This fruit cobbler recipe is a raw foods version made with tropical fruit and a wonderful change from the more traditional fruit cobbler recipes. I love it made with tropical fruits. But I am a serious tropical fruit lover know I will have to move to the tropics one day, at least for the winters! 😉 The topping has nuts and coconut that go really well with the mango, pineapple and papaya, but even so this recipe would work great to make a delicious peach cobbler recipe or a berry or apple cobbler recipe as well. Just substitute fruit and you can lower the coconut and add a little more walnuts and almonds. I love playing with recipes but even so I have made this one exactly as is a few times, and this tropical fruit cobbler recipe has been really successful at a few various gatherings. || Read more
This legs and abs workout is a high intensity interval training workout (HIIT) and made up of 15 minutes of intervals. For this one you go through 6 bodyweight exercises each 3 times. The lunging leg exercises are split up with a couple of ab exercises between each one. || Read more
This broccoli quinoa salad is one I created this afternoon. My mom is going to a pot luck tomorrow morning with a small group of painters and friends. I had just made a pot of quinoa, not knowing what I was going to do with it and I had an abundance of broccoli. That is sometimes how awesome recipes are born, and a few bowls later, I would say this is an awesome recipe. Oh and yes, 2013 really has been declared the International Year of Quinoa. So because of this and mainly due to the fact that it has a very high nutritional and protein content, let’s celebrate quinoa! As I love raw foods so much, I am very selective about which cooked foods I eat. Quinoa is one of them, and this quinoa salad recipe is delicious. Come see how it is made! || Read more
This squats workout is the last workout for the week long squat challenge of 1000 squats, and this fun workout has the last 200 reps. For this one you alternate doing 20 reps of squats with different bodyweight exercises. Mostly bodyweight that is, there are 2 Swiss ball exercises to change it up and make it a little more fun. I will give alternatives for if you don’t have a Swiss ball. I thought this was a really great workout to break up the squats and make them go by fast. The whole workout seemed to go by fast and it is another great way to get lots more squats into your life and shape those legs and butt! || Read more
This healthy breakfast recipe is one that helped me make it through the cold Canadian winters raw. The oatmeal is softened with apples and this easy recipe is packed with superfoods. This favorite raw food recipe is made with oat groats. Rolled oats are steamed open and so not raw, so to make oatmeal as a raw recipe, we use oat groats. I use steel cut oat groats that have been cut into smaller pieces and so are easier to soften. The texture is great. It is soft, not quite as soft as oatmeal, but still very satisfying and I like to add chopped nuts and some dried fruit which also adds to the texture, as well as taste. || Read more
For this squat workout there are 3 parts. The first and third are a squat based time challenge in which you go through a sequence of 3 different squat exercises and do 5 rounds as quickly as you can. You will feel the leg burn at the end of each and especially after the squat pulses. Between the two time challenges there is a 12 minute set of intervals, which provides a break from the squats and changes it up with other fun bodyweight exercises. These are arranged so that you change positions between each exercise: from a crab exercise facing up to a walk out facing down, table makers up, burpees down. I was thinking of balance and yoga and how you do a pose on each opposite side. This part is quick and active to boost the metabolism, as well as build core and functional strength. || Read more
Deep Breathing should be a part of our everyday life. It not only can lengthen the years that we get to live, but can make us happier, more productive and energetic living them too. Breathing deeply is a well-known stress reliever and has a multitude of health benefits as well. However, in our high stress busy lives, we often breathe very shallowly most of the time. But with a little effort, deep breathing can become an easy and unconscious part of our daily life. By making a conscious decision to focus on our breath for a part of each day, we can make it so that we regularly breathe deeper without having to think about it at all. || Read more
