Giving up sugar can be a big shift for your body, your mind and your habits, especially if you’re a big dessert eater. Whatever motivates your decision to reduce or cut out sugar – for me, it was to reduce…
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cacao-coconut-pistachio bark.
Tagged with: chocolate, coconut, dessert, homemade chocolate, I Quit Sugar, pistachio, sugar free, treats
Posted in dessert, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, recipes, snacks
Posted in dessert, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, recipes, snacks
raw coconut-pecan cocoa bites.
The only thing I like more than healthified desserts is making healthified desserts and force-feeding them to other people and sharing them with people I like… or people I would like to coerce into liking me. Just kidding. Most recently, I…
Tagged with: ALOHA, coconut, coconut oil, dessert, dinner party, freezer fudge, no bake, pecan, raw, shareable, snacks, treats, vegan
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Posted in dessert, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, recipes, snacks
pineapple kale smoothie bowl with chia seeds.
Exciting news, From the Ground Up crew! I’ve started creating recipes for an awesome online meal delivery service called Plate Joy — and man alive, is it {foodie} joyful! They provide the ability to craft your own custom meal plan,…
Tagged with: banana, blender, breakfast, chia, coconut, juice, pineapple, smoothie, snack, sugar, vegan, workout refuel
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Posted in breakfast, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, recipes, snacks
raw vegan thin mint cookies.
If you’re heading to a holiday party this year, there’s a good chance someone will bring along the box of Thin Mints they felt obligated to purchase from a colleague’s little Girl Scout, or that they perhaps had to buy…
Tagged with: baking, cacao, christmas, coconut, cookies, dessert, healthy treats, holiday, nuts, raw vegan, treats, vegan dessert
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Posted in dessert, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, recipes, snacks
vegan gluten-free plantain pancakes with protein.
In August, I experimented with a great protein powder to create a homemade energy bar – see that recipe here – and decided to see what else I could amp up with it. Today’s featured yumminess is another simple breakfast-inspired recipe that’s…
Tagged with: amino acids, breakfast, coconut, fitness, muscle building, pancakes, plant-based, protein, protein powder, pure encapsulations, skillet, vive detox
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Posted in breakfast, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, lunch, recipes
zucchini pasta with coconut cream sauce.
One of my favorite ways to use zucchini is in place of pasta. I find that grain-based pastas (even gluten-free ones) aren’t always the best option for me… it’s worth exploring for yourself, too, if you happen to notice that…
Tagged with: blanche, coconut, coconut milk, gluten-free recipes, grain-free, onion, pasta, pasta substitute, raw, steaming
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Posted in dinner, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, lunch, recipes, side dishes
vegan sugar-free truffles, two ways.
At the beginning of August, my sweet husband turned 31. Obviously dessert was in order. This Perry the Platypus is not the cake I made. Well, this was the cake I made, two years ago. (It’s entirely vegan and gluten-free, in…
Tagged with: almond, brown rice syrup, cacao, coconut, dessert, energy balls, I Quit Sugar, plantain, raw, semi raw, sugar free, sweet potato, treats, truffles
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Posted in dessert, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, recipes, snacks
nourishing nutbars.
I’ve been experimenting with easy breakfast and workout refuel options in the kitchen this week, testing out some new ideas that will be included in the cookbook… (coming soon, stay tuned!). I’m a fan of anything in bar form –…
Tagged with: breakfast, brown rice syrup, coconut, coconut oil, decadent, dessert, gluten-free recipes, isolated protein, nuts, plant-protein, protein, protein powder, sugar free, treats, vegan, walnut
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Posted in breakfast, dessert, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, recipes, snacks
butter crunch coconut granola
Recently, we got rid of all of the boxed cereal in our house. (FINALLY.) Michael Height, sweet adventurous guy that he is, has taken on a commitment to quit sugar (a la I Quit Sugar) for the month of August.…
Tagged with: breakfast, cereal, coconut, gluten-free recipes, I Quit Sugar, nuts, oats, sugar free
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Posted in breakfast, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, recipes, snacks
Make-Me-Over Mojito Smoothie from the I Quit Sugar Cookbook.
[This recipe is one in a series of posts I’ll be sharing from the I Quit Sugar Cookbook. If you’d like to be kept up to speed with all of them, please join our week mailing list — recipes and…
Tagged with: blended, coconut, fructose, gluten-free recipes, greens, I Quit Sugar, plant-based, smoothie, sugar free, vegan, Vitamix
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Posted in breakfast, cookbook review, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, lunch, recipes, snacks
coconut squash macaroons.
It’s a [very] untraditional looking little Easter egg, no? I’m not much of an Easter chocolate or Easter baking kind of gal. Hot cross buns and Cadbury Creme Egg cupcakes aren’t really on my radar these days. Coconut, however, absolutely…
Tagged with: almond, baking, coconut, coconut oil, dessert, gluten-free recipes, healthy eating, kid-friendly, plant-based, treats, vegan, whole foods
Posted in breakfast, dessert, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, recipes, snacks
Posted in breakfast, dessert, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, recipes, snacks
curried coconut lentils {video cooking class}.
Join me in the kitchen as we learn how to make a quick + easy vegan lentil dish, great served on its own, on a salad, or in baked squash medallions (like in this recipe). The sauce might be the…
Tagged with: coconut, coconut oil, cooking class, curry, DIY, easy recipe, how to video, kitchen, lentils, sauce, spices, video
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Posted in dinner, gluten-free recipes, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, lunch, recipes, side dishes, video cooking classes
vegan dinner party: coconut-almond crusted tofu + peanut quinoa.
This weekend, we had some great friends over for dinner to reconnect after holidays and talk about what’s coming up in the new year. I love when we have adventurous eaters over dinner: it means I get to go a…
Tagged with: almond, coconut, dinner, dinner party, easy recipe, faux fried, gluten-free recipes, kale, Oh My Veggies, peanut butter, plant-based, quinoa, side dishes, skinny bitch, tofu, vegan, veggies, whole food
Posted in dinner, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, recipes, side dishes
Posted in dinner, health coaching info, homepage featured, kid-friendly recipes, recipes, side dishes
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