Courses: Vegan, Paleo, Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Sugar-free, Yeast-free, Corn-free, Grain-free, Nut-free, Egg-free

Make Your Smoothies Lighter with this Essential (inexpensive) Base Ingredient + New Smoothie Recipe and Giveaway

Make Your Smoothies Lighter with this Essential (inexpensive) Base Ingredient + New Smoothie Recipe and Giveaway

Using this inexpensive ingredient as the base for your next smoothie lightens up your drink and boosts the health benefits without the added cost of superfood ingredients. In the end, it’s about swapping high sugar ingredients for low sugar ingredients and tea is a fabulous (healthy!) way to do this.

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The Easiest Way to Remove 50 Grams of Sugar (why it’s the best idea ever) + a No-sugar Summer Drink recipe

The Easiest Way to Remove 50 Grams of Sugar (why it’s the best idea ever) + a No-sugar Summer Drink recipe

The first step to jumping off the daily cravings train is to remove these 50 grams of sugar from your day. Lucky for us, it’s SO easy to do! I knew that Starbucks drinks had a lot of sugar, but I had no idea how much until I spent an afternoon perusing their nutrition facts.

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How To Take Your Food Allergies on the Road Without Causing Boundless Stress + a recipe for Nut-free Gingersnap Balls

How To Take Your Food Allergies on the Road Without Causing Boundless Stress + a recipe for Nut-free Gingersnap Balls

Summer-friendly, no-bake gingersnap balls with dried fruits and seeds. No nuts  or medjool dates included! In a few short weeks, I’ll be driving from Calgary to Whistler BC to attend Wanderlust; a 5-day outdoor yoga + music festival in the Canadian Rockies. (Can’t wait to take you along with me!) I’ll be on the road…

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Crisp Eggplant Chips with Smoky Seasoning

Crisp Eggplant Chips with Smoky Seasoning

Thinly sliced eggplant rounds sprinkled with homemade smoky seasoning and slow roasted until crisp. Who knew that sprinkling eggplant with seasoning and slow roasting for an hour would create such a delicious (healthy) snack? I sure didn’t.

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Coconut Chunk Curried Kale Salad

Coconut Chunk Curried Kale Salad

Gluten-free, paleo and vegan salad with curry-infused roasted vegetables in a tart lemon sauce, folded in with fresh coconut meat, kale and pomegranate seeds. There was a sale on whole coconuts at the grocery store the other day… so I bought 7 of them. Now, I am on a mission to come up with new…

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Dairy-free Cream Sauce

Dairy-free Cream Sauce

This dairy-free, vegan and paleo cream sauce is the answer to your recipe woes. You can spread it, bake it, pour it and drizzle it just like any other creamy sauce out there. I was put on a heavy dose of steroids and anti-histamines following my anaphylactic episodes. They made me ragging hungry at every…

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Get Glowing Superfoods Breakfast Pudding (vegan + paleo)

Get Glowing Superfoods Breakfast Pudding (vegan + paleo)

Blended breakfast pudding that’s high in fiber and has absolutely no added sugars. I created this Happy Tummy Breakfast Pudding recipe a couple of years ago and loved it so much that I ate it for breakfast for 6 solid months. The recipe was phenomenal. So delicious. The only thing I didn’t like about it…

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Lentil Bake with Sugar-free Barbecue Sauce

Lentil Bake with Sugar-free Barbecue Sauce

6-Ingredient homemade sugar-free barbecue sauce that’s just so darn good! BBQ sauce craze. Happening right now. My daily eats are filled with it. Heck, I even dip my sweet potato fries in the stuff (mixed with a little mayo, of course ;)

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Crispy Oven Fries + Kitchen Gadget Giveaway

Crispy Oven Fries + Kitchen Gadget Giveaway

Congratulations, Anna, you’ve won! I’ll send you an email in a few minutes. Thanks everyone for entering :) I went through a phase about 4 years ago where all I ever wanted for supper was homemade potato or yam fries baked in coconut oil. Even writing about it has me salivating. Did you know that…

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Gift for Mom: Pea-not Chocolate Truffles

Gift for Mom: Pea-not Chocolate Truffles

Mother’s Day has always been special at our house. Wait, let me try that again… We’ve always tried to make Mother’s Day special, whether that’s been the case for the past 26 years is another story. This especially holds true for the 3 year period Christina; my sister, and I were teenagers together. Our hormones…

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