Gluten Free Apple Cinnamon Muffins Recipe

I love to test new recipes in my cabin kitchen when I have a weekend off from the Clean & Colorful Kitchen. Today is chilly and snowy outside. Which makes warm apple cinnamon *anything* sound amazing. I dug through my pantry to see what I could come up with. I decided to test this Gluten Free Apple Cinnamon Muffins Recipe…

FBD Super Smoothie Ingredients

I don’t call them Super Smoothies for no reason! All of the nutrition delivered by each one of these Super Smoothie ingredients, combined with the potent nutrition from the meal plan make my 10-Day Flat Belly Detox a plan that super charges your body from the inside out. These smoothies are all packed with dense, potent, plant…

Do Detoxes Work?

I get this question, “Do Detoxes work?” all the time. And it’s a tricky one because I could actually argue both the YES and NO sides. But the short answers is Yes and No and that’s because not all detox plans are created equal. In in this post I’ll clarify the detox…

Part 7: Which Plants Can Cause Bloating and Inflammation

There can be a learning curve for your body when you take on a new dietary approach. When you increase or decrease anything dramatically that your body isn’t used to, it’s common to experience changes in digestion, which can cause some level discomfort. While some of that goes away as your body adjusts, there are some…

20-Day Plankathon Challenge

We’ll here we are: January 2021. While in some ways it has not delivered the fresh start/clean slate we would have liked to have seen in terms of national and global news, it’s still an opportunity for us to personally improve. We can take back control of our routines and our health through better choices…

Part 6: Preventing Food Waste through Proper Food Storage

When it comes to eating an unprocessed, plant forward diet, there are a few challenges. First, what to eat? Then, how to prep and cook it so that you’re excited to eat it. The final challenge is making sure you eat all your fresh ingredients, or store them properly so they don’t spoil first. Preventing food…

Sweet Potato Cranberry Bread

If you’re looking for a yummy, simple, from scratch bread recipe you can make for the holidays, look no further. This Sweet Potato Cranberry Bread is perfect. And the best part, it’s made from ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen! Living in this cabin has got me all crazy about cooking more. And because…

How Hard Do You Really Need to Exercise?

It’s an interesting question really. “How Hard Do You Really Need to Exercise?” It’s actually fairly ambiguous, but I’m going to give you a clear answer anyway. While it has everything do to with your goals, the principles of what makes a exercise “work” are the same. What makes exercise…

Is it Healthier to Juice or Blend Fruits and Veggies?

If you’ve found yourself stumped and ever wondered if is it healthier to juice or blend your fresh produce, I have all the answer for you here. In short, they are both excellent for you, which I why I recommend leveraging liquid plants. And also why both are essential components of my DIY 3-Day Detox. But both…

2020 Holiday Self-Care (Sanity) Challenge

Any year, December is an easy month to lose yourself in shopping, sugar, self-doubt and stress! Now let’s add 2020 on top of that with the uncertainty, massive change, trauma and heartache so many of us have experienced this year. No matter who you are, or what this year put you though, we all deserve a little…

How to Boil Your Own Beans

When I figured out how incredibly simple, delicious and inexpensive it was to cook my own beans from dried, I could not shut up about it. And here I am, nearly a decade later typing up this post How to Boil Your Own Beans. I just feel like it’s such a game changer and if you’re…