What a perfect weekend it was. Delicious food and celebrating Mama. I (Peter) did most of the cooking this weekend to give mom a break. Breakfast: Steak Strips with Eggs over easy and Sweet Potatoes and Bullet Proof Coffee It would be hard to get more simple and hardy than this breakfast. For the sweet […]

People talk a lot about how expensive or time-consuming it is to eat well as a family. But for me, the biggest obstacle is this: Healthy eating is much messier than unhealthy eating. There are dishes. There are vegetable skins and scooped-out grapefruit bodies and cast iron skillets with food stuck on them. There are […]

As a mom, there are three main excuses that usually stand in the way of preparing healthy meals for my family: I don’t have time. I don’t have the right ingredients. I don’t feel like it. With the exception of #3, these excuses are easily put to rest by proper meal planning. If I sit […]

  Welcome to our Sneaky Parent Series. This series of recipes provides sneaky and delicious ways to force encourage your children to eat liver. The word “liver” used to make us feel nauseous, but now it makes us all salivate. If you or your kids have similar aversions this healthful organ meat, these recipes will quickly […]

We have a challenge for you: Get rid of your phone for one whole week. Don’t hide your phone for a week. Get rid if it, by which we mean, make it completely inaccessible. If you’re saying, “What’s the big deal?” then this challenge is for you. The worst thing that happens is you get […]

I was fortunate enough to attend Paleo f(x) in Austin a few weeks ago, as we had the opportunity to cover the conference for Breaking Muscle. One thing that stood out to me was how warm and communal the ancestral crowd was. As an international group of cutting-edge athletes, coaches, best-selling authors, and movement specialists, […]

“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the […]

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” ~Marie Curie This month is national cesarean awareness month. As a mom and doula I feel passionately about avoiding c-sections when they are not medically necessary. If you know me, you know I like to stay as close to “natural” as I […]

I’ve always hated commercials. But today, I’m here to tell you why everyone should hate commercials – or at least a certain insidious breed of commercials. I try not to make blanket statements like that. I like to think I have a gentle nature that allows people to take their own course and find their […]

You’d think eating would be simple. You wouldn’t think food would incite feelings of passion, irritation, or contempt. But we humans are funny creatures, and it seems that it does. How many times have you heard statements like these: “I want to eat what I want to eat. It’s a free country. Stop telling me […]