A truffle recipe so easy, anyone can whip these up in 10 minutes. Do you ever get dessert cravings and end up staring into your fridge wishing there was something easy and healthy for you to indulge in? Keep some...
  Coffee is acidic, so if you've recently made some positive changes towards creating a healthier lifestyle for yourself, it may be a desire to reduce or totally eliminate your morning coffee. When Caleb and I first met, I was...
Enjoy this smoothie as a delicious and super healthy alternative to chocolate which contains caffeine and can be over stimulating for the adrenals. If you're allergic to peanuts - just leave the butter out for a carob-banana smoothie. Ingredients: 2 Frozen,...
I am really excited to share my new perfect pumpkin pie with you today dear Young and Raw reader! You're the first to see this recipe, which will be featured in my new book due out early next year. This...
We all love to indulge in sweet treats, but most traditional desserts are laden with high fat calories, processed sugars and refined chemicals.  Guilt (and weight-gain) usually follows. Instead, these delicious Freckled Blonde Truffles are free from refined sugars, gluten,...
The other night I was feeling inspired to make something rich, fudgy and more interesting than your average raw foods chocolate bar.  Growing up, I watched a lot of the Food Network, and one of my favourite hosts is...
Artificial and zero calorie sweeteners have proven to be dangerous and quite harmful for our health. Did you know that when you eat (or drink) something with a zero calorie sweetener in it, your brain anticipates that calories will...
There is a plethora of recipes out there for chocolate and vanilla raw balls, and for other desserts.  Today I wanted to try something a little different. I created these balls because I wanted a sweet treat with a...
In my opinion if I had to list the top five 5 foods that are not so good for you, Cheesecake would be on that list. Traditional cheesecake is loaded with milk, sugar, fat, and saturated fat. Not only that,...
Chia is an edible seed that comes from the desert plant Salvia Hispanica, grown in Mexico dating back to Mayan and Aztec cultures. "Chia" means strength, and tradition has it that these cultures used the tiny black and white...