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Chocolate Covered Cranberry Bars

Chocolate Covered Cranberry Bars

Lightly sweetened chocolate-layer bars—a healthy hemp-seed base and melted chocolate coating, sandwiched between a dense layer of cranberry cream. Wow, what a Christmas! Were you following along with me? My family and I made gluten-free gingerbread houses, drank spiked dairy-free eggnog, slathered cranberry sauce on everything, blasted the Christmas music, kissed under the mistletoe and…

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Cleansing Cashew Milk + Juice Cleanses

Cleansing Cashew Milk + Juice Cleanses

Perfectly creamy, velvety milk made from cashews. Perfect end-of-day drink when you’re on a juice cleanse. Every 3 months, like clockwork, my body craves a juice cleanse. February, May, August and October. Year in and year out. It’s quite cool. Last time I got the cleansing urge was in August. We had just moved from…

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No bake Lemon Cashew Squares

No bake Lemon Cashew Squares

I enjoyed our mini vacation, but boy did I have a good time in the kitchen yesterday! It felt like it’d been ages since I’d cooked something. As nice as it was to eat out at fun restaurants in Montreal for 4 days straight, come day 3 I was ready for a simple home cooked…

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Spring Fling Pasta Salad + How to Clean and Cook Artichoke Hearts

Spring Fling Pasta Salad + How to Clean and Cook Artichoke Hearts

Happy Monday, all! How was your long weekend? Ours was fabulous. Very long, relaxing, and chocolate filled, just as I suspected. The Easter bunny stopped by Sunday morning, delivering far more chocolate than I know what to do with. I was impressed to find little treat bags tied with bright green bows. The bunny sure…

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Apple Spice Fruit Dip

Apple Spice Fruit Dip

Spring is here, life is good, opportunities are abundant, and we’re kicking off the weekend with a fresh recipe! There have been some major changes happening in our life recently, things I’ve dreamed of forever but didn’t think were possible… until now. I’m embracing opportunities that I was afraid of in the past, grounding myself…

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Cashew Caesar Salad Dressing

Cashew Caesar Salad Dressing

I get strong urges for vegetables, usually once a day. When the craving comes I cannot think of anything else. In the winter I usually crave potatoes, squashes, roasted veg, but today I wanted a BIG salad, and I wanted it now! We keep olive oil and vinegar on hand for these moments, but I…

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