Healthy Living How To

Vanessa Rae Romero

Chocolate Covered Bacon

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I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have a dozen pieces of healthy chocolate covered bacon for Valentine’s Day than a dozen red roses. I figured you’d agree, so I went ahead and made some. It’s the week of love and I am sharing some of my healthy favorites and what better thing to… [Continue Reading]

Making Meals of a Different Kind

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Last week I got an e-mail from Feed My Starving Children looking for volunteers to spend just two hours this week making meals for the hungry. It was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. Today, in two hours, along with several others, we made enough meals to feed 198 children for a whole year. This… [Continue Reading]

Almond Cream Cheese Frosting

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I mentioned early last week, I found new kitchen inspiration, by stumbling on a few raw vegan blogs. Who knew raw vegans are experts at coming up with cheesy creations without dairy by using nuts. After watching endless YouTube videos and scouring the internet for tips and tricks, I thought I would test out my… [Continue Reading]

Not Sugar Cookies with Almond Cream Cheese Frosting

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Share the healthy love this Valentines’ Day by making these healthy Not Sugar Cookies for your friends and family. This pretty cookie is gluten-free, dairy-free and sugar-free. Enjoy! Not Sugar Cookies with Almond Cream Cheese Frosting Prep Time: 90 minutes (includes chill time) Cook Time: 12 minutes Makes: 28 Cookies Ingredients 1 c. Almond Flour 1/2 c. Coconut Flour… [Continue Reading]

Rainbow Chicken Salad

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As I mentioned on the Healthy Living How To Facebook Page, after making lacto-fermented mayonnaise the other day, I was dreaming up something for dinner that could be drowned in its deliciousness. Egg salad, tuna salad, salmon salad all fit the bill, but I had also cooked a whole chicken in our pressure cooker. For a… [Continue Reading]

Lacto-Fermented Mayonnaise

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Lacto-fermentation is the process of introducing healthy bacteria and probiotics into foods and then letting them naturally ferment. Regularly consuming fermented foods is widely known to keep the immune system healthy. Fermented food goes back thousands of years, when people first discovered that if they soaked vegetables in salt water at room temperature, the food turned… [Continue Reading]

Chicken Stir-Fry with Miracle Noodles

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I can’t tell you the last time I ate noodles or pasta of any shape or form. I’ve been gluten-free for at least three years, which means pasta is out. I know there are gluten-free pastas on the market, but they don’t meet my healthy eating beliefs. Most of the gluten-free pasta alternatives have a… [Continue Reading]

Basic Coconut Flour Muffin

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I’ve had fabulous response to my blueberry and cranberry orange muffin recipes. Both of these muffins, like all of my baking, are gluten-free, sugar-free and low-carb. A combination of almond flour and golden flaxseed meal replaces the traditional enriched bleached flour found in most muffins, in these two recipes. The base of these recipes are… [Continue Reading]

Chocolate Coconut Chia Pudding

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When I was a little girl, I used to crawl up on the kitchen counter and sneak into the cupboard where my mom kept her baking ingredients in search of…….chocolate chips. Sometimes, I would get lucky and there would be a bag already opened that had been taped shut. I would carefully peel away the… [Continue Reading]

Super Simple Sockeye Salmon

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I have to admit, up until last week, I did not like salmon (other than canned). Blasphemy, I know, how could I not like one of the world’s healthiest foods. I really wanted to like salmon and have given it a fair try many times, but had long given up on it. That is until… [Continue Reading]