Month: April 2012

My Favorite Things Giveaway!

Thank you everyone for participating in the most popular giveaway on HP… ever! Congrats to Karina for taking home the prize! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’ve been collecting things… and not just any things, my favorite things. There’s instant coconut water that I like to use in my homemade electrolyte mix or post workout popsicles. Some LARABARs that…

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Homemade Flax Milk

This dairy-free recipes was inspired by my trip to India earlier this year… While I was walking along the road in the small village of Kallikadu, a random Indian woman invited me into her home for a cup of masala chai. Generally I would have said no to a stranger… but I was in India…

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Apricot Delight Breakfast Rolls

The long weekend is just days away. Do you have any plans? Ours will be somewhere along the lines of cleaning the backyard, going over to my parents’ house for Easter brunch, and stuffing our faces with chocolate. I could fib and say I’ll only have a couple of foiled mini eggs, but I’d be…

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Traveling Through India: Sivananda Ashram, Neyyar Dam Part I

For more on my backpacking trip through India, check out Mumbai experience, Kallikadu, Sivananda ashram introduction, India,  the basics, Sivananda ashram I, Sivananda ashram II, waterfalls and temples, the streets, and varkala posts. Why did you choose to go to an ashram? I’d visited Yosadhara ashram just outside of Nelson BC in August 2011. It…

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Mint Chocolate Chip Smoothie

The weather is getting warmer, days are longer, and all I can think about are salads, green smoothies and lemon water. Are you feeling the same? If so, it’s a good indication that your body is shifting gears from a Winter supporting diet to a Spring one. Spring is the season of purification. Greens, additional…

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