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Vegan Almond Butter Cookies

These Grain-Free Vegan Almond Butter Cookies are super crispy, perfectly sweetened with coconut sugar and are vegan, gluten-free, wheat free, flourless, grain-free, and oil-free! These might just be my favorite new cookies!! They are buttery, moist, tender and are wonderfully crispy. They are extremely addictive. These are the thin, crispy type of cookies. These are the…

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Vegan Maple Cashew Frosting

What if I told you this was a healthy icing that you could enjoy guilt free? What if I told you it contained no butter or shortening and not the traditional sugars? Well, it’s true. This is NOT buttercream icing, but a Vegan Maple Cashew Frosting. It is sweet, creamy and bursting with maple flavor….

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Mexican Hummus

This is sooooo good. I LOVE Mexican food…especially being from Texas, but being Vegan makes it harder since Mexican food is known for having tons of cheese. Well, I also love hummus, such as my Red Pepper Hummus. So, I decided to change my original recipe up quite a bit and created this delicious Vegan…

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Melon Berry Popsicles

It’s soooooo hot outside and my husband loves watermelon and I love strawberries. Keeping that in mind, I decided to make these popsicles with both flavors. They are really sweet and creamy, just what you need to cool off. Believe it or not, my husband actually said he’d prefer more strawberry and less watermelon! It’s…

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Sweet ‘N’ Spicy Asian Salad with Peanut Sauce

This Sweet ‘N’ Spicy Asian Salad with Peanut Sauce is incredibly rich in flavor, easy ingredients and takes just 15 minutes to make! This is a recipe I adapted from my mother. During my pregnancy (10 months ago) and the couple months following my daughter’s birth, I consumed a lot of it. I’ve never been…

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Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Sauce

Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Sauce with Italian spices and fresh basil. This sauce is easy to make and full of flavor and oil-free! I love home cooked sauces, dips, pestos and soups. You just can’t orchestrate that home cooked flavor without, well….making it homemade.   I wanted to make another dish screaming with flavor…

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Oil-free Vegan Spinach Arugula Pesto

This Oil-free Vegan Spinach Arugula Pesto is so full of flavor and whole food ingredients. It is made with fresh arugula, spinach and almond butter! It is delicious served on pasta or drizzled over buddha bowls! OIL-FREE VEGAN SPINACH ARUGULA PESTO I couldn’t decide what to make for dinner tonight….needed something quick and with leftover…

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Lemonberry Mint Smoothie

We love lemons, strawberries and mint…so putting them all together to cool us off in this blazing heat just sounded perfect to me. Sometimes the simplest of recipes are the most satisfying. So simple and refreshing at the same time. Infused with fresh lemon juice, fresh steeped mint and strawberries! I love lemon but if you…

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