Appetites for Life

06/02/2026

25 years ago I started writing, one year ago I picked it back up. Today I “finished.” Still needs edits, I’m sure many revisions. Maybe it sucks. maybe it won’t ever be more than a stack of papers in my office. Or Maybe it will be a book on your shelf. But right now I’m pretty darn proud bc I wrote a novel!!! And no - nothing to do with nutrition! 😆

05/30/2026

Looking for a new way to eat melon? Try it with cucumber & basil! Dress it with olive oil, lime juice, honey & salt.

I used 2 cups melon, 1 cup cucumber, 2 tablespoons chopped basil, 1/4 cup olive oil, 1.5 tablespoons lime juice, 1 tablespoon honey, and sea salt to taste.

04/30/2026

One of my favorite parts of running retreats is coming up with delicious, creative, healthier desserts. This treat featured a dark chocolate tart topped with almonds, cacao nibs, coconut and raspberry. The other dessert was lemon bars with wild blueberries. Both

04/27/2026

I’m so grateful for the growing community of AFL retreaters :). It’s started with a vision and has become a beautiful reality. And it just keeps getting better.

04/15/2026

“Nose to tail” cooking with carrots! 🥕
making my carrot ginger soup for the upcoming PAUSE spring retreat. And using every part of the carrot, the tops will go in my discard bag and used for making vegetable broth, and peelings will go to the chickens. They love them.!

04/12/2026

Perfecting my gluten free raspberry muffin recipe for the Retreat. Trying one batch with almond flour + oat flour and the other with almond flour + buckwheat flour.

What would you prefer? I have a clear winner.

04/07/2026

Come join us at the PAUSE Spring Retreat in two weeks! I have one lower bunk available in the shared bunk room (Shared with one other person). Come see what an Appetites for Life retreat is all about and take a much-needed PAUSE, while learning all about hormones and perimenoPAUSE!

03/04/2026

02/12/2026

"In a World That Won't Stop, Your Pause is a Revolution" - Catherine Gallacher

One spot remains on the PAUSE Spring Retreat. Come join us.

01/06/2026

At the start of each new year, I get out all my notebooks from all the classes I have taken on nutrition, cooking, and health and review them slowly, discarding what I feel I no longer need, organizing the information, and relearning what I may have forgotten.

(There’s a lot more than this stack! I might be done by next year lol!)