Gluten free dates dessert

For this week's healthy recipe I have decided to share with you one of my husband’s favorite desserts. It is so good and with a little small change I made it super healthy too. So you can go for the seconds without worrying about having to pay off later. You know what I mean ;). …

Motivation

What does motivation mean? How can you get and stay motivated? What does motivation have to do with happiness? Let's start with defining motivation. Motivation has been defined as a reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way. Here are a couple of examples: a high school student wants to …

Toddler sumo squats

A big challenge that parents, or in fact anyone who their priority is a child, is not having enough time to work out. If you are a working parent, you have very little time in a day with these precious ones, and I know it is a struggle to chip away from this time to …

Gluten free pineapple cupcake

I have written about the benefits of Almond meal/ flour in my previous posts. You can visit my post on Healthy muffins for this information. I have a separate post dedicated fully to grass fed butter and the health benefits of it. Please visit 3 health benefits of grass fed butter for more information, Here …

Secret to happiness

It seems like most people are in search for the road to happiness. Don’t you wish, there was a big sign pointing toward the road to happiness? Can you imagine how awesome it would be if there was an address to happiness and we could just put it in our GPS and boom there we …

Importance of nature in our life

Have you noticed during the winter your energy level drops and you go into what has been called “ winter blues”? Did you know that on average, we spend over 90% of our times indoors, regardless of the season? Have you noticed days that you spend a few minutes outdoors and in the nature, how …

Tips for choosing the healthiest bread

Are you a bread lover? If yes,  you know how frustrating and confusing it can be when you are trying to eat healthy without completely giving up on bread. In this week’s healthy eating post, instead of sharing another healthy recipe, I decided to get to the bottom of what I would call “bread issue”. …

Lying and Happiness

When we find truth, constancy, fidelity, and love, we are happy; but if we meet with lying, faithlessness, and deceit, we are miserable. (‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Paris Talks, p. 65) As a child, I got to know my father as a loving, caring and happy guy. He was cheerful and playful all the time. I will never …

3 Health benefits of grass-Fed Butter

If you have been following me long enough, you know that I bake with butter, but not any kind of butter. The butter that I use is grass fed or pasture raised butter. Unfortunately, there is a lot of misconceptions regarding butter that will make people run away when they see butter listed in the …

Setting goals and happiness

A very nice thing about life, I think, is dreaming and setting goals. From the day that I remember I have been a daydreamer. As a child, I remember dreaming about how I would grow up and have tons of children, I am very thankful that did not come true ;). As I grew older …