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This Southern Greens recipe provides a a new way to get greens into your diet. Leafy greens are one of the best foods you can eat for your health and healing the body. They are rejuvenating, balance your hormones and make you feel and look great. The problem is getting enough in our diet. So I am always open to and looking for ways to get more. || Read more
This herbed couscous recipe is a raw food recipe that has no grain in it. Cauliflower couscous is very easy to make, and so nutritious! Cauliflower floretes are simply processed to resemble couscous. I have lots of photos, so I can virtually bring you into the kitchen with me to show you just how to do it. Then the couscous is flavored with herbs and pine nuts and spices for a wonderful savory taste. || Read more
We took mom out to the Beaman’s Sugar Shack last weekend and it was a great trip. It brought back memories of when I was young. My parents often brought me in the spring to the Beaman’s sugar camp. The camp is what they actually call it. There are lots of sugar shacks, or camps, around here just outside of the city and some people are quite loyal, have their favorite maple provider and buy from the same family each year. || Read more
This new sandbag workout has a great exercise challenge with a combo of sandbag exercises fused together. Sandbag squats, jumping and burpees come together and the routine gives just enough break from each part to make it fun and flow well. This 3 minute rep challenge is done before and after a 10 minute set of sandbag HIIT intervals filled with some great sandbag leg and abs exercises. || Read more
A jump rope workout with hopping, jumping and skipping for Easter. This HIIT workout has skipping mixed with HIIT rounds. The HIIT exercises are not skipping but there is hopping and jumping and they do use the rope. There are new creative exercises again and the cardio exercises are combined with a brutal ab exercise. I even put an alternative in case you find it challenging too. || Read more
I tested a new healthy breakfast cereal recipe yesterday. I love testing out combinations of superfoods and this combination is a winner. Mom loves it. She’s had a few bowls of it already! It is a little like oatmeal, except that there are no oats or grain at all in this one. It is made up of the most nutritious seeds with goji berries, maca, vanilla and cinnamon that come together as pure awesomeness in your bowl. You will feel revitalized and full of energy after a big bowl of this warming, filling and delicious superfood cereal combo! || Read more
This tabata workout has three 4 minute rounds. The first and the last are tabata interval training rounds and the second round is a rep challenge, to do as many reps as possible of a side plank burpees. I love these burpees. They will challenge your balance, which is always great to work on your inner core muscles. This workout takes little room. It is short, only 12 minutes, and tabata workouts are proven to build strength and endurance fast. || Read more
