Peppermint Allsorts

Hello Faithful Readers

So As i promised here is the Recipe for this Awesome fluke of a chocolate i made :-)

I will call them Peppermint All Sorts

Ingredients

Bottom Layer 

Refer to Paleo chocolate Recipe on my Blog 

Make Chocolate according to recipe and set aside

Middle Layer

Coconut Cream

Coconut oil

Peppermint Essential Oil (Food Grade)

I just did like 2 scoops coconut cream

2-3 tablespoons coconut oil

2 drops peppermint essential oil

Pop into a glass bowl over a pot of boiling water and stir till all ingredients are mixed together and then set aside 

I am not very precise in my recipes i just chuck things in so play with it a little and work it to your taste :-)

Top Layer

this was a fluke and a beautiful fluke at that, cause i was making bliss balls and was gonna make two batches so i had soaked two separate bowls of pitted dates in hot water, then i decided to make 1 batch bliss balls and one batch chocolate instead cause i only had enough cacao in the house for that and that is where this lovely fudge recipe originated, SO GLAD!

So anyway

Top Layer

1 cup Pitted Dates soaked in hot water for 10-15 minutes

I batch Paleo Chocolate Recipe

Make the chocolate recipe according to the recipe set aside, strain water out of dates and then add them to the food processor and blitz for 20 seconds, then add paleo chocolate recipe and blitz till well incorporated, ta da DONE.

Get a mini muffin Tray and line with mini muffin Liners then do the layers, so put one teaspoon of paleo chocolate recipe into the bottom of the liners and tap tray and then pop into freezer, after 10 minutes add one teaspoon of the mint cream onto of the Paleo chocolate and tap tray and pop into freezer for 10 minutes.

Then put a teaspoon of fudge onto of mint cream and smooth over and pop into freezer after about 30 min or right there and then pop em and ENJOY! :-)

PS This is a very rushed post, i am sorry in advance for any spelling errors or grammatical errors but i am in a hurry for bed and so will not be going through it with a fine tooth comb tonight...

And Enjoy we did, Greg enjoyed it so much he tried to get mine! :-)

NO CHANCE tee hee hee

God Bless Y'all

ARGHHHHHH Forgot to mention add whatever nuts, seeds or yummy good stuff you want to the peppermint cream, i did pistachios, macadamias, goji berries and cacao nibs!

Told u it was gonna be a not so perfect post tonight :-)

MWAH

Guilt Free Dessert

Hello Faithful readers

So this is one of the super EASIEST and even more than being easy it is SOOOOOOO YUMMY!

Ingredients

Natural Greek Yoghurt

Dates

dried Apricots

frozen rasberries

frozen blueberries

frozen mango

1 tablespoon unprocessed honey

2-3 tablespoons of water

Method

Pop a dollop or two of yoghurt into a bowl

Put the rest of the ingredients in a saucepan, and turn the stove on low and let it simmer away stirring occasionally till the apricots look plumpy.

Spoon the hot gooey compote onto the yoghurt and enjoy :-)

God Bless y'all

Winter Warmer

Hello Faithful readers

There is something so relaxing and satisfying about making stovetop oats on a cold wintery day...

This is the first time that i have done this combination and it was a total HIT, Jesse got through all of his and he had quite a bit on his plate to begin with :-)

This so reminded me of the three bears cause well there were three of us, and after i poured the steamy yummy oats into out bowls we had to go and play while we waited for it to cool down :-)

So i just followed the directions on the oats box on how to do stovetop oats and then to that i just pulled some ingredients that i thought went well together and threw them all in, it went something like this:

about 3 tablespoons of coconut

about 3/4 tablespoon of cinnamon

2 tablespoons of cashew butter

1-2 tablespoons of unprocessed honey and

a cup or a cup and a half of frozen blueberries

The boys ABSOLUTELY LOVED it, so did i, i am going to be way more adventurous with my oats from now on, my mind is thinking coconut, mango, cardamon combo next, i will definitely keep y'all posted!

Also you see that big cheesy smile i have while cuddling Jesse and taking that selfie of the two of us? Well just as i put the camera up he said Cheese for the first time! He just turned one on the 4/4/14 Proud mommy moment...

God Bless Y'all

FINALLY Loving the journey!

Hello Faithful readers

Well as you can all tell i am on a bit of a different journey, from cakes and sugar to whole food, live food, real food and basically just eating whats from Gods garden, i have by no means arrived but i know that i am 100% happier, and i am totally loving the journey!

So there is a bit of a before photo(Abusive relationship with food and an addiction to sugar) and and after photo (adding 17 fruit and veg into my diet by taking juice+ and removing processed food and crowding out with whole food, live food and real food)a Remarkable difference in my body shape, and an even more remarkable difference in my mind.

I have lived in a foggy, angry, frustrated and on edge state in my mind for an Extremely long time, i mean long, probably about 7 years or so, i think i would attribute a lot of the problem to going on the pill when i got married, then of course having my beautiful boys messed with my hormones a little more and having sleep deprivation for the last year or more has not helped entirely either...

I think that my biggest enemy was my best friend Sugar and Overeating, and yet for mostly all my life i just thought i was eating normally and that it was ok to love sugar, i mean thats what everyone is doing right?...?

After my boys and the weight that had piled on because i was "eating for 2" throughout my pregnancy with Jordan, and much the same for Jesse i really felt Rubbish about myself, i grew to hate the way i looked, all my clothes were too tight and i started just living in daggy trackies and sloppy t shirts, i was really not loving life, so what did i do, I ATE MORE!

I felt so happy while i was digging into HUGE slices of cake and large portions of breakfast, lunch and dinner, and i really loved the comfort of eating while i was eating, but every time i was done id feel like a failure again, id feel Fatter than ever, id feel defeated, deflated and depressed...

That was not enough to stop me though and on and on and on the cycle went.

I was trying hard to lose weight though my exercise, and i started this blog as a place that would keep me accountable. I thought having you guys out there relying on my "Wisdom of weight loss" would spur me on to work harder and get thinner quicker!

To tell you the truth though all my efforts were in vein because i had no clue what i was doing or where i was going with all of it, and i certainly had no idea how to change my thinking about food.

Long story short i went to a wellness talk on Wednesday the 19th of February 2014, invited by my good friend Melody (Thanks Melly) and that night my life changed...

I was educated on food, i was the only person in that room that night that had not eaten a single piece of fruit or a single piece of Vegetable all day, and to tell you the truth i had not even noticed until someone pointed it out and that shocked me, i was also educated on the fact that there was yummy good sweets out there that were good for you and that would put life rather than death into my body, and i was told that i could get 17 fruit and vegetables and 9/10 berries into my system everyday without breaking the bank, and i was intrigued, interested and completely transformed.

From that night i did not touch sugar again, and the best thing was i didn't even miss it because i had other options, my journey started and i felt in control, i felt empowered and i felt like a winner.

On the 7th of April 2014 my juice+ caps arrived at my door and i was thrilled to get started, i began my juice+ journey and i have never felt better, as you can see my body has started changing, and everyday i am surprised at how the weight just drops off and at how effortless this journey has been

I don't have to count calories

I don't have to eat food that has been frozen in tiny portions

I don't have to have low fat everything

and i certainly don't have to stress about when that next kilo is going to come off

I still get to enjoy my food, but now what i put into my body brings life to my cells, i can eat as much as i want and my brain will say "I'm done" when it knows i have had enough, I can still enjoy yummy sweets, but now they are nutritious and beneficial, and again my brain will say "thank you I'm done" once it knows i have had enough, I'm free to enjoy every mouthful and with freedom comes success :-)

My head is clearer, (I have loved Jesus for all of my life and for more years than i can count i had to ask myself "What is the easter celebration about, what did Jesus do on this holiday..." That is how MESSED up my head was)

Something EXTREMELY MASSIVE happened to me on Monday the 28th of April 2014, for the first time in my little boys lives i enjoyed them from the beginning of the day to the end of the day when i kissed their little heads to bed at night...

 (I have always loved them with all my heart even before they were born, but to say i was enjoying the journey was something i could not have said till the 28th) and for that i am so so grateful

 Some may say that is sad, but for me i say that is the happiest day for me, because at least now i can say that and continue to enjoy that blessing daily from now on.

I am so Thankful to Jesus for leading me to Juice+ and the juice+ community and my new whole food lifestyle because so much is changing and i am coming alive.

There are many many more things that have changed dramatically for me in my life through my juice+ journey but if i were to write them this post may never end, but if you are interested to know more then send me an e-mail at peppermintpie727@hotmail.com

or private message me on Facebook, or send me comments here.

 I feel that i have been given such a gift through juice+ and the loving community and all i want to do is SCREAM it out to as many people as i can, because i know that if a SERIOUSLY sugar addicted and enormously overeating person like me can change through the love shown from these people and the life given to my body at a cellular level from the live fruit, vegetables and berries that are in my juice+ capsules, then so can you, so can you!

God Bless Y'all