Frozen Fruit Sorbet-Homemade

This ice cream or sorbet was perfect! The kids had a blast making it with our new juicer and it was so fast and easy. The best part about it is that it’s so healthy, you could eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner. Nothing added, just frozen fruit. Half the fruit I froze myself […]

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My New Green Star Juicer 1000

For those of you who know about juicing, this juicer is amazing! The pulp is totally dry when it comes out and I’m getting a lot more juice for how many vegetables I am juicing. Tonight we made ice cream from frozen fruit, it was absolutely amazing! We are going to get years of use […]

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Whole Wheat Carrot Cake

My mother made this recipe and for all the healthy stuff in this cake, it was delicious!  This cake is very moist, and the neat thing about this recipe is that you can really adjust it to your own preferences. I will definitely be making this cake, one day!

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Gallo Pinto (beans and rice)-Costa Rica

When I lived in Costa Rica this was a staple that we ate about three times a day! Very tasty and good for you! I use brown rice and cook a little longer, it tastes great that way. Now we enjoy this meal at least once a week for dinner and a couple times a […]

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No-Bake Oatmeal Cookies-Vegan

This is a variation of a recipe I found on Allrecipes.com, I made these tonight with the boys, they helped with a few of the ingredients and then mostly helped by scooping the contents onto the foil. These turned out really well and I was surprised at how much they tasted like the “real” ones! […]

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Juicing recipes

I’ve been wanting some good juicing recipes, my friends Rana and Nicole shared these ones with me that they like. I plan to start juicing a lot more.
1. My favorite:
2 apples
2 oranges
6 medium carrots
1-inch chunk ginger
2. Waldorf Salad:
2-3 celery stalks
2 Granny Smith apples
3. Cleaning out the fridge:
Carrots
Beets, with greens
A little broccoli
Celery
Kale or collards or […]

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Buckwheatie Bars

We like to have healthy, preferably raw snacks around the house for those moments when one of us is thinking about being naughty sometime before the next meal! This is another recipe my friends Rana and Jana shared with me from Serene Allison’s raw cookbook “Rejuvenate Your Life.” A cookbook that I need to get […]

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Cowboy Caviar

My friend Rana made this for a get together we had a couple of weeks ago and it was refreshing and delicious. It was kind of a hearty salsa like dish that we ate with tortilla chips but I think I would cook up some rice and eat it for dinner it was so delicious! […]

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Bran Flax Muffins

My neighbor mentioned these yummy muffins while I was at her house today, she said they were really good and got the recipe off the back of the package of flax seed. I found the recipe on their website and am looking forward to trying them later this week, I’ll edit the recipe after I’ve […]

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Oatmeal muffins

These looked really good so I thought I would post the recipe and try them later. Brenda from my Healthy Menus group posted them.-Jenni
Oatmeal Muffins
1 C oats (I used quick cooking)
1 C buttermilk (I used milk with a little vinegar)
1 egg beaten
1/2 C brown sugar (can use sweetner of your choice)
1 stick butter, melted
1 C […]

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