I am a self-confessed hippie eater. No, I do not eat hippies (they tend to be too chewy). However, I do eat in the way that most hippies do—that is, staples of my diet include wheat germ, quinoa, and organics of all kinds, and, occasionally, I will even go out on a limb and try something like Kefir. Basically, I want my body to be as healthy as possible, so I’m going to put healthy things in it.

But I’m also a self-confessed foodie, and I want my food to taste GOOD. If it doesn’t, it’s out. So I have been searching high and low for months now in an effort to find the perfect pancake recipe—one with both taste and health benefits. Most pancakes aren’t bad for you, sure, but I wanted a recipe that really packed in the good stuff and had a flavor that couldn’t be beat.

Well, you guys, I’ve finally found it. All Recipes saves the day once again! This time, though, I modified the recipe to make it even yummier by adding extra flavor to these bad boys. As if that wasn’t good enough, you can also whip up all twelve of these pancakes in just about 15 minutes. It may not look it, but this recipe is SUPER easy.

Sunday mornings never tasted so good.

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All the cookie dough you can eat and none of the Salmonella? Hell to the yes.

Any type of cookie dough is a good type of cookie dough in my book. Cookie dough ice cream, homemade cookie dough, even store-bought Nestle cookie dough is delicious. Especially when eaten directly from the plastic tube with your fingers while watching old episodes of Sex and the City.

You know what’s not good in my book (or stomach), though? Salmonella. Which is exactly what I’ll get if I keep on keepin’ on with my cookie dough habits. Sometimes – like when I’m chowing down on some dough to prevent a mid-finals meltdown – I try not to care about the havoc those raw eggs are wreaking on my body, but it’s there. And it’s wreaking. So you can imagine my excitement when I found this faux cookie dough recipe in Glamour magazine; it’s a lot healthier for your bod than the real stuff (there’s even wheat germ!) and even has an added peanut butter flavor, which just makes it even more scrumptious (not to mention totally safe to eat).

Trust me: this stuff is as tasty as it is easy to make.
And it’s really easy. Deliciously easy. Read More »

Well, I kept my promise and detoxed. Lemme tell you; it was not easy. I know everyone always says that it’s mind over matter and that other mental stuff, but I never really listened to it until a day into detoxing when all I wanted was a medium-rare steak, curly fries, and an apple pie.

Eating fruit and ONLY fruit is not the easiest thing in the world. In fact, it’s one of the hardest; swallowing that apple while you pass the Cheescake Factory in the mall is NOT easy. But it paid off like nobody’s business. By the end of the week, I felt energized, awake, and my skin had even cleared up. Whoah.

If you’re planning on detoxing, there’s already a pretty convenient diary on here that you should def check out. But I’ll tell you what carried me through those seven days; smoothies. Now, the recipes I’ll give you all have milk or yogurt in them for people who don’t want to detox but still want a tasty, healthy lunch. If you’re actually detoxing, replace the yogurt stuff with more fruit of your choice (preferably one of the ones in the recipe), and replace the milk with either water or ice. For a little extra fiber, add some wheat germ or flax seed.

You’ll also probably notice that there are no instructions. That’s cuz smoothies are probably the easiest lunch to make. Chop, blend, drink. Must be the nectar of the gods. Read More »