Fruit Skewers with Yogurt Dip
This healthy, bright breakfast, snack, or dessert from Skinny Taste is easy to make for this warm summer months! For the skewers, choose your favorite fruit and cut into bite-sized pieces. Stack on a long skewer in any order you want, like rainbow! Yogurt Dip Ingredients 1 1/2 cups Greek yogurt (I use Fage 0%...
Fruit Tacos with Chocolate Tortillas
In honor of summer on the horizon and Cinco De Mayo being last weekend, fruit tacos with chocolate tortillas sound like the perfect warm summer night dessert! This recipe from Munchin with Munchkin is packed full of fruit and are sure to be delicious! Check out the full recipe here.
Eating Seasonally
If you’re looking for an easy way to eat healthier, try eating only fruits and veggies that are in season. They’re less expensive than those out of season (as they didn’t need to be grown in a greenhouse), and they’re most likely more organic. Here’s a list from Primal Palate of what to eat, when....
Creamy Blackberry Frozen Yogurt
Ingredients 3 cups fresh blackberries 3 cups Greek yogurt 1 can sweetened condensed milk (14 oz) Directions In a blender, puree the blackberries with the sweetened condensed milk In a medium bowl, mix the blackberry puree with the Greek yogurt Pour the mixture into your ice cream maker
Apple Pops
There’s something so tasty about caramel apple, and yet they’re so difficult to eat! Luckily I found this tutorial from RosaRot that puts a new (and very smart) twist on the classic caramel apple so that you can actually enjoy eating them. Because the original blog post is in German, I’ve translated it here. Ingredients Large...
Cereal Challenge
If you’re like me, you love cereal but find it doesn’t fill you up enough to truly be considered breakfast. I’ll be happy with my bowl of Crispix, but an hour later, I’m hungry again. I stumbled across The Cereal Challenge on OhSheGlows.com and thought it was a great way to tackle my cereal debacle. The...
Homemade Girl Scout Samoas
Are you addicted to these Girl Scout Cookie classics? Do you go out of your way to buy as many boxes as possible and cry when you’ve run out? Fear no more! With this recipe from Once Upon a Plate, you’ll be making your own cookie clones and won’t have to spend $4 a box...
Raw Cookie Dough Bites
If you’re like me and love the occasional sweet treat of frozen cookie dough but don’t want to be unhealthy, then this is the recipe for you. I have made these Raw Cookie Dough Bites twice, now, doubling the recipe the second time because my family loved them so much. This great idea comes from...
Easy Updo
If you’re like me, you love the idea of a simple and effortless updo but hate actually having to create it. I always get lost in a sea of bobby pins and hairspray and it never turns out how I planned. Well, here is an extremely easy updo from So Much to Smile About that...
DIY Colored Bobby Pins
This adorable DIY comes from Ali Henrie. It’s an easy way to add a little pop to a common hair accessory-bobby pins. The only materials you’ll need are bobby pins and your favorite nail polish colors. It’s that simple!
Getting Fit for Summer
So maybe you’re starting to realize that spring break snuck up way too quickly and you just don’t have the bikini body you hoped you would by now. Don’t get discouraged! Getting fit by a particular date is extremely challenging, especially with busy college schedules, and we usually have way too unrealistic goals for ourselves....
Movies to See this Spring Break
It’s finally time to relax, kick back, and catch some sun at the beach, but if you’re experiencing the torrential downpour I am right now (I thought this was supposed to be SUNNY California!) then you might be better suited staying indoors. That doesn’t mean you can’t be entertained, though, especially with so many great movies coming...
Healthy Pita Pizza
After taking my dogs on a long Sunday morning walk, I decided to make something fun and different for lunch. I had recently had tacos, so my fridge was filled with salsa, ground beef, and different shredded cheeses. An idea popped into my head and the result was this pita pizza! I’m a huge fan...
Why You Need a Fitbit
After being let down time and again by exercise equipment bought from infomercials, I’ve become a little jaded when it comes to health and exercise products. However, I’ve found a product I love so much, I had to write a post about it. It’s called the Fitbit, a small, technological device about the size of...
All-Natural Easter Egg Dye
With Easter just a little over a month away, I thought I’d share this great tip from Better Homes and Gardens on how to make all-natural egg dye. Instead of using chemicals, fruit and vegetables are the ingredients. Here are instructions on how to make the more popular Easter colors, but visit the website for...
