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Recipe: Citrus Salad
This fresh citrus salad has some nice acidity, beautiful flavours, and it’s a bright way to start the weekend. You can use any citrus you like and change it up from time to time. Let’s get started. Ingredients 4 cara cara oranges 1 lime handful of blueberries pinch of salt 1 teaspoon fresh cilantro drizzle of agave First, wash and cut your citrus. I did this with 5 knife cuts on the cara cara oranges and 6 on the limes. Then, slice thinly. You could…
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Recipe: Banana Bites
Banana bites are a simple and easy snack – you just need some time (because they need to set up in the freezer). They keep for a few days and are full of goodness. Time to make some healthy snacks. Let’s get started! Ingredients 2 bananas 1/3 cup of natural peanut butter (cold) 100g of dark chocolate First, like usual, gather all of your ingredients. Be sure your peanut butter is cold, other wise it’ll run all over the bananas and make quite a mess.…
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Recipe: Fruit Pops
Fruit pops! Yes – it’s sunny out and the snow is finally gone. Time to get ready for summer. These fruit pops are made with fresh real fruit. Not only are they good for you, they taste great, too. Ingredients 6 kiwis 1 cup of pineapple 6 strawberries Okay – why this combination of fruits? Well…we had a bag of kiwis in the fridge that we needed to use up, along with some fresh strawberries (I only used the tops) and some pineapple (I used…
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Recipe: 12 Days of Juicing
12 Days of Juicing Juicing! Are you ready to juice?! In October we got our Omega Juicer off of Amazon and it’s been amazing…I highly recommend it – worth every nickel! Why juice? Health benefits, detoxifying, your skin will glow, your nails and hair will be strong, juices taste good (when you have some practice)…and that’s what I’m going to share with you over the next 12 days. My top 12 juice recipes. My favourites are the fruit ones – the veggies ones are good,…
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Recipe: Mango Roll-up Snack
Fruit is always a good snack, but sometimes it’s not so much fun to eat. This recipe turns mango into a fun roll-up snack! I’m sure you’ve seen the long post on Pinterest about mango fruit roll-ups – this one is a tad different – has more balance as far as flavour, but doesn’t compromise the natural fruit goal. Ingredients 3 mango 1 tablespoon of agave syrup 1/2 teaspoon of salt First – peel and cut the mango into chunks. Next – put them in…
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Recipe: Raspberry Nutella Waffles
It’s time for breakfast! Who doesn’t love Nutella? And fruit, ta-boot! I used my pancake mix, which is a pantry staple – check it out. Not only is it great for waffles, you can also make pancakes with it, too. Ingredients 1 cup pancake mix an egg 3 tablespoons of water 1/2 cup of nutella 1 cup of raspberries First – mix up the first 3 ingredients and wash the raspberries. Make sure you oil your waffle iron – put in the batter and cook…
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Recipe: Rhubarb Pie
It’s a true summertime treat – rhubarb pie. It grows like crazy in my garden so I bake a lot with it, or sometimes just dunk it in sugar and eat it raw. Here’s what you need for this tart treat! Ingredients 6.5 cups of chopped rhubarb 1.5 cups of sugar 3 tablespoons of corn starch dash of salt dough recipe – try 1-2-3 Here we go – lay out your floured area to work on your dough. Roll it out well, but don’t over…
