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

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 !! 🌼

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!

05/04/2024

I love a good food pun! 😂

02/06/2024

I recently put together a new recipe - my Warm Roasted Beet, Chard, & Goat Cheese salad! Look at how pretty the red-purple color of the beets is against all those shades of green! Yum! 💜🥬🐐🧀
I'm still working on all the amounts/specifics, but I roasted a few beets until they were fork tender. While they cooked, I steam sauteed some rainbow Swiss Chard. I mixed together the cooked beets and chard with fresh parsley and chopped green onions. 💚🧅 I topped it all with chunks of fresh goat cheese and a light drizzle of balsamic vinegar. It was perfection! 🤤😋
Next time, I might try it with a combo of regular and golden beets to get in some extra colors and nutrients!

01/28/2024

This is a very interesting article shedding some new light on why women experience different levels of nausea/"morning sickness" during pregnancy.

A recent study published in the journal Nature has elucidated the etiological basis of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, commonly referred to as "morning sickness," and its more severe form, hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). The multinational research, involving the University of Southern California, Uni...

10/25/2023

🎃 Today was a short day at school, so we decided to make pumpkin muffins this afternoon to celebrate fall and Halloween. 🎃

🎃 We used Frugal Nutrition's Healthy Pumpkin Spice Blender Muffins recipe. We did not have an (optional) overripe banana, so I did not include it, but I'm interested in trying the recipe a second time with the banana to see how the flavor and/or texture changes, if at all. Also, we opted to make mini muffins instead of full size ones, so these only baked for 12-13 mins and it made 18 muffins. 🎃

🎃 This was such a great recipe to do with my 3-year-old. Doing all the mixing can sometimes be a challenge, but all we had to do was dump the ingredients into the blender and let it do the mixing for us! I think her favorite part of the recipe was getting to put the h**p seed "sprinkles" on the top before we put the muffins in the oven to bake. 🎃

🎃 Full disclosure, I absolutely overestimated the power of my blender and had to do a bit of mixing in the blender with a spoon to get things well incorporated. 🤦‍♀️ But, next time I will take Caitlin's suggestion of actually mixing all the wet ingredients in the blender first before adding in the oats. 🎃

🎃 We had the muffins with afternoon snack, after they cooled. The only thing both kids asked after snack was "Mom, can we have more muffins please?" 🎃

Recipe: https://www.frugalnutrition.com/blender-pumpkin-spice-muffins-no-added-sugar/

07/09/2023

A few weeks ago, while visiting my in-laws, my children helped harvest some of the cherries growing on their cherry tree. 🍒🌳 There was a good balance of sweet and tart cherries that were picked. After indulging in the delicious fruit for a few days, my children decided they'd had their fill of cherries and I needed to use up what remained before they spoiled.

I decided to try something new and made my first batch of cherry chia jam! I used the quick and easy 10-minute recipe from Gimme Some Oven (link below). The one alteration I made to the recipe was I opted not to use any sweetener for my jam. It turned out perfectly - not too tart, not too sweet, it had a perfectly balanced flavor, spread easily, and I kept some of the fruit a bit chunky as that is my texture preference for jam. *chef kiss* 🍒

Cherries are already rich in Vit C, Vit K, Vit B6, potassium, magnesium, calcium, fiber, and tons of antioxidants. But, using heat to cook down the cherries also helps to release lycopene, an antioxidant important for heart, skin, and bone health! Including chia seeds gives the added benefit of fiber, protein, Omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, iron, magnesium, Vit B1, and Vit B3. Talk about nutritious AND delicious! Yum! 🍒

https://www.gimmesomeoven.com/10-minute-chia-seed-jam/

05/29/2023

🌼 After the success of our Honey Dandelion Shortbread Cookies recipe, my children and I decided to forage the few remaining dandelions in our yard to try one more Savory Moments recipe. This time we made the Lemon Dandelion Muffins. My daughter was the perfect assistant, too - she loved helping me scoop, dump, and mix ingredients. 🌼
🌼 To make sure everyone in our household could enjoy the muffins, we altered the recipe slightly to be allergen friendly. We used 1-for-1 GF flour and DF coconut yogurt in place of the sour cream. In addition, my son suggested we also toss in some blueberries since 🫐 and 🍋 pair together perfectly! 🌼
🌼 The inclusion of dandelion flowers in the muffins adds antioxidants, Vitamin C, potassium, beta carotene, and polyphenols to this sweet treat! These nutrients help support the immune system, are anti-inflammatory, promote and stimulate digestion, & protect against cell damage. What a fun way to make baked goods a bit more nutritious! 🌼
Recipe: https://www.savorymomentsblog.com/2021/04/lemon-dandelion-muffins.html?m=1