Nothing delights me more than recreating recipes to feed my family nourishing foods that meet all of our dietary needs.
If you want to take a walk on the healthy side, you’ll find our favorite recipes to nourish your body and delight your senses below.
Paleo Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies (Healthy Pumpkin Spice Cookies!)
Sugar cookies are sort of my thing. And after I mastered paleo sugar cookies last year, I continue to update ...
Pumpkin Smoothie Recipe That Kids Love | GAPS | Paleo | AIP
If you're going to pumpkin spice all the things, that should include making this pumpkin smoothie recipe! It's packed full ...
Simple Air Fryer Drumsticks with Italian Seasoning
These fast air fryer drumsticks require only a handful of ingredients and few minutes to whip up. Serve alongside a ...
The Yummiest Adrenal Cocktail Recipe!
Adrenal fatigue is no joke. It can cause a variety of unpleasant symptoms. But a targeted approach to supporting and ...
Turkey Pot Pie Recipe (Paleo & Gluten Free)
A little comfort food goes a long way, particularly on a cold winter's night. Pot pie is just such a ...
Healthy Carrot Cake Recipe (GAPS / Paleo Carrot Cake)
Holiday treats don't have to have junkie ingredients to be delicious! This healthy carrot cake recipe works for paleo, primal, ...
Ice Cream Sandwich Recipe (Healthy & Homemade!)
It's no secret that homemade ice cream is the BEST ice cream, right? But why not take it up a ...
The Original Easy Paleo Fudge Recipe
Homemade chocolate is such a decadent treat! This easy paleo fudge recipe is rich and satisfying and so simple to ...
Paleo White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie Easy to Cook Recipe
You'll find several versions of chocolate chip cookies here on the site, mainly because, no matter how strict I'm eating, ...
The Paleo Gluten Free Peach Cobbler Recipe (Healthy Peach Cobbler!)
We share plenty of healthy treats around here, and you can always bet they'll be gluten- and grain-free, refined sugar-free, ...
Paleo Meringue Cookie Recipe
Holiday treats never get old... but making sure to stay with your clean eating plan can grow tiresome. It can ...
Paleo Gingerbread House Recipe
I absolutely love baking holiday treats with my kids, and even though we avoid grains, dairy, and artificial ingredients, we ...
Easy Custard Recipe for the GAPS Intro Diet
When you're on the GAPS intro diet, you'd do just about anything for a treat, so this easy custard recipe ...
The Fudgesicle Recipe with GAPS, Paleo & Keto Options
Homemade popsicles are a favorite around here, so it was only a matter of time before I made this fudgesicle ...
The Animal Cracker Recipe for Paleo & GAPS Diet
It's time to start thinking about yummy kid foods that are lunchbox-friendly, and this animal cracker recipe fits the bill! ...
Homemade Chocolate Bars: How to Make Your Own Chocolate
I recently discovered how easy it is to make your own chocolate, so now I've been experimenting with everything from ...
Tasty Roasted Fig Salad with Prosciutto and Feta
I love a good salad, especially if I can get creative with it and add interesting ingredients. This Roasted Fig ...
The Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe | GAPS Diet + Paleo
Although I have a healthy chocolate chip cookie recipe here already, I've been wanting to recreate one that is GAPS ...
Easy to Prepare Chocolate Chip Recipe for the GAPS Diet
If you're craving chocolate chip cookies, but not sure how to avoid the sugar in store-bought chocolate chips, look no ...
Keto Ice Cream – Easy to Prepare Recipe (Bulletproof Ice Cream)
If you haven't yet tried fat bombs, you're missing out on a simple treat that has huge health benefits. It's ...
Tasty Salsa Dip Recipe Made with Lacto Fermentation
Lacto fermentation is a good way to get good bugs into your gut! It's the same process by which sauerkraut ...
Homemade Kale Chips (Kids Love!)
Making food kids will love is more than just recreating healthier special treats. It's important to find ways to get ...
Rustic Paleo Pizza Galette Recipe (Pizzette!) with AIP Option
"Junk food" doesn't have to be junky! With this rustic paleo pizza galette recipe (which I have dubbed a "pizzette!"), ...
Easy to Cook Shrimp Gumbo Recipe for the GAPS Intro Diet (Stage One & Beyond)
While I make salmon in the oven and on the grill fairly often, I had never before put fish into ...
Salmon with Mango Salsa
Salmon is a favorite around our house, and I continue to try to come up with inventive ways to serve it ...
Easy Quinoa Salad for Detox (Gluten-Free & Vegan)
The air is warming up, which means I'm craving all the fresh things like salad. This easy quinoa salad is ...
The BEST Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies Easy to Prepare Recipe
Listen, if I'm not eating cookies, I'm not living, so I knew it was high time I developed the perfect ...
Dairy Free Queso Dip Recipe – Amazingly Tasty
While I'm not afraid of some well-sourced cheese or raw milk (and have plenty of dairy-containing recipes on this site!), our ...
Gouda, Bacon, & Basil Stuffed Pork Chops
Why eat regular ol' pork chops when you can eat stuffed pork chops? The latter (which I know you're going ...
Gluten Free Fruit Crisp Recipe (w/Paleo Option!)
A classic fruit crisp done right is three things: simple, healthy, and delicious. Below, you'll find this gluten free fruit ...
Paleo Copycat Chick fil A Nuggets (+ Healthy Special Sauce)
My love affair with cassava flour is no secret, and this copycat Chick fil a Nuggets recipe takes my adoration ...
Pumpkin Pecan Pie Cheesecake (Grain-Free & Primal!)
The holidays call for decadence and this pumpkin pecan pie layered cheesecake delivers! Read on for the recipe. Holiday baking ...
Easy Clam Chowder Recipe (In The Instant Pot!) | Paleo | AIP | Whole30
I often find myself making a lot of GAPS Diet-style meals this time of year, as soup comes into its ...
Easy-Peasy Paleo Tortillas | Grain- & Gluten-Free | Vegan
The ability to make paleo tortillas opens up a whole new world of fun recipe possibilities! Get the recipe below ...
Paleo Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting (Fast & Easy!)
With recipes for cake and cookies a regular around here, it should come as no surprise that I'm a fan ...
Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe (How to Make Perfect Soft Serve!)
Anytime our family gets a hankering for ice cream, there's no need to hit up an ice cream shop with ...
Homemade Popsicles (SUPER Healthy with Protein & Other Nutrients!)
Homemade popsicles are my favorite way to make my boys a treat in the summer time! Try my strawberry lemonade version ...
Paleo Pineapple Cake Recipe
Pineapple has such a nice flavor profile. It can lend itself nicely to savory recipes like pizza or pork, and ...
Paleo Pancake Recipe {Best Ever!}
I recently shared our family's favorite waffle recipe (see awful paleo waffles here), so it's only fitting that I give ...
How to Make Baking Powder :: Paleo
When our family originally changed our diet, we had to begin scrutinizing labels: after all, MSG, high fructose corn syrup, ...
Paleo Waffles with Cassava Flour
Awful waffles are my boys' favorite breakfast (that or pancakes), because you get to smother them in liquid sweetener and ...
Enchilada Stuffed Sweet Potatoes- Fast, Easy, Healthy!
The idea for these enchilada stuffed sweet potatoes came from the same place all my food inspirations do: hunger. And ...
Cassava and Coconut Flour Banana Bread Recipe
If you want to make a little boy (or big guy) happy, make him banana bread for breakfast. It's a ...
{Secret Ingredient} Bulletproof Tea or Latte Genuine Recipe
So here's the thing. I've told y'all how I don't like coffee 'cause I'm not a real grownup, which has ...
The Tasty 10 Minute Oven Cooked Salmon Recipe with Lemon & Thyme
So... salmon. It's one of the few types of fish I'll eat, and only because I know how healthy it ...
Grain-Free Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza Recipe
I'm not super big into going over the top for holidays. We don't do gifts or baskets on Easter or ...
Paleo Sugar Cookies with Cassava Flour
Paleo sugar cookies seem like a sort of oxymoron, since sugar isn't paleo. But I love to play with natural ...
Greek Burger Recipe with Special Sauce
Y'all, can I just say? I'm exhausted. Just absolutely spent. Preparing for a move has kicked my tail and I've ...
Easy To Cook Chicken Spaghetti Recipe for the GAPS Intro Diet
It is imperative to get creative on the GAPS intro diet, and to be honest, my inspiration seems to come ...
The Super Nourishing, Superfood Beef Chili Recipe for the GAPS Intro Diet
We're on the GAPS intro diet again, which means what we can eat is pretty restricted. We're on day three ...
GAPS Intro Series: How to Make Creme Fraiche {Sour Cream}
Creme Fraiche... it sounds so fancy! Yet, it is the simplest food to make, which is very nice and welcome ...
How to Make Poached Chicken – GAPS Intro Series
Learning how to make poached chicken is one of the single most important skills you can learn if you want to ...
Tired of Eating Soup on the GAPS Intro Diet? Try This! {Chicken Enchilada Soup Recipe}
We are still hanging strong on GAPS intro, and I'm not sure when we'll venture off of it, but I'm ...
Bacon and Rosemary Roasted Sweet Potato Recipe
Sweet potatoes are my love language. Like, I cannot properly express in words how much I adore them. They are ...
Cream of Mushroom Soup Recipe for GAPS and Paleo Diets
I can remember that first Thanksgiving after our family had gone grain-free (read about how to get through the holidays ...
Golden Hot Chocolate Easy To Prepare Recipe from Nourishing Holiday
If you've been around on the internet at all for the past little while, you've probably seen a trend on ...
Gingerdoodles: The Healthy Holiday Cookie for GAPS, Paleo, and Primal Diets
I have had so much fun getting into the holiday spirit in the kitchen lately! As you may know, I'm ...
Pizza Pockets: The Grain-Free, Healthy Kid Favorite You Can Make at Home
Since our self-proclaimed summer of fun food is over and we're back to eating grain-free and paleoish, I've been inspired ...
Paleo Biscuits: The Nut-Free Recipe with AIP Option
Because we don't eat a lot of nuts and avoid almond flour most of the time, I've found it hard ...
The Paleo Meat Pockets Recipe from The Paleo Kids Cookbook
Last year, I shared a hearty beef chili recipe from Jennifer Robin's Down South Paleo (which, coincidentally, is perfect as ...
Chocolate Recovery Pudding for Little {and Big} Athletes!
This post is sponsored by Vital Proteins. I've been joking lately that our family has been eating, sleeping, and breathing ...
Lacto-Fermented Strawberry Lemonade
It's barbecue weather, officially! Our family loves any excuse to grill out, and my boys get so excited when I ...
Tasty Grain-Free Blueberry Buttermilk Muffins with Streusel Topping
Blueberry muffins are the way to a little boy's heart, of that I'm sure. When I made my boys a ...
Cassava Flour Buttermilk Biscuits
Whether you live in the south like me or you just miss this classic breakfast staple, these cassava flour buttermilk ...
GAPS Intro Series: How to Make Tasty Ghee
Stage two... ahhh. You get to start eating a little more and introduce more flavors and nutrients, my favorite of ...
GAPS Intro Series: How to make Sauerkraut in a Crock {that tastes WAY better than store-bought!}
Sauerkraut is an integral part of the GAPS intro diet- there's no way around it. From the early stages of ...
Super Antioxidant Blueberry Chia Seed Smoothie Easy to Prepare Recipe
I've gotta be honest, I kind of get tired of cooking three square meals every day. I'm just being real ...
Pulled Pork and Cranberry Hand Pies in Sweet Cornbread Crust
Something about the holidays just sets my creative juices on fire! I love creating in the kitchen and, though I ...
Cassava Flour Sugar Cookies
Last year around the holidays, I started playing with a fun new flour that boasted taste and texture similar to ...
Paleo Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Recipe
You guys. Sometimes I get super excited about the recipes I create. This is one of those times, but I ...
Sweet “No Potato” Casserole for the GAPS Diet
Anytime you embark on a strict dietary protocol, odds are, you're going to miss your favorite foods. For most people ...
GAPS Diet Recipe for Pecan Pie Without Corn Syrup
Even though our family eats a gluten-free, paleo-style diet these days, I still love to make treats, especially at the ...
How to Brew Tasty Kombucha: Growing a Scoby
When we first began drinking kombucha, my kids hated it. I had to force them to take little sips, but ...
How to Make Coconut Butter
Coconut butter. It’s quite the confusing ingredient for folks, myself included not so long ago. I kind of thought maybe ...
Paleo Preserves… in a Bread Machine?
Preserves, jams, jellies... whatever you want to call them, they don't turn up much on a paleo diet. When you ...
Grain-Free Chicken Enchilada Casserole Recipe
Missing food with a little Latin flare on the GAPS diet or other grain-free diet? This chicken enchilada casserole recipe delivers! ...
Paleo Pineapple Kalua Pork with Butter Braised Cabbage and Onions
This paleo pineapple kalua pork with butter braised cabbage should be on your next meal plan! It's paleo-friendly, gluten-free, and ...
Brown Butter Blondies with Salted Caramel Sauce – Paleo, Keto, and GAPS Diet
Brown butter makes everything taste better... that melt-y, caramel-y, rich flavor just enhances everything and takes it to the next ...
Easy Paleo Snacks to Make Your Transition Easier and Keep Your Palate Entertained
Ok, so you're starting to get the hang of this paleo/primal thing. You're making great meals for supper and starting ...
Primal and Paleo Diet Meals: Recipes for Every Night of the Month and Then Some! – The Family That Heals Together
When I first started considering removing grains from my diet, I was so intimidated. What would I eat? After all, ...
45 Primal and Paleo Diet Breakfast Recipes to Get You Out of Your Breakfast Rut
If you've never done the grain-free thing before, you may be wondering "what the heck can I eat for breakfast?" ...
Five Minute Flourless Blender Blondies- Paleo, Grain-Free, Gluten-Free
Who cares about brownies? Okay, I like brownies... but blondies? They're really my fave. I much prefer blondies over brownies, just like ...
GAPS Stage One Coconut Melts
Yesterday I posted my recipe for GAPS Intro Gummies, which have really, really saved us in the afternoons when low ...
GAPS Intro Stage One Super Gut – The Healing Gummies
We did it. We dove in and started GAPS Intro. The first time we went through it, it was a ...
Paleo / GAPS Copycat Campbell’s Tomato Soup Recipe
There are lots of junk foods I miss from my pre- real food days. Oreos, chips, even candy. But nothing ...
Paleo / Primal Pumpkin Ravioli in Herbed Brown Butter
Sometimes I make spaghetti squash with meat sauce for dinner. It's good... it's fast and easy. But it's not the ...
Paleo Pumpkin Spice Blondies with Maple Butter
It's finally fall and I'm making everything pumpkin! Funny since I never liked pumpkin pie growing up, nor have I ...
Bulletproof Chocolate Milk Recipe
This post is sponsored by Vital Proteins. Ok, I admit it. I'm not a real grown up. I hate coffee ...
Banana Bread Bites: 21 Day Sugar Detox Cookies
As we get closer to starting the GAPS intro diet, I thought it would be easier to ease our way ...
Texas Slow Cooker Beef Chili from Down South Paleo
Y'all. (I don't even have to cop to saying "y'all" frequently in my every day life because it's totally appropriate ...
“Caulifredo” Paleo AIP and GAPS Diet Friendly Cauliflower Sauce Recipe
When you're navigating dietary restrictions, things can get complicated. This cauliflower sauce recipe uncomplicates things. It's dairy-free, egg-free, gluten- and ...
Banana Protein Pudding Recipe + a special offer from Vital Proteins!
This post is sponsored by Vital Proteins; all opinions are my own. As you probably know, we focus on whole-food ...
Chopped Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing – Easy to Prepare Recipe
I have been bragging about this salad on Instagram for months... and for good reason! It is delicious... simple and ...
Homemade, Paleo-Friendly Mayonnaise Recipe
Although I've been eating a paleo-style diet for the better part of three years, I never made mayonnaise until recently, ...
Chunky Bacon Jalapeno Salsa: Recipe
I live in Texas... I love some good Tex Mex! I grew up in New Mexico... I do NOT like ...
Maple Butter Recipe: A Rich, Decadent, Healthy Treat Your Family Will Love
When I set out to look for a maple butter recipe, I assumed the recipe would include melting down butter ...
Superfood Meatballs for The GAPS Intro Diet
I've learned lots of little tricks this first week that we've been on the GAPS intro diet (read about our ...