Clean Eating Tuna Salad

This recipe is inspired by the tasting tiki hut at Trader Joe’s. I’m thankful that they manage to give me a quick little snack when the munchies hit, and they also tend remind me of things I love that have somehow fallen off the radar. Case in point: tuna salad. We were getting our weekly…

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the best fruit salad and a new Zumba video

Hi guys! How’s your day going so far? Lately, boatloads of fruit have been consumed in our house. This is the best fruit salad and I’ve been making it fairly often for the past few weeks. Livi goes crazy for it, and it’s the same salad I took over to Whitney’s to celebrate Easter with her family. Hope…

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“The crunch” chopped salad with homemade Ranch dressing

I originally had a sweets recipe planned for today, but since I think we’re all still swimming in chocolate eggs from yesterday, how ’bout a salad to balance everything out? This is my latest salad fave and I will eat it until forever. By “forever” I mean until I burn myself out and am onto…

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Carrot cake protein pancakes

(minus the protein powder) Hi guys! How’s your week going so far? I’m excited that the weekend is almost here! Any fun plans? We’re having some friends over for dinner Friday night, headed to a birthday party Saturday, and Easter adventures Sunday. As much as we miss everyone, we decided to stay here in San…

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Gluten-free, vegan banana pudding

[This post is sponsored via my new partnership with Blue Diamond Almond Breeze. Each month, I’ll be creating a recipe using their fantastic Almond Breeze almond milk. Read on for a vegan and gluten-free banana pudding!] Banana pudding is one of my all-time favorite desserts. The bummer is that many restaurants don’t serve it.. unless…

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Homemade Healthy Orange Julius

Dairy-free and healthy, this homemade Orange Julius is a delicious and nutritious treat! Whenever I visit a new spot, try a new restaurant, or whenever someone else cooks something and I get to eat it, I’m inspired to try out a new recipe or flavor combo. All of the things I ate at CR yesterday…

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Strawberry lemon oat bread

Hi 🙂 How’s your afternoon treating you? I hope it had at least one moment that felt like this: Oh Bell. So much joy and sass for a tiny pup. Livi and I had a great morning, and then around noon, we went to go see Kyle and Meg’s new house. They moved this weekend…

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Post-vacation salad + all the things green

Hi! Hope you’re enjoying your Monday <3 Bella and Caro wanted me to tell you how much I missed them. (Bella did not want me to tell you that you can see marinara sauce in her beard from the lunchtime pizza she “borrowed” from Liv’s plate while I was upstairs putting her down for her…

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Salted Baileys Chocolate Truffles

Here’s a fun dessert option for your St. Patrick’s Day festivities this week–salted Baileys chocolate truffles! In a nutshell, I took my favorite vegan cashew truffle recipe and de-raw-ified it by using Baileys instead of almond milk. It was a wise decision, indeed. I LOVE St. Patrick’s Day. It’s always been one of my favorite holidays,…

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Juice thirty

Hiiii 🙂 How’s your day been? Livi has a bit of a cold, so we’ve been laying low over here. My madre came over for a little while so I could drop off our tax documents, and I brought back La Parrilla soup for the the three of us. Their chicken and rice soup is…

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Avocado Chicken Salad

Hi! How’s your day going so far? I have a healthy avocado chicken salad for you below! I’m so happy you liked the Fit Tuesday workout! We haven’t succeeded in making our Mardi Gras cookies (we went to the store for sprinkles and they had every color except purple, yellow and green!), but maybe we’ll…

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Blood Orange, Beet and Basil Salad

So I had a crazy flashback while making this blood orange salad. I was standing in the restaurant in 105degrees, in my little cheffer outfit, segmenting an entire bucket of blood oranges. It was my first time working with the citrus, so naturally I was astonished by the bright, bold color. I used the orange…

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