,Craving chocolate + peppermint? Check out this round up of healthy chocolate peppermint recipes to try this winter! I think that peppermint + chocolate is the ultimate wintertime flavor combo. As soon as colder weather hits and I'm over pumpkin & apple baking, I start craving all things peppermint. Adding something chocolatey in with peppermint makes it an even more satisfying treat. So, I thought I'd spread the peppermint love and share a round up of some of my favorite chocolate peppermint recipes. These recipes are big on flavor and feature healthy ingredients such as oats, matcha, banana and hemp hearts. Let's get to it! 7 of My Favorite Healthy Chocolate Peppermint Recipes Peppermint Matcha Hot Cocoa One of my ultimate go-to ways to enjoy peppermint is with this ... [Read More]
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Chocolate Thin Mint Protein Smoothie
Happy Hump Day! I'm still on the east coast, and it has been nice and toasty in Jersey with temperatures in the low to mid 90s. So naturally today I want to talk about smoothies - more specifically, what has been probably my favorite smoothie for all of 2015 thus far. I first came up with this Chocolate "Thin Mint" Smoothie when it was Girl Scout cookie season and I kept craving chocolate + mint. Since then I've made it countless times - minimum once a week all year long. It's the perfect post-nighttime workout meal because it doubles as a healthy dose of protein and goodness plus dessert in one.... and we all know that I'm all about things that taste like dessert but are secretly healthy. ... [Read More]