Recipe: Veggie Burgers (another meal you can freeze!) made with Homemade Breadcrumbs

This is another recipe where you can use a lot of in-season ingredients from the farmer’s market. I was able to find mushrooms, scallions, spinach and carrots at our local Farmer’s Market in Matthews. And slowly but surely locally grown potatoes and bell peppers will be available as well. This is also one of those [...]

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Special Announcement: 100 Days of Real Food

After a few months of blogging on The Food Illusion I have decided it is time to do something big, something bold, and something that will get as many people as possible to not only read about eating real foods, but to also make a first-hand commitment to this important change. Therefore, my family and [...]

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Recipe: Whole-Wheat Tortillas

Have you ever tried homemade flour tortillas before? Let me just say that the taste and texture is far superior to those that come in a plastic bag at the grocery store. Those at the store honestly don’t even deserve to be called tortillas compared to the real thing. And luckily, the tastiness of homemade [...]

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Don’t judge food by its cover

Okay, so you see the title of this post…sound familiar? Just like you have been told since you were a child to not judge a book by its cover, the same goes for food. I get irritated every time I see yet another product at the store that has positioned itself to appear to be [...]

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Recipe: Collard Greens

Here is yet another winter vegetable that I have always thought of fondly…collard greens. In all seriousness, I felt the same way about collard greens as I did about kale. I had never tried it and certainly didn’t have any plans to run out and buy some. However, once I started to understand the importance [...]

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Becoming a “flexitarian”

If you have been working hard to cut out processed foods and start eating organically and/or locally grown foods, does that mean you can still eat meat? The answer is…sometimes. According to Michael Pollan: There are literally scores of studies demonstrating that a diet rich in vegetables and fruits reduces the risk of dying from [...]

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Recipe: Tasty Smoothies

Yet another tasty, healthy, flexible, and easy recipe to add to your files (no expensive juicer required)! These smoothies are a great addition to any breakfast or lunch, and leftovers stored in the fridge are surprisingly good the next day. The best thing about this recipe (probably thanks to the fact that a smoothie looks [...]

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Some tips on avoiding highly processed foods

Hopefully by now, especially if you have been paying attention to this blog, you are reading food labels before buying anything from the grocery store. And as a reminder, the section of the label that you should be reading is the “ingredients” …I am not talking about the nutrition facts! One of my favorite guidelines [...]

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Recipe: Fruit, Nut, or Berry (or whatever you want them to be) Whole-Wheat Muffins

Oh muffins, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways… First, you can serve these muffins as part of breakfast, lunch or just by themselves as a snack. Second, they really are easy to make and with so many possibilities of what you can add to the muffin batter I am certain you [...]

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“You are what you eat eats too”

I recently gave my 5-year-old a little pop quiz about eggs, and I am proud to say she passed with flying colors. Why don’t you give it a shot too? Okay, see the picture of the raw eggs on the right. Which one is different? I hope you picked the same one that she did…the [...]

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