I'm one of those people who is excited to go to bed because I know breakfast is just a night's sleep away. In fact, I often go to bed slightly hungry- not because I starve myself or anything but just because I'm almost always hungry. Breakfast is by far my favorite meal of the day and I try to eat a ...
Gluten Free
Simple Potato Pancakes
Ever since I was a little kid, I can remember my mom making me potato pancakes from leftover mashed potatoes the morning after Thanksgiving . I looked forward to this almost more than the actual Thanksgiving meal. I would sit at the kitchen counter watching her mix mashed potatoes with egg and then ...
Pumpkin Fig Granola
Two years ago, I was living in Mexico, which, let me tell you, is a pumpkinless land. It was a long, difficult fall for me because I was bombarded with photos everywhere of pumpkin things, and I had to sub sweet potato where I could. It worked, but it wasn't the same. #firstworldproblems Last ...
Winter Harvest Kale Salad with Toasted Quinoa
I'm almost at the end of my three week experiment of cutting out sugar and it's been going pretty well. I haven't been very strict about it but I got a friend from work to join me so we can motivate each other. The biggest benefit I've seen thus far is not feeling sick after binging on sweets, or ...
Baked Sweet Potato with Almond Butter Drizzle
For a long time, I thought the recipes I shared here on 24 Carrot Life had to be extra fancy or special. I would see a fellow blogger post a recipe for hard boiled eggs or veggies roasted in olive oil and think that it was "the easy way out". It sure would take me a lot less time and worry to post a ...
