No-Sugar-Added Chocolate Banana Bread

Welcome, summer! Here’s a nice, easy recipe that makes a delicious and pretty healthy treat when paired with summertime berries like strawberries. I used what was on hand, but you can easily make this vegan or gluten-free by substituting some of the ingredients! Hope you enjoy 🙂 No-Sugar-Added Chocolate Banana Bread Ingredients 3 ripe bananas, mashed 1/2 cup stevia-erythritol blend (I used Steviva) or granulated stevia 1/8 cup … Continue reading No-Sugar-Added Chocolate Banana Bread

Chocolate Almond Butter Protein Bars

To see all recipes, scroll to the top and click on Recipes or just click here! If you read my last post about protein bars and tried them yourself, I’m hoping you either loved them so much exactly the way they were that you didn’t change a thing OR that you changed up a bunch and made your own custom version! As for me, I’ve now made several … Continue reading Chocolate Almond Butter Protein Bars

Pao de Queijo: Brazilian Cheese Bread (Grain-Free, Gluten-Free)

To see all recipes, scroll to the top and click on Recipes or just click here! Happy summer! And happy Friday, too 🙂 I’m happy to share with you a great new recipe (well, new to me) that I got from a friend a few weeks ago. She’s Brazilian, and this is the recipe her family always uses. I’ve done a little Googling and discovered many variations on this recipe, but … Continue reading Pao de Queijo: Brazilian Cheese Bread (Grain-Free, Gluten-Free)

A Year of Natural Health & Beauty Tip #42: Make a Tennis Ball Massager

If you’ve been following my tips all year, by now you’re well aware of the benefits of massage. You’re probably already giving yourself a daily hand massage and a daily foot massage, but when it comes unkinking other chronically tight areas of your body, you might wonder if you have to become a contortionist first. It’s practically impossible to knead your own shoulders, back, and … Continue reading A Year of Natural Health & Beauty Tip #42: Make a Tennis Ball Massager

Chocolate-Coconut Energy Bites (Vegan, GF, No Sugar Added, Raw)

This week marks the six-week countdown to my first marathon, the San Francisco Marathon, which I’ll be running with my sister at the end of July. I’m nervous but I know we can do it well! Training for a marathon involves, as you might have guessed, lots of running. Sometimes these are long, slow runs and sometimes they’re shorter, faster, hillier runs.  Either way, I … Continue reading Chocolate-Coconut Energy Bites (Vegan, GF, No Sugar Added, Raw)