My Low-Carb Coconut Flour Chocolate Chip Blondie recipe is easy to make and offers you a healthier alternative to dessert. Coconut flour is a gluten-free, grain-free, low-carb and nutritious ingredient to use for baking. Coconut flour contains fiber and MCT's (medium chain triglycerides), making it beneficial to both gut and brain health. The higher fiber content supports a stable blood glucose level throughout the day and you’ll feel more satiated after enjoying just one due its higher fat content.
Read MoreSuper Bowl Sunday, or any night, means making my healthy buffalo wings recipe. I keep them paleo and nutritious by using organic, pasture-raised chicken, sugar-free buffalo sauce and by baking instead of deep frying in cheap, rancid seed oils. Using pasture-raised chicken for this Buffalo Wing recipe ensures you taking in less pro-inflammatory toxins that wreak havoc on your cellular health.
Read MoreLiving a healthy lifestyle means avoiding fried foods. Fried foods are most often cooked in rancid seed oils, such as canola, grapeseed, safflower and sunflower oils. Before these even hit your plate, they’ve undergone multiple industrial manufacturing processes that create an unstable food product that is detrimental to our cellular health. My Crispy Oven Baked Chicken Thigh recipe is the solve to that. Allowing your skin-on chicken thighs to air out, uncovered in the fridge overnight, you will obtain a crispier outside and moist inside finished dish. Chicken thighs are a better option than white meat chicken due to the healthy fat in the skin and meat. More omega-3 fatty acids for you mean more flavor, satiety, gut and brain healing benefits and increased sex hormone production due to the saturated fat. Don’t fear the healthy fats- we need them to reach optimal health. Enjoy my Crispy Oven Baked Chicken Thigh recipe over a fresh salad of greens, mixed in with your favorite grain-free pasta or wrapped in a low-carb wrap.
Read MoreThis Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe is a delicious and healthy upgrade from a regular chocolate chip cookie. My cookie recipe features tahini, a ground sesame seed paste. Often used in savory recipes, I like to use this creamy seed butter in desserts. Tahini contains ALA’s (alpha-linolenic acid), an omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid that is good for supporting heart health. Healthy fats keep us satiated so we don’t keep grabbing for more foods, helping us control our blood sugar levels. Tahini’s glycemic load is zero. Glycemic load takes into account the serving size of a given food to estimate its impact on your blood sugar. Tahini also contains a nice amount of protein, thiamin and vitamin B6, all great for overall health and increased energy.
Read MoreThe star of these deliciously moist brownies is Tahini, a paste made from ground sesame seeds. This Paleo Tahini Brownie recipe is a one-bowl wonder with nutritious benefits. Tahini contains ALA’s (alpha-linolenic acid), an omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid that is good for supporting heart health. Healthy fats keep us satiated so we don’t keep grabbing for more foods, helping us control our blood sugar levels. Tahini’s glycemic load is zero. Glycemic load takes into account the serving size of a given food to estimate its impact on your blood sugar. I love that these Paleo Tahini Brownies contain zero flours, including nut/seed flours, making these even lower in calories and carbs.
Read MoreMy Paleo Mexican Wedding Cookie recipe is the perfect grain-free cookie addition to any holiday meal. These were my favorite cookies from childhood and I have created a better-for-you version that is dairy-free and sugar-free. Gluten, dairy and sugar are the three most inflammatory food groups. Inflammation leads to all chronic diseases. This cookie recipe calls for ghee, a clarified butter product that contains healthy fat due to its omega 3, 6 and 9 fatty acids along with vitamins A, D, E and K. Our bodies need healthy fats at the same time as fat-soluble vitamins in order to absorb them. Ghee is anti-viral due to the caprylic acid and anti-fungal due to the lauric acid. This Mexican Wedding Cookie recipe uses sweeteners that do not raise blood sugar levels, keeping you stable throughout the day. So go ahead and enjoy a healthier cookie this holiday.
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