Category: Recipes

These recipes will help you simplify your time in the kitchen with healthy food that you and your family can enjoy. Cooking can also be a great time to spend together as a family.

Dairy Free Spinach Dip – Slow Cooker

I love me a good dip.  When it’s a warm dip, I really love me some!  This dairy free spinach dip is really fantastic, even for being dairy free.  I brought it to a family party as an appetizer and it was gone in about 2 seconds, even though I’m the only one in the …

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Dairy Free Pasta Alfredo Recipe

This dairy free pasta alfredo recipe takes a little help from the grocery store (or from Amazon), but is big on flavor.  It’s super easy and a great thing to put on pizzas, or in this case pasta.  It is also gluten free.  You will need 1 box of Gluten Free Dairy Free Elbow Macaroni. …

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Gluten Free Chex Muddy Buddies Recipe

This is a fun recipe to make with the kids.  I altered the recipe from the bette crocker site to make it a gluten free chex muddy buddies recipe.  It is dairy free as well.  Of course you can modify as you wish.  This is a wonderful recipe to satisfy that pesky chocolate peanut butter …

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Gluten Free Pizza Soup Recipe

This gluten free pizza soup recipe is so delicious.  It’s becoming my go-to meal when we are having company over to our house.  It’s so easy to make in the slow cooker and adults and kids both like it.  Find the recipe here on one of my favorite blogs.  I omitted the mushrooms because they’re …

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Dairy Free Chocolate

Chocolate is life.  I can’t live without it!  I’ve been dairy free and gluten free for about 3 years now and I thought at first that I would have to give up chocolate altogether.  But, alas, no!  There are options out there for us allergy sufferers!  I wish I could have found a list of …

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Sugar Free Banana Bread

This sugar free banana bread was given to me by a dear friend and neighbor who has gestational diabetes when she is pregnant.  It is so moist and so sweet! I had no idea it was sugar free.  Best of all it’s also gluten free and dairy free so it fits in perfectly with our …

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How to Make Dried Apples in the Oven

  I’ve always wanted a food dehydrator, but I don’t really have anywhere to store it and would only use it a few times a year, so I don’t really think it’s a necessity.  I have made dried fruit and fruit leather successfully in the oven with cookie sheets and I think it’s a delicious …

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How to Whip Coconut Milk

Since going dairy free a few years ago, I have really missed having fluffy whipped cream on desserts.  Buying soy whipped cream in the can can be more than $6 and it’s probably not very healthy.  Coconut milk is extremely good for you.  Check out this site that touts the 10 benefits of coconut milk. …

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How to Freeze Spinach for Smoothies

I buy a lot of spinach.  I eat a lot of spinach.  I might turn into Popeye one of these days!  I try to eat 2 pounds of Organic spinach per week.  Do you know how much a pound of spinach is?  It’s a lot.  It’s 2 giant costco boxes.  I have a couple tricks …

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Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Chocolate Cake Recipe (GFDF)

I love using my new Instant Pot Pressure Cooker so much I use it to cook pretty much every single dinner I make!  It was important to me to get a pressure cooker that was easy to use, safe, and didn’t have a Teflon insert because of so many health concerns coming from Teflon peeling …

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