Incredibly simple, this Oat-Free Coconut Almond Granola is also oil-free and refined sugar-free, and it’s delicious over yogurt, as a salad topping, atop your favorite frosted cake, or just for snacking. We’ve got friends driving down from the city tomorrow for the Pumpkin Festival — our first as residents here — so I’m just quickly popping in to share with you a recipe for a grain-free paleo granola that we’ve been making almost nonstop for the past few weeks. A recipe that’s so quintessentially fall, I dare you not to make it part of your autumnal traditions. Apple picking with … Read More
Sweet and Salty Energy Bars / Our 10 Favorite Make-Ahead Breakfast Recipes
Sweet and Salty Energy Bars — these crunchy, gluten-free cereal bars are the perfect balanced snack or a quick, make-ahead breakfast. This post has been sponsored by Safeway. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I’ve recently become exceptionally practiced at make-ahead meals for quick mornings. Maybe it’s because Lana routinely sleeps in on school days (go figure). Maybe it’s because I still insist on making the beds before breakfast. Either way, most school mornings we’ve got about 15 minutes to get breakfast in our bellies before we’re out the door. So when Safeway asked me to put together a post featuring some … Read More
Easy, Steel-Cut Overnight Oats — and the Sambazon 3-Day Purifying Cleanse
WARNING: This is kind of a long, schizo post. I’d love for you to follow the storyline from soup to nuts, but if you just want the low-down on the review, skip to the middle. If you’re jonesing for oats, skip to the end. I don’t know why it took me so damn long to hop on the overnight oats train {t00t t00t}. It’s no more work than fixing a bowl of cereal or assembling my beloved Greek yogs breakie. You just do it the night before — so in a sense, it’s actually easier. Wake up. Eat. Dance party. … Read More
Salted Chocolate & Pistachio Energy Bars (vegan w/ GF variation)
A few weeks ago, Chris presented me with a challenge: to create an energy snack he could take along on road and mountain bike rides that wasn’t full of weird, carby fillers or dried milk products. That wasn’t as simple as a fruit and nut bar (dammit, but those are going off like rockets right nuuuur!). That wasn’t extruded from some extrude-y machine-a-majiggy. Natch, my mind went straight to, well, brownies. (Ding!) I know I crave sugary chocolate with ferocity when I’m active. And cheesy bread and garlicky noodles and salty, soft-boiled eggs. But let’s start with chocolate. These little bars … Read More