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Flaxseed 1 carb crackers
It’s no secret that i’m watching my carb intake these days. It started as a challenge with myself and then progressed to an elimination experiment.
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Chocolate Covered Kiwis🥝🥝🥝
3 Ingredients, all the flavor. I am in a constant struggle with sugar, good and bad. I can avoid processed sugars for the most part, but sugary natural fruits call to me. Most of my favorites are high in carbs and full of delicious sugars. I’m in the process of approaching a keto-friendly…
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Peanut ButterBerta Gingerbread cookies
Gingerbread Everything! Is my motto during the holiday season. Also, it’s the only time adding icing or frosting to everything seems acceptable. I created these amazing Peanut Butter – Gingerbread cookie sandwiches to set off the season. The warm spices pair gorgeously with the light nutty peanut butter flavor. The icing filling will…
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CranBertaberry – Holiday Brie Crostini Recipe
It is known that members of my family still prefer cranberry sauce from the can as opposed to my tangy homemade sauce. I can only attribute this to nostalgia. So now there are now always 2 types of “sauce” on our holiday table and there are always leftovers. I could make less or I…
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Peanut Butter & CranBertaBerry Jelly Cookies
Each Holiday season, I make a bunch of cranberry sauce and can half of it for another day. I scoop heaps of it in small mason jars and eventually find them in the back of the fridge in the spring! This year an idea came to me when I was deciding what my…
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Roasted Sweet-Salty Pumpkin Seeds
Halloween is this week. I’ve painted a pumpkin and consulted my nieces and nephews on the correct way to carve one creatively. I’m not a pumpkin spice latte or pumpkin pie lover so all that leaves me with is the seeds! As a child I looked forward to the roasted pumpkin seeds more than…
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Perfect Picnicking + Blistered Shishitos🌱
Summer weather is finally here and it’s time for some picnicking! I love a good picnic, paired with fresh foods, chilled prosecco, and warm sun. Forget prepackaged foods that may be a little easier to pick up and give yourself about 30 minutes to prep perfect snacks for fun in the sun. Here are…
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Misfits Markets 🍊🥒🥕🥬
Last year I subscribed to a produce delivery box service. Initially, I began researching a service for my parents, in an effort to force them to eat more fresh produce. I realize it’s not so easy for everyone – I can find cheaper fresh and organic produce here in NYC, if I actually search,…
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The Lokal Post: The EASY Spice
I love bold spice, and I love my friends and I’m extra particular about both. Happily, this post contains the best of each world. Lokal Artisan Foods is a brand created by a high school friend and I was able to test the famous french toast spice before it was in package. Immediately I…
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Blueberry-Berta Smoothie Bowl
We’re in the middle of a heatwave here in NYC, and I’ve been doing double workouts for a few weeks now. When I get home from work I want something easy and filling – but ALSO delicious. My go-to’s are usually smoothies because I always have the ingredients to make something interesting and fresh. Now…
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Date cookies = Tabbalicious 🍪
I’m obsessed with dates – see the previous post! I’m finding all sorts of interesting ways to use dates as a sugar substitute. I came across this recipe and tweaked it slightly to make it Tabbalicious. These tasty little desserts literally took 20 minutes from start to finish. I LOVE cookies, I love peanut butter and I…
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Roberta-Roasted Okra
Growing up the mention of okra was always followed by a prompt “EWWWWW!” from my sisters and I. My mom and grandma made something called okra pie (sounds even grosser) essentially, it was layered okra, white rice, can tomatoes and crisp bacon baked like a pie. I actually never really minded the okra slime, as…
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Simple Snacking: Cantaloupe
1 cup of cantaloupe has about 60 energy calories and only 3 from fat. Not only is it like eating a big bowl of nothing in the fat department it’s soft, sweet and satisfying. Though honeydew is my absolute favorite melon, all members of the melon family are full of water and a great…
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Little BAE-sil Pizza 🍕
I love bread and I love cheese, unfortunately, these things work against me in the game of life. The easiest way to assure I’m not doing the most damage to my stomach and my waist-line is to make my own pizza. I make these little amazing pizzas whenever I get the urge to do something bad.…
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Mason Jar Noodle Soup 🥄
Another EASY, layering recipe. And once again there is nothing to cook, just add hot water! Soup is a wonderful lunch or dinner idea in the colder months. I refuse to eat those processed “cup o noodles” in a Styrofoam cup or pay $12 for a delicious bucket of real ramen. I have a…
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easy avocado 🥑
Sporting events are an easy reason to fall off your path of clean healthiness. This year instead of the stacked nachos – try this easy avocado with pita chips or rye wraps. Avocado is high in heart-healthy monounsaturated fat (the “good” kind of fat) and full of fiber – a great choice nutrient dense…
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MealPrep Idea #1
Breakfast Blue-Berta banana smoothies Snack pomegranate seeds or sliced apples Lunch Red Quinoa & baked sweet potato Snack Banana or hard boiled egg Hydration Blackberry-lemon- basil Infused water