The heart beats around 2.5 million times in an average lifetime. With each beat, it is pushing blood throughout our body and carrying with it oxygen, hormones, and other essential cells. It’s quite an amazing organ when you stop and think about it! It does quite a phenomenal job at keeping us going despite its Read More!
Healthy Chocolate Chip Banana “Ice Cream” Cups These lil’ “ice cream” cups are a fun, simple project to make with YOUR monkeys all Summer long! Allowing children to help with the creation of a snack or meal, usually increases their interest in eating it too! Have your picky eater help you to make healthy meals/snacks Read More!
Chocolate Zucchini Cake with Frosting A lot of work has gone into perfecting this Chocolate Cake recipe for awhile, and I finally think it is perfect! I’m planning to make TWO of these cakes with my children for the upcoming Fathers Day celebration. One for my soon-to-be husband, AND another one for my ex-husband, the Read More!
Banana Split Kabobs Raise your hand if you you love me now?!! Summer FUN, makin’ memories with the kids…using stuff you’ll actually feel GOOD about eating! Makes about 8 servings Ingredients: 2 bananas, sliced into 1.5′ inch pieces 1/4 lb. cored pineapple, cut into large bite-sized pieces 8 small strawberries 2 kiwis, peeled and cut Read More!
1. Set a realistic goal When you’re setting a goal to lose weight for summertime with Clean Eating, be realistic about your goal! Anytime your goal means you’ll have to push your body too hard, be drastic with your diet like counting every calorie or juice fasting, you risk hitting a wall and gaining more Read More!
Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Bananas Snacktime + Chocolate cravings solved! These are SUPER FUN for kids to make!Makes 2 servings Ingredients: 1 banana, sliced in half lengthwise 4 Tbsps almond butter, or peanut butter 2 Tbsps chocolate chips, I love Lily’s brand ( Cleanfoodcrush.com/lilys ) 2 Tbsps chopped raw almonds, peanuts, or walnuts (optional) 2 Tbsps golden Read More!
Strawberry Chocolate Chip Granola Yogurt Bark A super FUN treat idea to make with your kids this weekend! It’s so great to get the kids involved. They are more likely to eat foods that they help prepare. And parents feel great about KNOWING what is in our kitchen creations! Makes 6 servings Ingredients: 2 cups Read More!
Clean Eating is so much more than a diet. In fact, we wouldn’t call it a diet at all, it’s a lifestyle. Cleaning up your diet will absolutely help you to lose weight, but a Clean Eating lifestyle will do so much more for you than that! At its core, Clean Eating is about returning Read More!
Environmental factors, such as weight gain, a poor diet lacking fruits and vegetables, or over-consumption of processed foods and sugar, lack of activity, ongoing severe stress, air pollution, excessive alcohol, smoking, or excessive prescription drug consumption can lead to chronic inflammation. SO where does one even begin to reverse this process? Here are 8 SIMPLE Read More!
Inflammation gets a bad rap, but it has its benefits. Inflammation is the body’s defense against a problem and way of letting us know that something is not right. As the body tries to heal itself; inflammation occurs. Thanks inflammation! The redness or swelling that occurs after a scrape or a stub is known as Read More!
