Tag Archives: Healthier alternatives to clean up your recipes!
18 Tips On Health, Wellness and Fitness Advice From 6 Health/Nutrition/Fitness/Mindset Experts
I recently had the privilege of being on a panel with 5 other experts in the areas of helping others reach their goals. This was for the celebration of the Girl Power Hour 30 Day Fit & Fabulous Challenge. The 30 days was devoted to bringing the “trifecta” together – fitness, mindset and nutrition. We [...]
5 Tips For Creating Exciting Meals With Food Allergies/Sensitivities/Restrictive Diets
As a personal chef I cook for all kinds of clients on all kinds of diets. Balanced and healthy, allergy restrictive, diet specific (Weight Watchers, HCG, etc.) orders from a doctor or naturopath or trainer, etc. I even have clients that want yummy comfort food, no holds barred on the fat, sugar, etc. I chef [...]
5 EASY ways to be healthier – every day!
Do you think healthy living has to be all-or-nothing? No way! Making easy tweaks to your daily life, a few positive daily steps in the right direction, can have a HUGE impact on your health! These are quick, easy ways to make every day a little more healthy! Start today and pass these habits onto [...]
Chef’in the 5-day “Kick Your Cravings and Healthify Your Body” Meal Plan!
I had the pleasure of providing personal chef service for my client, Tracy Klinkroth today! . She is starting the 5-day “Kick Your Cravings and Healthify Your Body” Meal Plan this week and being a busy entrepreneur who doesn’t like cooking, I got to do the shopping, cooking, packaging and clean up for her! Tracy [...]
Mesa de Vida – honored to be aligned with Girl Power Hour for the 30 day Fit & Fab event!
Girl Power Hour is the Seattle area premier “Stylish Networking for Women.” I started attending Girl Power Hour events when I launched my business and was so honored to have been chosen as one of their 10 makeover contestants earlier this year. The atmosphere is so encouraging, inspiring and fun! This coming Monday, April 24 [...]
Klean Your Plate with Kirsten! All about balance….
Just a short little video I made because these crazy fad diets where people cut everything out are making me nuts! Well, not really. But I know they don’t work. If they it is at a cost to your lifelong health. We don’t want that, right? Want to be at a healthy weight, have a [...]
Klean Your Plate with Kirsten”! “Kleaning” up your family snacks
My daughter had donuts 4 days in a row last week. I am a little bit horrified by this – in my previous “life” when I was 100 pounds overweight and ate things like donuts often this would have been no big deal. Now I know the health effects of eating things like donuts so [...]
Root Vegetable Latkes
What is fresh, local and in season this week? Find these fresh vegetables and more at the farms that are a part of the Sammamish Farmers Market! These are a great recipe for Hanukkah but also as a nice side dish with any protein of your choice and even for breakfast! I made them [...]
“Klean Your Plate with Kirsten”! – Healthier alternative to canned Cream of Mushroom Soup
Condensed cream of mushroom soup is a very common recipe ingredient. Let me tell you what the ingredients are: Water , Mushrooms , Modified Food Starch , Wheat Flour , Contains Less Than 2% of: Salt , Cream , Dried Whey , Monosodium Glutamate , Soy Protein Concentrate , Yeast Extract , Spice Extract , [...]
Read More“Klean Your Plate with Kirsten”! Foil Packet Spice/Soup Mixes
Many people rely on ready made foil spice blends for a lot of their recipes…I see meatloaf, chili, enchilada, taco, guacamole, stew, onion soup mixes in a lot of my client’s cupboards. Here are some of the drawbacks from these mixes: They contain a LOT of sodium. The sodium is usually from a source less [...]
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