Welcome to another round up of checking out what's happening in the social media food trend world and rating some of the options! This is a favorite series and all of the previous posts can be found here, here, here, here and here! Loaded Cereal Bowls This trend involves taking a typical cereal bowl with cereal and milk or milk alternative and adding more to it so it's more filling and satiating. Folks find themselves doing this by adding in things like fresh or dried fruit,

If you are like many others in our nation, finding eggs at the store or even stretching your grocery budget to continue to include eggs might be feeling like a pretty big challenge lately! Many of us rely on eggs for a breakfast option and may feel confused or unsure of what to eat instead if eggs aren’t as affordable or accessible. Here are some other non-egg breakfast options to think about bringing into the fold: Smoothies/Smoothie Bowls – Blend items such as fruit, veggie

Girl Scout cookies are a delicious and iconic treat, and with a bit of creativity, you can pair them with varying food groups to make filling and satiating snack ideas. This concept comes from the idea of "nutrition by addition vs subtraction", which has been referenced in previous blog posts that can be found here, here and here. Additionally, pairing foods that we really like with other food groups to make balanced snacks can help us to feel more in control of enjoying the

When practicing Intuitive Eating (IE), two primary concepts are honoring our hunger and listening to our fullness. When practicing this more, you might find yourself having more leftovers as you are more attuned to when you want to stop eating a meal. This can sometimes feel challenging, especially if coming away from the “clean plate club”, with navigating what to do with leftovers. However, instead of tossing them out or letting them languish in the fridge, we can get creat

As the holiday season winds down and we enter the New Year, some folks can feel a bit stir crazy staying indoors with the colder months as winter continues! As blustery outside as it might be, winter can also be a good time to try some new activities (both indoors and outdoors, depending on weather conditions). So here are some ideas: Outdoor Activities: Ice Skating Sledding/Tobogganing Building a Snowman Snowball Fight Skiing Snowshoeing Winter Hiking Bird Watching Creative

As we usher in a new year, the discourse around resolutions can increase; these resolutions might also seem especially increased around others heath goals for themselves in 2025. If you’re feeling the pressure to try a new diet in the new year, here are 10 non-diet health goals that are likely safer and more sustainable options! Eat a wider variety of foods Connect to hunger, fullness and satiety cues better Find more forms of joyful movement Improve sleep hygiene Cultivate s

The holiday season is a time to celebrate and show love to the special people in your life. When it comes to gift-giving, the most thoughtful presents are those that nurture well-being, both physically and emotionally. This is why for the third year in a row, I present to you a non-diet gift guide! Previous years posts can be found here and here for more ideas. Books: There are so many great books available that focus on Intuitive Eating, anti-diet, body image and more. Here

When practicing Intuitive Eating (IE), sometimes it can be helpful to have examples for each of the 10 Principles of how to implement them in certain scenarios. So let's take Thanksgiving, for example, and work through the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating one by one before the holiday arrives! Principle 1: Reject Diet Culture A way to practice this around the holidays is to set boundaries for no diet talk. Consider speaking with loved ones before the holiday to set this boun

During this season of holidays (the time right after Halloween and with Thanksgiving and winter holidays approaching), a helpful practice to feeling more peaceful around certain foods is to include them with meals and snacks as you would any other food. This helps us to reach a point of habituation, which is a non-associative learning, and the psychological definition is “the diminishing of a physiological or emotional response to a frequently repeated stimulus”. So the stimu

A butternut squash soup recipe that only takes about one listen through to All Too Well 10 minute version (IYKYK if you're a Swiftie!)... and using only 3 ingredients? Sign me up! Shout out to content creator @consciouschris on Instagram for the initial inspiration for this recipe! He puts pumpkin gnocchi in his recipe, which also sounds fantastic if you'd like to try this! So far I've only tried it as a soup with warm bread on the side :) Ingredients (as noted below - recipe