Category: Dietary Preference

7-Ingredient Chewy Carrot Cake Cookies

7-Ingredient Chewy Carrot Cake Cookies

Chewy coconut cookies with shredded coconut, eggs and honey for a super-simple approach to carrot cake, cookie style! I’ve been speaking at a bunch of nutrition chats, workshops and retreats lately. Which is SUPER rad, I love it… but I have 0 nice clothes. I haven’t gone shopping since… high school? Ya, that was like,…

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Fruit & Veggie Smoothie Leathers

Fruit & Veggie Smoothie Leathers

A healthy vegetable and fruit-based smoothie, made into fruit leathers for the perfect portable snack. It will work with any of your favorite smoothie recipes! It’s hard to believe that I’m already on day 4 of my 5-day juice kit-cleanse from Total Cleanse. As nice as it is to have full control over the juices…

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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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Healthy Halloween Recipes (gluten-free + vegan)

Healthy Halloween Recipes (gluten-free + vegan)

My favorite healthy (gluten-free and vegan) Halloween recipes from ant hills, to eyeballs and every brew in between. Like you, I can’t believe that Halloween is right around the corner. This year is flying by faster than the last. My parents warned me this would happen as I aged. Ugh. No matter how old I…

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Pumpkin Spice Quinoa Breakfast Cookies

Pumpkin Spice Quinoa Breakfast Cookies

Hearty breakfast cookies made with naturally gluten-free quinoa instead of oats and packed with pureed pumpkin, maple syrup and flax seeds. It’s the ultimate sinless breakfast treat! I love sharing my recipes with the world. Being able to do what I do, day in and day out is a huge blessing. And when I get…

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Rockin’ Roots Warmed Kale Salad

Rockin’ Roots Warmed Kale Salad

Cinnamon roasted root veggies, combined with soft greens, toasted squash seeds and a garlic dressing. Serve this salad warm, fresh out of the oven. Kevin, Lexy, Pebbles, my Dad and I are nestled in the fifth wheel kickin’ it camping-style this long weekend. We slept in on Saturday, snacked on grain-free apple cornbread (yum!), played…

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Sexy Lady Smoothie for Balanced Hormones

Sexy Lady Smoothie for Balanced Hormones

It’s been almost 2 months since I began hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The first couple of weeks were a bit rocky with minor sleeping issues, nausea, nervousness and irrational thoughts & behaviors. But, I am feeling pretty good now. My body is changing and it feels… right. For more details, read through my The Last…

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Quinoa Apple Pie Breakfast Cookies

Quinoa Apple Pie Breakfast Cookies

Hi, my name is Leanne… and I’m addicted to quinoa breakfast cookies, cookies, breakfast… and quinoa. In the last month, I’ve made Quinoa Carrot Cake Breakfast Cookies, Quinoa Zucchini Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookies, Quinoa Banana Bread Bread Breakfast Cookies and now these Quinoa Apple Pie Breakfast Cookies.

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Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup (grain-free + paleo)

Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup (grain-free + paleo)

The thing that drives Kevin absolutely, crazy insane? When I create a really, really, really good recipe for the blog… and then never make it again. It’s not that I don’t want to make it again, I do. But I create upwards of 15 recipes a week. Going back to old favorites just… doesn’t happen.

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Good To The Core Stuffed Apple Dessert

Good To The Core Stuffed Apple Dessert

Healthful Pursuit is weeks away from going ad-free! No more random fast food banners, popups or completely inappropriate messages will invade this space. You will be free to browse, completely uninterrupted and distracted. It’s going to be sa-weet!

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