Healthy Snacking

Superfood Chocolate Maca Cups

Superfood Chocolate Maca Cups with maca and antioxidant rich cacao. Top with your favorite superfoods and enjoy as a snack or dessert.

It seems like people are busy lately, you know?

It’s back to school season, and everyone is getting in the groove of new adventures, new goals, and new intentions.

Luckily, I whipped up the perfect energizing treat to keep us on our toes.

These Superfood Chocolate Maca Cups are oil-free, gluten free, refined sugar free and require only two ingredients to make, plus additional superfood toppings!

I snuck in the popular adaptogen, maca, that supports natural energy and vitality so you can get your energizer bunny on all week long.

A clean, healthy treat that is easy to make, and also reduces stress and fatigue?

I’ll take a dozen. …

Pea Pesto Sweet Potato Poppers

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Oil-free sweet potato rounds baked and smashed with herbed pea pesto. The perfect healthy appetizer for game-day or any-day!

Hi, guys!

Are you football fans?

I can’t say that I am, but you know what I am a fan of?

Easy and healthy game-time snacks.

Dan would tell you that I’m a Patriots fan by marriage (don’t hate!), but I spend the majority of the game asking what just happened.

And smashing all of the veggies together to make an oil-free, gluten-free option to enjoy between (and during) plays.

These Pea Pesto Sweet Potato Poppers are a total “game-changer” (sorry, I had to), when it comes to feeding you and your football fans this fall!

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Coconut Stuffed Raspberries

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Four ingredient refreshing summer dessert with fresh raspberries and creamed coconut! Perfect for quick healthy refined sugar-free dessert bites.

You guys.

I have the freshest dessert to end your summer and take you into Labor Day weekend.

It should be no surprise to you by now that I love “stuffing” things.

When I see the opportunity to create a compact finger food, I can’t just let it slip away.

If there’s a crater in a vegetable or fruit, you bet I’ll find a way to pack it with a complimentary food and call it a snack/meal.

These Coconut Stuffed Raspberries require only 4-ingredients to whip up.

I never had the pleasure of meeting my grandpa on my mom’s side, but my mom tells me he loved raspberries so I like to claim that I got my obsession from him.

Whether or not raspberry love runs in your family, you’re going to love these Coconut Stuffed Raspberries.

They’re made with only fresh fruit and coconut for a gluten free, grain free, refined sugar free dessert!

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Oil-Free Purple Sweet Potato Fries with Beet Ketchup

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Crispy oil-free baked purple sweet potato fries paired with sweet beet ketchup. Slice, bake, and season, then dip in naturally sweetened beet ketchup.

It’s Friday and I think we all deserve some fries dipped in ketchup.

I remember back when I considered fries a junk food, something I ordered from the fast food drive-through window with equal anticipation and regret.

How about a plant-based pairing that makes you feel as fantastic after you them as it does while you’re eating them?

In my house, fries and dip is considered health food.

You really can’t argue with that logic when you’re stuffing your face with Oil-Free Purple Sweet Potato Fries dipped in Beet Ketchup.

Plants on plants for the win.

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Coconut Quinoa No Bake Cookies

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No-bake cookies with a coconut quinoa twist! Make them on the stovetop with coconut flakes, cacao, peanut butter, and cooked quinoa.

Do you have a favorite childhood cookie?

Mine are definitely No Bakes.

When my mom announced she was making them, I’d hang out in the kitchen to grab them faster than she could drop them on wax paper to set up.

I loved watching them fall in delicious chocolate peanut buttery oat blobs and slowly harden and take shape.

Yesss.

Clearly adulting could use more of this childlike wonder, so I created these Coco-Nutty Quinoa No Bake Cookies based on the classic with some healthy upgrades.

It’s true, they’re not the prettiest of cookies, but then I’ve always had a soft spot for the imperfect.

When I picked out teddy bears on the shelf, I always looked through all of their furry forms, carefully selecting the one that was just a little homely.

You know, the teddy bear with the eyes glued a bit close together, the smile sewn a little crooked, the ears just slightly asymmetrical.

I felt like it was my duty to adopt this bear, because I had zero faith other kids would buy it, and the thought of that teddy bear sitting on the shelf for years to come waiting for a good home was too much for my childish heart to handle.

I took my new friend home proudly, resting assured that he/she had a good home and that my bear was pretty freakin’ special.

These quirks gave my bear a little something that set it apart, what I later came to understand as “character”.

Well, these Coconut Quinoa No Bake Cookies have all the character, too!

They might not have a fuzzy wuzzy face, but they’ve got taste to make up for it.

The same justifications apply.

You might find yourself grabbing them by the handful just in case no one else will.

Or because the combination of chocolate, peanut butter, and coconut is completely addicting.

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Chocolate Chick-Date Cookies with Almond Butter Cacao Frosting

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Chocolate chickpea cookies with almond butter, cacao, and Medjool dates. Top them with an easy 3-ingredient chocolate almond butter frosting!

It’s been one of those weeks where I want all the chocolate.

Annnnnd it’s only Tuesday.

Being a planner, I’m always looking ahead to anticipate things I might need before I need them.

I’ve got tons of “just in case” items ready to pull out in the rare circumstances when they might briefly shine.

You do this too, right?

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Tropical Nut Pulp Bites

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5-ingredient Tropical nut pulp bites naturally sweet with exotic dried fruit. Use your leftover nut pulp in this easy recipe!

Have you tried making your own nut milk yet?

I made nut milk a few weeks ago and I pretty much felt like a wizard when I saw the brazil and cashews blend into a frothy creamy white in my Vitamix.

Magic.

Then I whipped up these Tropical Nut Pulp Bites afterwards from the leftover nut “pulp” and that’s when I knew I needed to make nut milk on a weekly basis.

Just to collect the nut pulp for more bites like these.

Shhh.

I still drink the milk.

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Strawberry Hemp Heart Muffins

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Strawberry muffins packed with fresh strawberries and hemp heart protein. Naturally sweetened and perfect to meal prep!

Happy Father’s Day, friends!

I love the challenge of taking old family recipes and making them new with fresh updated ingredients.

Altering the original recipe for my mom’s Strawberry Bread to make gluten-free, oil-free, and refined sugar-free muffins might be the best dad’s day gift ever.

I see you, Strawberry Hemp Hearts Muffins.

And so does dad.

I’ve told you about my mom’s Strawberry Bread before, haven’t I?

In case you missed it, let me remind you.

It’s amazing.

She made it before we went to the community pool on Friday nights growing up.

My sister and I waited impatiently in our flip flops until dad came home after work.

Then we sliced the bread warm, served thick in hearty pink pieces.

These Strawberry Hemp Heart Muffins are an ode to that delicious bread!

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PB Jam ‘N’ Yam Thumbprint Cookies

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1-bowl healthy cookies made with chickpeas, peanut butter, and Japanese yam. Sweetened with maple syrup and your favorite jam.

Remember that time I made Spiced Cashew Chickpea Cookies and ate them all the time?

They’re my absolute favorite snack cookie because they’re so moist, low in sugar, packed with protein, and totally portable!

Well, after eating tons of those perfect little morsels on the go, there was one fateful day where I decided to sit down and spread a bit of jelly on top.

This made the cookies even more moist and delicious, so I’ve been dunking them in fruit spreads ever since.

I set out to create PB & Jam Thumbprint cookies to share my news finds, but found I had half of a steamed Japanese yam in the fridge,

And jam rhymes with yam, so…

PB Jam ‘N’ Yam Cookies happened.

I think you should make them happen, too.

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Blood Orange Chocolate Chip Chickpea Cookies

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Chocolate chip cookies made with chickpeas and naturally sweetened with maple syrup and blood orange. Perfect for a healthy snack or dessert!

Who else is loving citrus this spring?

I was beyond excited when I started seeing the dark rind of blood oranges appear in the citrus barrels at the grocery store. I love the addition of blood orange to my meals for both flavor and coloring, so why not add it to dessert, too?

Have you tried the pairing of chocolate and citrus before?

The mixture of tangy fruit and sweet chocolate is pretty perfect.

If you haven’t, allow these Blood Orange Chocolate Chickpea Cookies to be the sweetest of introductions for you.

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