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Holiday Amaretti Cookies
A twist on Peanut Butter Blossoms using gluten-free amaretti cookies, which are made without butter or oil. ‘Tis the season to be baking cookies! While I’m not brave enough to construct a gingerbread...
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Peppermint Bark Overnight Oats
Layered overnight oats based on peppermint bark – a make-ahead holiday breakfast that’s also gluten-free. Here comes peppermint, here comes peppermint Right down candy cane lane* Ah, December! One of...
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Panettone Muffins
A festive breakfast: quick and healthier panettone muffins made with Greek-style yogurt, and no butter. It’s my blog’s third birthday! Actually, that’s not quite true – it will be my blog’s birthday in...
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Almond Butter Sprinkle Cut-Out Cookies
Festive funfetti cut-out cookies made with almond butter and no oil, so they’re a bit healthier than usual. Even though this is supposedly a breakfast blog, I couldn’t resist filling this space with...
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Lightened Up Salted Caramel Sauce
Homemade salted caramel sauce made using evaporated milk – so it’s made without cream or butter. Before we move into January, when health foods and detoxes become all the rage, let’s smother our...
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Chocolate Celebration Crepes
Chocolate crepes (made without butter) topped with homemade salted caramel sauce and popping candy. Dear 2016, I know a lot of people have been talking about how much you sucked. And yes, you gave us...
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Nutty Apple and Raspberry Overnight Oats
Bircher muesli-style overnight oats made with a grated apple, yogurt, raspberries and lots of fun mix-ins. One of the things I love about January is that it’s the time for making big plans – and I...
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Jumbo White Chocolate Banana Berry Muffins
Banana berry muffins that are on the healthy side, made without butter, and sweetened with maple syrup. We’re officially one week into the new year! I don’t recall resolving to spend most the first...
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Dark Chocolate Berry Baked Oatmeal
A berry brownie in the form of a single serving baked oatmeal that’s dairy free, vegan and easily gluten free. When I was a kid, I was faced with a major dilemma every time we stopped for ice cream:...
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Sweet Corn Porridge with Blackberries
A cross between soft polenta and steel-cut oatmeal topped with a blackberry compote, and it’s easily vegan. The idea of corn as a sweet – or semi-sweet – food was a foreign concept to me for a long...
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Healthier Blackberry and Apple Crisp
An easy, vegan blackberry and apple crisp (or crumble) that’s oil-free, butter-free and on the healthy side. Food terminology can be downright perplexing. For example, what is the difference between a...
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Strawberry Cottage Cheese Mini Muffins
Healthy mini muffins made with cottage cheese – there’s no butter, only a tiny bit of oil, and no refined sugar. In case you needed further proof that the world doesn’t make sense, apparently...
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Caramel Apple Baked Oatmeal
A breakfast loosely based on caramel apples: soft apple and date baked oatmeal topped with caramel sauce. To be completely honest, I don’t even like caramel apples or candy apples. The heat of the...
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Double Chocolate Teddy Bear Cupcakes
A dozen butter-free chocolate cupcakes with teddy bear cookies, white chocolate chips and a simple topping. Because today’s the day the Teddy Bears have their picnic. When it comes to buying food, I...
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Blueberry Maple Overnight Oats
Simple, single serving overnight oats with Greek yogurt, cinnamon, blueberries and plenty of maple syrup. February 28 is Pancake Day (aka Shrove Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras)! But if you don’t have the time...
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Coconut White Chocolate Oatmeal with Strawberries
Two bowls of coconut oatmeal with white chocolate chips and strawberries macerated in maple syrup. So, what’s for breakfast today? Oatmeal! Oatmeal again!? Jeez, what’s with all the oatmeal? A lot of...
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Key Lime Pie Smoothie Bowl
Key lime pie in a bowl: one thick, green and zesty smoothie topped with granola, almonds and berries. One of my ongoing, lifelong goals is to discover more and more ways to eat pie for breakfast. This...
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Cornbread Baked Oatmeal
A single-serving cornbread baked oatmeal that’s healthy, easily vegan, gluten-free, and includes pumpkin. How did this recipe come about? Simple: I wanted a personal cornbread. Sometimes all you want...
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Mint Chocolate Overnight Oats
Peppermint and chocolate overnight oats with chia seeds, Greek-style yogurt and some fun M&M’s candies. It’s that time of year again! Time to eat lots of potatoes and soda bread, drink Guinness and...
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Tomato, Basil and Mushroom Breakfast Pasta
Vegetarian pasta with a homemade tomato and basil sauce, plus vegetables, topped with cheese and an egg. What are two words we don’t hear often enough? Breakfast pasta. Yes, there are plenty of other...
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