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Chocolate Covered Everything

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Hey chocolate lovers!

It’s not new news that you can dip most anything in chocolate and it tastes delicious! I want to share my chocolate recipe that I use for dipping. Strawberries, apples & bananas are quite delicious covered in chocolate. 🙂  This recipe uses coconut oil which will require you to refrigerate until you are ready to eat the final product. (If you are not interested in that, you can melt a organic dark chocolate bar or chocolate chips and use that instead.)

Coconut oil is a wonderful healthy fat and the cacao powder has some great health benefits which include magnesium & a high antioxidant content. Dipping fruit in this delicious chocolate is an awesome combination of healthy fats & carbs making it a wonderful snack option!

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3 Ways to Boost Immunity Over the Holidays

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The months of November and December can be quite hectic for people! From parties & shopping to end of the year work stuff, the stress of hosting the perfect holiday dinner, lack of sleep and traveling can make the holidays a stressful time.  We can end up with a few extra pounds, exhausted, stressed out and sick.  It’s quite important to maintain and boost our body’s immunity during this time.

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The best way to boost up our immune system is through our food choices, rest and additional supplements if necessary! “Food is Medicine”  Fruits and vegetables are immune powerhouses, each containing a different unique set of antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. Eating a variety of them is a sure way to get a sufficient amount of these essential health supporting elements.

3 Daily Action Steps To Boost Immunity 
  • Start your day with warm lemon water. It is a great immune builder and aids digestion.  It also helps balance your pH levels and flush out toxins.  It is important to stay hydrated! Water and herbal teas are my favorite things to drink throughout the day. Aim to drink at least 1/2 your body weight in oz. (Ideally I recommend drinking 1 liter (33.8) oz of water per 50 lbs of body weight)
  • Make half of your plate vegetables. You just can’t even hardly explain how important the role of vegetables play in keeping our body in tip top shape.  Eat a variety of kinds and fix them different ways to get different properties of vitamins & minerals. Example: raw, steamed, cooked, sauteed or roasted.
  •  Stay away from processed foods/sugars/breads. These wreak havoc on our systems. They are filled with chemicals that our bodies must fight off. When we are already putting our body under extra stress, it is a good idea to take extra steps to nourish ourselves. That will help relieve some of the work your body has to do. 
Bonus tip
  • Supplement if necessary. Take a digestive enzyme before consuming a heavy meal, keep your gut healthy with probiotics, include garlic to help fight off colds and to boost immune function and remember to take your multi-vitamin and fish oil. I also recommend taking a Vitamin D supplement as well. Most of us are deficient and this will help ward of the “wintertime blues”.

If you are needing to purchase high quality, potent supplements, check out my online dispensary here.

All in all, relax and ENJOY the beauty of the season!

Sausage Kale Soup

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I’ve been making this sausage kale soup once a week.

That’s how good it is! Filled with gut healing bone broth, protein, greens and yummy sweet potatoes, it is a super healthy soup! I love using recipes like this one to get in a variety of nutritious foods!

Update: You can use hamburger in place of the turkey sausage. If you do, add: 1 tsp oregano, 1 tsp basil & 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes.

 

Hummus

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Hello hummus.

Creamy, delicious, full of protein & healthy fats. Hummus is a perfect snack, addition to your wrap or even a salad!

Unfortunately most kinds you buy from the store are full of preservatives and chemicals. Yucky. The good news? You can make it at home very easily!  Here is a basic hummus recipe, I haven’t did much experimenting with different flavors…YET! 🙂

My favorite ways to use it:

  • vegetable dip
  • in wraps (in place of mayo)
  • on salads

I want to hear from you! What are your favorite flavors and ways to eat hummus?

 

Fresh Garden Salsa

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Fresh Garden Salsa!

One of my favorite things about summer is the bountiful produce! With that comes one of my favorite recipes that I HAVE to make several times each year: Fresh Garden Salsa!

There are several different varieties of this recipe that you can use.  Add black beans and corn for more of a meal, leave out the peppers, add more peppers, add avocado(if you have leftovers, they will get brown and yuck) or any other combination that sounds good.

You can serve them with blue corn tortilla chips (my favorite), add quinoa to make a salad, quesadillas..the possibilities are endless. Get creative 🙂

Happy Munchin’ 🙂  *Please choose organic ingredients when possible.

Egg Roll In A Bowl

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Egg roll in a bowl: a family favorite!

Asian food! Who doesn’t love it? I personally do, there are usually lots of yummy vegetables added and it just taste so good! My problem? Soy. Most dishes are made with with it and I generally avoid.  Not to mention the egg rolls? Quite delicious, but deep fried in inflammatory oils. Yuck. This egg roll in a bowl recipe tastes so good and the kids love it!

I was talking to my mom the other day and she mentioned this recipe that their farm nutritionist had sent to them. It sounded so good and I was game to try it! Upon looking at the recipe, I noticed that it was a Trim Healthy Mama recipe and upon further investigation I seen that the recipe was available online in several different places.  I decided to go ahead and post it because it is super delicious and I want to share it with all of you.  I have made just a few minor modifications such as increasing the amounts but other than that it is the same recipe.

Did I mention that the first time I made it my husband said…”Yum, what is that flavor? It is good!” Score! I love it when I hear that, I know it is a dish I can make again.

Here it is folks! Look it over and than go make it 🙂

 

*please use grassfed or organic meat.