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The Salad: Nutritional Superstar
When I meet with clients, in addition to filling out a nutritional assessment form, I ask them to provide me with a food journal of […]
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The Five-Minute Salad
It’s one of the days when you don’t have the time for anything. (What does she mean “one of those days”? Every day is “one […]
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“Let’s Do This” Salad
It’s salad time. Let’s do this. And let’s do it right. You need your salad to be 3 things: 1. Delicious – You just aren’t […]
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Simple Delicious Tomato & Romaine Salad
Fridays are always a super busy day. There never seems to be enough time to get everything done, and often we don’t take time to […]
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Blueberries & Apples Steel-Cut Oats
While I sometimes experiment with various breakfast creations, I find that always end up coming back to basics – good ole’ oatmeal. There are many […]
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Simply Baked Apples
Don’t you love it when you make the EASIEST recipe that also happens to be healthy and delicious and your family LOVES it? Well, this […]
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Golden Kale Brown Basmati Rice
A hearty, delicious, and highly nutritious way to enjoy brown basmati rice. 2 cups brown basmati rice 2 1/4 cups water* 1 large onion, diced […]
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Vegan Pad Thai (No Oil)
Pad Thai is hearty meal made with a base of rice noodles, bean sprouts, and tofu, is rich in protein and fibre. It’s very flavourful […]
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“Love in a Glass” Green Smoothie
My son doesn’t like vegetables. Many kids don’t like vegetables. One of the ways around this is to provide vegetables in a way that is […]
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Sesame Wasabi Dressing
This versatile dressing is both sweet and tangy. Great over a crunchy Asian-style salad, or steamed green beans, or as a marinade. 1/2 cup tamari […]
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Supercharged Salad
Dr. Joel Fuhrman, a leader in the plant-based nutrition movement. From Dr. Furman’s website:”G-BOMBS” is an acronym that you can use to remember the best […]
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Spiralized Zucchini Salad with Basil and Grape Tomatoes
We share recipes like this one – great for weight loss, and delicious – at our group nutrition program Freedom Weight Loss. Spiralized zucchini, also […]
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Hazelnut Chocolate Spread
Nutella could be my biggest weakness. Chocolate and hazelnuts together is a mouthwatering combination. I’m sure I don’t have to convince you, after all you […]
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Smoothie Pie
INTRODUCING SMOOTHIE PIE A DESSERT THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! AS SEEN ON KOSHER TANK MADE FROM 100% WHOLE FOODS IT’S GOOD FOR YOU AND […]
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The Best Slow Cooker Vegetable Lentil Soup
I simply love making soups in the winter. Our bodies crave warming foods in the winter and soup is a wonderful way to warm up. […]
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Berry Cherry Chocolate Nicecream Pie
The Smoothie Pie INTRODUCING A DESSERT THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! MADE FROM 100% WHOLE FOODS IT’S GOOD FOR YOU AND IT’S ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS […]
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Mint Kale Quinoa Breakfast Bowl
When you take on a whole food plant strong diet one of the secrets to success is having some whole starches ready and available in […]
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Spinach Carrot Feijoada
A spin on the classical Brazilian dish. This black bean stew has carrots and spinach added to boost it’s nutritional value. I love this recipe […]
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Lime Cilantro Hummus
When clients ask me what their “go-to” snack should be, one of my top choices is hummus with vegetable crudités (aka sliced vegetables for dipping). […]
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Cinnamon Apple Breakfast Rounds
Nothing quite smells like cinnamon and apples baking in the oven on a cold morning. This morning I was so thrilled to welcome my new […]
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Creamy Garlic Lemon Dressing
Perfect way to get some good quality WHOLE FOOD FAT into your diet. Walnuts are a great source of omega 3 fat, plus they also […]
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Simple Instant Pot Rice Pilaf
A super easy, versatile, side dish to any meal. 1 vidalia onion, diced water for water sautéeing 2 cups brown basmati rice, uncooked 2 carrots, […]
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Curried Sweet Potato Chickpea Patties
This one takes me back to the days of Carribean rotis – soft chickpeas and sweet potatoes with that savoury curry flavour. This recipe was […]
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Fruity Spelt Breakfast Bowl
FRUITY SPELT BREAKFAST BOWL My new favourite breakfast! Simple. Easy. Yummy. Healthy (tons of vitamins, minerals, and fibre, plus some fat and protein!). This one […]
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Crunchy Rainbow Collard Wraps
Serves 4-6 people 6 collard greens, tips of stems removed so they are round 1/2 cup oil free hummus (see recipe provided in first session) […]
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Tropical Sushi Handroll or Bowl
Serves 2 as a meal, or 6 as a side dish 1 cup cooked brown rice 1 cup shelled edamame 2 cups of baby […]
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Spelt Berries Breakfast Bliss
Spelt berries have a nice chewy texture, and like all whole grains, are full of fibre. They also contain protein, iron, magnesium, vitamin B3, phosphorus […]
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Roasted Diced Sweet Potato Croutons
I will be sharing recipes like this one, plus tons of tips on how to increase the nutrition value of your meals and lose weight […]
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Zucchini Parsnip Soup
Join us at our group nutrition program Freedom Weight Loss to get more recipes like this one that will help you lose weight and feel great! […]
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Easy Cauliflower Rice
So easy, you’ll be asking yourself “why didn’t I make this before?” Not only easy, but really good for you. Cauliflower is a cruciferous vegetable, […]
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Tri-coloured Potato Stacks
Who doesn’t love potatoes? These oil free potato stacks are easy to make and delicious. “But Carolyn aren’t potatoes to be avoided if I want […]
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Slow Roasted Garlic Tomatoes
These tomatoes are ridiculously easy to make and are very versatile: – Snack on them – Toss them into a salad – Eat with bread, […]
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Apples, Pears and Spinach Salad
4 cups baby spinach 1/2 pink lady apple diced 1/2 Danjou pear diced 1/2 cup shredded carrot 1/2 cup shredded purple cabbage 1/2 small red […]
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Beet Chickpeas Salad
This salad is reminiscent of a salad I used to have at a little vegan lunch place I frequented back in my ad agency days. […]
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Creamy Dijon Potato Salad
This potato salad is a pleasant alternative to traditional potato salad, typically made with mayonnaise and hard boiled eggs. Instead of calorie rich mayonnaise, this […]
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Fennel & Green Beans
After making this dish, I had to go out for a few minutes. When I walked back into the house, it smelled heavenly. The combination […]
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Carmalized Onions, Grapes & Greens Salad
One of the many wonderful kernels of wisdom I learned from Dr Joel Fuhrman is that for one meal a day salad should be your […]
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Chunky Chick Pea Salad (aka Mock Tuna Salad)
I used to LOVE a good scoop of tuna salad over my salad, or on a bagel, or in a wrap. Now that I eat […]
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Chia Seed Pudding Fruit Parfait
I’ve always loved a good pudding. Thick, creamy, sweet… yum. I remember those Jell-o puddings powders in a box that my Mom would buy. What […]
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Peaches’N’Cream Chia Seed Pudding
I love the versatility of chia seed pudding. Like me, it wears many hats! It can be a wonderfully satisfying breakfast, an afternoon snack to […]
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Stripped Garlic Zucchini
I never used to be a zucchini lover. It was a boring mushy vegetable. But as I got more and more into healthy eating, and […]
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Veggie Boxes
You’re back to work and back to school, and you need to make sure that you have healthy snacks on hand so that you can […]
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Za’atar Roasted Caramelized Vegetables
This recipe is one of those game changer recipes. It’s the kind of recipe that if you make it one time, you’ll be hooked. It’s […]
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The “How to Get My Kids to Drink a Green Smoothie” Smoothie
I don’t know about you, but I have a kid, okay a couple of kids, that just won’t touch leafy green vegetables, so with these […]
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Quick And Easy Blueberries & Quinoa Breakfast Bowl
NEW SESSION OF FREEDOM WEIGHT LOSS GROUP PROGRAM BEGINS WEEK OF JANUARY 21 Do you ever have left-over quinoa in the fridge and you wonder […]
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Kathmandu Cholent Stew
There is SO much you can make in your crockpot for Shabbat lunch beyond traditional cholent. There are many wonderful soups, stews and chilis you […]
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Chocolate Vanilla Cashew Cream Pie
A few days ago I posted the recipe for Cashew Cream Fruit Pie. It was a such a hit in my home and amongst my […]
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Pomegranate Ginger Steel-Cut Oats with Pumpkin Seeds
Growing up pomegranates were a once a year treat that we’d eat as part of our new year meal. Now pomegranates can be found in […]
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Brownie Rounds
A while back I was experimenting with no flour, no sugar, no oil “cookies”, and made this yummy recipe for Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies. Since then […]
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Strawberry Almond Steel-Cut Oats
You may be wondering why I’m suggesting steel-cut oats instead of rolled oats. I think they are both awesome, but steel-cut oats are my preference and I’ll […]
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Cashew Cream Fruit Pie
This recipe was inspired by a dessert that my new next door neighbour, Matti Blackman, brought over… and her recipe was inspired by a recipe […]
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Super Easy Indian Dinner
In my previous life I lived in downtown Toronto and explored foods from a variety of cultures. I tried Ethiopian food. I frequented the Italian […]
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Chocolate Cherry NiceCream Cake
As a little girl, I would often sit with my Bubby on her sofa watching TV and eating chocolate. Sometimes she would have a box of […]
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Buffet Bowl “A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That”
Sometimes the best salads are simply an amalgamation of a little bit of this and a little bit of that to create something new. Here’s […]
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Squash Bites
Rosh Hashanah is around the corner, and it’s time to start thinking about preparing the various simanim – the special foods we eat at our Rosh […]
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Baked Apple Nice Cream Recipe
I have always LOVED ice cream. What’s not love about ice cream? It’s cold, creamy, sweet, and delicious! Eating ice cream is simply blissful. Yet… […]
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Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies
Sometimes you just want a cookie… but you don’t want the added sugar, salt and fat that most cookie recipes and packaged cookies contain – […]
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Creamy Lemon Cilantro Dressing
Delicious, hearty salads are one of the keys to building health and losing weight. Having a variety of salad dressings available really helps to make […]
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Smokey Crockpot Black Beans
Black beans are AWESOME in SO many ways… You can open a can and throw some over a salad. You can cut open a baked […]
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Garlic Green Beans & Bell Peppers
“We are going back to basics” I often tell my clients. A whole food predominantly plant-based diet does not have to be complicated or time-consuming. […]
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Creamy Thyme Broccoli Zucchini Soup
My family loves soup any time of the year… and I love soup because generally it’s quite easy to put together, inexpensive to make, and […]
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Secret to my great-aunt’s agility and youthfulness
Raphael and I went down to Florida for a couple of days to celebrate my good friend’s son’s wedding. It was the first time since […]
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A message to parents from Chef AJ
I just picked up Chef AJ’s new book – “The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss”. Chef AJ is a leader in the whole-food plant based […]
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How do you want to age?
I read The China Study a few years ago. It was one of the books that sparked my interest in nutrition and a whole food […]
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Zucchini & yellow squash from my backyard garden!!!
We had half-heartedly planted a vegetable garden in the past, but it didn’t yeild very much. I think it may have been the wrong spot […]
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Mango Nicecream
Cold, sweet, creamy, inexpensive, delicious frozen treat! Yields 3-4 cups of nicecream 3 frozen bananas 2 cups frozen mango chunks, thawed for 5-7 minutes to […]
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Soft on the inside “roast” potatoes
Amazing, crispy, delicious roast potatoes without oil! You gotta try these! 12 small yellow flesh potatoes, organic if possible, cut into 1” chunks, with skin […]
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Kung Fu Salad
I served this salad to my husband today, and asked him to name it for me. Without batting an eyelash he said “this is Kung […]
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Kale Avocado Lemon Salad
Kale is the superfood the decade. The bright green colour is just screaming “I have tons of amazing vitamins and minerals! Eat me!” I like […]
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Apples: Nutritious, Delicious & Easy
This is one of my favourite times of year – the leaves are changing colour, there is still that last feeling of summer in the […]
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Date Spread
This is a wonderful way to add sweetness without adding processed ingredients. Find out why processed foods are sabotaging your weight loss efforts by joining […]
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Creamy Cashew Lemon Mint Dressing
This recipe contains cashews – are nuts a good source of fat? Join us for our group weight loss program, Freedom Weight Loss, beginning on […]
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Pesach Recipes: Easy, Healthy & Yummy!
I will admit it. I love everything about Pesach. I love the cleaning. I love the planning. I love the preparation. I love the cooking. […]
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Is My Environment Setup for Success – Part 2
Did I end up eating the peanut butter cup. No, I didn’t. But I was very close. Very close. Why didn’t I eat it? I […]
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Is My Environment Setup for Success – Part 1
I needed chocolate. I generally don’t keep chocolate in my house because I know when I’m having one of those need chocolate moments I will […]
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Vivid Beet Cilantro Hummous
This dip is not only nutritious and delicious, but is a stunning purplish-reddish colour. It will make any veggie platter or salad stand out. Beets […]
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Crockpot Split Pea Soup
CROCKPOT SPLIT PEA SOUP Adapted from Norene Gilletz “Healthy Helpings” With 5 kids it’s often hard to find something that everyone likes. Here is one […]
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Are Carbs Bad for You?
“Don’t worry. I don’t eat carbs”, my new clients often say. Thanks to popular low carb diets like Atkins and South Beach, carbohydrates have been […]
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5 Tips to Help you Eat Healthy this Chanukah
Candles burning, kids playing dreidle, family get-togethers, and of course, hot crispy latkes. There may be jelly donuts everywhere you turn, but the 5 tips […]
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4 Ways to Get Your Day Started
From the “Mommy, get up now!” alarm clock, to a hectic breakfast, to getting kids off to school, to arriving at work on time, mornings […]
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You are What You Drink
How much water you drink can make a huge difference in how you feel, how you look, your energy levels, and drinking enough water can […]
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Organic vs. Conventional: A Budgetary Dilemma
As my life has shifted over the last few years towards a healthier way of eating, I have found it relatively easy to replace my […]
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No Bake Chocolate Macaroons
A dessert made with healthy whole food ingredients. Learn about our upcoming Freedom Weight Loss program where you will learn to make recipes that are […]
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Charoseth Truffle Balls
This is an adaptation of my Grandmother Stella’s charoseth recipe. My grandmother would make these charoseth “truffles” back in Tangier, Morocco, and then she continued […]
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Blueberry Ginger “Green” Smoothie
Join us for Freedom Weight Loss, a 6 week program where you will lose weight, and gain health! Some days a smoothie hits the spot […]
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Stacked Beets Salad
Check out our group program: Freedom Weight Loss – next group starting June 3/4, 2018 “Salad is the main dish” is one of the many […]
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Asparagus Stir-fry with Almond Butter
This recipe was inspired by my dear friend and client, Jennifer Mualem. Jennifer is following a whole food plant based diet that is free of […]
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Samurai Salad Dressing
About 7 years ago I was visiting my brother-in-law and sister-in-law in the Old City of Jerusalem. My sister-in-law is great cook and is very […]
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Date Nut Truffles
This is probably my favourite dessert recipe. These date nut truffles just as good, if not better than chocolate truffles, and they are made with […]
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Mexican Baked Potato
This may be the easiest and most delicious dinner so far. If you have a baked potato already cooked you can throw this together in […]
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Oatmeal Banana Breakfast “Muffins”
These are more like bars in the shape of muffins. These make a wonderful breakfast on the go or an easy and satisfying pick-me up […]
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Vanilla Chia Seed Pudding with Blueberries
Don’t you just love breakfast recipes that could also double as dessert recipes? Well, this is one of those! It’s a simple, creamy, chia seed […]
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No Thinking Veggie Quinoa
This dish has entered my weekly rotation. It is super quick and easy, and very flexible. While I can’t take credit for the recipe, I […]
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Rainbow Oatmeal
Oatmeal is the go-to breakfast I suggest to many of my clients. Oats are an excellent source of manganese and molybdenum. They are also a […]
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Date Night Buddha Bowl with Lemon Avocado Dressing
My kids were out for dinner last night, and I was looking for an easy dinner to throw together for Raphael and I. I love […]
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What would summers be without slurpees? Let’s re-think our slurpee habit.
We live in very close proximity to Chabad Gate plaza where there is a Circle K. It was Macs until recently. Circle K is the […]
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Caramel Apple Danish vs. Caramel Apple Oatmeal
G_d bless my Mom. She is the BEST Mom and such a loving, giving Bubby. Like many people, one of her ways of showing love […]
