My favorite treat? Something that’s made with affordable, approachable, and delicious ingredients: chocolate oat bran muffins. What I love most about these muffins is that they are incredibly filling, rich, and chocolatey. If you want something sweet, yet, still packs a well-rounded nutritional value, this chocolate oat bran muffin recipe is the way to go. …
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Grilled Cinnamon Raisin PB&J Sandwich
A good meal doesn’t have to take hours of prep time and a million ingredients – just go back to your childhood and think about some of the staples. One of those kid-friendly meals was probably a basic, but delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich.…
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Oat Bran Pancakes With Chocolate Syrup
When I want to up my fiber intake, while still having fun – I make a pile of thick, fluffy oat bran pancakes that keeps me satisfied until, like, dinnertime. Seriously, the pancake stack alone has a whopping 21 grams of fiber.…
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Homemade Dairy-Free Hot Chocolate Recipe
Growing up, having hot chocolate made from a packet was the normal way to have it. Let’s be real, it was convenient as heck. However, I never second-guessed it and never realized how easy it was to actually make it from scratch.…
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Vegan Pumpkin Smoothie
Drumroll, please. We’re trying out Trader Joe’s pumpkin butter today…in a vegan pumpkin smoothie. Smoothies for fall? I mean, why not. Also, if you live in a city that’s summer all year long (ahem, I am looking at you Miami), but still want to hop on that pumpkin train, a cool and creamy vegan pumpkin smoothie just makes sense. …
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Quick Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding
Whipped up chocolate pudding that’s 100% plant-based? Yeah, looks like we’re having dessert tonight. Most chocolate chia seed pudding recipes ask for the dish to be cooled overnight or long. There’s some truth to it: the longer you have it chilled, the more pudding-like it will become.…
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie
Sometimes in the morning I just want to literally roll out of bed and shoot out my arm to grab a frosty glass of chocolate peanut butter smoothie. As you can imagine, I still have to make the effort of whipping up the smoothie together, but it’s much easier than chopping, cooking, steaming, and watching a pan of breakfast items trying to come together, while incoherently rambling on about how mornings suck (sometimes).…
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Simple Green Smoothie Recipe
I took a look into my fridge and I have enough stuff to make a smoothie: frozen ripe bananas, peaches, spinach. That’s it. And some water. And thus…the simple green smoothie was born. It’s starting to get hot again outside and I have a feeling that cooking in a hot kitchen is going to get miserable FAST.…
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Cinnamon Spiced Breakfast Rice Pudding
So. You have a pot of leftover rice from last night’s dinner just cooling off in the fridge. Well, aren’t you going to do something with it? I’m thinking cinnamon-spiced breakfast rice pudding, also known as “arroz dulce.” I bet when you think of breakfast, you’re definitely not thinking about leftover rice.…
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Breakfast Red Split Lentils
Oatmeal is cool and all, but sometimes I want to switch it up for breakfast. And let’s be honest, I ran out of oat bran and for the life of me I cannot find it at my usual local grocery store, so I settled for breakfast red split lentils instead.…
