A Helping Hand When our first son Ezekiel was born, Gray and I decided to not have anyone stay with us. We wanted the time to simply adjust to our life as a family of three. With two children, however, things are different. As soon as we found out we were pregnant with Ellis, I […]

“Love People, Cook Them Tasty Food” There’s a spice shop here in Milwaukee with the slogan, “Love people, cook them tasty food.” I smile every time I think about it. I love how such a basic necessity of life–sustenance through food–can also be such an amazing outlet to express love. Grayson and I often love […]

Learning to Eat Real Food is a Process Full of Adjustments When we set out a year ago on this food adventure, I was very unfamiliar with how to eat real food, and so we made it our mission to learn. Learning is a process however, and as we learned we made adjustments. I came […]

Setting Up A Standard Two months ago I wrote about our “time of de-processing“; a two-month experiment we were embarking on in order to launch ourselves deeper into eating real, wholesome foods. This was our attempt to “cleanse” our bodies from some of the processed foods we ate during my first trimester of pregnancy, and […]

The Salmon “Special” One afternoon I came home with salmon. Trinidadian Salmon, to be specific. I had never heard of Salmon from Trinidad. I reasoned that since the market was using the origin of the fish as a selling point, it had to be good. The only way I can really describe my husband’s reaction […]

Hey readers, just a quick plug: I haven’t touched on my blog too much about the “From Famine” part of my name. This past weekend I had a great opportunity to write a 3-part blog series on how God rescued me out of anorexia. Check it out on Whole Lifestyle Nutrition, where I am now […]