Category: Nut-free

Load Up On Fiber with this Low-carb, Keto Flaxseed Focaccia Recipe – No Gluten, Dairy, Grains, Flours. Just Flax!

Load Up On Fiber with this Low-carb, Keto Flaxseed Focaccia Recipe – No Gluten, Dairy, Grains, Flours. Just Flax!

Grain-free, low-carb, keto bread recipe made entirely of flaxseed with a very bread-like texture. Perfect for toast and sandwiches. 3 weeks of my new keto eating style are in my back pocket and my daily keto recipe ideas are starting to take shape (lucky for you, you’re in for a real keto treat. This is…

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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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5 Reasons Why This Nutrition Educator No Longer Likes Leafy Greens in Her Smoothies (psst, it burns 10x the calories!) + a “Green” Smoothie recipe

5 Reasons Why This Nutrition Educator No Longer Likes Leafy Greens in Her Smoothies (psst, it burns 10x the calories!) + a “Green” Smoothie recipe

Add this green super ingredient to your next smoothie and ditch the bloat, burn 10 times the calories and boost energy. No dark leafy greens required. I was in the mall last week frantically searching for a 25th birthday present for my little sister when I got distracted by Teavana and bought 500 grams of…

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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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Chocolate Avocado Freeze Bites

Chocolate Avocado Freeze Bites

Frozen cubes of vanilla-flavored avocado coated with dark chocolate. 2 months ago, a self-made vegan + paleo vanilla ice cream on a stick with a hard chocolate shell quickly inspired me to work frantically on a new summer cookbook. It’s a vegan, gluten-free, nut-free, banana-free popsicle no-bake cookbook. More details to come very, very soon.

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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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No Potatoes! Potato Salad (paleo)

No Potatoes! Potato Salad (paleo)

Classic potato salad with a tangy cream sauce, loaded with fresh herbs and finely chopped fresh vegetables. Only, there are no potatoes in this potato salad! Because potatoes spike blood sugar (which increases the likelihood of sugar cravings after consumption), I chose to make this potato salad with… Rutabaga! I was a bit skeptical at…

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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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Food Re-networked Series: Lemon Meringue Pie

Food Re-networked Series: Lemon Meringue Pie

Healthier lemon meringue pie with a grain-free + nut-free crust, filled with a tart lemon curd filling and topped with billows of meringue. Oh my goodness, I haven’t had lemon meringue pie in over 10 years. It was torturous waiting for this pie to set. By the time it was ready, it was too late…

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