Archive for the ‘Healthy Eating’ Category

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Chocolate Almond Smoothie

Here’s one more recipe posting before I hit the hay. Dave has been drinking a Chocolate Banana Smoothie for breakfast for the last few days. He really enjoys the taste of this drink. The chocolate used is actually organic cacao nibs. This recipe also comes from the Thrive Diet. He is trying out as many [...]

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Wakame Seaweed Salad

Wakame salad is one of my favorite dishes to eat with sushi. I found some wakame at Atwater Market and decided to make a salad for lunch. It turned out really yummy though the colour isn’t quite like a) the photo on the recipe web page or b) the wakame salad I get from the [...]

Bee Pollen Protein Shake ingredients

Bee Protein Shake

I knew I was going to like this. I actually *LOVE* this shake and I’ve definitely found my new morning shake to take with me to work. It tastes amazing! Thank you, Sarma!!! *** Bee Protein Shake from Sarma Melngailis‘ Raw Food, Real World Serves 2 to 4 (I halved the recipe to make one [...]

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Cayenne Dill Dressing and Sweet Pepper Hemp Pesto

We are still ‘uncooking’! I think the plan is to prepare most of our food one day on the weekend so it’s all ready for the week. All of the dressings, burgers, and toppings last about 2 weeks in the fridge but of course, they taste best when fresh. And now, we give you two [...]

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Almond Butter

The Bee Pollen Protein Shake recipe I want to make tomorrow morning calls for almond butter, so instead of buying almond butter at the store, we opted to make some instead. All it takes isĀ 3 cups of raw almonds in the Vitamix and after blending it on high while mashing it down with the masher [...]