One of the reasons many of us struggle with maintaining a clean diet is lack of time. Daily meal preparation can be extremely time consuming, which I think is why a lot of us end up purchasing store-bought food – because it’s faster and easier than slaving in the kitchen after a long day of [...]
This is one of those recipes that took me forever to get right. You'd think muffins would be easy to whip up. But I wanted to make these muffins packed with protein, so I had to make a few adjustments. The biggest adjustment was replacing flour with rolled oats, because oats are richer in protein than wheat flour. [...]
I will never buy jam or jelly from a grocery store ever again. Neither will you after you make this delicious berry chia jam. There's just something about all-natural, homemade jam that tastes so much better than store-bought jam. Fresh with the just right amount of sweetness. Not to mention, chia seeds are loaded with [...]
These strawberry banana crepes are topped with an easy, dairy-free, 5-ingredient Nutella sauce. Normally, Nutella is made with hazelnuts, but I used peanut butter in this recipe because hazelnut butter isn’t sold in most grocery stores, and making your own hazelnut butter requires a food processor. (If you have a food processor, feel free to [...]
I receive a lot of emails from readers requesting meal prep recipes that they can bring to work. I find this loaded egg burrito recipe to be one of the best on-the-go breakfast solutions. They're quick to make, easy to wrap, and you can make a large quantity if you're meal prepping for the week. I [...]
This apple cinnamon french toast recipe is quick and easy, completely clean, and made with the healthiest bread on the market: sprouted grain bread. (I use Ezekiel Food for Life cinnamon raisin bread for this recipe.) I mention sprouted grain bread in a lot of my posts, because a) I LOVE bread, and b) I [...]
This dairy-free homemade Nutella only contain 5 ingredients and is completely clean. Normally, Nutella is made with hazelnuts, but I used peanut butter in this recipe for a few reasons. The first reason is that, I can't find hazelnut butter anywhere. The second reason is that, although most recipes recommend making your own hazelnut butter, it [...]
I just made my first batch of homemade granola yesterday, and it is SO easy to make! Granola is something that I always want to buy in stores, but it's hard to find a brand that doesn't have a ton of added sugar. This healthy homemade granola only takes about 20 minutes to make, and requires [...]
For Valentine’s day this year, an adorable selection of fruit and yogurt parfaits were delivered to my work as a gift to all the employees. (I work for a health and fitness company where healthy products are promoted on a daily basis – even on holidays!) We got to keep the mason jars, and I’ve [...]
For this breakfast bowl, you can use either rolled oats or steel-cut oats. Steel cut oats sit lower on the glycemic index, but they take longer to cook, at least 30 minutes. (Those on a gluten-free diet will want to make sure to use pure oats that don't contain wheat.) For the granola, I recommend [...]
I follow a lot of food blogger Instagram accounts, and I find myself gravitating towards the pages that contain the most photos of smoothie bowls. It's not that smoothie bowls are difficult to make, I just love the pictures. It's like making your breakfast a beautiful work of art. And it inspires me to eat [...]
Those of you who've read my other recipes may have noticed that I have a thing for sweet potatoes. I've made everything from cookies (sweet potato protein cookies) to tater tots (baked sweet potato tots), and now I've found a new favorite: sweet potato hash! You can also make this hash with regular potatoes, but [...]
For this breakfast smoothie bowl, I recommend using plain non-fat Greek yogurt, as it has only 120 calories per cup, 6 grams of sugar, and 22 grams of protein! I like Trader Joe’s brand, but Sage and Chobani are also good brands. The yogurt itself tends to be too bitter for me, so I like to blend it [...]
This recipe wasn't something I intended on making. I originally bought a package of phyllo dough because I was attempting to make an egg, cheese and spinach pastry. I attempted. It was awful. And then I had an entire of box of leftover dough to use. Next, I had the idea to create a fruit tart, and somehow in [...]
