Sari, Author at Alive+Fit

September 24, 2024 Sari

Stress and body breakdown

By Sari Huhtala

Leafing through the pages of her textbook, Jamie Lynne Shaw shoves a spoonful of Honey Bunches of Oats into her mouth from a rather large bowl of cereal, licking her lips as she satisfies her usual evening … [More...]

Remedies

September 24, 2024 Sari

Homemade cough syrup in a jiffy

By Sari Huhtala

Feel a cold coming on? Nagging cough keeping you up at night? Try this simple thyme honey cough syrup.

Thyme, or thymus, as a tea, tincture or liquid extract, is classified and recognized under the European Drugs … [More...]

Salads

September 24, 2024 Sari

Simple superfood turnip salad

By Sari Huhtala

This recipe is a seriously simple way to create a salad that provides a healthy dose of antioxidants, vitamins and minerals to boost the body.

Turnips, though often overlooked as a superfood, are rich in the antioxidant … [More...]

Weight Loss & Fitness

September 24, 2024 Sari

Amazingly easy super sprouts

By Sari Huhtala

If you own a bowl, and have access to water, for just pennies a day, you can create nutrient-dense, antioxidant-rich sprouts that have been found to improve heart health, diabetes, immunity, reduce age spots, protect the liver … [More...]

Vegan

August 22, 2024 Sari

Lovage leaf medicinal pesto

By Sari Huhtala

In all my years of growing the perennial herb lovage, I’ve only come across a couple of people who have ever heard of this aromatic plant, let alone its history in folk medicine. Lovage, which is sort … [More...]

Salads

August 22, 2024 Sari

Quinoa black bean lime salad

By Sari Huhtala

As a perfect protein, quinoa is the queen of wholesome plant-based meals. It contains all nine essential amino acids – the protein building blocks your body can’t produce on its own. Tossed with a few veggies for … [More...]

Remedies

July 24, 2024 Sari

Raspberry leaf tea health booster

By Sari Huhtala

The next time you’re out hiking, reach for red raspberry leaves and fix yourself a health-boosting tea for free. If you have wild raspberry bushes close by or a raspberry bush growing in your backyard you have … [More...]

Remedies

July 24, 2024 Sari

Antioxidant-packed radish leaf pesto

By Sari Huhtala

Don’t toss those radish leaves in the compost! Try a new twist on an old favorite. Swap out basil leaves in your next pesto dish with radish leaves and reap mounds of health benefits.

Looking for high … [More...]

Salads

July 24, 2024 Sari

Lazy days detox salad

By Sari Huhtala

I consider this salad a lazy day salad because I can eat leftovers of it for five days and feel fabulous. Who doesn’t feel fabulous when they are eating raw and real food? This salad also goes … [More...]

Remedies

June 28, 2024 Sari

Super simple superfood pickled radishes

By Sari Huhtala

After researching the mountains of health benefits of radish this winter, I decided radish was going to be a plant companion for nearly everything in my garden. The result has been a ridiculous quantity of radish, which … [More...]