A delicious variation on our stonefruit tart: Gluten Free Honeyed Ginger Pear Tart by Amy Love, Real Food Whole Health Ingredients: 2 cups blanched almond flour 3/4 cup chopped walnuts 1/2 cup sucanat or rapadura (could use honey or maple syrup– adjust quantity accordingly) Dash of unrefined sea salt ½ tsp cinnamon ½ tsp cardamom
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Beverages
VIDEO: How to Make Your Own Kombucha
Kombucha is a traditional probiotic beverage made from fermenting black tea and sugar. Don’t worry, though, almost all the sugar and caffeine are used up by the bacteria 🙂 Drinking kombucha is a great way to get good probiotics into your diet. It’s a little bubbly too, so it can help when transitioning off soda.
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Real Food Recipes
Roasted Maple Butternut Squash Soup
This soup is Autumn in a bowl. I was going to wait until later in the fall to post it, but our weather today has been so sublime, I just had to share. I have a butternut squash in my pantry now just waiting to be transformed into this lusciousness. The molasses is optional, but
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Non-Toxic Lifestyle
My Search for a Natural Hair Dye – Does Honey Lightening Work?
The recipe reads like a sweet treat…honey, cinnamon, cardamom, coconut oil…along with olive oil and distilled water. But it’s not a dessert, it’s a recipe for natural hair dye. Recently, I’ve been on the search for a much more natural alternative to traditional hair color, and while some cosmetic companies are making “better for you”
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Non-Toxic Lifestyle
How To Make Your Own Non-Toxic Deodorant
I’ve tried a lot of natural deodorants. I wanted something that would be fresh, not overpowering or scented heavily, and that would be free of toxins. I’ve tried store brands (most never worked), crystal stones and various recipes for homemade deodorant. It’s this combination that really seemed to work for me (and many others who