Recipes

Food and drink play an important part in Christmas and New Year traditions, which can sometimes encourage people to stray from their diet (lifestyle) plan during the festive period.The most wonderful time of the year is upon us. Tinsel, baubles, and fake snow are out in full force as Christmas and the festive period is well underway. For many of us, gaining a few lbs during the holidays and then making a New Year’s resolution diet is a yearly event. However, it doesn’t have to be that way this year and you can still enjoy all the festive food and...

This easy breakfast casserole has been in our family for over 20 years now. It’s one of those recipes that the family knows we’ll have early on Christmas morning or New Year’s Day. You prepare it ahead of time and place it in the refrigerator the night before you plan to cook it. The day you plan to serve it you remove the cover on the cooled casserole and press the cooked bacon and sausage into the casserole and bake as directed. It’s so good when you serve it with sour cream and your favorite salsa. It has bread, eggs,...

If you’re like me, all that good eating over the holidays have you feeling a bit…fluffy. With the New Year on the horizon, my resolution is to finally to shed some weight in 2018 and “de-fluff” from the holidays. Unfortunately, statistics say my chances for success are slim. 50% of people in North America will make a New Years resolution this year and close to 81% of those people will fail in their resolution after 6 months.1 However, the key to not being in failing majority is to create a clear goal and plan ahead. One way to do this,...

I have seen so many air fryer recipes on the internet that I decided I needed to know if this appliance was worth getting or not. Do I really want another kitchen appliance sitting on the counter? Remember, I have a very small home and I don’t have a lot of counter space. Plus, most of the air fryers looked too tall to sit on the counter and not touch my upper cabinets. I decided to ask my Food Storage Mom’s Facebook followers if they had one and if they felt it was worth buying. I had read that an...

Lose weight. Run a marathon. Cut out alcohol. Get a raise. We make the same tired new year’s resolutions every year that we never manage to keep, or we forget we made them altogether by February. Seriously–is it just me, or do new year’s resolutions never seem to work? My suspicion is that we make resolutions that we think we want, not resolutions that will actually make us healthier and happier. We think losing weight will make us feel more confident or that running a marathon will get us to the gym (and back to that weight loss goal). We...