It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and I wanted to celebrate by focusing on the heart and, more specifically, heart opening foods. Our hearts are a center of energy, the heart chakra, and when our heart energy is flowing we feel love and compassion for ourselves and for others. We are able to give and receive love and …
Winter is for warm breakfasts. Don’t even think about a cold smoothie (although a room temp smoothie is a-ok in my book) or anything chilled. When I think of my favorite winter breakfasts I think more of a warming breakfast bowl. What’s in my ideal breakfast bowl? Protein Healthy Fat Complex Carbs including VEGGIES! And …
When I think about the holidays from afar, say September or October I get really excited and often feel all the feelings you are “supposed” to feel during the holidays: warmth, coziness, contentment, peace, etc. Basically I think about scenes of families sitting around a fireplace drinking hot chocolate, and you know what, it feels …
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I often struggle with holiday gifts and I spend a lot of time googling, “gift ideas.” So I put together a list of some of my favorite things in case someone in your life might love some of these things. Gift giving should be fun and not too stressful, so hopefully this helps! For Those …
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More, more more! This was the voice in my head about 75% of the time. Have a thriving career, be an entrepreneur, make quality time for all your relationships, work out daily, meditate daily, eat homemade healthy food, work longer hours, say yes to everything, do a 110% job on what you do. Do more. …
Peanut sauce goes with everything, and today I wanted to make a different version that is just as simple and equally delicious- Almond Sauce! My favorite things to put this sauce on are: Stir Fry Salads (for the right salad this sauce makes a great dressing- might want to thin it out just a bit …
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Hear me out… these cupcakes have black beans, but you would never know it. They are SOOOO delicious and I made them for halloween so I wouldn’t eat candy. I adapted the recipe from food.com. I also made a very easy and low sugar peanut butter frosting to top. I can’t tell you how delicious …
On Halloween you need to have a really hearty healthy dinner before all the festivities start. Enter my Sausage Lentil Veggie Stew. It’s a one-pot meal that is satisfying, easy, warming, and the perfect pre-trick-or-treating food to help stabilize blood sugar before the binge starts 😉 Ingredients: 1/2 pound Italian sausage (mild or spicy depending …
I was sitting at breakfast talking with a friend and she brought up how she was listening to a podcast talking about how important it is that we keep promises to ourselves. It really hit a me. WE TEND TO KEEP PROMISES TO EVERYONE ELSE, BUT WHY ARE WE FIRST TO LET PROMISES AND COMMITMENTS …
Make that Promise, Keep that Promise… TO YOURSELF! Read More »
This is a super easy cinnamon plum applesauce recipe to make on a crisp sunny fall day.