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Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Superfood Breakfast Balls. Welcome to the Breakfast with Jon series.

Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Superfood Breakfast Balls

If you don’t know me, I lost over 220 pounds with a holistic mind-body weight loss approach that I call The Gabriel Method. In this series I will introduce you to breakfasts that change your body on a cellular and hormonal level. No more mid-morning junk food cravings! You’ll feel less hunger, while keeping your blood sugar stable and nourishing your body. Today’s breakfast, my favorite Superfood Breakfast Balls, includes omega-3’s in the chia seeds, a much needed healthy fat; protein from the nuts and seeds; and sulfur in the the black sesame seeds, which is great for detoxification.

Raw Recipe: Coconut Chocolate Chip Ice Cream. When I was a little girl, I use to eat ice cream every day — until one day, my second grade teacher made a random comment during class.

Raw Recipe: Coconut Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

She was talking about how much she loved ice cream, but she said if she ate it every day, she'd be as big as a cow. I thought, "I don't want to be as big as a cow," and I focused on reducing my ice cream consumption. As an adult, I still love ice cream. It's my favorite dessert. However, my newest obsession is finding healthier alternatives to the usual sugar-filled desserts. This raw version was delicious and easy to make! Coconut Chocolate Chip Raw Ice Cream Serves 3-4 Ingredients: 1 cup cashews raw2 cups coconut meat1/2 cup raw honey2 tsp vanilla extract1/4 tsp sea salt1/4 cup coconut oil3 tbsp raw cacao nibs.

Baileys Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream. Happy March to everyone!

Baileys Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream

Composting: a guide to making compost at home, using compost tumblers, bins & other composters. ~ Activate your compost. 'Activators' can be added to your compost to help kick-start the process and speed up composting.

Composting: a guide to making compost at home, using compost tumblers, bins & other composters

Common compost activator materials are: comfrey leaves, grass clippings, young weeds, well-rotted chicken manure. ~ Flying insects attracted to your compost? Small fruit flies, especially, are naturally attracted to the compost pile. They can be discouraged by simply covering any exposed fruit or vegetable matter. San Francisco Juice Cleanse, SF Organic Juice Delivery and Detox. The Best Juicer. It’s more efficient at squeezing nutrients and liquid from leafy greens than the more popular (and admittedly great) Breville juicers.

The Best Juicer

Compared to the Brevilles, some juice experts say you’ll get nearly double the juice from the Omega. And why would you go to the trouble of spending money on fresh produce only to leave half of it behind? At $260, the Omega costs slightly more than low-end juicers, but it offers better quality and taste, it’s is easy to clean and it’s built to last a decade. (This is still a lot of money for something that may not be part of your life in the long run, so I have a budget recommendation below. That might be a safer bet if you haven’t tried juicing before or aren’t sure if you’re going to be juicing regularly.) But before I tell you more about the Omega, lets talk about juice. It wasn’t the kind of buzz you get from caffeine, or the rush I’d get as a kid from eating an entire bag of skittles.

Juicing is sort of like healthy fast food. Third-wave coffee: Hold the wi-fi. Extra flavor. The best cup of coffee, possibly, in the world is served in Bellingham, at the edge of town on a rehabilitated lot adjacent to derelict railroad tracks.

Third-wave coffee: Hold the wi-fi. Extra flavor.

The words etched on the glass door read: Onyx Coffee Bar. And that is all you will notice of the shop’s exterior, if you notice it at all, blended into the ground floor of an apartment building. You cannot drive by Onyx, because it is located on a path off limits to cars, nor can you notice its awning or signage because it has neither. Most who go there, many of them coffee or restaurant industry professionals, know of the place and seek it out. Those who stumble into it on the one day of the week it is open are likely confused by what they find inside. Grain & Egg Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes. (Gluten Free/Vegan/Soy free with directions to make sugar free) By Brittany on May 3, 2012 Experimenting with alternative flours is extremely exciting for me.

Grain & Egg Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes. (Gluten Free/Vegan/Soy free with directions to make sugar free)

My recent time spent with Chestnut Flour has been no exception. It bakes up extremely light and fluffy, has a nice nutty slightly sweet flavor and tastes phenomenal with warm spices. Its baked goods have a light brown color, but yet do not have that heavy "whole grain" taste that we often associate with darker flours. What You Don't Know About Processed Food - The Huffington Post. You've heard of pink slime.

What You Don't Know About Processed Food - The Huffington Post

You know trans fats are cardiovascular atrocities. You're well aware that store-bought orange juice is essentially a scam. But, no matter how great of a processed-food sleuth you are, chances are you've never set food inside a processing plant to see how many of these products are actually made. Let Them Eat: Gluten-Free Carrot Cake. [Photograph: @sstiavetti] For a few years, when I was trying to figure out the source of some health problems, I decided to go gluten-free.

Let Them Eat: Gluten-Free Carrot Cake

And when I stopped eating foods containing gluten, a lot of the problems cleared up. Gluten-Free Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting - Recipe for Gluten-Free Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Moist and luscious, gluten-free carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is a gluten-free favorite at my house.

Gluten-Free Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting - Recipe for Gluten-Free Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

The cake freezes well and the recipe makes one round layer cake, one 13x9-inch sheet cake or 36 cupcakes. Three cups of grated carrots add healthy carotene, a nutrient that the body uses to make vitamin A. Not bad for a cake! Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 45 minutes. Free Carrot Cake Muffins. Wake up with a warm and lovely carrot muffin. The snow has turned to rain this week and our Cape Cod winter rental (no cozy fireplace or wood stove) feels chilly and dampish. Which makes yours truly want to crank up the oven and bake. And with skies as gray and thick as old flannel- darling, it has to be muffins. Something bright and light and perfect with tea. Something fun to lo lift our cabin-feverish spirits. I love the carroty color. Seriously tea worthy. Gluten-Free Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. I saw a lot of carrot cake recipes last week leading up to Easter while I was planning to make one for yesterday, too.

Best Gluten-Free Irish Recipes - Gluten-Free St. Patrick;s Day Recipes. Some of Ireland's most beloved recipes, like Irish Soda Bread and Irish Stew can easily be adapted to gluten-free recipes. This makes celebrating St. Patrick's Day a lot more fun, as does the availability of gluten-free beer! 1. In the kitchen with: katie quinn davies’ guinness cake. This week’s recipe is by Irish-born and Sydney-based food photographer/food stylist Katie Quinn Davies. You know her best as the one-woman show behind the blog What Katie Ate.

When Katie and I began to discuss what recipes she might offer, I found out that she was Irish and that changed up the whole game! I had the greatest time in Dublin last year, and couldn’t wait to see what Katie would propose. As luck would have it, among her ideas was a Guinness Chocolate Cake. Chocolate Guinness Cake Recipe. Get in the mood for St. Patrick’s Day with this rich, chocolatey, moist, out-of-this-world chocolate guinness cake from Simply Recipes contributor Garrett McCord. And for more ideas, see our St. Chocolate Beer Cake. Egg Substitutes In Baking. There are many egg substitutes available for baking or any recipes that calls for eggs. Most of the egg substitutes can be purchased at health food stores and most grocery stores. Here in this page, you can find excellent recipes that are tried and tested using various egg substitutes.

Vegan, Egg Free Substitutes.