It's been a challenge lately to find portable snacks that fit my new skin-beautifying diet. The first week or two of my elimination diet, I brought raw veggies without any dip to work as a snack...um, yuck! I love veggies but I need them to have a little something extra. I was so scared of breaking ...
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Lightened Up Coconut Caramel Flan
This is an EXTREMELY delayed Fiesta Fridays recipe post. I know. I had every intention to stay on schedule with my three-a-week posts (which are usually on Monday, Wednesday and Friday), but I've been enjoying my time in the Riviera Maya so much that I decided to take a slight hiatus from the blog. ...
Copycat Juice Generation Peanut Butter Split Smoothie
Hello from the Riviera Maya! As of yesterday, I'm on a week and half long vacay with my boyfriend. We are in Puerto Morelos just for two and half days and then headed to Playa del Carmen and Tulum, with lots of little day trips to ruins and other towns in between. We have been planning this trip ...
Toasted Muesli Two Ways: Coconut Cranberry Pecan and Almond Dirty Chai
I am moving back to Philadelphia in June to return to the job I had before I accepted my research fellowship in Oaxaca. I am really excited to be going back home, but I know it will to be a hard transition back to real life. In addition to doing my research and learning lots about water conservation ...
Triple Coconut Bars
These bars almost didn't happen. Problem #1: I didn't have coconut oil or dried coconut. Kind of hard to make bars that require three main ingredients, two of them being coconut oil and dried coconut, when you don't have those ingredients. I fixed that after a long search through numerous stores and ...
