Tag: food addiction recovery
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Gyro Salad with Tzatziki Sauce
This gyro salad is one of my favorites. It is one of those meals that fires all the synapses, yet is healthy and abstinent. That’s why this recipe lives on repeat in my kitchen. It has all the flavors you love from a traditional gyro: garlicky, herby, rich, and fresh, but without the pita, the…
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Intentional Recovery: Choose Yourself Every Day
Recovery is not about perfection or taking control. Recovery is about being intentional: choosing day by day, to show up for yourself. Small, consistent actions create lasting freedom. If you feel overwhelmed, start simple: plan one meal, take one honest step, and remember you don’t have to do recovery perfectly. Just do recovery intentionally.
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Instant Pot Quinoa
The instant pot makes quinoa consistent every time, it’s hands off and low stress, and it’s easy to batch cook. You can literally “set it and forget it”. Quinoa also cooks quickly, for those rushed weeknight evenings.
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90 Meetings In 90 Days
90 meetings in 90 days is not about being a “good” recovery person. It is not about doing recovery perfectly. And it is definitely not about proving how serious you are. Attending 90 meetings in 90 days is about giving your nervous system, your mind, and your heart a chance to settle into something new…
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Abstinent Meatballs
Our meatballs are one of the most reliable tools in an abstinent kitchen because they check all the recovery boxes: high quality protein, healthy fats for satiety, simple and whole ingredients, easy portioning, and no trigger foods or additives.
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Understanding Step 1: Powerlessness Over Food
Here’s the beautiful paradox of Step 1: the moment we admit we are powerless over food, is the moment we start getting our life back. When we stop trying to dominate food, food slowly loses its power over us. Mental peace becomes possible. Eating becomes simpler. Life expands beyond obsession and self-criticism.
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Emergency Salad Dressing
Found yourself at a restaurant, or a friend’s house, with questionable dressing? Most restaurants have olive oil or sour cream, and lemons. Enjoy that salad, and stay in your abstinence.
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Appley Oats
These Appley Oats are a quick, grounding, whole meal designed to support abstinence and consistent nourishment. Especially on busy mornings or vulnerable days when you just want something warm and nourishing – and quick.
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Weight-Loss In Food Addiction Recovery: Releasing Instead of Losing
If you have ever been trapped in that “classic” diet cycle, you know the obsession well – calories, scales, goal weights, “before” and “after” photos. The pursuit of control becomes it’s own kind of addiction. In food addiction recovery, the goal shifts. It’s not about losing weight anymore. It’s about quieting the food noise. And…
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Leftovers Fried Rice
This is a use-what-you-have meal that brings warmth, nourishment, and stability to your plate. This recipe comes together quickly, and is especially helpful when you need to use up the remaining bits of proteins and veggies left over in the fridge!
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Year-End Reflection: Cultivating Recovery in 2026
As 2025 comes to a close, its the perfect moment to pause and look back on the past year. For those of us in food addiction recovery, Step 10 of 12-step recovery offers a gentle yet powerful way to reflect, take inventory, and set ourselves up for growth in the year ahead.
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How To Handle Holiday Parties Without Losing Your Abstinence
Holiday parties can feel like an alternate dimension when you’re a food addict in recovery. The music is loud. The dessert table looks like it’s being spotlighted from heaven. Someone is always trying to hand you a plate of something “you just have to try.” The smells alone can feel like an ambush. It’s a…