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

04/24/2026

PLEASE HELP! I don't typically mix my personal and business accounts, but this one is definitely share worthy and I could use all the help and support I can get!

Last month, I entered my son in the Reader's Digest America's Favorite Student Contest and he advanced through the first 5 rounds, making it to the Group Finals. Voting ended last night and, unfortunately, he was stuck in 2nd place, but only the 1st place kid in each group advanced on.

We found out today that the four 2nd place kids were put into a Wildcard group and whoever is in 1st place when the next round of voting finishes gets to move on with the other four 1st place kids to the quarterfinal round.

The grand prize is $20,000, an article in Reader's Digest, and a private tour of the planetary Society in CA with Bill Nye, the Science Guy!

If any of you would be so kind, I'm asking you to please vote for him! You can cast a free vote once every 24 hours between now and 10 pm this Sun, April 26. We need all the votes we can get! 🙏

Thank you so much! ❤️

https://americasfavstudent.org/2026/kylan-2

02/24/2026

Snow on the ground, a chill in the air, and sweater weather means it's still soup season! 🍲🥣
This is a crockpot full of delicious Potato Leek soup. I used my homemade chicken bone broth as a base and added tons of chopped potatoes 🥔 and leeks 🧅, plus a few bay leaves and plenty of salt and pepper. 😋
I made up my first bowl similar to a baked potato soup, topping it with a dollop of goat milk yogurt, green onions, and bacon bits. 🤤
What kind of soup do you like most to warm you up in the winter?

01/08/2026

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!.
🌈 🍎🍅🍓🍒🍊🥭🍑🥕🌽🍋🍌🍍🍏🍐🥝🥒🥑🥬🥦🫑🫛🍇🍆🍠🍉🥥🥔🥜🌈

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!