Browne Bag Nutrition - Kristen Browne, MS, CNS, LDN

12/17/2025

🥣🍲 It's sweater weather which means it is also soup season! 🍲🥣

🧅 After making some chicken bone broth to use as a base for some of my soups, my first soup of the season was my Crockpot Onion Soup. We had an overabundance of red onions that needed to be used. This seemed like the perfect time to use them for soup - this was also my first time using all red onions for the soup, but it was delicious! 🧅

🥖🧀 I am intolerant to cow dairy, but I can tolerate goat dairy, so I added some goat cheese crumbles on top (scroll to the end). It was melty, creamy, and perfect! We were running low on bread, so I broke up some seed crackers and sprinkled them on top. It might not look like traditional French onion soup, but it tasted absolutely amazing and I had tons of leftovers to enjoy throughout the week. 🧀🥖

My approx recipe:

INGREDIENTS
- 12-15 onions of any variety, sliced
- 6-8 cups of broth of your choice (I used chicken bone broth this time, but have used beef bone broth in the past), enough liquid to nearly cover the onions.
- 2 Bay leaves
- Salt & pepper, to taste
- Thyme (fresh or dried), to taste (optional)
- Cheese (pref something that melts well), optional topping
- Croutons or a crusty slice of bread, optional topping

Add all ingredients (except the cheese & bread/croutons) to your crockpot/slow cooker and cook on low for 8 hrs. Once the soup is cooked, serve and enjoy! Add cheese and bread/croutons to soup as a topping, allowing the heat of the soup to melt the cheese a bit.

09/19/2025

How gorgeous is my post morning walk workout snack? 😍
My Chia/Flax pudding is made with blueberries, cherries, strawberries, coconut milk, lime zest, vanilla, and topped with crunchy almond slivers and h**p seeds. Yum! Talk about nutritious and delicious! It's packed full of protein, healthy fat, fiber, and antioxidants! 🫐🍒🍓🥥🍋‍🟩🌰

08/22/2025

Your stool says a lot about your digestion. As a nutritionist, p**p is something I talk about with every client! This gives an insightful look into how digestion works in the body and the different colors and textures one may see in their stool as a result.

"The average person p**ps out approximately 11,030 kilograms of cumulative waste in a lifetime. That's the equivalent of more than 6 SUVs. Oftentimes,

04/23/2025

Yesterday, I was all decked out in my fruits & veggies shirt, leggings, shoes, & earrings to talk to the 2nd graders at my son's school about Eating The Rainbow!.
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04/15/2025

🌼 It's our second day of spring break & we wanted to make the most of the drizzly, dreary day. 🌼
🌼 We popped on our rain boots & went out to the backyard to forage all our beautiful dandelions. 🌼
🌼 We're hoping we have enough flowers to make both a batch of Lemon Dandelion Muffins & a batch of Honey Dandelion Shortbread Cookies, both recipes by !! 🌼

08/10/2024

Hello everyone!

I'm so honored to have recently been interviewed by Jeni Simas-Layte of The Intimacy Ally, LLC! We discuss women and nutrition, navigating different ages and stages! It was so lovely chatting with her! Please check us out on this episode of her podcast, Story Time with the Intimacy Ally.

Episode · Story Time with the Intimacy Ally · Hello my lovelies, meet my dear friend from college and beyond, Kristen Bishel Browne, MS, CNS, LDN. She is the owner of Browne Bag Nutrition and she lends her insight here on seed cycling, hydration, eating habits and more that can benefit women in di...

05/17/2024

I'm a bit late in posting this, but at the end of last year I was interviewed by a writer for The Curvy Fashionista offering information about intuitive eating, especially around the holidays. The next big holidays we have coming up are Memorial Day and July 4th, and eating at summer cookouts can be as problematic for some as Thanksgiving and Christmas. Using some of the tips in this article for intuitive eating can truly be helpful all year round, not *only* around the holidays.

The holiday season can be triggering for anyone who has ever had a disordered relationship with food. It's a time of year when many gatherings seem to center around eating. Picture this: you show up at a holiday party, and the first conversation you hear is a co-worker or family member talking about...

05/06/2024

Fun rainy day weekend project - brought out my giant stock pot and made chicken bone broth! 🐔🍗🍲 In total I had 28.75 cups (a little under 2 gallons). Yum!

05/04/2024

I love a good food pun! 😂

02/06/2024

I recently put together a new recipe - my Warm Roasted Beet, Chard, & Goat Cheese salad! Look at how pretty the red-purple color of the beets is against all those shades of green! Yum! 💜🥬🐐🧀
I'm still working on all the amounts/specifics, but I roasted a few beets until they were fork tender. While they cooked, I steam sauteed some rainbow Swiss Chard. I mixed together the cooked beets and chard with fresh parsley and chopped green onions. 💚🧅 I topped it all with chunks of fresh goat cheese and a light drizzle of balsamic vinegar. It was perfection! 🤤😋
Next time, I might try it with a combo of regular and golden beets to get in some extra colors and nutrients!

01/28/2024

This is a very interesting article shedding some new light on why women experience different levels of nausea/"morning sickness" during pregnancy.

A recent study published in the journal Nature has elucidated the etiological basis of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, commonly referred to as "morning sickness," and its more severe form, hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). The multinational research, involving the University of Southern California, Uni...

10/25/2023

🎃 Today was a short day at school, so we decided to make pumpkin muffins this afternoon to celebrate fall and Halloween. 🎃

🎃 We used Frugal Nutrition's Healthy Pumpkin Spice Blender Muffins recipe. We did not have an (optional) overripe banana, so I did not include it, but I'm interested in trying the recipe a second time with the banana to see how the flavor and/or texture changes, if at all. Also, we opted to make mini muffins instead of full size ones, so these only baked for 12-13 mins and it made 18 muffins. 🎃

🎃 This was such a great recipe to do with my 3-year-old. Doing all the mixing can sometimes be a challenge, but all we had to do was dump the ingredients into the blender and let it do the mixing for us! I think her favorite part of the recipe was getting to put the h**p seed "sprinkles" on the top before we put the muffins in the oven to bake. 🎃

🎃 Full disclosure, I absolutely overestimated the power of my blender and had to do a bit of mixing in the blender with a spoon to get things well incorporated. 🤦‍♀️ But, next time I will take Caitlin's suggestion of actually mixing all the wet ingredients in the blender first before adding in the oats. 🎃

🎃 We had the muffins with afternoon snack, after they cooled. The only thing both kids asked after snack was "Mom, can we have more muffins please?" 🎃

Recipe: https://www.frugalnutrition.com/blender-pumpkin-spice-muffins-no-added-sugar/