Pumpkin spice or apple cider!? It seems like most people love one or the other haha! Whichever one you're a fan of, apple cider is packed with yummy ingredients and can be a great drink to have while visiting a pumpkin patch or warming up around a campfire.
INGREDIENTS
- 2 quarts fresh apple cider
- 1 orange, unpeeled and cut into slices
- 3 drops Lemon Vitality essential oil
- 1 drop Cinnamon Bark Vitality essential oil
- 1 drop Clove Vitality essential oil
- 1 drop Nutmeg Vitality essential oil
- start with a toothpick swirl of each oil and add sparingly; these can be strong!
DIRECTIONS
1. Combine apple cider, orange slices, and essential oils in a large pot and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes or more.
2. Discard orange slices.
3. Serve warm
If you've fallen down the pumpkin hole and need all the pumpkin treats, add this to your list! Grab these cake bites, a warm drink and a cozy blanket and you'll be in pumpkin peace haha. Even though I live where the Sun never stops, I've still been wanting all the pumpkin treats!
Ingredients
- 1 cup cooked organic pumpkin puree
- ¼ cup organic maple syrup or honey
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 1 drop Nutmeg essential oil
- 1 drop Cinnamon essential oil
- 1 drop Ginger essential oil
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- 2½ cups organic almond meal
- ¾ cup dark chocolate chips
Instructions
1. Place all the ingredients except the almond meal and chocolate chips in a large bowl and whisk together until the mixture is well combined.
2. Then fold in the almond meal with a mixing spoon or spatula and mix for approx. 1 minute until fully combined. The cake mixture will be wet and moist. Taste the mixture and add a little more maple syrup or honey, if you like.
3. Using a tablespoon scoop a heaping spoonful and form into a ball with your palms and repeat until all the batter is gone.
4. Once the balls are formed you can either place add chocolate chips or melt the chocolate and drizzle on top.
5. Serve them immediately or store in an air-tight container for up to 4 days.
This is an excellent recipe that can help you feel like you’re getting a more decadent dessert! But even better, with the cinnamon and baking the apples it actually has health benefits too! Apples may lower your chance of developing cancer, diabetes and heart disease, can help with weight loss and can improve your gut and brain health. This is the perfect treat to add to your repertoire because it's so simple and perfect as we transition to Fall! Not only that, but it makes your home smell wonderful too!
Ingredients
- 3 apples
- 1/4 cup honey or sweetener of choice
- 1 drop cinnamon bark vitality
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 225⁰ F.
- With a mandolin or knife, thinly slice apples from top to bottom.
- In a small bowl, combine honey and Cinnamon Bark Vitality.
- Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper and place apple slices on top. Drizzle honey mixture over apple slices.
- Cook in the oven for 90 minutes.
- Remove cookies sheets from heat and place apple slices on cooling rack.
- For best results, store apple chips in an airtight container and eat them within 24 hours.
Adapted recipe from Young Living Blog
This is one of my favorite vegan parm recipes, I edited it from the awesome minimalist baker and sometimes just use hers as it can be good to rotate your nuts for their different nutrient profiles.
16 servings (give or take)
3/4 cup organic sprouted almonds
3 Tbsp of a non-fortified nutritional yeast like this or this
3/4 tsp organic pink Himalayan salt
1/4 tsp garlic powder
3 Tbsp of a non-fortified nutritional yeast like this or this
3/4 tsp organic pink Himalayan salt
1/4 tsp garlic powder
add the ingredients into a little food processor or blender and pulse until you have a fine meal-this can vary, sometimes I want it more chunky and other times I like it finer.
Feel free to use this on a wide range of things including popcorn, veggies and even pasta!
When I have time to make breakfast I love to make a tofu scramble. For years I have tried to perfect my recipe and although it changes from time to time the below recipe is what I tend to start with. I took the recipe from one of my favorite bloggers the Minimalist Baker and changed it a bit. The tofu scramble is a great breakfast to start your day, protein, fiber and vegetables!
Tofu Scramble Happiness
Serves about 2 or 1 person for two breakfasts!
6 oz extra firm organic tofu
1 tbsp coconut oil (about)
2-3 cups of organic spinach (frozen or fresh works!)
½ a purple onion (can sub with white onion)
½ red or yellow bell pepper
2 garlic cloves (or 7 whatever works for you 😜)
Salt and pepper to taste
¼ tsp turmeric
½ tsp mustard powder
1 tbsp of Nutritional Yeast (this is the one I LOVE because it doesn't have the synthetic folic acid)
-Take out tofu and dry by putting paper towel around it and putting something heavy on top in order to help liquid drain out (if you have time, let's be real, I don't always have time or patience to do this😉)
-While the tofu is drying out make a sauce by combining the mustard powder, turmeric, nutritional yeast and salt and pepper with a little bit of water or oil to make an almost pourable sauce
-After slicing the onion, mincing the garlic cloves and cubing the bell pepper add them to a pan with the coconut oil
-While this is going on cut the tofu and use a fork to crumble into small pieces.
-Take the tofu and mix it with the sauce created earlier and then put the tofu into the pan with the onion, garlic cloves and bell pepper.
-ENJOY
