This cleansing quinoa salad recipe is perfect to boost your superfood intake. Who says detoxing means consuming only juice?

Cleansing Quinoa Salad Recipe – Detox with Superfoods

Some days, you just need to cleanse. Detox. Reboot. But when you’re like me and a total food lover, you know you’d never last on a juice cleanse. (Especially now that this food lover is pregnant…and boy, oh boy, does this baby love to eat!) So needless to say, cleansing in the traditional way is out of the question. But …

Learn how to make a hydrating winter body scrub out of healthy ingredients that will exfoliate, nurture, and moisturize your dry winter skin.

Hydrating Winter Body Scrub

With the start of the new year comes our plans to recalibrate ourselves and either refocus on, expand, or start our healthy living routines. In fact, the new year is the perfect time to make a decision to no longer use toxic products in our lives, especially on our body. My personal journey into living a DIY #LifeFromScratch started when I was …

DIY Pumpkin Lotion (...perhaps to 'spice' things up in the bedroom!??)

Does This Pumpkin Make You Horny? (a DIY pumpkin lotion tutorial)

That got your attention, didn’t it? Want to really turn your man on? Put away the perfume and pick up the pumpkin. Huh!??? I recently read a study indicating that pumpkins make your man…well, ummm…excited. This study showed that the odor that most enhanced penile blood flow was (interestingly enough…) a combination of lavender and pumpkin pie. In fact, the combination …

Instant Pot Chana Masala

Instant Pot Indian Chana Masala

  One of my all-time favourite dishes in the world is the slightly spicy, slightly tangy, and wonderfully comforting Indian chana masala. If you’ve never had this, it’s basically a chick pea stew with tomatoey sauce seasoned with warm, good-for-you spices. It’s perfect any time of year, but especially good on a cold wintery day. It pairs well with rice …

Strawberries are high in Vitamin C, which is fantastic for your skin! Learn how to eat your way to healthy skin- Scratch Mommy

Eat Your Way To Great Skin!

When I was in high school, it was the early 2000s. The internet was dial up, social media outlets, blogs, and gossip websites were still on the horizon and if you had a cell phone you were really, really cool. So, to entertain ourselves, we reached to teen magazines for our celebrity news, fashion advice, beauty tips, and fun. One …

Vegetarian Power Bowl- This is a MUST MAKE- Nutrition packed bowl for anytime of the year- Scratch Mommy

Vegetarian Power Bowl (layered with colorful vitamins!)

There’s no denying that a diet rich in fresh, local, organic, in-season produce is a diet that will be nutritious and vitamin rich. In the summer it’s easy to eat this way, whether picking fruit or veggies from your backyard or heading to the local farmer’s market for the best your local farmer has to offer. But then winter rolls …

Healthy Bento Box School Lunch Packing Ideas

Packing a Healthy Bento Box School Lunch

We’re only a few weeks into the new school and year I’m already tired of packing the same old things for my daughter’s lunch every day. She’d buy lunch from her school’s cafeteria every day if I let her, but for now we save that as a special treat because, despite their efforts to offer fruits and veggies with every …

Savoury Cheesy Jalapeno Bun Recipe

Savoury Jalapeno Cheese Bun Recipe

Smell. Scent. Aroma. No matter which word you use, the sense of smell can cause the most amazing and immediate reactions (good or bad). Chocolate chip cookies baking on a cold and rainy day. The slightly salty, fishy smell of a riverside market. Freshly baked bread filling up a house with a warm and comforting aroma.   My favourite has …