These Tropical Papaya Boats feel like a vacation in a BOWL – a fruit “bowl” (that you can eat!). This recipe has lots of fiber from fresh fruit and filling protein from Greek yogurt. If you want to keep this recipe vegan friendly, use your favorite non-dairy yogurt instead (coconut yogurt is delicious too)! …
Dessert Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
If you love sweet potato pie then you’ll love this healthy take on a classic dessert! These Dessert Stuffed Sweet Potatoes are topped with thick Greek yogurt, crunchy granola, and creamy cashew butter. Filled with fiber, nutrients, slow-digesting carbs, and healthy fats – you can enjoy this “dessert” as a hearty breakfast or satisfying snack…
Brie Stuffed Monkey Bread
Brie Stuffed Monkey Bread! If a cinnamon roll, a sticky bun, baked French toast, and bread pudding had a dessert-baby it would be this monkey bread. Don’t ask me how four things could hypothetically have one baby. Or point out the fact that that desserts cannot procreate. Maybe I botched the metaphor. Whatever. THAT is not the important thing….
Peppermint Mocha Brownies
Peppermint Mocha BROWNIES!!! Your favorite holiday latte in dessert form. As in brownies loaded with chocolate chips, covered in frosting, with a hint of coffee and peppermint flavor shining through each bite. All decked out with crushed bits of striped candy canes sprinkled over the top. Cause it’s the holidays and nothing screams FESTIVE quite like…
Cranberry Maple Trail Mix
Cranberry Maple Trail Mix. Walnuts, pumpkin seeds, & sliced almonds are lightly glazed in maple syrup & brown sugar until crispy, toasted clusters start to form. And finally folded together with lots of tart, chewy dried cranberries & rich white chocolate chips. A little bit of sweetness and holiday cheer in every bite. Because right…
Apple Pumpkin Butter
Apple Pumpkin Butter. OH yes. Made from scratch using real ingredients like pumpkin puree, applesauce, maple syrup, brown sugar, lemon, and all the signature holiday spices. All lovingly simmered until lusciously thick and irresistibly aromatic. The scent practically begs you to pour it straight from the pot onto French toast, pancakes, bread pudding, or morning…
Maple Glazed Walnuts
Maple Glazed Walnuts! This little how-to shows you an easy way to make fuss-free candied nuts at home, stove-top with no oven needed. Using just raw walnuts, maple syrup, cinnamon, salt, and cayenne (for all my fellow spice lovers out there). Naturally sweetened with no refined sugar or added oil. These walnuts are lightly pan-toasted,…
Peanut Butter Trail Mix Bars
Peanut Butter Trail Mix Bars! Salty meets sweet in this week’s portable treat. Positively packed with healthy fats and good carbohydrates (a mix of both quick-release AND slow-digesting carbs) that you can use to fuel all those outdoor adventures. This no bake recipe comes together quick and makes twenty bars. TWENTY. A whole tray of happy…
Cardamom Rice Krispie Treats
Things I stress-ate last weekend include half the batch of these irresistible Cardamom Rice Krispie Treats. Marshmallow laden, sweet, chewy yet crunchy, rice cereal treats. A classic kid-approved favorite, my former kid-self and current inner child both included. You know ‘em, you love ‘em. But you probably haven’t eaten too many of them since rounding…
Chai Coconut Chia Pudding
Chai Coconut Chia Pudding. Like a creamy chai tea latte with that signature warm spice profile all suspended in chilled chia pudding form. Lightly sweetened with honey and just a bit of vanilla, with those crunchy little pops of soaked chia seeds in every bite. And to cap things off, a subtle hint of tea flavor peeking…
Chocolate Banana Milkshake
Yes, this is happening. It is time for a Chocolate Banana MILKSHAKE. Super thick, uber creamy, and most important of all…downright CHOCOLATELY. Today’s recipe tastes like a ”treat yo’ self” kind of milkshake but is actually a good-for-you smoothie // meets protein-shake in disguise. Think classic diner milkshake. Without the refined sugar, mystery ingredient syrups, or hidden…
Blueberry Avocado Spinach Smoothie
This Blueberry Avocado Spinach Smoothie is one of my all-time favorite “green” smoothies! Packed with lots of green goodness, protein, and healthy fats. I make this ALL the time, you’ve gotta try it!! Hi I’m Lauren – Holistic Health Coach behind Free Your Fork and I’m here to help you with healthy living without obsessing….