8 Healthy Travel Meal and Snack Ideas

8 Healthy Travel Meal and Snack Ideas

Making one last trip to New York City was so incredibly worth all the hustling I had to do to make it happen. I experienced new things, got a ton of work done and ate really good, healthy food.

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5 Ingredient Hazelnut Toffee Squares

5 Ingredient Hazelnut Toffee Squares

Food memory throwbacks are the best kind of memories. The smells, the tastes, they’re essential to our life experience and should continue to be experienced even if  allergies, sensitivities, or a change in eating style threaten to ruin the show. Allergies aside, I bet there are a handful of foods that ignite your creativity, stunt…

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Living Responsibly: Committing To Happiness

Living Responsibly: Committing To Happiness

Imagine this – You have the life that you’ve always dreamed of. The dream job, in the dream city, with the dream family and the dream car, with the dream backyard and the dream friends. Everything is exactly how you planned it out to be. But something’s missing.

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Staying Motivated: Eat Healthy Wherever, Whenever

Staying Motivated: Eat Healthy Wherever, Whenever

My 4-day getaway to New York City is underway. This city lights me up and turns me ON. Creativity flows, internal fire blazes, magic happens. I crafted a healthy meal plan for myself before I made the trek out here. No ultra technical tricks, fussy shenanigans or complicated processes, just a list of meals for…

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Transitioning into and out of a juice cleanse

Transitioning into and out of a juice cleanse

A lot of internal action happens while you’re cleansing. Your body kicks into its natural cleansing cycle and runs on hyper drive to flush out toxins, regenerate tissue and restore your vital organs. Jumping in and out of a cleanse – abruptly transitioning from solid food, to liquids and then back again – can be…

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What to expect during a juice cleanse

What to expect during a juice cleanse

Cleansing is a great tool to refresh digestion, purify thoughts and stay balanced. Cleansing can be slightly intimidating. To help bridge that gap, I’ve answered a bunch of your common questions about cleansing below. Can I do a juice cleanse if I don’t have a juicer? Heck YES you can! Check out this video from…

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My new Omega 8006 Juicer

My new Omega 8006 Juicer

I am overly impressed with my new Omega 8006 Juicer. The feed chute on the 8006 is fairly small, so produce needs to be cut up into tiny small pieces. The prep work required to make a juice is longer than with my previous Breville juicer, but the juice that comes out of this beast…

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Sweet Potato Chocolate Milk

Sweet Potato Chocolate Milk

Have you ever had one of those months that’s so packed with activities that you’re not sure if you’re going to mentally, physically or emotionally live to tell the tale? June is shaping up to be one of those months. While everything that’s going on is a bit overwhelming, it’s also very exciting, momentous, and…

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Lemon Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting

Lemon Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting

Celebration is a beautiful thing. Celebration is a surrender to what is; a wholehearted appreciation for the present moment. Celebrating our lives, our bodies, our circumstances, our food, our allergies; everything that has led us up to this point, is our choice.

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Healthy Barbecue Recipes

Healthy Barbecue Recipes

Whether you’re planning on enjoying the sunshine, having friends over, going to a social event or just relaxing all weekend long, you’re going to need to eat. And why not chow down on some good-for-you, barbecue-friendly foods instead of the average not-so-healthy and non-feel-good long weekend options?

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