These days, breakfast is more of a nice idea than a meal rooted in actual time and schedules. We’re used to shoving a banana in our kids’ hands while grabbing some egg bites from Starbucks on our way to work. But now we supposedly “have the time to cook” even though we also feel busier and more exhausted than ever. So breakfast feels like both a necessity to feed our families and also one more insurmountable task we now have to juggle with everything else.

But, I have a few morning hacks to help you create a decent, low sugar, nutrient rich, satisfying breakfast whenever you’re ready for it. These can be thrown together while you’re simultaneously working/parenting/teaching or even if you’re sleeping in until noon because time no longer means anything!

1. While You Sleep: Muesli/Overnight Oats

Simply add your favorite alt milk (almond, coconut) to ½ cup of rolled oats and 2 tablespoons of chia seeds....

by Jenny Jiles

“But I don’t even eat that much sugar!” Says every person, ever.

Even if you’re not ending each night with a slice of chocolate cake, you might still be unintentionally eating sugar throughout your day— in your almond milk latte, low-fat yogurt with granola, salad dressing, tea, grab & go energy bar, that small handful of chocolates, and scavenging the last bites of your kids’ nuggets. Almost every packaged food has an atrocious amount of sugar. And sugar is the devil. Not like other trendy wellness foods or ingredients. Sugar is actually poison.

And the average American eat 17 grams of sugar a day.

So like, try to eat less of it because it’s actually making you sick. But if you R E A L L Y want information that’s going to actually change your behavior, here it is:

Sugar is making you look old.

Don’t believe me? Well, here’s what the experts have to...

Snack. 

The word itself gets you excited, no? I think we all perk up imagining grabbing exactly what we want, to eat anywhere we want. Another pleasure field, the charcuterie board or a wedding buffet. The freedom of picking and choosing exactly what I want to nosh on, with no formal dinner time rules or table manners is near orgasmic. Me, just sitting on my kitchen counter, nibbling on a few things in peace, thrills me beyond belief.

I am not alone in this.

We all love to graze. Kids included. So why are we expecting kids to sit patiently at dinner time and eat their vegetables. It’s ludicrous. Most of us are letting our kids eat empty, nutrient lacking carbs and added sugar throughout the day, waiting for the pinnacle dinner time meal to erase all the bad habits. If you are waiting until dinner to get in all their vegetable requirements for the day (2 cups are ideal), you failed. You and your kids don’t need...

Do you know how many times I have told my kid to “Just try it!”. I know you know, because you’ve said it a thousand times too.  We’ve pressured, and bribed and read every article on how to politely and kindly and not too traumatically, coerce our kids into anything besides bread or crackers or pasta and butter.

This is the never ending game we play three plus times a day with our kids, and we want to win. Bad. We’ll do anything.  We’ll play dirty too. We’ll think by adding spinach to those morning muffins they won’t notice. Rookie move. They have us right where they want us too, because they have no plans of eating our food trickery. They also know that with every “No, I don’t like them,'' they're one step closer to getting that toast. They know that our exhaustion and frustration from making another failed, healthy meal attempt is slowly deteriorating our brains cells and...