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Food Renegade

challenging politically correct nutrition

Articles by Kristen Michaelis CNC

Kristen Michaelis CNC is a published author and teacher. She's created a general nutrition curriculum used by classrooms around the US and written Beautiful Babies -- a book on nutrition for fertility, pregnancy, and breastfeeding that premiered at #1 on Amazon in its category, beating out What to Expect When You're Expecting.

GIVEAWAY – Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide & Wild Food Cookbook

Imagine a book that teaches you not only how to identify and harvest wild edibles, but also how to prepare those plants into mouthwatering recipes. Now, imagine if that book were a feast for the eyes as well, showcasing beautiful hand-drawn and painted, scientifically-accurate illustrations of the plants you’re foraging. Now, imagine if the recipes weren’t just one recipe each, but master recipes that can be adapted in more than 40 different ways depending on the particular plants and quantities your foraged. My friends! Such a book exists. I have it in my hands at this very moment. It’s called Foraging & Feasting – A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook. And this week, I’m giving away a copy to one of you lucky readers!

Fight Back Friday December 20th

Welcome to another Fight Back Friday! Today we are bringing together another collection of recipes, tips, anecdotes, and testimonies from members of the Real Food Revolution.

Who are they? Why, they’re the Food Renegades. You know who you are — lovers of SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical) food, traditional food, primal food, REAL food, the list goes on. I believe that by joining together, our influence can grow, and we can change the way America (and the industrialized world) eats!

So, let’s have some fun.

Crispy Mushroom Chips {Paleo, Grain-Free, Addictive}

Want a Paleo chip? Something grain-free, legume-free, crispy & salty? In her new cookbook Nom Nom Paleo: Food for Humans, Michelle Tam describes these Crispy Mushroom Chips this way: “Even the pickiest fungi-hater will fall madly in love with these crispity-crunchity oven-baked mushroom chips. To mere mortals like you and me, they’re irresistible — like potato chips on flavor-enhancing steroids.” I have to agree.

20 Healthy Alternatives to Soda With Recipes

The latest research on soda isn’t all that promising. It’s been linked to increased fat buildup in your liver (a definite contributor to insulin resistance and diabetes), increased weight gain (particularly for diet sodas), cancer (via many of the caramel coloring agents), kidney problems, accelerated aging, and much more. These healthy alternatives to soda will please even the pickiest palate and satisfy your cravings for fizz. I’ve collected 20 fabulously fizzy, healthy, homemade drink recipes for you to try.

Fight Back Friday December 13th

Welcome to another Fight Back Friday! Today we are bringing together another collection of recipes, tips, anecdotes, and testimonies from members of the Real Food Revolution.

Who are they? Why, they’re the Food Renegades. You know who you are — lovers of SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical) food, traditional food, primal food, REAL food, the list goes on. I believe that by joining together, our influence can grow, and we can change the way America (and the industrialized world) eats!

So, let’s have some fun.

Grain-Free Chocolate Almond Crackles

WARNING: These grain-free chocolate almond crackle cookies are highly addictive!! These are the type of cookies you will want to hide and keep for yourself.

Fight Back Friday December 6th

Welcome to another Fight Back Friday! Today we are bringing together another collection of recipes, tips, anecdotes, and testimonies from members of the Real Food Revolution.

Who are they? Why, they’re the Food Renegades. You know who you are — lovers of SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical) food, traditional food, primal food, REAL food, the list goes on. I believe that by joining together, our influence can grow, and we can change the way America (and the industrialized world) eats!

So, let’s have some fun.

November Giveaway Winner

It’s time to announce the winner of November’s Le Creuset Cookware Set giveaway. And the winner is …

December Giveaway: 6-in-1 Electric Instant Pot Pressure Cooker ($120 value)

This month, I’m giving away this 6-in-1 Electric Instant Pot Pressure Cooker to one of you. I am so grateful for you, my readers! You hang with me through thick and thin as we buck conventional nutritional wisdom and cleave to eating according to our ancestral, traditional food ways. Without you, I wouldn’t be where I am today. So, as a way of saying thank you and giving something back, I’m hosting monthly giveaways!