Gluten-Free Flourless Chocolate Cake Recipe
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15 Sweetest Fruits to Help You Eat Healthier and Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
Are you looking to satisfy your sweet tooth while maintaining a healthy diet? Look no further than fruit. Fruit is nature’s candy, offering a burst…
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Dairy-Free Simple Strawberry Sorbet Recipe
Frozen treats aren’t typically the first thing on your mind in winter. Neither are strawberries. But winter is when this simple strawberry sorbet was created. My twelve-year-old was sick…again (we had an uncharacteristic rough patch in March and April!). This time his throat was incredibly sore. He had all the telltale signs of strep throat
Dairy-Free Sugar Cookies Recipe
I love a good sugar cookie. They are a part of my childhood in a deep way because my mother and my grandmother used to
Real Food Blueberry Spelt Muffin Recipe
I love a good blueberry muffin. Actually, what I really like are the blueberry muffin mixes that don’t even use actual blueberries – just those…
Dairy-Free Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
It’s Christmas! Let the Christmas cookie baking begin! Listen, even before I was trying to make our food a little healthier, I loved baking homemade Christmas cookies. I grew up on sugar cookies (that we later tweaked to make with more real food). Nothing beats homemade Christmas cookies over the holidays. Dairy-Free Thumbprint Cookies Today
Dairy-Free Chocolate Cake Recipe (No Weird Ingredients!)
Question: Do you like chocolate cake? What about healthy chocolate cake? I know some of us are all about making real food desserts that taste indulgent. And some of us would rather we not mess with their classic chocolate cake. But what if you need someone to mess with your dessert? When my boys were
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The Best Dairy-Free Cookie Substitutes: Dairy-Free Gingerbread Cookie Recipe
Christmas cookie season is here, which is great news! But for those of us with food sensitivities and allergies, cookie season gets complicated. Today I want to show you a dairy-free cookie recipe for Christmas – specifically gingerbread, but you can use these tips for many different Christmas cookies. It’s actually really easy! And they
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Five Minute Dairy-Free Caramel Sauce – Perfect for Dipping Apples!
Living on an 80-tree apple orchard, we eat a lot of apples! Thankfully my kids are on board with my love of keeping Real Food as simple as possible. They are content to eat the apples right off the tree. It really doesn’t get any easier! But a couple of years ago I thought it
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How to Use Stevia as a Healthy Sugar Substitute
How do you practically use an herb that’s 30-300 times sweeter than sugar to substitute for sugar in recipes? Stevia is a great option as an alternative sweetener, but sweetening with stevia isn’t easy to use in all situations. I prefer the liquid version of stevia extract. I’ve explained the safety of stevia, including an
Homemade Cashew Cream Recipe
Are you dairy-free? If you are or you ever have been, you know what I mean when I say comfort foods are the hardest thing to give up. That’s why I created a dairy-free gingerbread cookie recipe. Today, I’m sharing my cashew cream recipe. It’s not that dairy-free eating doesn’t taste good, or that it’s extremely
Chocolate Dessert Hummus Recipe
If you’re looking for a simple, real food, budget-friendly dessert I can’t think of anything better than Chocolate Dessert Hummus. It’s made with real, whole ingredients, it’s naturally-sweetened, it’s ready in minutes (No baking! No waiting!), and it’s gluten-free and dairy-free – without any expensive, specialty ingredients. We make this all the time in our
Real Food Peppermint Freezer Fudge for the Holidays
Here’s a simple, real food Christmas dessert that’s full of probiotics and easy enough for the kids to make! Healthy Dessert for the Holidays The holidays are full of desserts and treats. Whether from school, family, or parties, junk food and candy crawl out from the woodwork during the holidays. At our house, we combat
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Low Sugar Gluten-Free Parsnip Cupcakes: Perfect for a First Birthday!
My baby just turned one (sniffle, sniffle)! This is the fourth time we’ve celebrated a first birthday in our family…and it never gets easier. Something about that transition from baby to toddler is so hard for Mama! I think this one is especially hard, knowing it is our last time. I love watching my kids
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Cardamom Cranberry Christmas Cake (Grain-free!)
Breakfast or dessert? That’s one of my favorite questions for baked goods, and one that isn’t asked nearly enough in the popular culture. Healthy Breakfast Treats for School Party Coffee cake, cinnamon rolls, and mass-produced muffins are automatically delegated to breakfast, when in fact they surely deserve to be dessert based on their sugar percentage.
Healthy Probiotic Frosting to Reduce Sugar for Kids (& Adults)
Healthy frosting sounds like an oxymoron, I know, but it can be reality and makes an amazing fruit pizza, for starters. It has no white sugar, and your kids will love to make it themselves! Frosting can really divide a relationship, you know. There’s inch-thick versus paper-thin, there’s so sweet it’s practically straight sugar vs. cream
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Healthy Summertime Popsicles Made by Kids (No Added Sugar!!)
Why bother making healthy popsicles? Because nobody wants to turn on the oven to bake healthy pumpkin muffins in the summer! Our neighborhood is packed with kids, and they love hanging out together. When the weather is hot, popsicles tend to come out and get shared with friends. What’s a household to do when we
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Your Freezer Doesn’t Need Bar Codes to Be Fun for Summer! 50+ Dairy-free Frozen Treats You Should Make and Not Buy
Hooray, summer! Time to break out the (homemade, dairy-free) ice creams, popsicles, and other frozen treats. *laughs* Who am I kidding? I have been pretending it is popsicle season for a few months, ever since we were able to sit outside in only a light jacket, and barely shiver, while eating them. No matter what the
I Have a Dream: Gluten and Dairy Free Pastry
While recovering from an eating disorder only to learn I had food allergies I have learned much from my relationship with food. I continue to learn as I grow in my ability to adapt foods to be allergy-friendly. Learning to cook many of my favorite comfort foods has become a new and welcome challenge! Adapting
An Instant Pot Cheesecake Recipe You’ll Be Proud Of
Oh, Instant Pot, how do I love thee? You have a special place in my heart and my kitchen. You’ve transformed and streamlined the way I cook. Brown rice, dry beans, hard-boiled eggs, steel-cut oats, steamed veggies… every day you delight me. And then… I discovered you can even make CHEESECAKE. *Swoon* Will you be
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