Mixed Berry Chocolate Cheesecake 1 If you’re a cheesecake lover, then your dreams of finding a healthier version have now come true. It’s always fun to make an old classic into something more nutritious and different from the norm. This is a great dessert to make over the holiday season with family and friends. Introducing new foods to those around you can be fun and … Read More
Superfood Goji Love Smoothie 2 This sounds like a dream dessert, but you can rest assured it’s in fact a heart healthy well-balanced treat. Heart health is all about consuming more plant-based foods, especially vibrant vegetables and fruits and healthy fats like nuts and omega-3s found in chia seeds. Antioxidant-rich dark chocolate and berries offer loads of nutrients that taste indulgent without adding excess sugar. … Read More
A Festive Juice for Christmas 3 Make your Christmas a nutrient-rich healthy one! It’s fun to get into the spirit of Christmas and make your juice extra festive. This is a great juice to start your holiday season off with a bang. Before you go to your family or friend gathering consuming a nutrient-dense juice before you go may help reduce your overall calorie intake by … Read More
A Party Dip: Roasted Eggplant And Garlic 4 Who doesn’t love a delicious dip? They are so easy to make and the perfect addition to a party. You can use the leftovers to add to a salad or enjoy as your own healthy snack. In this dip, I used roasted eggplant as the main ingredient. Eggplants have many healthy properties such as polyphenols which have been found to … Read More
Luck of the Irish Smoothie 5 Ireland is a beautiful country with lush, rolling green hills. Thanks to all that soft rain we see the vibrancy and gorgeous green that this country is so famous for. In the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day and celebrating our family’s ancestors, I’ve created a luscious green smoothie to energize your day and keep you hydrated. With omega-3 rich hemp, … Read More
Hungover? This Juice Will Help 6 Many of us know the drill. We promise ourselves that we won’t drink too much while celebrating, we tell ourselves that we will drink water in-between each cocktail or glass of champagne, and we want to make sure we eat something…yet sometimes all this just goes out the window. So if you did too much celebrating last night, this juice … Read More
100-Calorie Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares 7 One of the best matches made in heaven in the food world is chocolate and peanut butter. In my opinion, there’s nothing better. Since it was my birthday recently, I decided to treat myself and my coworkers to my favorite combination. These squares were inspired by the Mini Peanut Butter Chocolate Cups I made last year, but these squares are … Read More
A Simple Post-Workout Smoothie 8 I get a lot of questions about what I eat/drink post workout, so today I want to share with you my typical post-workout smoothie. I like to keep it simple (like all of my other recipes!), and I try to make it mostly carbs and protein. The carbs help the protein to get into the muscle, so together they’re a … Read More
Maple Cashew Macadamia Peanut Butter 9 I decided to combine a mix of all of my favorite nut butters together into one for this recipe. It’s so easy to make a good homemade nut butter without unnecessary ingredients such as vegetable oil, excess salt, added sugar, preservatives and poor quality nuts. Rancid nuts may be used with loads of extras added to cover up the rancidity … Read More
Sweet Coco-Beet Smoothie 10 This is a nutrient and fiber-packed smoothie with all the goodness of the strawberries, pineapples, golden beets and beet leaves. I used stevia leaves that I have been growing in my yard to give this smoothie a sweeter taste without extra calories and the beet leaves provide extra minerals and chlorophyll. INGREDIENTS DIRECTIONS Wash all produce well. Remove outer rind … Read More