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Tazo iced passion tea with lemonade ice cubes

It’s been SO HOT here in Arizona and one of my favorite ways to cool down is with a ice cold passion lemonade from Starbucks. If you are like me those trips (which are frequent) begin to put a hit on your wallet. I decided I needed to try and recreate my one of my [...]

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A review of Health Warrior chia seed bars

I was so happy when I was contacted to review the Health Warrior brand of chia seeds and chia seed bars. I was given a full size bag of chia seeds (which I LOVE). If you are not familiar with how WONDERFUL chia seeds are here is an article I wrote for Sheknows.com explaining their [...]

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Meyer lemon hummus with pine nuts

If you’re like me and love hummus you will mostly likely love this version. While I love plain ordinary hummus I also enjoy flavored types.  I had a bunch of lemons that I needed to use up so I decided to whip this up. This stuff is gooooood! I like it as a spread on [...]

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WHAT the heck is nutritional yeast??????

What is nutritional yeast? What is this stuff called “nooch”? For many when they hear “nooch” they are a bit stumped as to what I am talking about. “Nooch” or nutritional yeast is an amazing thing folks and let me fill you in on why! Nutritional yeast is a yellowish powder or in most cases something that [...]

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Greek islands style puff pastry

I’m not going to lie when I made this I though to myself ehhhhhh it will probably be “OKAY” and I doubt i’ll even want any of it. Once I prepared it I caught myself staring down thinking man I really need to just have a teeny weensy bite of this thing. That bite led [...]

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