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    Superfood Maple Pumpkin Pancakes

    We love pancakes almost as much as we love dressing up for Halloween!  With three hungry girls (two of whom were wearing tutus) with a ton of energy starting bright and early at 0630 today, and an anticipated long night of trick or treating, we need a healthy superfoods breakfast to fuel our day!   Anyone else have kids that get pancake syrup all over the kitchen?  I’ve learned to bake it into the pancakes!  Less mess, more flavor!  I hope you enjoy these as much as we do!  And a Happy  Halloween to you and yours!  Ingredients:  1.5 c brown rice flour 1/4 c flaxseed meal 1 scoop vanilla…

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    Pumpkin Vanilla Muffins (clean eating)

    Hello September.  Enter : pumpkin spice everything.  Pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin cereal, pumpkin spice toilet paper, pumpkin spice deodorant.  Seriously.  Everything. Fortunately I don’t let our family fall into the trap of artificial pumpkin flavors.  We like the real deal.  So onto the bandwagon I go.  Capitalizing on the everything pumpkin. But we’re doing it the clean eating, natural way so I’ll be whipping up a new pumpkin recipe each week using what I have in my kitchen!   This week:  Pumpkin Vanilla Mini Muffins for the kiddos (and grown ups!).  Ingredients:  1 c whole wheat flour 1 c quick cook oats 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2…

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    Vanilla Protein Granola (with Shakeology)

    Saturday mornings are for lounging, for coffee, and for listening to our kids run around and wrestle and giggle.  We absolutely cherish these moments. Moments when we can sit peacefully and sip coffee out of old mugs, each one with a story to tell.  Mine was a gift from coworkers years ago, a time in my life where my job was a big part of my identity, where I lived to work.  I loved those that I worked with and the passion in their eyes truly made my “job” a place I enjoyed to go each day.  My husbands mug was a gift from his 10 year West Point reunion,…

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    Red, White, and Blueberry Muffins

    By the time 4th of July rolls around, we’re ready for some yummy treats. Summer produce is in abundance and we always have too many strawberries and blueberries in our fridge.  And I never let fresh produce go to waste.  We can only drink so many strawberry and blueberry smoothies so it was time for a healthy snack recipe and I think the girls and I created a good one.  A healthy, clean-eating,  sugar-free, delicious muffin that could be mistaken for a cupcake if you ask me!   Ingredients: Dry Ingredients: 3/4 cup quick oats 1 cup whole wheat flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp…