6, 2014 by Margaret Anne 3 Comments

Thank you for joining us on Natural Living Monday. I am excited to see the great things you have been doing to live a more natural, whole, holistic life.

Your Hosts:

Amanda from Natural Living Mamma
Andrea from Homemade for Elle
Margaret from Natural Chow

Guess what?!?! Now, when you sign up for my email newsletter, you’ll receive my free essential oil eBook! How awesome is that? It’s just a small way of me saying thank you for all of your support! (If you’ve already subscribed, check your email—I sent it your way a few days ago!) Subscribe Now: http://eepurl.com/Wca7r

Also, I have a bunch of cool recipes planned for this month that you guys are going to love. Chicken Chimichangas, Kale Chips, and Cranberry Almond Energy Bites are just a few recipes I have in store for you, so make sure you come back to check out some seriously delicious recipes!

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Cinnamon Raisin Peanut Butter Granola Cereal

October 4, 2014 by Margaret Anne 18 Comments

Take your breakfast up a notch with this insanely easy cinnamon raisin peanut butter granola cereal! It takes only 5 minutes to prepare and is so much healthier than granola cereal from the store.

There’s nothing quite like breakfast you can serve in less than 15 seconds.

That’s the beauty of cereal. It’s such an amazing time-saver and is super cost-efficient, but of course there are the downsides to it as well. Chemically-laden, highly-processed, covered in sugar…you couldn’t pay me to eat that. Would you eat it? Would you feed it to your kids?

Luckily, there is a simple alternative that is SOOOO much healthier for you and your family in the long run. Enter: homemade granola.

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Homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte

October 1, 2014 by Margaret Anne 48 Comments

What better way to kick off October than with a homemade pumpkin spice latte in hand? This recipe is foolproof and a hundred times tastier than the kind from Starbucks.

Let me start out by saying, I don’t normally put pumpkin in my coffee.

Call me crazy. But when I do add pumpkin to my coffee, it’s when I’m making a pumpkin spice latte. And not just any pumpkin spice latte—THE BEST pumpkin spice latte known to man.

I know, I know, you COULD jut drive all the way to Starbucks to get an overly priced version of the real thing. But this is real life people. Where we make pumpkin spice lattes at home. Just for the heck of it.

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