For the past week, I have been making protein chocolate peanut butter smoothie just about every day, primarily for breakfast. With the combination of rich cocoa powder, sweet banana chunks, and creamy, soft natural peanut butter – it’s pretty tempting to whip up TWO glasses of this magical stuff.…
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Chocolate Oat Bran Muffins (Vegan, Gluten-Free)
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.…
