10 Healthy Cooking Substitutions From Biggest Loser Author Devin Alexander

This post is a part of Back to Basics Week, a week where we share fabulous how-to and beginner’s content—like this post on healthy cooking substitutions from Devin Alexander—to get you and your fitness kicked up for fall!  Meet celebrity chef and author of The Biggest Loser Cookbook series, Devin Alexander. Devin knows healthy food. And when it comes [...]

Recipe: Double Chocolate Plum Amazin Cookies

Today’s plum recipe is a part of FBG’s second-annual Love Yo’Self Week. After all, what better way is there to love yo’self than by noshing on a tasty treat that’s good for you? Most of us think of prunes or dried plums as something only our grandmothers eat. But, hold the geriatric bus up! Plums are full of all [...]

Apple Cinnamon Granola: Way Better than Fruit Cake!

Now that Christmas has passed, I can share the top-secret gift idea that I came up with for my guy’s family. He was having the hardest time thinking of gifts to get the adults in his family. He didn’t want to get them gifts just to get them something; he wanted to make sure they [...]

Robin Miller’s Healthy Chocolate Mousse Recipe

The Buttermilk ‘Fried’ Chicken Recipe that we recently shared was so finger-lickin’ good (and so quick and easy to make!) that we just had to share another one of Robin Miller’s healthy creations from her new cookbook Robin Takes 5. So get your ovens preheated and your bellies ready, dessert lovers. We’re about to get our healthy chocolate-mousse-recipe baking on! Chocolate [...]

Getting My Gluten-Free Holiday Cookie Baking On

Each year my immediate family gets together for a day of holiday cookie making. I don’t do a ton of baking throughout the rest of the year, but I really, really enjoy this holiday tradition of ours where we spend all day baking far more cookies than we could possibly eat (thank goodness for neighbors [...]

Gluten-Free Baking Mix: Making Cookies That Actually Taste Good

Although we occasionally review and talk about gluten-free snacks because I’m not gluten-intolerant or sensitive, we haven’t done a lot on gluten-free baking or cooking. But I know that a lot of ya’ll are gluten-sensitive. And gluten-sensitive people deserve tasty eats, too! So when Maple Grove Farms asked us to try its All-Purpose Gluten-Free Baking Mix, we were down for [...]

Bake Yourself or Your Honey a Honey Cake (with Giveaway!)

It wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day and Love Yo’Self Week without a few tasty treats to celebrate with! This honey cake is not only delicious, it’s an aphrodisiac. According to Dr. Lynn Anderson who graciously supplied us with this yummy recipe she created for her book Sex Matters so…Get Sexually Healthy the Natural Way, honey is [...]