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Teacher on hiatus raising my littles. Believer|Wife|Mama
One day, one meal, one product at a time making our home & life A Little Less Toxic®

11/19/2025

Ingredients
1 to 2 tablespoons butter or olive oil
1 small onion chopped
2 celery stalks chopped
2 to 4 garlic cloves crushed
1 to 1.5 pounds chicken cubed
One 16 ounce bag frozen peas and carrots blend
2 to 3 cups diced gold potatoes
Salt and pepper to taste
About 1 teaspoon dried thyme
1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
About 2 cups chicken broth
About 1 cup cream or milk (optional)
1 to 2 tablespoons tapioca flour to thicken
Frozen biscuits or your own homemade biscuits

Directions
This is a simple variation of the chicken pot pie from my cookbook
I took a shortcut with a full bag of frozen peas and carrots and I didn’t have any green beans so I left those out
And I don’t normally add potatoes to my chicken pot pie, but they sounded good so I tossed them in here
Cook the cubed chicken in the oil or butter until lightly browned
Remove the chicken and add a little more oil
Toast the turmeric briefly
Add the onion and celery and sauté until tender
Add the garlic for one minute
Stir in the diced potatoes
Add the frozen peas and carrots
Season with salt, pepper, and thyme
Pour in the broth and cream and sprinkle in the tapioca flour to thicken
Let it gently bubble until slightly thickened
Transfer everything to a baking dish
Top with frozen biscuits or your homemade biscuits
Bake according to your biscuit package or recipe
Mine baked at 380° for about 24 minutes until the biscuits were golden and the filling was bubbling

Cozy, simple, and so easy for a weeknight dinner.

11/18/2025

I finally did it. After one of you shared she’d been digging through the archives here to save each separate Thanksgiving recipe post to try and collect and use, I said to myself, “That’s it! Make it happen, Holman!” I’ve been meaning to do this for you (and for myself!) for years. I saved all the recipes I make for Thanksgiving in one easy to use and print place 🙌🏼 I included some of my tips and tricks too. I hope it’s helpful. I’ll add it to my website soon, but if you want the link before then…

🍂Comment the word THANKS and I’ll have the robots send it to your DM inbox right away. 🍽️

I’m thankful for you!

11/05/2025

What a truly special event. I hope to attend every year Share The Arrows is held and I hope I get to meet you there next year.

I’ve been rewatching the whole day on BlazeTV because it was so dang good. You can too - I think code (ALLIE) gives you a discount when you sign up. This event was full of moments and voices that filled the room and filled my heart with encouragement. Reminding me to keep showing up. As Allie regularly reminds us, “do the next right thing in faith, with excellence, and for the glory of God.” One day, one moment, one act of obedience at a time.

I’ll tag the other speakers here as well as some of those beautiful faces you saw in the video so you can find them easier, in case you’re not yet acquainted with their goodness.

is.for.mama

kindled

Whatever God calls you to do, I recommend you go full “you” too.

11/04/2025

Reliving Share the Arrows 2025 by making a recap video is bringing me a lot of joy. Here’s part 1. I hope you enjoy a peek at Day 1 from my perspective.

Special mention to some of those mentioned in this clip including: and team from (unfortunately not pictured).

The Texas sized critter who visited my booth
is.for.mama
the absolute blessing of a human and panel partner she is!
And to and the whole for putting on such a special event and for allowing me to be a part of it.

Part 2 coming soon!!

11/02/2025

Your annual reminder. It’s getting noisier out there with every year, it seems. Choose well. Every day. xoxo, Shawna

10/30/2025

May I present to you… you. 🤍

On the one year birthday of A Healthier Home Cook, I asked those of you who had left reviews to reveal your identities so I could do a little giveaway as a small way to say thank you. As I read through them, I was blown away and honestly teary more than once. Your words mean so much, not just because they support my work, but because they tell me this book is helping you become even more confident and capable in your kitchens. 🫶🏼

Swipe to read a few of your incredible reviews. Giveaway winners are announced in stories. I’m so thankful for each of you.

10/27/2025

✨ ALLT Cracker Jack 🍿 ⚾️

This starts with my Dairy-Free Caramel Corn from page 180 of A Healthier Home Cook — and then I gave it a nostalgic twist!

Here’s the base recipe:

Dairy-Free Caramel Corn

Ingredients:
• 3 tablespoons coconut oil, divided
• ½ cup popcorn kernels
• ½ cup maple syrup
• ¼ teaspoon sea salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions:
1️⃣ Heat a heavy-bottomed pan with a lid over medium heat for 3–5 minutes. Melt 2 tablespoons of the coconut oil, add 3 popcorn kernels, and cover.
2️⃣ When those pop, add the rest of the kernels, cover again, shake occasionally, and cook until popping slows. Remove from heat and keep covered 30 seconds.
3️⃣ Meanwhile, in a small saucepan over medium-low heat, combine the remaining 1 tablespoon coconut oil, maple syrup, and salt. Simmer a couple minutes until thickened.
4️⃣ Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla.
5️⃣ Pour that goodness over the popcorn and stir to coat.

🤎 To make it Cracker Jack-style:
• Add 1½ teaspoons molasses to the caramel sauce while it cooks (with the coconut oil, maple syrup, and salt).
• Toss in ½ to 1 cup roasted salted peanuts with the popped corn before adding the sauce.
• Stir well, spread on a parchment-lined baking sheet, and bake at 250°F for 20–25 minutes.
• Cool, break apart, and serve.

✨ The batch you see here is doubled — I doubled every ingredient. And I’m so glad I did. I knocked it outta the park with this one 😉

Old-school flavor, just a little less toxic 💪🏼

10/22/2025

🎉 A Healthier Home Cook is ONE year old! I’m so grateful for every single one of you who has cooked from it, shared it, and left such encouraging reviews.

As a little thank-you, I’d love to send a fun gift to 3 of you who’ve left reviews on Amazon.

👉🏼If you’ve left a review (or do this week!), send me a screenshot of it in a DM. I’ll randomly pick three of you and send a little something special as a thank-you. 🤍

10/07/2025

Just riffed this line in stories and wanted it to live here, so here ya go.

It’s not striving. It’s stewardship.

08/07/2025

Making healthier choices is simple, but not always easy. Sneaky ingredients lurk around in ingredients lists that look more like tech user agreements than a recipe list. While the ingredients lists can overwhelm you, I never want to.

Wherever you are on your own journey to live A Little Less Toxic, I made this list to help simplify food shopping for you.

1️⃣If this is all new to you, start at stage 1. Maybe you’re not used to paying much attention to ingredients lists, I wasn’t! It felt overwhelming. Having a few things I knew would be better for me to reduce my exposure to made it manageable for me. You’ll likely be amazed at how many items contain these artificial additives. They’re not necessary and not benefiting your health.

2️⃣ if you’ve been at this for a little while and have mastered avoiding the big 3 artificial ingredients, stage 2 is for you. Your ingredients lists are already much shorter than they used to be. Now you’re ready to get less food items with less GMO’s, highly processed preservatives, and more inflammatory and highly processed oils like canola, vegetable, soybean, and sunflower oils.

3️⃣ You’re an ingredient reading machine and you want to level up again. You start aiming to buy things that only have I gradients you would use in your own home kitchen. You’re not an extremist or purist but you’re looking for food made with food and nothing but the food, when possible. When you can’t find those that fit your budget, you get the best you can, skip it altogether, or make your own version at home.

No perfectionism. No extremes. No added anxiety or stress. We do what we can with what we’re able and as it makes sense for us. Small things add up. For our betterment or our detriment. We’re informed consumers and we’re making big change - one meal, one product, one day at a time.

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