Why Breakfast Makes Me a Champion

{Sweet Potato Pancakes from the Winter Meal Plan} I have a hard time understanding why people don’t eat breakfast. This is partly due to the fact that I am always hungry in the morning, and partly due to knowing how many benefits there are to eating breakfast. Recently, I have started to understand non-breakfast eaters […]

Matcha Latte

I’ve been learning a lot about marketing lately and I keep reading how you need to see or hear about a product or brand seven times on average before you decide to purchase. Shortly after being reminded of this, I unintentionally proved the theory 100% correct. Currently, Matcha has been everywhere I am- on instagram, […]

Why I Gave Up Diet Soda

  My mom always had beautiful gold cans of caffeine free Diet Coke tucked away in the pantry growing up, and she usually drank one a day in the afternoon. From a young age, I became a big fan of the stuff, and I even preferred it to regular coke. When I started calorie counting, […]

DIY Healthy Peanut Butter Cups

My pantry food needs from the US have slowly been dwindling, thank goodness. More room for clothes in my suitcase! One reason for less food importing is because a) I’ve figured out how to live without certain things and b) Switzerland has got with the times and now has more options. Currently there are really […]

Why I Keep Dark Chocolate in the Pantry

Whenever I used to start a new diet, I would get rid of all the sweets in the house so there would be no temptations. Usually “getting rid of the sweets” meant indulging in all of them all on Sunday night since Monday was going to be a new day, where all of a sudden […]

What a Gluten Free, Dairy Free Diet Can Look Like

As soon as I say my Meal Plans are gluten free and dairy free, people give me this look like I’m crazy. Why would they sign up to eat that way for a whole entire month? Am I trying to torture them? No, actually, just the opposite. I’m trying to show the world that real food […]