Sari, Author at Alive+Fit

July 23, 2025 Sari

Summer pesto pasta salad

By Sari Huhtala

This pasta salad is super simple. The mild peppery flavour of radish leaves combined with garlic and cheesy nutritional yeast meld together to create a delightful cold salad for a hot summer day. Plus, the radish leaves … [More...]

Remedies

June 16, 2025 Sari

Sweet, creamy dessert spice sleep aid, antidepressant

By Sari Huhtala

Who knew that a commonly used sweet and creamy dessert spice has similar antidepressant activity as Prozac, and eases anxiety, promotes calm and improves sleep, not to mention protects against neurodegenerative diseases.

The flavour and taste of … [More...]

Snacks and sundries

May 28, 2025 Sari

Grain-free, fibre-rich energy bars

By Sari Huhtala

I call these chocolate-free treats “prana,” life force energy bars, and for good reason. They are packed with all things wholesome and good for you, including plenty of fibre from the carob powder and the flax seeds … [More...]

Foodie Kids

May 28, 2025 Sari

Make your own breakfast cereal in minutes

By Sari Huhtala

Eating cereal for breakfast? Making your own is a cinch, it only takes a couple of minutes, and is so much healthier than the processed cereals on store shelves. Kids will love it too!

It’s mind boggling … [More...]

Remedies

May 28, 2025 Sari

Versatile cooking seed doubles as medicine

By Sari Huhtala

For decades I’ve cooked with this often overlooked, versatile seed, adding it to soups and homemade coleslaw dressing without even realizing it’s used as a natural treatment for vascular dementia, water retention, joint pain and other ailments.… [More...]

Remedies

April 23, 2025 Sari

Natural anti-nausea, motion sickness fix

By Sari Huhtala

Heading out on a roadtrip with car-sickness-prone family members? Instead of knocking them out with diphenhydramine, try pineapple. What? I wish I would have known about this remedy 30 plus years ago when I took a chance … [More...]

Desserts

April 23, 2025 Sari

Brain-boosting fudgesicles

By Sari Huhtala

“Yes, you can have a fudgesicle at breakfast,” is what you might find yourself saying to the kids after you make these little morsels filled with healthy fat for the brain. They can even be frozen in … [More...]

Salads

April 23, 2025 Sari

Energy lovers dream salad

By Sari Huhtala

Nutritional experts advise eating between 30 to 50 different plants weekly to create a better health path. It sounds like a lot, but one salad alone can get you one third of a way to that goal, … [More...]

Weight Loss & Fitness

March 22, 2025 Sari

Spuds: a humble superfood

By Sari Huhtala

I remember my mother recounting her childhood days, with siblings gathered around the dinner table, a dozen hungry mouths ready to dig into a meal of potatoes and baked bread. I wondered how on earth they sustained … [More...]

Natural Health

March 22, 2025 Sari

Three-ingredient homemade wraps

By Sari Huhtala

Inquiring minds want to know how on earth bread manufacturers need 15 plus ingredients to make a tortilla wrap, when you and I can make our own wrap in less than five minutes, from beginning to end, … [More...]