Maple Coconut Nut & Nut-Free Butter Recipe

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 board with that one.  However, the maple coconut flavor worked, and I was able to adapt it to both a nut butter and seed butter.

So these recipes are for a maple coconut cashew butter, as well as a seed butter version using raw tahini (nut-free).

Both recipes have paleo & vegan-friendly ingredients, are gluten-free, dairy-free and 100% real food ingredient approved.

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Rainbow Ribbon Pasta Recipe

I have been loving different variations of carrot pasta ribbons lately.

It’s a great way to get a veggie-based “pasta” in your diet, especially if you’re grain and/or gluten-free.  Not to mention, the colors are awesome!

Give this recipe a try and let me know how you like it!

It’s paleo and vegetarian-friendly (vegan option too), ReBoot-friendly, gluten-free, dairy-free and 100% real food approved.

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Welcome to Volume 3 of The Body Transformation Series!

This week, salad prep, and specifically, example to-do lists of what I personally do to prep salad-related foods for my week including recipes I make.

Julian will be covering all things core training.

And we’ll be discussing food & fitness concepts for your best abs appearance.

Make sure you check out Volume 1 and Volume 2 if you missed them as well.  Each is loaded with recipes, food preps ideas, workouts for all experience levels and tips and secrets Julian and I share only with clients!

Let’s get down to business..

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Homemade French Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

French vanilla fans, let me preface this article with:  this is a must make!

If you missed it on Instagram, I mentioned I was going to release 2-3 real food remix ice creams from my DialIN FAM program that is under product development this year.  Well, I decided to release three:  pistachio ice cream, triple chocolate chunk and apple cinnamon… and I just couldn’t help myself with this french vanilla so I had to post it as well.  It was that good!

Do you remember the Baskin Robbins french vanilla growing up?  The one that was a dark golden yellow color?

That is what I was going for, and I got it. 

Except this recipe doesn’t have any of the junk in it.. just 100% real food ingredients your body can recognize and process.

This french vanilla ice cream is paleo-ingredient friendly, ovo-vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free and 100% raw.

Let’s take a look..

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Which Organic Brands Are Owned by Big Food Industry?

Below is a chart I wanted to share from Dr. Phil Howard with his latest February 2014 updates of the Big Food industry brands that are buying up the organic brand “little guys”, and likely, implementing and imposing their very own manufacturing practices that cut back costs, make products cheaper and ultimately hit their bottom line for stock holders.  I’m all for capitalism, but when it comes specifically to the health of the human body, “cutting corners” to boost profit margins usually doesn’t mean having your best health interests in mind.

Coca-Cola owns Odwalla..

Pepsi owns Naked Juice..

General Mills owns Lara Bars..

M&M owns Seeds of Change..

Kellogg owns Kashi..

and a new one on the list very recently… a Dean Foods company now owns Earthbound Farm (organic lettuces, vegg, etc) as of December 2013.  That was news to me!

[update September 2014]  Annie’s was bought out by General Mills for $820 million.

[update 2016] This post was written in early 2014 with the infographic chart below.  The latest chart can be found here.

The list goes on and on.. click on the image below to enlarge.

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Homemade Sweet Potato Hash Recipe

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day.. specifically, brunch on the weekend!

Reason being, I usually enjoy my 80/20 reward day from Friday evening to Saturday evening (and sometimes i’ll throw in a Sunday brunch if I’m living dangerously), where I’ll eat some of my favorite breakfast foods.  During the week, the 80 in 80/20 usually consists of a BioTransformation Shake for breakfast as it’s fast, gives me satiety and loaded with the best nutrition for my day.  But when the weekend comes around, that 20 in 80/20 I’m digging into to some of my favorite breakfast grub!

What kind of grub?

A reward day breakfast for me usually consist of pancakes, homemade frittatas with some Ezekial toast & pastured butter, eggs benedict, or a homemade hash of some sort – all some of my favorites.

This particular recipe is one of my go-to hash creations encompassing fresh local, organic ingredients and tons of flavor.. while actually keeping it pretty clean with an “anything goes” reward day.  This hash is paleo-friendly, vegetarian-friendly option, gluten-free, dairy-free and 100% real food.

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Welcome to The Body Transformation Series Volume 2!

Julian and I have got some exciting real food recipes, workouts, tips & secrets to cover in this post!

We’re going to take a look at:

  • A real food recipe for slow-cooked pastured pulled pork, including six meal idea recipes for how to use the pork
  • Hypertrophy (tissue/muscle building) workout videos for male & females at all skill levels, beginner to advanced
  • Plus three tips on building and maintaining muscle mass you may be overlooking

If you missed volume 1 we looked at a slow-cooked shredded orange chicken recipe and meal ideas for that, as well as fat burning circuits for males and females you can work into your exercise routine!

I also wanted to make a quick note before we jump into this Volume 2 post, and let everyone know that for these first few series posts, Julian and I are going to tackle main “umbrella”-category real foods that can be meal prepped and/or very versatile for numerous dishes:  animal proteins, veggies/salad prep, etc. as well as total body-type workouts.

In other words, we didn’t want to start week 1 with duck confit or reverse swiss ball crunches, right?  So our first few volume posts are going to be main food groups, main workouts for burning fat, building muscle, etc and we’ll get into more specific posts in future series.

And don’t worry my raw and vegetarian loving friends, I’ll dial in real food main ingredient/recipes of the week posts for you as well – including a full meal prepped salad wheel in our volume 3 or 4 series post.  We’ve also got other series set up where the main ingredient/recipe of the week we’ll be doing will be juicing, and the benefits of it.. smoothies/protein shakes..  legumes.. vegetarian meals.. post-workout meals.. detoxification meals.. and so much more.  

If it’s real food, we’ll cover it.

For now, let’s dive into volume 2! Read more →

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Maple Sesame Buffalo Wings Recipe

A Super Bowl party is not a Super Bowl party without one of two things in my opinion:  buffalo wings or guacamole.

I gotcha covered on the guacamole, but I wanted to whip up some healthy real food remixed wings versus the typical deep fried versions we think of when we hear “buffalo wings”.

These little bad boys are 100% real food approved, are paleo-friendly, gluten-free, dairy-free and have been known to put smiles on faces.

Let’s take a look at the recipe, shall we?

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Triple Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream Recipe

Chocolate lovers…time to get happy.  I give you a super clean and guilt-free party for the taste buds:

Homemade, real food-ingredient triple chocolate chunk ice cream. 

If you missed it on Instagram, I started creating a bunch of new real food ice creams for one of my up coming programs called DialIN FAM – a comprehensive program design for the family which will cover food & lifestyle, food for the kiddos (and school lunch ideas – ciao lunchables!), meal prep, home cooked real food meals in 10-15 minutes or less, plus much more.

This triple chocolate chunk along with the pistachio ice cream and apple cinnamon ice cream that we previewed will be in the program with many more ice cream flavors.

This will be the third and last ice cream we’ll sneak peek, and I saved the best for last as I thought out of all the ice creams done, this was top 2 or 3 (pistachio was another one of my favs). 

This triple choco chunk has paleo & vegan-friendly real food ingredients, is gluten-free, dairy-free and chemical junk free.  Let’s dive in..

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Creamy Raw Cilantro Hummus Recipe

Here’s another Super Bowl weekend healthy real food remix appetizer recipe for the big game:

Creamy Raw Cilantro Hummus served with a rainbow carrot flower display.

This was another creation like the Beet Cashew Hummus I just came up with on a whim.. and it worked!  Sometimes you can come up with great creations in the kitchen by playing around with different ingredients (I always like to encourage it.. it makes cooking homemade real foods fun and creative).

This dip is fully raw & enzyme-rich, vegan & paleo-friendly, gluten free, and dairy free.. without any of the chemicals, preservatives and junk ingredients we can find in some grocery store bought dips.

Fancy a bite?

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