Tag: winter
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Rich and Creamy Collagen Hot Chocolate with Raw Cacao – Gut Healing, Comforting, Paleo
In my opinion, January isn’t the month for perfection. It’s the month for comfort and coziness. I mean, there are definitely good things about January: the days are getting longer, you feel inspired to set goals, and the year is fresh with possibility. At certain times, you want to dance with delight because the year…
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Rich and Creamy Collagen Hot Chocolate with Raw Cacao – Gut Supporting, Comforting, Paleo
In my opinion, January isn’t the month for perfection. It’s the month for comfort and coziness. I mean, there are definitely good things about January: the days are getting longer, you feel inspired to set goals, and the year is fresh with possibility. At certain times, you want to dance with delight because the year…
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Refresh and Relax Peppermint Body Butter
Peppermint: “An extremely good kind of mint which takes the depressing and uber-confusing world you are living in, and transforms it into happy swirls of red and white goodness. You can’t be sad eating one unless you choke.” – Urban Dictionary Wise words indeed. Friends, the festive season has come and gone, but it’s still winter,…
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Fortifying Blackstrap Molasses Hot Chocolate
As part of my plan for a fortifying fall season, I’m examining the possibilities of using Blackstrap Molasses in more food and beverage options. Why? Well, blackstrap molasses is a huge nutritional powerhouse. It has an incredible number of vitamins and minerals, including: iron (for building those red blood cells! 1 tablespoon has 15% of your daily…
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Creamy Spinach Salad with Roast Potatoes, Avocado, and Maple Tempeh
Even though it’s cold outside (a very frosty -12 C feels like -26 C with the windchill today here in wintery Southwestern Ontario), and my natural impulse is to wear pajamas in front of the fireplace all day long, I haven’t yet felt the yen for the proverbial comfort food. Or rather, I should say…
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It’s the Holidays: Survive, Thrive, and Remember What Counts
What are the holidays are meant to be: relaxing, celebratory, inclusive, social (but not stereotypical – families are made up of all different kinds of groups and people), generous, full of gratitude, delicious, joyful, cozy, and fun! What the holidays aren’t meant to be: stressful, expensive, a wallop to your digestive system, annoying, full of old anger-inducing…
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23 Delicious and Indulgent Clean Eating Dessert Recipes for the Holiday Season
If you are anything like me, you spend a good deal of time in December planning what to bake (or non-bake, for my raw friends) for the holiday season. You want recipes that are straightforward, healthy, simple, delicious, and produce results that are pretty, because, heck, if it’s ugly, no one wants to eat it.…
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Festive Apple Cider Scones (v, gf)
I think it’s fair to start a countdown to Christmas now, no? I mean, we are almost exactly a month away. And these scones definitely communicate a festive, cinnamon-y, “I love winter” kind of feeling, which is what one certainly wants to cultivate in the weeks before Christmas. And in the weeks after Christmas, come…
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5 tips for inspired and energetic living – Life is Short! Why Not?
It’s time for another edition of Life is Short, in which I provide you with 5 easy tips for more inspired, energetic, and vital living. You might be reading this from someplace sunny and warm, in which case, I must admit I envy you a little. Here in ol’ Canada, we are having a long and very…
Eat Well, Live Vibrantly 