Is all cinnamon healthy? Well, yes and no. Look, I’m not here to smack your hands or check your cabinets. But when I discover something really cool that makes my food healthier and taste better, I want to tell you all about it! We all know cinnamon is a kitchen spice cabinet staple, and we love…
Homemade Fruit Bottom Yogurt Recipe
My homemade fruit bottom yogurt recipe brings back some delicious memories. My parents were into super healthy eating when I was a little kid, and we didn’t get much in the way of sugary treats, but we were allowed to choose our own flavor of yogurt. As a child, one of my very favorite treats was…
Sugar Free Brown Sugar Recipe
A sugar-free brown sugar recipe is not something you really ever think about until you are working on going low carb. And the holidays hit. And then it ranks right up there as a ‘need’ next to toilet paper and oxygen. “Wait…they MAKE that already,” you might say. “There is a very tasty product called…
Sugar Free Frozen Eggnog Recipe
How about a frozen eggnog recipe? A SUGAR FREE, protein packed, super fast to whiz together *scrump-diddli-icious* frozen breakfast treat is on tap this Trim Healthy Tuesday. Last week’s Holiday Sweets Cookbook Review & giveaway got me all ready for holiday goodies. Speaking of which, the Sweeter Side of Candida cookbook is on sale at…
Low Carb Cinnamon Dippers
Sweet Iced Tea-Sugar Free
Can REAL Sweet Iced Tea be sugar free? This southern girl is here to tell you YES it can! I’m an artificial sweetener despiser, but I promise that a good brand of stevia is all it takes to take your sweet tea from flab to fab. I’ve read many a story of a true southern…
Taco Salad 3 Ways
Today is Taco Salad day here at Gwen’s Nest, on this fine Trim Healthy Tuesday. I’ve been asked to blog about how I like to eat my taco salad, and my answer is–ANY way you make it! I love tacos and Mexi-fare so much that it pretty much has its own day on my weekly…
Rooibos Chai Tea
Roobios chia tea is a lifesaver. I love coffee with real cream, even though I didn’t indulge daily. So it really stunk big time when I discovered that I needed to cut out caffeine. I was never a huge fan of herbal teas, but on recommendation of friends, I’ve discovered a few really delicious teas…