Even though jello isn’t usually thought of as a healthy food, it can be! You can make it with unflavored gelatin and natural juice with no added sugars  or dyes and then add some fruit for vitamins and fiber! And gelatin has all kinds of health benefits! Ingredients: 2 Tablespoons unflavored gelatin 4 cups juice [...]

You all know how much I love muffins, so I was pretty excited about a library book called Mad About Muffins by Dot Varton! I tweaked the sweet potato muffin recipe just a little and ended up making it this way: Ingredients: 2 C. white flour 1 c. whole wheat flour 4 tsp. baking powder [...]

I can’t remember exactly where I got this recipe, but I think it was from the internet somewhere. Anyways…it’s now on a card in my recipe box and I pull it out around this time of year to use up leftover cranberry sauce…..well actually this year I made cranberry sauce just so I could make [...]

What do you do with a pair of pears? haha!! Okay…but seriously I had a couple of pears getting soft in my fridge, so I made some pear muffins! 1 egg 1/2 cup milk 1/4 cup butter melted then cooled 1/2 cup sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup flour 1/2 cup whole wheat flour 2 [...]

I LOVE muffins! They’re fun to make, a quick breakfast, snack or dessert and can be pretty healthy! What’s not to love? I’m going to be trying various muffin recipes and if I like them I’ll share them with you too! Yesterday I made morning glory muffins, a recipe that my Mom sent me. Ingredients: [...]

You know those cream cheese spreads you can buy at the store? You can easily make your own at home, which is probably cheaper (although I haven’t done a price comparison), and it can be healthier too! Here’s an easy recipe for honey pecan spread. Ingredients: 1 package cream cheese softened 1/2 cup pecans chopped [...]

These last to years I’ve had 2 goals in making Gracia’s birthday cakes. I wanted them to be: 1. Fairly easy. 2. Not require any fancy cake molds I’d have to buy. For some people purchasing a nice mold that they can re-use might be worth it, but for me, who rarely makes cakes, I [...]

I made some pumpkin muffins from the pumpkin I cooked and mashed myself. I used this recipe from cooks.com for the most part, but changed a couple little things. 2 cups flour 1/4 cup sugar 3 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1 egg 1/2 cup milk 1 cup mashed pumpkin 1/4 [...]

I love, love, love this recipe! It’s so yummy! And a perfect way to use up zucchini! I can’t remember where I got it, I think I found it on the internet. Ingredients: 2 cups sugar (I’ve done it with 1 3/4 just fine) 1 cup canola oil 3 eggs 3 teaspoons vanilla 2 1/2 [...]

Today is my amazing husband’s birthday! And every year he asks for the same kind of cake, honey carrot cake. It only uses honey as the sweetener, no sugar, and has some whole wheat flour in it, plus it’s got carrots, so it’s a healthier birthday cake. When he was a boy his mom always [...]