Hello, hello from the east coast! I flew in via a red eye this morning, and am looking forward to lots of holiday fun in Jersey. Bring on the relaxing family time! I have one last holiday dessert recipe to share today... and this will also be the last Foodie Loves Fitness recipe of 2016! We all have our favorite traditional holiday dessert recipes, but sometimes I think it's nice to switch things up and add in new ones. Truth be told, I get a little tired of seeing the same cookies all around every December... so today's recipe is a bit of an unconventional holiday dessert, but trust me, it's oh so good! These sea salt dark chocolate cherry sunflower seed butter cups are a mouthful - to both eat & say out loud! We've got the richness of dark chocolate, ... [Read More]
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My 2015 Favorites
With 2015 drawing to a close, I love looking back at the year and thinking about all of my favorite travels and adventures, as well as my most memorable recipes and workouts of the year. I thought it'd be fun today to take a look back and highlight those memories. Let's get to it! My Favorite Adventures & Travel... Wine Tasting in the Santa Ynez Valley Bachelorette Partying in Miami A Trip to Lundberg Farms During their Rice Harvest August Adventures Back Home in Jersey (my birthday, hubby's birthday, best friend's wedding & more!) Ladies' Night in NYC with my fellow foodie friend Danielle Visiting Solvang, California’s Taste of Denmark Anniversary Celebration in Temecula Wine Country Weekend Escape to Big Bear Lake My Favorite ... [Read More]
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]
Maple Blueberry Fontina Grilled Cheese
Hi there and Happy Friday! Let me start this Friday post off with something sweet... So, I totally ate this for dinner last night! I've been doing a thing where I eat dessert for dinner about one night a week, and it's working out great for me and my sweet tooth. 80/20 balanced eating baby! The above deliciousness is scoops of Halo Top Creamery vanilla bean, strawberry, & chocolate flavors (despite me talking abut them twice this week, I'm not affiliated with them at all.... yet! I'd certainly like to be since I love them :) ) with banana, caramel, a TJ's brownie & oats bar and some chopped up Bark Thins dark chocolate pretzel with sea salt chunks. I went on a kick butt hike with my pup yesterday and just was not feeling any kind of typical dinner, so a dessert bowl for dinner it ... [Read More]
Throwback Thursday: Wine Baked Peaches with Vanilla Fro Yo
Hi friends! While it's rare that I publish posts on Thursdays, I'm posting one today to linkup with my friend Britt's Throwback Thursday blog party. It's 8 PM on the west coast already, but better late than never right?! Now that I've had a healthy living blog for a couple of years, I think it's fun to look back at posts I wrote 1 or 2 years ago in the same month, or even week or day. Today's throwback post is on a yummy topic: wine baked peaches! This post was originally published 2 years ago, when we were living in the San Fran Bay area down the road from a gorgeous little winery. I decided to repost this recipe because I've been eating some nectarines and peaches, and I think it's time I make some wine baked peaches for dessert! Here I baked the peaches in sweet white wine from our ... [Read More]
Chocolate Coconut Caramel Smoothie [Vegan & Healthy!]
Like most Americans - any Americans with a sweet tooth, at least - I have Girl Scout cookie memories. Growing up, my mom had a similar sentiment to the food kept in the house as I do now: lots of healthy food, and then a few "goodies" in one cabinet that were treats we broke out after dinner some nights for dessert. (source) My mom bought Girl Scout cookies, but she would usually get ones that I deemed weird (and that still wouldn't be my pick today). I remember some sort of shortbread cookie and something with lemon (ick), and then there were the two I liked the most: Thin Mints and Samoas. This Girl Scout cookie season, I found myself craving the chocolate mint and chocolate coconut caramel flavors that I looked forward to as a kid for dessert at night. This led to me recreate these ... [Read More]