This is a full lunch or dinner meal with Holiday flavors and colors. Ingredients: 8 oz sweet potatoes cooked and mashed 1 c pumpkin cooked and mashed 1 c carrots ...

Happiness is an inside job.  The only way happiness can be achieved is to remove the blocks that we ourselves create against it.  During the holidays, we often spend more ...

This cranberry relish is so good with turkey for breakfast and metabolic. Ingredients: 1 package of raw cranberries 1 navel orange 1 cup of drained crushed pineapple Preparation: Wash and ...

As addicts, we have some tendencies that make life hard. We tend to be perfectionists. We tend to overdo and be over the top. Some of us try to please ...

As food addicts, we tend to adopt different compulsive behaviors, one of them is overspending and too much shopping during the holidays. Not only do we spend a lot of ...

"Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere." Glen Turner I love quotes about worrying.  They make me ...

Step 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Step ten says that when we were wrong we promptly admitted it. It doesn't say ...

When you are new to recovery, one of the first questions you will be asked is: “Do you have a sponsor?”  Kay Sheppard, in her book From the First Bite, ...

Ingredients: 4 ounces tuna 1 cup green peas 2 cups V8 Dressing: 1 T mayonnaise, 1 T yogurt, 1 T mustard 1 teaspoon Toasted Onion Bits (Penzey product) Preparation: Place peas ...

Here’s a simple way to cook eggplants, which is the base of baba ghanoush. It’s much easier and less messy than roasting eggplants in the oven. Ingredients: 2 eggplants Salt, pepper, ...

“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” ― Jon Kabat-Zinn You get clean and you’re excited about being in recovery. You feel motivated and things are ...

Food addiction is primary and not the result of any other diseases. Treating secondary diseases will not facilitate recovery. Treating the secondary diseases whether they be physical, mental or emotional ...

As our food addiction progressed and affected every phase of our lives, lots of times we did things that broke our own rules. We lied, cheated and stole in order ...

We pray, read, write, plan, shop, cook, report, share, meditate, and commit. We take actions to make our recovery strong every day. Let’s remember to lighten up and not take ...

When we are in the disease, we use food to escape from life. When we stop binging on food, we may substitute food with binging on work or general busy-ness, ...

Ingredients: 8 ounces tofu 1 cup cooked rice 6 ounces frozen berries, thawed 1 cup yogurt Cinnamon Clean sweetener (optional) The rice can be replaced by cooked millet or quinoa ...

Ingredients: 3 ounces watermelon 3 ounces frozen strawberries 1 cup non-fat milk or non-fat yogurt Few drops of lemon juice (optional) Preparation: Whirl all of the ingredients in the blender ...

Kay's recipe for a clean chicken vegetable soup. Ingredients: 2 cups cooked diced celery, carrots and onion 1 cup clean chicken broth (I use Imagine Brand from the health food ...

How do addictive food substances compare to other addictive chemicals? Addictive food substances are forms of plant life which have been refined or processed in order to be ingested by ...

Read Labels. We definitely have to know what we are putting in our mouths. Read the list of ingredients every time you buy. We always follow the caution: “When in ...