I’ve been on a pumpkin recipe bender lately and adapting the ingredient in some of our favorite real food recipes for the fall season. This recipe is an adaptation to vanilla chai nut milk, adding pumpkin and other pumpkin spice-like ingredients to make a very seasonal and relevant recipe for this time of year – … Read More...
Here’s a tasty coconut vanilla chai nut milk recipe alternative for your homemade nut milks. This version uses chai tea bags and spices it up really well! Read More...
Homemade nut milk is a great dairy-free alternative and is also very cost effective comparatively to buying store bought nut milks. In this post, I’m going to discuss the basics of ingredients and directions, but will also provide three different sweetening options from a no-added sugar to a low-glycemic added sugar to an added secret … Read More...
Nut butters are one of my all time favorite foods (kryptonite) so I’m always playing around with different combos that work. Over the weeked I tried a caramel/sea salt combo (ever had that in ice cream? wow good) but it still needs a little fine tuning on the real food caramel..so back to the drawing … Read More...
One of my favorite nuts that often times can be forgotten when it comes to making homemade nut milk is the pistachio; a little powerhouse raw nut full of nutrition. I’ve made almost every other kind of raw nut milk before, but I had never tackled pistachio milk… so we gave it a go. This … Read More...
If you saw my post on Instagram yesterday about government recommendations for healthy snacks, you know that I wasn’t too fond of it. No fat this.. low fat that.. and all grain, dairy, grain, grain, dairy, dairy, grain, and so on. You can read the .gov article recommendations here. One of the recommendations was fat … Read More...
Day 3 of healthy alternative Halloween Candy week! Hope everyone has been enjoying it! So far we’ve done healthy alternative recipes for the Crunch Bar and the Almond Joy. Today, we’re going to tackle the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. I found out that of all the candies we’re hacking this week, the Reese’s peanut butter … Read More...
Usually when we think of nutella, we think of chocolate spread made from hazelnuts, right? Well, I made this recipe when I made my pumpkin cinnamon cashew butter and what I was going for was a restorative gut-health chocolate cashew butter. However, the end result consistency and surprising flavor turned out to be very similar … Read More...
There has been a lot of pumpkin inspiration on social media lately being that it’s October, so we felt compelled to join the pumpkin dish-inspired festivities with this pumpkin butternut squash bisque with Chef Kevin Daniel and friends. This dish is vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free. It’s also paleo and dairy-free without the 5-spice mascarpone we … Read More...
Raw banana cream pie “Reese’s” peanut butter cacao cups – a healthy version of a peanut butter cup made with organic raw cacao powder, coconut butter, coconut oil, and a banana nut butter coconut cream filling. Party in your mouth-worthy and a great healthy dessert or Halloween treat alternative. Children-verified and approved as well! Read More...
