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.

Real Food For Rookies

Are you a total newbie to the world of eating Real Food? Are you wondering just how to start making the changes to your diet that you know are necessary? Do you want to start eating healthier foods, but aren’t clear about how to prioritize your choices in the supermarket? Do you want to know how to fit Real Food into your busy schedule without growing broke?

Let me introduce you to Kelly The Kitchen Kop’s Real Food For Rookies E-Course. While there will be recipes, this isn’t a cooking class. This is an all-out introduction to eating Real Food, starting with the most basic first step of identifying fake foods and moving on from there with regular, attainable goals.

Female Infants Growing Breasts

The news doesn’t surprise me. Female infants in China have been growing breasts. “According to the official Chinese Daily newspaper, medical tests performed on the babies found levels of estrogens circulating in their bloodstreams that are as high as those found in most adult women. These babies are between four and 15 months old. And the evidence is overwhelming that the milk formula they have been fed is responsible.”

Fight Back Friday August 20th

Welcome back yet again 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.

How Food Impacts Our Mood

WOW. You’re in for a treat. I signed up for Ann Marie’s new Surf & Turf online cooking course, and today she released another Sneak Peak video from her first lesson: How Food Impacts Our Mood. It’s amazing.

It’s just a 4 minute clip out of an entire lesson, but WOW. Well-produced, informative, and including interviews from Sally Fallon Morrell (president of the Weston A. Price Foundation) and Julia Ross (author of The Mood Cure), this video is top-notch. If it’s at all like the rest of the videos and podcasts in the e-course, I will be getting way more than $100 worth of content over the next 13 weeks.

Fight Back Friday August 13th

Welcome back yet again 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.

So, let’s have some fun.

WINNER: Surf & Turf Course PLUS COUPON

The time has come. With just two days left to enroll in Ann Marie’s upcoming Surf & Turf e-course, I’m ready to announce the winner to this week’s giveaway. Ann Marie has also graciously given my readers a coupon for $20 off the enrollment fee. If you pay with her 4 month installment plan, that brings the price down to just $30/month for 4 months. Or, if you pay all at once, you can make a single payment of just $100! (Honestly, at less than $8 per class, it’s a smokin’ good deal.)

Salmon Croquettes Recipe

This recipe for Salmon Croquettes came to me courtesy of Ann Marie’s new Surf & Turf class. (Have you entered that giveaway yet?).

Featured in Lesson 5 (along with 14 other amazing seafood recipes), this recipe puts my typical salmon patties to shame. It’s not any harder than what I do, but it packs in much more flavor and a lot of vegetables, too! Because I’m now a nursing mom, I’m making an extra effort to eat more seafood and organ meats each week. These salmon croquettes are a hit, and will certainly be added to our meal rotation.

The Well-Stocked Kitchen

My husband can fix anything. And to prove it, he has thousands of dollars of tools in the garage. I remember the first time we bought him nice tools — the kind that come with a lifetime warranty and of which his friends would be jealous. He almost cried. But I said, “Look. I’m tired of buying you cheap tools that break within a year. I want you to have good tools that won’t break on you when you need them most. It’s worth paying the premium.”

What, you ask, does this have to do with food? Well, I am by no means a professional cook. Nor do I have an extensive kitchen budget. But, sometimes having the right tool makes all the difference. Over the years, I’ve slowly been investing in my kitchen. These are the things I now believe my kitchen would be incomplete without, in order of most to least used (although all are used regularly!).

WINNER: Sausage Sampler PLUS COUPON

Thank you to everyone who entered last week’s giveaway for a sampler of all grass-fed beef sausages from U.S. Wellness Meats. More than 400 of you entered, plus there were an additional 200+ extra entries! So, if you didn’t win, don’t feel too bad. This was a HUGE contest. Apparently you folks are as addicted to sausage as I am.

GIVEAWAY: Surf & Turf Class

Do you hear that? It’s the sound of a clock ticking, counting down the minutes until next week’s first Surf & Turf class taught by Ann Marie @ Cheeseslave. Enrollment ends this Friday, August 14th.

If you’re thinking of enrolling, enter this giveaway first. Not only will one of you lucky folks win a place in the online class, but everyone who enters will get a coupon code for $20 off the course!