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How to Make: Bacon Salt

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BACON. BACON. BACON. This DIY bacon salt is sooooo ridiculously easy to make and makes everything you sprinkle it on exponentially better. It’s literally 2 ingredients and works great as a DIY gift for any bacon lover in your life. Bacon Salt + Cute Little Jar = Gift. I hope you’ll enjoy!

 

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How to Make: Bacon Salt
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Make sure to keep your little jar in the fridge so that it doesn't spoil. Should be good for up to 1 month. It's a great gift to give to any foodies in your life!
Ingredients
  • 1 lb thick hardwood smoked bacon
  • 1 cup sea salt
Instructions
  1. Fry or bake all of the bacon. Let cool.
  2. In a food processor, grind up all of your bacon into bits.
  3. Add in the salt and blend until everything is mixed in well.
  4. Store in an airtight jar for up to 1 month!

 

How to Make: Healthy French Toast | Quick & Easy Recipe

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I woke up this morning feeling fancy. Fancy in the morning = FRENCH TOAST. ♥

After whipping up this quick, little (and totally photogenic!) french toast, I realized just how darn easy it was to do! Which means….. french toast WAY more often in this household – YAY! And, according to my calculations on My Fitness Pal, this serving is approximately 246 calories total. Compare that to Denny’s Strawberry Banana French Toast at a whopping 880 calories!


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Healthy French Toast | Quick & Easy Recipe
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Ingredients
  • 2 slices whole wheat bread
  • ¼ cup cashew milk (or milk of choice)
  • 1 egg white
  • dash of cinnamon
  • Toppings of choice (I used ⅓ banana, 70g sliced strawberries, 1 tsp raw honey)
Instructions
  1. Whisk the milk, egg white and dash of cinnamon.
  2. Dip in your bread slices into the mixture, shake off excess mix, and place in a pan over medium heat greased with coconut oil (or oil of choice).
  3. Cook for 2 minutes on each side.
  4. Remove from heat and top with your toppings of choice! I used bananas, strawberries, and raw honey.
  5. ENJOY!

XOXO,
Kimmy ♥

Breakfast Tacos | Quick & Easy Recipe

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When I call this a “recipe”, I am using that word very loosely. This isn’t so much a recipe as it is a “look at this and now make it your own” type of thing. I’m not sure I’ve properly professed my love for tacos on this blog but they are my #2 favorite food in this whole entire world (#1 is sushi!). What I love about tacos is that they can be anything you want them to be. Pick anything at all you’re craving, stuff it into a tortilla and BOOM – you’ve got yourself a taco.

Since I’m trying to find more and more ways to make filling meals without filling them with ridiculous calories, I found a way to make these tacos burst at the seams with tons of flavor at only a fraction of the calories that I would get elsewhere.

My “RECIPE” went something like this:

  1. In a lightly greased pan, saute shredded cabbage (i promise the taste is mild!), chopped bell peppers, diced tomatoes and a tbsp of minced garlic.
  2. Once the veggies are nice and tender, crack open 4 eggs and only use the egg whites.
  3. Mix in until the egg whites are completely cooked. Meanwhile, heat up 2 tortillas!
  4. Fill your tortillas with your veggie/egg mix and top with a little bit of cheese and lots of salsa. ENJOY!

 

XOXO,
Kimmy

Healthy & Fruity Chocolate Chip Pancakes | Recipe

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I love chocolate chip pancakes almost as much as I really want to have a smokin’ hot bikini bod this summer (i.e. A LOT). My simple solution? Make deliciously decadent HEALTHY pancakes. Wut?? Yeah, I know doesn’t seem like it can be real but it is.

These puppies have got NO flour, NO added sugars (besides the itty bitty chocolate chips) and NO butter! They’re made with whole and natural ingredients that will leave you feeling full and happy all the way to lunch! That is a huge win for me! Check out the recipe below and let me know if you try them 🙂


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Healthy & Fruity Chocolate Chip Pancakes | Recipe
Recipe type: Breakfast!
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Ingredients
  • ½ cup + ⅛ cup old-fashioned oats
  • 2 egg whites
  • 3 tbsp unsweetened almond milk
  • 1 medium banana (save a couple slices to top the pancakes with)
  • dash of cinnamon
  • 5g chocolate chips (about 1 tsp or 10 small chips)
  • *optional - blueberries
Instructions
  1. Blend all of the ingredients except for your toppings until they have a really smooth consistency.
  2. Pour out two pancakes on a skillet sprayed with coconut oil.
  3. Cook over medium low heat.
  4. When tops start to bubble, flip!
  5. Top with your chocolate chips and fruit! 🙂

 

Secretly Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies | A Recipe Video

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Got a sweet tooth but don’t want to compromise your healthy lifestyle? These SECRETLY healthy chocolate chip cookies are the only way to go! Check out the recipe video & printable recipe below! ↓

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Secretly Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies | A Recipe Video
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Ingredients
  • 1 can rinsed garbanzo beans
  • ½ cup oats
  • ½ tsp sea salt
  • ⅓ cup honey
  • ¼ cup coconut oil
  • 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ½ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Blend all of your ingredients except for the chocolate chips until the "dough" as reached a creamy consistency.
  2. Fold in most of the chocolate chips but save a few to top the cookies with.
  3. Spoon out 12 cookie dough balls.
  4. Top with remaining chocolate chips.
  5. Bake in an oven pre-heated to 350 degrees farenheit for 18 minutes.
  6. Let cool & enjoy!

 

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Matcha GREEN Smoothie

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Nutrients + Caffeine + Deliciousness… What more do you want from a breakfast smoothie?! I’ve posted this recipe before on my instagram feed (if you’re not following me, click here!), but it felt appropriate to give this smoothie it’s own blog post because A) Today is St. Patty’s Day ♣ and B) I’m super-duper proud of this recipe and I’ll tell you why below:

A few months ago, I had broken my beloved Ninja blender, so instead of replacing it, like a smart person would, I decided it was way easier to go to Robek’s Smoothies every.single.day to get their Super Green Smoothie that I absolutely loved. The smoothie cost me $6 each time and I did this for about 4 weeks, you do the math…. yikes! I finally came to my senses and invested in a new blender and promised myself I’d recreate Robek’s Super Green Smoothie. I wish I could say it was spot-on identical, it’s not, BUT it is pretty damn close and a helluva lot cheaper! Hope you enjoy!

XOXO,
♥Kimmy

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Matcha GREEN Smoothie
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Ingredients
  • 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
  • ¼ frozen nonfat plain Greek yogurt
  • 1 frozen banana
  • 1 handful of spinach
  • 1 heaping cup of frozen pineapple
  • 2 tsp matcha green tea powder.
Instructions
  1. Blend, baby, BLEND!

 

Fudge Brownie Oatmeal

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I’m not a huge sweets person but I am a huge CRAVINGS person. And I really do mean HUGE… Meaning, if I’m cravings something specific, I do not care if it is the middle of the night nor if it’s something that is 40 miles away, I will figure out a way to get what I’m craving at that exact moment. I can’t be the only person that gets a sushi craving so bad it hurts, right? …..RIGHT?! My boyfriend calls it crazy, I call it knowing what I want, when I want and going to go get it. Buuuuuuuuut there are sometimes when I realize I shouldn’t drop what I’m doing to go chase after FOOD. After all, I’m not actually insane, guys….

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DIY Gift: Chicory Coffe Sugar Scrub

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This post is written with people like me in mind – the procrastinators, the always-late, the last-minute shoppers. If you still need something to give as a present for the holidays –  FEAR NOT! This easy-peasy scrub can be put together in a matter of minutes with some ingredients you might already have at home!

Best part: This scrub is ALL NATURAL. So natural, in fact, you can rub it on your leg and then lick it off (although why you would do that is beyond me…). But I can assure you that it would taste quite good!

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Honey-Glazed Bacon Jalapeno Poppers

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“If it ain’t spicy, it ain’t good.” This is how I navigate the food world. There have been times when I have eaten a meal without anything spicy – no hot sauce, no salsa, no chili flakes – only to find the aforementioned AFTER I’ve finished my meal. I get truly upset; like throw things at the wall upset (just kidding). Because we all know that the meal could have been SO much better had it just been SPICY. Feel me?…

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Buffalo Hummus

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Myself, and every other person that couldn’t give two hecks about football, uses this time of the year as an excuse for their snackage (I think I just made up an adjective!) behavior. But what is more “game day food” than chips AND dip? Well, how about…. BUFFALO WINGS!!  This little dip right here is a hummus-buffalo-wing-fusion sans the hen.

Luckily, for all you hungry snackers, this hummus dip uses ingredients that you probably already have at home. Nada fancy here. PLUS, you have the added bonus of HEALTHINESS. Yup. Put down the greasy game day snacks and indulge in this creamy sinfully delicious dip. Yes, I’m talking to you….

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