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Recipe for Coconut "Bacon" from the book Superfoods for Life, Coconut

Whether you're vegan or just wanting to try healthy recipes, this one for coconut "bacon" from the book Superfoods for Life, Coconut is definitely one on my "to-try" list!

Click on this page from Superfoods for Life, Coconut to enlarge and read the full recipe for coconut bacon

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Superfoods for Life, Coconut: - Reduce Inflammation - Improve Heart Health - Heal Digestion - 75 Recipes

by Megan Roosevelt

Coconuts have been used for thousands of years in traditional medicine for their healing and beautifying properties, as well as being used in anti-viral and anti-bacterial products. Coconuts also show promise in stabilizing blood sugar and as a natural weight loss aid. This unique superfood can even be made into flour and used in gluten-free cooking and baking. Superfoods for Life, Coconut shows you how to integrate coconut meat, milk, oil, butter, and flour into your diet with 75 delicious recipes for incredible health. This handy guide provides an overview of coconuts, fun history and facts and its reputed nutritional benefits, along with a focus on key nutritional properties and "cures" associated with coconuts (detoxification, weight loss, super immunity, disease fighting, and beauty to name a few). Each chapter references studies and research. There are so many ways to use coconut - the possibilities for cooking and healing are endless!

 

Megan Roosevelt is a fun loving foodie and Registered and Licensed Dietitian known as the “Healthy Grocery Girl®”. She is a nutrition coach and consultant, spokesperson, public speaker, author, regular TV nutrition expert, including her monthly spot on ABC’s KATU Portland morning show “AM Northwest” as well as a dynamic entrepreneur as the founder and CEO of Healthy Grocery Girl® LLC. Healthy Grocery Girl® and her team offer nutrition services, resources and products that fuel and equip busy individuals to achieve their health, freeing them to enjoy and live a real life, rooted in their purpose and passions. Megan is passionate about making nutrition fun and realistic. Her recipes and nutrition tips are simple, and predominately follow a whole foods, plant based approach. As the “Healthy Grocery Girl” her expertise is sharing healthy grocery finds that make eating healthy and living a healthy lifestyle convenient and delicious. Her mission is to help more people truly live their best life, with full health, energy and passion.

 

 

3 Tequila Cocktail Recipes to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo

Happy Cinco de Mayo! This is the one holiday I indulge in tequila, and these three recipes for tequila cocktails from the book World's Best Cocktails just might be what I make tonight! If you like to try new recipes and will be celebrating Cinco de Mayo, why not give these a try!

Click on this page from World's Best Cocktails to enlarge to read the full recipes for a Mexican Breakfast cocktail, a Viva! cocktail and a Mexican 55 cocktail.

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World's Best Cocktails: 500 Signature Drinks from the World's Best Bars and Bartenders

by Tom Sandham

World's Best Cocktails is an exciting global journey, providing the secrets to successful cocktail making, their history and provenance, and where to seek out the world’s best bars and bartenders, from London to Long Island and beyond. Cocktail and liquor connoisseur Tom Sandham provides a comprehensive appraisal of global cocktail culture, highlighting the trends and techniques that make the finest drinks popular in their native climes and across the world. Cocktail lovers will appreciate personal tips from key bartenders such as Jim Meehan and Dale de Groff in New York and Tony Conigliaro and Salvatore Calabrese in London, while cutting-edge recent award winners point to the future with their new daring flavor combinations. At last, discerning drinkers can learn more about what to drink and where, then bring back their coolest cocktail experiences to enjoy at home.

Recipe for a Peanut Butter Banana Milk Shake from the Book, 500 400-Calorie Recipes by Dick Logue

This milk shake sounds so yummy; I love every ingredient in it right down to the quick cooking oats! It's from one of my favorite books 500 400-Calorie Recipes: Delicious and Satisfying Meals That Keep You to a Balanced 1200-Calorie Diet So You Can Lose Weight without Starving Yourself.

Click on this page from to enlarge to read the full recipe for a low-cal healthy peanut butter banana milk shake.

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500 400-Calorie Recipes: Delicious and Satisfying Meals That Keep You to a Balanced 1200-Calorie Diet So You Can Lose Weight without Starving Yourself

by Dick Logue

For people looking to shed pounds and live more healthfully, eating meals in the 400-calorie range is your secret weapon to weight loss success. Not only do these meals fuel your energy, rev metabolism, and keep you feeling full longer, but they also help you stick to a daily caloric range of 1200 to 1500 total calories, which is ideal for tipping the scales in your favor. 

Whether you’re on a weight loss plan already, or looking to begin anew, 500 400-Calorie Recipesis your one-stop shop for healthy, deliciously comforting meals that won’t bust your fitness goals, but rather boost you to them!

The book works by expertly focusing on nutrient-dense, low-calorie ingredients that you can eat in abundance—such as leafy greens, artichokes, and berries—and combining them with smaller portions of equally filling foods like whole grains, beans, eggs, and poultry. The result? Four hundred mega-satisfying meals that cover your every craving and desire, from wholesomely hearty breakfasts to decadent treats that won’t break the (calorie) bank.

Start losing weight—by filling your plate!—with 500 400-Calorie Recipes.

Dick Logue is the author of several cookbooks and founder of the website http://www.lowsodiumcooking.com. 

Recipe for Caveman Ketchup from 500 Paleo Recipes by Dana Carpender

I am probably one of the only people on this planet who doesn't smother my food with ketchup, but just about everyone I know does put it on something. So I thought, wouldn't it be fun to share a recipe for paleo caveman ketchup from the book 500 Paleo Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes for Weight Loss and Super Health.

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500 Paleo Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes for Weight Loss and Super Health

by Dana Carpender

At last, here is a comprehensive cookbook to the hottest eating plan around! The Paleo diet—known in some circles as the “Caveman Diet”—is an eating plan based on evolutionary biology and backed up by medical research. Unlike other diets which can incorporate fake, processed foods and artificial sweeteners, the Paleo diet is based on what our ancestors ate: meats and fish, nuts and seeds, and naturally grown fruits and vegetables. Low-carb queen and bestselling author Dana Carpender shows how to stay the Paleo diet course deliciously with 500 easy-to-prepare recipes for everything Paleo from appetizers, to main dishes, to desserts.

Best-selling author Dana Carpender was startled to discover that limiting her carbohydrate intake not only helped her control her weight, but produced the health and vitality a low fat diet had promised but never delivered. Years later, she laughs at people who say “You can’t eat that way long-term.” Her cookbooks are the result of her realization that the key to permanent dietary change is the answer to the age-old question, “What’s for supper?” To date they have sold over a million copies worldwide. Dana blogs about low carb nutrition at http://www.HoldtheToast.com; her weekly blog digest goes out to over 20,000 readers. She is also Managing Editor of CarbSmart Magazine at http://www.CarbSmart.com, as well as a featured staff writer. Dana lives in Bloomington, IN with her husband and a menagerie of pets, all of whom are well and healthily fed.

   

Recipe for Fried Coca-Cola from Cheers to Vegan Sweets by Kelly Peloza

I just have to start today's Tasty Friday post by saying the idea of this new Fair Winds cookbook is hands down the best idea for a cookbook EVER! I just have to say I want to make and eat every recipe in Cheers to Vegan Sweets! Drink-Inspired Vegan Desserts: From the Cafe to the Cocktail Lounge, Turn Your Sweet Sips Into Even Better Bites!

I have yet to try fried Coca-Cola but now that I have a recipe, especially a healthy one, I am so going to try it! Click on this page from Cheers to Vegan Sweets! to enlarge and read the recipe for fried Coca-Cola, the cola syrup, and topping.

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Cheers to Vegan Sweets! - Drink-Inspired Vegan Desserts: From the Cafe to the Cocktail Lounge, Turn Your Sweet Sips Into Even Better Bites!

by Kelly Peloza

This innovative vegan baking book features 125 deliciously fun drink-inspired dessert recipes. It’s a cookbook that takes readers on a delicious tour of cafés, cocktail bars, and lemonade stands, where all the drinks come in dessert form. Imagine your morning vanilla hazelnut mocha re-imagined as a muffin, or relax on the beach with a margarita biscotti, or stop by the bar and order your brew in Guinness cake form. Instead of sipping your drink, now you can indulge in it!

 

Author and vegan baker extraordinaire Kelly Peloza has carefully formulated each recipe to deliciously highlight the flavors of its drink counterpart. From Apple Cider Doughnuts to Chai Spice Baklava to Gingerbread Stout Cake, you’ll be amazed at how deliciously well your sips transform into sweet, satisfied—and vegan!—bites. And with alcoholic- and non-alcoholic recipes, you’re sure to find something perfect for every party and special occasion.

 

Kelly Peloza is a vegan baker, writer, photographer, and author of The Vegan Cookie Connoisseur. She also writes the blog Seitan Beats Your Meat (seitanbeatsyourmeat.com) and has been featured in VegNews, Vegetarian Times, and as a guest on KATU-TV Portland and FOX6 News Milwaukee.