For those of you have joined our 21 Days To Health Challenge, no matter where you are at in it, you likely skipped ahead and noticed the bit where you’re supposed to cut out caffeine.
Now, before you start asking all kinds of questions about whether caffeine is really so bad for you, I will say Yes, yes it is.
Caffeine, unless taken up the bum (yes, that’s what I said), will work against each and every one of your physical, and emotional goals. You can read all about it here, but to summarize:
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Do I really even have to answer that? Really? Do I?
No. Because it’s obvious. The berries!
A standard breakfast, so commonly a go-to, is granola and yogurt (or your fave nut milk), and a splash of berries. Why not turn that equation upside down and inside out? Make the berries the main attraction!
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Do I really even have to answer that? Really? Do I?
No. Because it’s obvious. The berries!
A standard breakfast, so commonly a go-to, is granola and yogurt (or your fave nut milk), and a splash of berries. Why not turn that equation upside down and inside out? Make the berries the main attraction!
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When I took the bus to school in high school, I had to pass through the Yonge/Eglinton Subway station. Inside was a Cinnabon. For those of you who live outside the 30 countries where thay are now located, or managed to avoid shopping malls your whole life (and for that I would envy you), Cinnabon is the sweetest smelling cinnamon bun bakery there ever was. They are steamy hot, oooey, gooey, chewy and dripping in the sweetest icing.
And passing through the building, smelling these at 3:30pm on a daily basis was torture. To my cravings and to my bum size. According to online sources, one Cinnabon contains 800 calories.
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What a delicious (literally!) week it has been. The man and I escaped the city last weekend to come back up to the cottage for a full week of sunshiny paradise. That’s us, by one of our little bunkies enjoying some super powered smoothie loving (recipe down below).
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Posted in Breakfast, Health, Nutrition, Raw, Recipe on Jul 27th, 2011
The summer is on faya! As we way too quickly approach the halfway mark of this sweet, sweet summer, I sit here thinking- where on earth has it gone? The last week, as I have been busy as ever riding this healing train after that accident last week (And thank you so, so, so much for your love and healing vibes- they’re working over time, let me tell you!), the last thing I’ve felt like doing is spending hours in the kitchen cooking. I know you hear me, my sweet outdoor sunshine lovers!
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According to Wikepedia a quiche is defined as follows:
A quiche is an oven-baked dish made with eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust. Usually, the pastry shell is blind-baked before the other ingredients are added. Other ingredients such as cooked chopped meat, vegetables, or cheese are often added to the egg mixture before the quiche is baked. Quiche is generally an open pie (i.e. it does not include a pastry covering), but may include an arrangement of tomato slices or pastry off-cuts for a decorative finish. Quiche may be eaten for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, depending on local customs and personal tastes.
Some of you just weren’t buying my last attempt at a quiche- or what I was calling a quin-iche which was really quinoa mixed with some egg and cooked veggies and baked in a muffin cup. Whatever to all you hatas!!!
But you got me thinking. And you got me thinking as to why I was so resistant to the idea of a real quiche (as defined above). Now lets leave out the cream and cooked meat bits for a moment and I will tell you a brief story with a diarrhea ending.
As many of you know, I have never really taken cooking lessons before I started teaching them (Don’t tell my Marilyn Denis producer that okay?) I took about 12 hours of cooking classes while in nutrition school- but that was more along the lines of making beet kvas and how to sprout rye to run it through a meat grinder to bake into sprouted buns on a ceramic tile that faced the north with the wind blowing from the south and to be eaten while balancing on one foot staring at the sun. Basically- we learned very traditional cooking but that still didn’t help me to know what I should eat for breakfast.
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Posted in Breakfast, Raw, Recipe, Smart Choices on Dec 23rd, 2010
My assistant Jen is obsessed with sea moss. One of the many things I love about her. Jen and I spend hours upon hours together when she is working in the kitchen with me. She cleans up after my Tazmanian Devil style cooking binges and makes me laugh, really hard. On days when I have a class, we spend a good 12 hours together, keeping things going.
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Aside from my father, who’s throat has the potential to close allergic reaction style at the mere sight of a banana, is there anyone who doesn’t love a good loaf of BB?
While I was travelling in Africa six or seven lifetimes ago and staying with my friend Matt, we had this brain wave to make some banana bread. Within 26 seconds we were in the back of a taxi, going to a local ‘supermarket’ to find all we needed to make the perfect banana bread.
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Yes, it is that time of year again. I can’t believe it is already the third year that my father and I have put on ridiculous costumes, looked at each other and laughed hysterically, and then attempted to cook something together. Given my great pumpkin harvest at the orchard a few weeks back, I had pumpkins galore to work with.
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Guest Post by Carrie Forbes of Gingerlemongirl.com
I first learned about Meghan in 2009 with her first tutorial, the Green Smoothie Cleanse! I made 3 green smoothies a day for 3 days with Meghan and learned more about real nutrition during that week than I had in my entire life. I blogged about my experience and I can honestly say it changed my life.
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Posted in Breakfast, Recipe on May 13th, 2010
Hormones are like blueberry pancakes.
Like blueberry pancakes, hormones get made in one part of the body and their influence affects the whole body, um, like pancakes… When you make pancakes in the kitchen, your whole house is going to smell like pancakes and everyone in the house is going to want to eat your pancakes- especially if you use this recipe.
Pancakes can take over every craving you just like hormones can interfere in every thought, craving, metabolic function and mood.
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Posted in Breakfast, Health, Raw, Recipe, Treat, Video on Apr 16th, 2010
5 Days Healing with Everyday Superfoods Challenge begins this Sunday, April 18th followed by 3 Day Green Smoothie Cleanse on April 23rd. Get your tutorials and follow me on Twitter for group coaching throughout the challenge. Let’s Spring clean from the inside out together! Are you ready? Ready to go 5 Days Superfood powered? Now [...]
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Posted in Breakfast, Health, Raw, Recipe, Wellbeing on Mar 16th, 2010
We know what spring time means. It means longer days, warmer weather and that every lamp post in my young urban hippie neighbourhood becomes plastered with signs for boot camp classes. Last week I received an email with the subject line “Get In To Your Skinny Jeans This Spring”, and I thought, Hmmm. No. This booty and my five foot tall self wasn’t intended to wear skinny jeans so why on earth would I torture myself for six weeks, so that I might fit into them briefly until my body goes back to the size and shape it likes best, which is exactly how it is right now.
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Posted in Bread/Baking, Breakfast, Recipe on Mar 1st, 2010
They don’t call them superfoods for nothing. They really are amazing. The coconuts and the aloe, the goji and the spirulina. Now I’ll be the first to admit that I am not ready to give up my stove, exclusively in favour of consuming every super-powered meals out of my VitaMix. Not there yet, and may [...]
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