Sweet and slightly salty oats with a luscious fudgy center. These Chocolate Peanut Butter Oat Bars are a regular thing around our kitchen for obvious reasons. You know that satisfying feeling when a plan is flawlessly executed? When something turns out exactly as you wanted it to? That happened with these Chocolate Peanut Butter Oat Bars….
Snacks / Desserts
Texas Glazed Pecans – Gluten Free
Texas Glazed Pecans are both a sweet and salty snack. Looking for something to set out for your Oscar party or next get together? These gluten free goodies will be gobbled up in no time. It’s Oscar time time again! I’m reminded of a quote, I’m not sure who came up with the line, that…
Chocolate Oat Balls – Gluten Free + Vegan
Looking for an easy, healthy chocolate fix? Look no further. These Chocolate Oat Balls are just what you are craving. Simple to make and featuring wholesome ingredients, they will satisfy the chocoholic in anyone. Easy things about blogging? Testing and tasting chocolate oat balls recipes. Tough things about blogging? Sometimes it can be a challenge…
Top Five Viral Honour System Recipes
Happy Monday! I’m taking a break from the Instant Pot posts to share with you my Top Five Viral Honour System Recipes. People have been clicking on these particular posts in droves. Take a minute to scroll through and see if there is anything YOU like. If you read my new year’s day post, you would know…
Instant Pot Hard Cooked Eggs
I love my Instant Pot for pressure cooking things like eggs with ease. Whether you are making an egg salad or prepping for some high protein snacks, these Instant Pot Hard Cooked Eggs are the simplest route to get there. So, during my little hiatus, I bought a new kitchen toy.
Vanilla Protein Balls with Chia Seeds – Vegan + Gluten Free
Vanilla Protein Balls with Chia Seeds are the perfect go-to snack. Packed with protein and fiber, these bites of whole food goodness will satisfy your afternoon or post workout cravings. What better recipe than one featuring balls to get me back on track with both my blogging and healthy eating. I do love a good…
Matcha Green Tea Smoothie – Vegan & Gluten Free
This Matcha Green Tea Smoothie recipe gives your nutrition a massive boost of antioxidants and vitamins. Creamy, fresh and green, green, green. An instant classic. Hey friends! So in an attempt to get even more cancer fighting antioxidants into my diet, I’ve started to add Matcha Green Tea powder to my smoothies. Besides the antioxidant…
Chocolate Peanut Date Squares – Vegan & Gluten Free
These Chocolate Peanut Date Squares are a fabulous energy-boosting snack. Sweet dates, crunchy peanuts and don’t forget the dark chocolate topping. Made with organic ingredients without breaking the bank! If you are anything like me, eating fresh organic food can really test your food budget. In my case, food basically comes first. Shoes, clothes, fancy…
Zucchini Banana Bread with Spelt Flour – Dairy Free
This Zucchini Banana Bread is like a warm, whole foods hug from your oven. And who doesn’t love veggies baked into things? Using spelt flour and subbing in coconut oil and coconut sugar instead of butter and the bleached out, refined sugar makes this loaf wholesome, dairy free AND delicious. Like many people who are into eating seasonally, I found myself…
Kiwi Sorbet
This recipe for Kiwi Sorbet couldn’t be easier. With only two ingredients, this frozen treat is destined to become a summertime favourite. Vegan, Paleo & Gluten Free. Don’t you find that oftentimes, the simpler something is, the better? That rule applies to the sweetly delicious kiwifruit. Are you a fan? I’ve loved the simplicity of…
Healthy Dairy Free Desserts – E-Cookbook Review
Hey everyone! I’m doing something a little different today with a review of an e-cookbook by a fellow whole foods blogger and holistic nutritionist Jesse Lane from jesselanewellness.com. I had the pleasure of meeting Jesse at an event last year and she was so friendly with a radiant smile and all of the beautiful…
Maple Pecan Energy Balls
I picked up these leaves from a drippy little puddle when we walked home from grocery shopping last week. That’s been an adventure, by the way. Grocery shopping. Back in Burlington, we had it down. I knew which aisle had what and wrote out my shopping list accordingly. Joe had his half, I had mine…
Toasted Cashew Candy Bars – Vegan & Gluten Free
These Toasted Cashew Candy Bars are like a distant memory. We devoured the heck out them a few weeks before our big move. I was planning on being oh-so organized, getting ahead of the game by having a few posts in my arsenal ready to go. Well, the recipe testing was done, and the photos…
No Bake Chocolate Pecan Bars – Gluten Free & Vegan
Life is funny. It was just a few weeks ago that I was writing that I had such an uneventful life with no really exciting day-to-day escapades to regale you with. That, my friends, has changed. These last few weeks have been a whirlwind. We suffered a huge loss, weathered a health scare and made a…