Pancakes are a fun food I enjoy on occasion and when I do, they better be exceptionally good! Which means, I will make my own mix, using simple ingredients, from my family recipe below: no fillers, no fakes and no flour imposters. 

What’s a flour imposter? It’s flour impersonating a healthy food, because it is made from a healthy ingredient, it pretends to be healthier. But it isn’t because once the healthy ingredient is transformed it into flour it’s an...

Fiber, Complete Meal, breakfast

These overnight oats are a STAPLE at my house. They're the perfect grab-and-go breakfast, delicious hot or cold. Either fresh or frozen fruit work well to provide additional fiber. The nut butter & milk are key for healthy fat and protein too.

This recipe is the prefect way to start your day! 

Ingredients 

• 1/2 cup of old fashioned oats
• 1 cup fruit (fresh or frozen: blackberries, strawberries or mango shown in video)
• 1-2 Tablespoons Nut...

The metabolism is a system that is managed my an entire infrastructure of hormones. Yet we all control at least three aspects of our metabolism, because our body responds to based on the foods we choose to eat. 

If you take a vegetable, like broccoli, and you compare that to another food, like ice cream, 230 calories of broccoli, isn't equivalent to 230 calories ice cream. Your body actually knows the difference between these two foods and that's because your body reacts to three...

Ingredients:

• 1 cup ricotta full fat
• 4 slices sprouted grain Bread

Directions:

1. Toast your bread until golden brown
2. Whip the ricotta in a food processor for 1-2 minutes, or until very smooth.
3. Top toast with ricotta & preferred toppings

1 Sweet & Simple

Olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt & pepper

2 Juicy Tomatoes

Cherry Tomatoes sliced in half, salt, pepper, olive oil & fresh basil

3 Natural Dessert

Raspberries, fresh mint &...

Ingredients:

• .5-1 cup Lentils (Fiber*)
• 2 eggs (Protein)
• 1 Tbsp Butter or Coconut Oil (Fat)
• Chili Onion Crunch (Flavor*)

Great Fiber Sources:

• Black Beans
• Pinto Beans
• Lentils

To build the perfect breakfast I start with my most important nutrient FIBER (find out why fiber is my #1 focus). I pick my fiber source from the short list above and cook it based on package instructions. 

I find some of my favorite pre-cooked lentil packs at Trader Joe's & Whole Foods. But I've also...