How to make healthy choices every day

Dessert

Strawberry Sunrise

Good morning, gorgeous! What better way to start your day than with a glass full of fresh, strawberry beauty? This is what I woke up to this morning and it was so delicious. With strawberries now in season, the time has come to worship their…

Best Friends Banana Carrot Cake

I know that I promised to write a post about DIY-green cleaning products, but I will get to that after I share this recipe with you! One of my oldest and dearest friends came to Copenhagen for a visit. She has just had a birthday,…

So Sweet: Sugar Alternatives

My boyfriend loves candy, but it doesn’t love him back. He buys licorice and wine gums on his way home from work, rides his bike hands-free, and eats his treats until he arrives home with a stomachache.I thought that I would challenge him to live…

Perfect Pear and Ginger Spice

Perfect Pear and Ginger Spice

All right, I give up. The holidays are finally here and the last thing I can think about is shaking my healthy finger at anyone. I haven’t come up with a “topic” for this week, but I still wanted to share something with you before…

I Like it Raw

Yes, that’s right. I like it raw, alive…uncooked. I’m talking about my food, and more specifically, that little date square. Since it’s a raw food, all the nutrients contained in the dates, oats, maple syrup, and orange, that would have otherwise been lost thought he…

The Foraged Crumble

Foraging for food is by far one of life’s greatest and underrated pleasures. It’s not only a great excuse to get outside, connect with your environment, and get to know your local flora, but whatever you find is organically grown and free! Could it get…

Just Bananas

Ice cream used to be my true love. We spent many long, summer nights together, sat through sappy movies, consoled girlfriends over broken hearts. Our breakup was difficult: I could no longer tolerate his sweetness, or cow-dairy origin and quite frankly, he made me sick.Yes,…

Pound for Pound

My stepmother is a wonderful woman and I have always admired her desire to try new things and challenge herself. So when she decided to create her own recipe for a lemon raspberry pound cake, I was very impressed, since she doesn’t often bake without…