Recipe and photos courtesy of: www.halfbakedharvest.com/ Fresh spring produce is finally starting to pop up in the grocery store, and what better way to make use of some delicious portobello mushrooms and fresh tomatoes and basil than a mini caprese salad! Portobello mushrooms contain aromatase inhibitors, which reduce estrogen levels and are linked to lower risk…
There’s just not much better than a fresh-from-the-orchard peach. Unless it’s a fresh-from-the-orchard baked peach. With brown sugar and a touch of cinnamon sprinkled on top. We could eat peaches straight up, but with this delicious recipe they are OH so much more 🙂
Tired of the same old red-meat backyard burger? We adore this gluten-free, vegan alternative: grilled vegetable stacks layered with a light and lemony hummus. (And best of all, so easy to make!) Grill up some of your favorite farm fresh veggies and make these rustic hummus grilled vegetable stacks tonight!!
Did you know the average woman wears 515 chemicals a day? 5-1-5. What?! Of the 82,000 ingredients found in beauty products, one in eight is an industrial chemical. Our skin absorbs 60 percent of any topical product we use, which often contain chemicals linked to cancer or hormone disruption.
Advertisers spent an astonishing $144 billion in 2011 to entice shoppers to buy more and more stuff, and there is shockingly little regulation on how they are able to label their products, and what toxic chemicals go in them.
ELENA HIGHT’S FAVORITE RECIPES: GLUTEN FREE VEGAN VEGGIE PESTO LASAGNA It’s the last Tasty Tuesday of the month, which means we are so excited to welcome back Team B4BC rider Elena Hight to be our guest chef! This gluten-free, vegan and vegetarian spin on a delicious, hearty lasagna dish is absolutely UNREAL. With whole wheat pasta,…
Every cigarette you don’t smoke is doing you good. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, not only reducing the health of smokers in general, but also causing and contributing to several types of cancers and respiratory and heart disease. It affects the health of others and can limit a woman’s options for treatment…
We L O V E acai bowls, with their yummy fresh taste and high nutritional content! Now you can make it yourself, and it’s pretty much the most delicious thing ever.
What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier: Exercise has been touted to be a cure for nearly everything in life, from depression, to memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s and more. At the same time, similar to the topic of sleep, I found myself having very little specific and scientific knowledge about what…
We love this easy, super healthy breakfast of quinoa with a snowy sprinkling of coconut and bright red pomegranate seeds!
The star of this recipe is quinoa flakes, which make a quick and nutritious breakfast; they cook in about a minute, so they’re a go-to when rushing out the door for work or for class. If you don’t have quinoa flakes, no problem. You could heat up pre-cooked, whole quinoa with some almond or coconut milk to get the same effect, and then top it with the coconut and pom seeds.
This delicious Swiss Chard Clementine Salad from our friends at Goofy Foot Foods is SO GOOD and so good for you!! Swiss chard is an amazing source of vitamin K, vitamin A, vitamin C, magnesium, copper, manganese, potassium, vitamin E, iron, dietary fiber, choline, vitamin B2, calcium, vitamin B6, phosphorus, protein…and we could go on. Basically, you should be eating this stuff.