Feel a cold or flu coming on? Real food to the rescue! Help your immune system bust your cold naturally with this powerful smoothie! Katherine over at Green Thickies uses the following ingredients to power up her body: oranges, clementines, coconut, ginger, chai seeds, echinacea, and honey/sweetener. I hope you enjoy her post as much…
Recipes
Quick and Easy Mini Omelets
It’s hard to have time for a healthy, nutrient packed breakfast. Simple tricks like this one from the OnePot Chef Show, make it easy to find time for breakfast every morning, even if you’re short on time. These mini omelets have just a few simple ingredients: eggs milk onion ham cheese oil (I’d use butter…
Drool Worthy DIY Bacon Sushi
Sushi is popular and delicious, but rarely includes American food superstars like bacon, cheese or beef! This simple recipe just took sushi to the next level… You’ll need: Sushi mat (for rolling) Bacon Beef Cheese BBQ Rub seasoning BBQ Sauce Grill Watch the quick video below and learn how to make this fun recipe for…
Coconut Milk Ice Cream: The Ultimate Metabolism-Boosting Dessert!
Metabolism boosting ice cream? Yes- you heard that right! Let’s talk about why… Coconut milk: While traditional ice cream can be a great treat for many, many people with sub-par health can have dairy allergies or sensitivities, making it more stressful to digestion and the immune system (not the best thing for boosting the metabolism…
The Science Behind Baking the Most Delicious Cookie Ever
Not much beats the PERFECT chocolate chip cookie. But how do you make the perfect cookie to your liking? With what feels like zillions of different chocolate chip cookie recipes on the web, it can feel like an overwhelming task. Until now, that is. Tess of Handle the Heat took the guesswork out by making…
Chocolate Coconut Butter Bars
Finding good healthy treats can be a real struggle. At the grocery store it’s hard to find much without colors, additives, gums and natural flavors, and if you’ve got food allergies of any sort, it makes it almost impossible. That’s where my friend Tiffany of The Coconut Mama comes in. One of her many talents…
Coconut Butter Buttons
Coconut oil is ALL THE RAGE right now, and for good reason given it’s anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, metabolism stimulating, digestibility and antioxidants properties. A close relative to coconut oil is coconut butter which gets far less attention, but is another form of coconut that you might want to add to your arsenal! Tiffany of the Coconut Mama came up…
BETTER than Takeout: Homemade Orange Chicken
About 6 months ago I saw this delicious recipe making it’s way through the blogosphere than claimed to be “better than panda.” Naturally, I just HAD to make it, and let me tell you– it did NOT disappoint! Since then I’ve made it several times, and even made a few adaptions to bulk up the vitamin…
How to make infant formula
For a variety of reasons, feeding your infant breast milk is NOT always an option. Whether you find yourself needing to supplement with formula, or use it exclusively, you don’t have to sacrifice nutrition. Cheeseslave shares the recipe she used when her own milk production was not enough to meet her daughter’s needs. Keep reading……
Baked Apples
Who doesn’t love apple pie? Well this is exactly what this baked apple recipe tastes like! This gluten free recipe contains medium apples, butter, unprocessed, additive free apple juice, cinnamon, lemon juice, and dates. Keep reading… Get the recipe at butternutrition.com Pin it: