Chocolate Mocha Mousse!!

Craving chocolate? This creamy mocha mousse tastes decadent, but it is good for you and loaded with protein.

Ingredients:
4 oz soft tofu
1 scoop Chocolate Shakeology
¼ cup unsweetened almond milk
1 Tbsp. all-natural almond butter
1 medium strawberry, sliced

Preparation:
1. Place tofu, Shakeology, almond milk, and almond butter in blender and pulse until smooth.
2. Place mousse in a medium serving bowl; garnish with strawberry if desired.

Healthy Banana Pancakes!

Dude. Breakfast just got a whole lot more awesome.

Banana Oat Pancakes

Ingredients:

• 1 ripe banana
• 1 cup oats
• 1 egg
• 1/4 c milk of choice
• Pinch of sea salt
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon ( more to taste)
• Optional: chopped pecans or walnuts

1. Process oats in food processor until they become a flour consistency. (This may take a bit of time, but if you don’t process to a flour, pancakes will be gritty.)

2. Add in banana and egg. Process until a smooth texture.

3. Add in milk, salt, baking powder, and cinnamon. Process until combined.

4. Warm up the griddle and use whatever oil, butter or ghee to grease it up and then spoon batter to form pancakes. Add walnuts or pecans if desired. Wait until edges bubble and flip.

Enjoy!! :)

Pomegranate Chocolately Goodness!!

Pomegranates are so delicious... and they are an often over-looked superfood. Add in chocolate and you've got a proverbial GOLDMINE.

So how do you make this treasure? 

You'll need:

• 2/3 cup of raw cacao
• 1/2 cup of maple syrup (or other liquid sweetener)
• 1/3 cup coconut oil, melted
• 1-2 pomegranates, de-seeded
• 1 tsp sea salt

Add the first 3 ingredients to a bowl and mix well until you have a uniform consistency. Pour mixture into a parchment or Saran wrap lined pan. Pour pomegranate seeds evenly across the chocolate and push them down gently. Sprinkle with sea salt. Place chocolate bark in the freezer for 20 minutes. Break apart carefully with the pomegranate side facing down so you don't squirt yourself with juice! Store in the freezer in an airtight container. :)

You can also make them in cupcake tins, if you want easy individual portions. 

Clean Cookie Dough Dip!!!

It's healthy?! Whaaaat?!

So I'm basically going to cut to the chase here. I was scouring the internets looking for something "healthy-ish" I could bring to a Super Bowl party David and I were invited to this weekend... basically so I wouldn't pig out on wings, chips, and queso. And I found THIS:

Does this not look like heaven in a cup?! It's an AMAZING dip to have with some apple slices. YUMMO. 

Ingredients:
1.5 cups chickpeas
2 packs of stevia
1/4 cup of any kind of nut butter

Directions:
1. Purée chickpeas and stevia in blender. Do NOT add water. Scrape down the sides and continue to blend until smooth.

2. With a spoon, fold in nut butter.

3. Roll into a "cheeseball" shape and coat the outside with mini dark chocolate chips.

4. Dig in with some apple slices and enjoy! 😊

Mac and Cheese Alert!! CLEAN EATS!!! :D

If you are anything like me, you love a good indulgent meal. But what if we could engineer that meal so that it didn't undo our entire days? We've been working hard, right??

I want my cake... and I wanna eat it, too.

Well, this isn't exactly cake. But it IS one of my favorite dishes of all time. Mac and Cheese!!!

You'll need:

• 8 oz. elbow pasta of choice (I choose a gluten free or a whole wheat)
• 8 oz. shredded cheese of your choice
• 1/2 cup plain greek yogurt
• 2 cups fresh spinach
• salt and pepper to taste
• onion powder and garlic powder to taste

Here's how you make it:

• Cook the macaroni according to the package's instructions. 
• Place the spinach leaves in the bottom of the strainer
• Pour the pasta over the top to drain and wilt the spinach.
• Save 1/2 cup of pasta water and return the cookied macaroni and wilted spinach to the pot.
• Add 1/4 cup of the reserved pasta water to the pot, and stir in the cheese until melted.
• Stir in the greek yogurt, and all spices until smooth and creamy.
• If you want the sauce thinner, stir in the remaining pasta water. 

Serve immediately. Yum! Enjoy, my fit friends. ;)

Girl Scout Cookie Inspired Shakes!

Well.... it's that time of year again. Have you noticed yet?

If you have a Girl Scout in the family (or neighborhood, or church, or... hell... semi-immediate vicinity), you have recently become aware of one thing and one thing only:

It's cookie time.

If you're anything like me, I could eat a whole sleeve of those damn thin mints and not even blink. Which doesn't really jive very well with my health and fitness goals this year. So what's a girl to do?

Make lemonade out of lemons, of course!

Here are some tried and true Girl Scout Cookie inspired recipes that will leave you thinking you had the real thing. The kicker is, you're actually nourishing your body with dense, superfood nutrition as you "indulge"!

Enjoy!

Healthy Candy Apple? Why of COURSE I'll Have One!

Hey friends!
This is a PERFECT healthy treat if you've got a wicked sweets craving.

Once you slice the apples and remove the core:
✔️melt some nut butter and flax seeds together
✔️spread on your apple
✔️top with a few dark chocolate chips, granola, or topping of your choice 
✔️enjoy! 

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