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Christmas without sugar

December 28th, 2013 Lynn

Christmas time has always been filled with quality family time in our house: crafts, baking and gift giving. And even though sweets are often a part of tradition building gingerbread houses, baking cookies and sweets we’ve begun our own tradition of keeping it as low in sugar as possible.

Our ‘gingerbread house’ is actually made from crafts, cookies made gluten free with sugar-less frosting (and it’s delicious) and always a pint of sugar-less ice cream in the freezer (made with coconut milk, mint and stevia) to top our homemade fruit pies.

We enjoy the time dedicated to us and health ( and our company seems to enjoy them too). I’ll be posting a few of our favorite holiday treats to share for now and in the future.

Be well,
Lynn

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Eating all organic can be costly…

December 3rd, 2013 Lynn

If buying all organic vegetables and fruits is out of your budget then I’ve resourced a list of the dirty dozen foods.  These foods are exposed to the most amount of pesticides, a toxin that we should all try to avoid.  But equally so, it’s essential that we eat several servings of vegetables and fruits (less on the latter).  The best alternative to accomplish eating several servings per day, reducing the toxic load and cut costs is to the follow the lists below.  The first is the Dirty Dozen.  The second is a list of “Safe Foods” that can be bought without being organic. 

DIRTY DOZEN

Apples
Celery
Cherry tomatoes
Cucumbers
Grapes
Hot peppers
Nectarines (imported)
Peaches
Potatoes
Spinach
Strawberries
Sweet bell peppers

Dirty Dozen Plus: Kale/collard greens and Summer squash

SAFE FOODS

Asparagus
Avocados
Cabbage
Cantaloupe
Sweet corn
Eggplant
Grapefruit
Kiwi
Mangoes
Mushrooms
Onions
Papayas
Pineapples
Sweet peas (frozen)
Sweet potatoes

I hope this helps.

Be well,

Lynn

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