If you have been following my blog you will notice most of my posts are sweet treats! They are the best and I have so much fun recreating treats and getting creative. But I feel it is indeed time to get realistic and add in some green goodness and amazingly delicious alternatives to your usual everyday foods. So to kick it off I decided to share my tahini recipe and kale salad. I have this every damn day its so good(:  It is an awesome way to get your greens in from the kale which by the way is a dark green leafy cruciferous vegetable that is packed with Vitamins and Minerals. Kale is particularly high in Vitamin A,C and K as well as your B Vitamins, as well as a good kick of calcium from the tahini in the delightful dressing.

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Yes you read it right, easter eggs that are healthy! No refined sugar, addites preservative or dairy just plain good ingredients.

If you havn’t noticed by now I love my sweet treats, most of my posts are healthy treats. I love playing around with recipes and trying to recreate the “normal” store bought treats we all so fondly remember.

Today I am keeping it short and sweet for you. Im not usually one to celebrate Easter but this year decided to join in the easter spirit and make these delicious eggs, make for your kids and family and friends this easter. Instead of the regular sugar filled ones that will send your kids on a sugar high which then leads to tantrums and mood swings and not a very happy child (;

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One of my best memories from childhood are all the sweet treats my mom made , sweet fudge, marshmellows melted on marie biscuits, and rice crispy treats!

Whenever we had bake sales at school we had rice crispy treats filled with refined sugar of course, oh but I loved them, the sweetness with the sticky crunch from the marshmallows. Since starting this health journey I have missed these. So I set out on a mission to make a healthy version. What to replace with marshmallows…mmmm I tried with the amazing almond butter and they turned out so great, I ate most of them , whoops(;

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These are so good, and perfect for a hot summers day around the pool. And kids will love them too, a great alternative to your usual store bought ice-creams that are filled with preservatives, artificial colorants and sugar! Whats also great is they are so easy! I promise. (; 

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I have been looking for an alternative for yoghurt for quite sometime, I have tried a few different recipes and after many tries this one wins. Its creamy and really tastes delicoius, and an added bonus is its full of goodness.

I decided to cut out dairy from my diet for a few reasons, one of them being it creates a lot of mucus in my body and I find I don’t digest it very well. As well as believing that we don’t need dairy for all the reasons we think we do, like one of them being for calcium. Sound familiar?

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I love Kale ! And I love chips!

So I made Kale Chips and let me tell you, they were delish!!! I made them to snack on for the week and they only lasted one day…. oops!

Kale is a dark green leafy cruciferous vegetable that is packed with Vitamins and Minerals. Kale is particularly high in Vitamin A,C and K as well as your B Vitamins.

The beautiful leaves of the Kale plant have an earthy taste.  There are several varieties of kale; these include curly kale, ornamental kale, and dinosaur (or Lacinato or Tuscan) kale, all of which differ in taste, texture, and appearance.These are pretty straight forward, you can either dehydrate them or cook them in the oven if your pressed for time. I dehydrated these.

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Wheatgrass! Yes im sure you have heard that word circling around, and yes its grass thats crazy good for you! Wheatgrass is the young grass of the wheat plant.The leaves are tough to digest, so they’re usually crushed and squeezed to make juice.

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I love superfoods and I love granola! So I joined the two in marriage, and my goodness its a great one (; Its so nice to know your getting all this goodness in your breakfast bowl and it tastes amazing! It is also great as a after dinner treat (;

This recipe is fairly easy and you can either dehydrate it for the raw version or cook it in the oven which is quicker. I try make a big batch of this to last the month, but it never does!

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Boost your Immunity with this smoothie, packed with Vitamin C  goodness!

 

I woke up feeling under the weather last week with flu symptoms starting and I wasnt too happy about it!  I had a 3 Hour Yoga workshop to teach and I wasn’t going to let this flu get to comfy in my body. So I whipped this booster smoothie up and it worked out to be super delish and gave me the great boost that I needed to get through the workshop! I was feeling so much better just a couple hours later. Thank goodness.

I recommend cutting out all dairy products if you have those in your diet, as well as all foods containing gluten, and up your intake of smoothies juices and raw fruit and vegetables, your body needs to rest and recover. Stay in bed and sleep or snuggle up on the couch and read a nice relaxing book or a romantic comedy movie to watch hehe (we all secretly love those)!

This smoothie is fulled with Vitamin C and anti- oxidents to build immunity and fight the flu.

 

Recipe

 

1/2 Pineapple

Juice of 2 Oranges

Juice of 1/2 lemon

Juice of 1 cm piece ginger and Turmeric

1TBS Goji berries

1TBS AIM Carrot Juice powder(or juice 1 carrot)

1 tsp AIM Barley life powder

1tsp Bee Pollen

1 Cup mixed Berries

5 Drops Bee Propolis (Optional)

Add water if needed

Blend and enjoy!

Use what you have, there are a lot of different ingredients here, so get creative with what you have in your kitchen, you can’t go wrong with Oranges, lemon and pineapple. The Superfoods just add that extra kick!

 

 

 

Anyone that knows me , knows that I love to snack. All the time…. So these little balls of joy are just perfect for me. I love to have a healthy sweet treat in the evenings and these are delicious, quick and easy.

Why Carob? Carob is a powerful superfood, it is a reddish-brown edible pod grown on the Carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua). Carob powder is an extremely versatile superfood product that posseses a wonderfully sweet flavour and can be used as a healthly alternative to sugar and artificial sweeteners. Its chocolate like taste means that it can be used in the same way as organic cacao powder. It is dried using extremely low temperatures, organic carob powder has amazing nutrients, including Vitamins ( A, B1,B2 ,B3 and D), minerals (calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, manganese and potassium) antioxidants, fibre and protein. Carob is also high calcium and iron. Carob beans, are dried and ground into organic carob powder that can be used as an alternative to organic cacao powder as it does not contain caffeine.

 

Recipe

Makes10-12 Balls

1/2 cup macadamias
3/4 cup cashews
2Tbls Coconut oil
1 Cup dates
2Tblsp Carob Powder
1/2 cup of Goiji berries
sprinkle of Hemp seeds
1/2 Cup Dehydrated buckwheat (optional)
Melt coconut oil in a pot add chopped dates until they slighty soften.
Add the nuts, dates and oil to blender and blend until smooth(can have some chuncky nuts if you like). Put into mixing bowl , add goijis, carob, hemp seeds and buckwheat and mix until well combined. Roll into balls and set in the fridge!
Enjoy with a cup of peppermint tea and your favourite song! (O: Yum!