Home › Recipe Index › Beverages › Smoothies The Best 15 Healthy Smoothies 15+ Healthy Smoothie Recipes — Ring in the New Year with this collection of 15+ easy, healthy smoothie recipes. Learn how to make healthy breakfast smoothies for every day of the week! If you’re looking for tasty smoothie recipes that’ll keep you full, satisfied and are skinny jeans-friendly, this collection has you covered! Easy Healthy Breakfast Smoothies Whether you’re trying to eat healthier in the New Year or you’re finding this roundup of healthy smoothie ideas in the midst of a summer heat wave, I promise this list of smoothie recipes will not disappoint....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins — Fast, EASY, one bowl, no mixer muffins!! You’d never guess they were vegan! Soft, fluffy, full of PEANUT BUTTER flavor, and LOADED with CHOCOLATE in every bite!! Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Muffins I was never going to make these muffins, but my daughter was so into these Vegan Chocolate Chip Muffins that I posted a couple weeks ago that I just had to....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes August 2012 Recipes It’s the last day of the month and time to recap what I made. It was a huge month for me, with lots of recipes, realizations, and reflections. More on that at the end of the post. August 2012 Recipes: Cinnamon Raisin Bread Smoothie (vegan, GF) Just Nuts Strawberry Jelly Rolls (major shortcut used) Baked Peach and Nectarine Donuts with White Chocolate Drizzle...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Being Recognized, Food Choices on the Weekends, Being With Kids or Adults Hi Friends! TGIF! What’s everyone doing for the weekend? I hope you’re up to some fun things and have some good things lined up for your free time . Yesterday while I was out at a local San Diego area Marshall’s store picking up some socks, I was recognized by a woman who reads my blog while I was standing in the checkout line....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blogging from the Air, Recognized in the Aruba Airport Hi Friends! Greetings from the Friendly Skies! Courtesy of free wi-fi on our flight and my Macbook, I am blogging from 40,000 feet. That’s my first bit of news because inflight blogging is new to me. Next, I was recognized by a reader (Jenny) while sitting in the Aruba airport at our gate. A young woman came up to me and asked me if I was Averie and I said yes, and she told me she reads my blog and recognized me!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Can We Talk About Something Else? I figured you may be getting a tad sick of me droning on about juice… which juicer to buy , that I finally bought it , and then that I made juice . So let’s not talk about juice. Well, not quite… yet . Instead, let’s talk about Green Food. This Plate ‘o Green was: *Broc *B.S. *Cukes *Orange Peppers *The Standard Dressing, aka Juice of 1/2 Orange, Agave, Crack Black And this Plate o’ Green was : *Greens (novel concept) *Cukes *Carrots *Orange Peppers *Jicama *And I had not yet added The Standard before photo op Got up this morning and went for a run....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Cheese & Dairy I hit the Irish Jackpot last week I won Gaby’s Give Away for Kerrygold products. It was St. Paddy’s Day last week, and I guess I had the luck of the Irish on my side because there was: Cheese galore Butter And an amazing cookbook. It’s a beautiful, hardcover, book with great photos and recipes inside. I was seriously blown away by the generosity of Kerrygold’s “prize pack”....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Getting Excited About the (Little) Things Hi Friends! I hope your weekend is off to a good start! I’ve been excited about a few things lately: Chocolate Finds I may whip up some holiday baked goods for friends with this, too. Or use it in Homemade “Turtles”. The TJ’s caramel not vegan (vegetarian because of the dairy) but you can use other caramel to make my...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Got a Garmin, Getting a Tattoo, Chocolate Cheezy Popcorn, Weird Flavor Combos Hi Friends! What are you up to today? I have been having fun playing around with my new toy: A Garmin! You may remember awhile back I posted about wanting a Heart Rate Monitor and was undecided about getting a Polar vs. a Garmin . Well, the Garmin Forerunner 405CX is what I chose....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Casserole Lightened Up Vegetable Lasagna Casserole If you want traditional lasagna, this isn’t it. There are plenty of vegetables and cheese included, but no noodles. Sorry to burst your gluten noodle bubble and all. Instead of using pasta, I made the crust and base of the lasagna with grated zucchini and carrots, which I baked for about a half hour, until it crisped up and became a big zucchini-carrot-pancake-like noodle in the base of the pan....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars — 🤎🍫These soft and chewy peanut butter chocolate bars are loaded with chocolate chips and creamy peanut butter which is always a winning combination! This is a QUICK and EASY one-bowl dessert that everyone just loves! Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars Ingredients How to Make Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars Recipe Tips Recipe FAQs What Readers Are Saying Recipe Video Tutorial Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars Recipe More Chocolate Peanut Butter Desserts: Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars I have so many peanut butter dessert recipes on my blog, but you can never have too many....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Product Review, Give Away Winners, Hair, & More Yoga How are you doing today? I’ve been doing really well, but really busy! In the past few days I’ve taught yoga classes, taken a few yoga classes, and today got hired at another yoga studio! I’m up to 5 now! The only downside is lots of driving around and as I’m learning, Phoenix and the Valley is super sprawling and spread out , but hey, I’m employed, no complaints!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Quick Breakfast Recipe: Vegan Maple & Flax Pancake-Cookie Happy Saturday Morning, the Weekend’s Here, woo-hoo! Just a quickie post to remind you about the Maple Flax “Peanut Butter” Pancake Cookies I made earlier in the week. I made these again Friday morning, and I thought, ya know, I need to post these again because they’re sooo easy and satisfying. This time, I’ll give you the recipe…...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Pasta Ravioli and Summer Vegetable Spinach Salad Summer Ravioli Salad — Crisp-tender zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes, and chickpeas over spinach with cheesy ravioli and a dijon vinaigrette!! A HEALTHY summer pasta salad that takes advantage of fresh produce!! Healthy Spinach and Ravioli Salad Salads can sometimes be boring, but I promise you this isn’t one of them. Nor is it the kind of salad you eat and are ready to start snacking two hours later....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Running By I went for a little run this morning in Aruba and here’s what I ran by. It was nice to be able to run with some sun out because since we arrived here on late Saturday afternoon, it had been raining steadily throughout Saturday night and pretty much all day on Sunday. Lots of standing water and puddles but they seem to be drying out....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Sheet Pan Ranch Chili Lime Chicken and Peppers Sheet Pan Ranch Chili Lime Chicken and Peppers – 🌶️😋🙌 The EASIEST most flavorful chicken recipe you’ll ever make! Combined and cooked on a single sheet pan in less than 30 minutes. The chicken turns out juicy and flavorful, and the peppers are crisp-tender for the perfect healthy weeknight dinner! Love Sheet Pan Chicken Recipes?...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Skinny Vegan Chocolate Chip Muffins Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins — Fast, EASY, one bowl, no mixer muffins that are on the SKINNIER side!! Loaded with CHOCOLATE in every bite! Soft, fluffy, and deliciously decadent tasting!! Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins ‘Tis the season where no one wants to admit they’re craving chocolate and something sweet because we’re supposed to be on the clean eating train. But chocolate cravings are real....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Stash & Store I pack Scott’s lunch every day and many days I include a bar of some kind in his lunch. I also have at least one snack bar in my purse for Skylar and I when we’re out. You never know when hunger is going to strike and a snack bar can buy valuable time with a preschooler. I was looking through my stash…...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Strawberry Layer Cake with Strawberry Frosting Strawberry Layer Cake with Strawberry Frosting — Soft, tender cake loaded with FRESH strawberries and a sweet strawberry frosting!! An EASY strawberry layer cake that’s perfect for parties! Strawberry fans will LOVE IT!! Easy Strawberry Cake Recipe Strawberry cake is one of my very favorites. It’s summertime perfection. I made this strawberry cake recipe using cake mix for my parents when they came to town for a visit for my birthday last month and we all loved it....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Tackling Tuesday Some of the things I tackled on Tuesday include: Laundry. I do this every day. Nothing special about Tuesday. An edamame salad with my 1 tomato a day habit on top. And that particular vine-ripe tomato was perfect. It almost tasted like summer and tomato season. Dressed with Vegan Slaw Dressing And some Mango Ginger Maple Tofu on the side A 2 mile run outside while pushing Skylar in the jogging stroller....