Have you ever tried tahini and maple syrup together? Oh, you need to. It's one of my very favorite flavor combinations. I've used it for salad dressings and for a to-die-for fruit dip that tastes like a vegan caramel dip. This is my first time throwing them together in an energy ball. It was a ...
Snack Recipes
5-minute raspberry chia seed jam
Confession: I still had 80's hair in 1990. Not quite as big, but permed, with bangs I was trying to grow out but still sprayed stiff with Aqua Net. To my defense, this was pre-Internet and I lived in a town that was three hours from the nearest shopping mall. I wasn't the only one in my town late ...
Vegan Chunky Monkey Chocolate Pudding
This Vegan Chunky Monkey Chocolate Pudding is made with super creamy with avocado! About four years ago, when I first started discovering food blogs, I found a recipe for vegan chocolate pudding using the most unusual of ingredients: avocado. Intrigued, and excited for the possibility of having ...
Skinny Blueberry Lemon Smoothie
This Skinny Blueberry Lemon Smoothie is a refreshing treat that is only 100 calories!I'm looking out my window and all I can see is a flurry of white flakes in every direction. So what am I bringing you today? A smoothie, of course. This is my way of saying, "Screw you, winter." Sorry. Was ...
Apple cinnamon crumb muffins
Do you find yourself waiting for circumstances to be perfect before you take action on something? Rather than just doing something, do you spend time waiting to do something until the timing is just right? I do this all. the. time. To the point that less gets done because let's face it, the ...
Honey-sweetened spiced peach butter and giveaway winners
Did you get a chance to see any of the National Can It Forward Day events on Saturday? If you didn't, check out this page to see what you missed! In honor of National Can It Forward Day, I decided to try my hand at some small-scale canning. I thought making some spiced peach butter would be the ...
Homemade tropical spinach fruit roll-ups
I've been on a bit of a healthy snack mission lately. I have a lot of go-to snacks that I make often, but I really wanted to expand my repertoire and come up with some new snacks. Meghan loves fruity snacks, so I thought homemade fruit roll-ups would be a great place to start. I've never been ...
Snack attack! Healthy snacks for growing kids
There are times when Meghan will go through a phase of barely eating anything at all. I wonder how she still has boundless energy when she's eating like a bird. The last few weeks, it's been the exact opposite of that. Her appetite is voracious and she eats and eats and eats. I think we've ...
Sunflower veggie wraps {Gluten-free, vegan, soy-free, nut-free}
Last week, I had a gift card to Barnes and Noble and forty five minutes, by myself, to browse the store. I haven't had that luxury in too long. It was heaven. I love bookstores. In addition to making the stack to t0-be-read-books on my night stand even bigger, I also left ...
Grain-free peanut butter chocolate chip cookies {gluten-free, vegan, soy-free}
If you follow my Food I've Made Pinterest board, you know that I recently made a batch of my High Protein Energy balls. I hadn't made them in a while since it'd been so long since I could eat peanuts or tree nuts. They were eaten up so quickly I had to make a second batch a few days later. As I ...
Homemade sunflower seed butter: a cost comparison and recipe
It was a sad, sad day when I realized Luke had an intolerance to peanuts and tree nuts. Peanut butter and almond butter were staples in my diet and giving them up meant a little less joy in my daily eating. Sunflower seed butter (also known as simply "sun butter") has replaced my ...
Butternut squash smoothie
This smoothie is the answer for all of you who are craving fall even though it's still 80 degrees outside. A nice cool smoothie packed with the warming spices of autumn. Fall flavor in a summery glass. Perfect for the end of summer. I first made this smoothie a few weeks ago when I'd ...
