Easy, Nourishing & Delish Recipes
healthy, easy, simple and tasty recipes for busy people
This Paleo Peach Crumb Coffee Cake makes it acceptable to eat cake for breakfast! So easy to make and made with REAL ingredients!
Peach Coffee Crumb Cake
Fresh peaches combine with crumb coffee cake to create a sweet and filling breakfast that goes perfectly with a cup of coffee or tea! You won’t believe that it is gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free and paleo friendly!
Hey y’all! We are guest blogging over at Cook it up Paleo today! To find this Paleo Peach Coffee Crumb Cake click here!
Looking for an easy grilling recipe that uses refreshing summer produce? Check out these Lemony Cucumber Mint Pesto Chicken Kebabs! Also paleo and whole-30 approved!
To be quite honest with you, this recipe was almost a disaster. Actually, not even the recipe part, that was a piece of cake. It was everything else that went wrong. At first, everything was going well.
I put the kebabs on the grill and set up an area on my picnic table out to take the pics because the lighting was perf👌.
But thennnnnnn, a huge gusp of wind and a dark cloud appeared just as I was about to take pictures and blew away most of my picture props. As I was trying to put them all back on the table, I realized that the grill was up way too high, so I went to lower it.
Then my shirt almost caught on fire and I burnt my finger, then the props blew away again. I had a little two year old temper tantrum and didn’t think these picture would happen. But then by the grace of God, the wind stopped for a few minutes and my props stayed on the table and it became sunny again. Hallelujah!🙌
Besides that horror story, I also feel the need to mention that this is my second time ever grilling, and now I feel like a pro💁 (first was this pineapple chicken buddha bowl).
Eating grilled food makes me happy. Maybe because it tastes better than baked food, or maybe because it reminds me of summer. No matter the reason, grilling creates a fresh flavor that no other cooking technique can mimic. Just don’t burn your food🙅
Since summer brings the abundance of fresh produce, there is all the more reason for me to make recipes that highlight this freshness. So what exactly did I experiment with in this recipe?
All the most refreshing produce that you can find right now (besides watermelon): Cucumbers, lemon and mint. There is nothing more refreshing that that trio of flavors, am I right?
Just imagine chicken marinated in a refreshing lemony cucumber mint pesto and then perfectly cooked on the grill with fresh summer veggies. It’s pretty much summer’s perfect meal. If I, the grill amateur can make it with ease, you’ll have no problem!
Pineapple Chicken Buddha Bowl {Paleo & Whole 30}
Lemon Rosemary Greek Yogurt Chicken
Are you a grilling master?
What is your favorite summer produce?
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These S’mores No-Bake Paleo Protein Bars are a healthy, easy and delicious on-the-go snack! They only require a few ingredients and taste like S’MORES!
This post is sponsored by Vital Proteins. As always, all opinions are my own.
I hate to admit it, but I’m a sucker for store-bought protein bars when I’m on the go. It’s just so convenient when I’m traveling and know I won’t be able to eat a real meal. That being said, I usually go for Quest bars since I think they are the best tasting and don’t taste like fake chocolate.
My favorite flavor by far is the S’mores with ALL the chunks of goodness! We’re talking about the graham cracker chunks, chocolate chunks and marshmallow chunks!
As you can see, I’m pretty obsessed with the chunkage. But what I’m not obsessed about is the expensive price. Almost $3 per bar? Are you kidding me? I’m a college kid, come on now.
I set out on a quest (pun intended) to re-create these S’mores Protein Bars. The first and most important step is finding the very best protein I can find. That is where Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides come in.
For those of you that do not know, collagen is a protein that is naturally found in your body. Consuming collagen promotes:
Now, compare that to your normal protein powder. Does it measure up? Nope. Vital proteins collagen peptides is the best of the best, with 18 grams of protein per a two scoop serving.
Both the grass-fed and the wild-caught collagen peptides are unflavored, and can be adding in almost anything! It can easily be dissolved in both hot (think soups) and cold liquids (like smoothies). It’s super easy to incorporate it into your diet! Just scoop and dump it in whatever your heart desires. 😉
Now back to these protein bars. They are so inexpensive,easy-to-make, and require only a few ingredients. They are the perfect healthy fuel for those moments when you need quick energy AKA when you’re hangry. Plus, they taste like S’mores! What more could you want?
Click here to learn more about the benefits of adding collagen to your diet!
No-Bake Peanut Butter Nutella Energy Bites
No-Bake Peanut Butter Pretzel Granola Bars
These Spicy Mango Avocado Paleo Crab Cakes are a unique take on the Maryland classic. They are a delicious, healthy and easy-to-make meal bursting with flavor.
Oh heyyyyyy sriracha, mango and avocado. If you saw our last recipe, you would probably be able to tell that we are pretty obsessed with that combo right now. Except this time it’s crab cakes!
Summer is my favorite season for numerous reasons. The weather is great, I can go to the beach, workout outside without freezing to death, watermelon season (DUH), grilling season, and most importantly, fresh seafood.
I’m super blessed to be able to go to the beach every weekend, so fresh seafood is always in my reach. From scallops to salmon to crab, I can get it all. But being in Maryland, crab is usually my top choice at every restaurant I go to.
If you don’t know anything about the state of Maryland, just know that their crab cakes are ridiculously amazing. I mean, full of huge meaty lumps and almost no fillers, just the way I like ’em.
I made the mistake once of getting a crab cake from a restaurant in a different state, and I was scarred for life. Once you get a Maryland carb cake, you can’t get a non-Maryland crab cake, TRUST ME.
But sometimes, I can’t wait until the weekend to eat a crab cake. So what do I do? Go to the closest restaurant in PA and get one? Nope. I gotta make my own.
All the recipes I found online include tons of mayo, butter and stuff that I don’t like to use. Thankfully, GoAvo came to the rescue! GoAvo sent samples of their avocado spread that mimics mayo but without all the preservatives and only 25 calories per serving, and I’m hooked!
Each flavor is made of 85% avocado (combined with the grapeseed oil, white wine vinegar and lemon juice)and has a perfect creamy texture that goes well in any dish that calls for mayo. You can check out my Salmon recipe I made here.
For these crab cakes I used the Spicy Chipotle flavor because I was craving a spicy combo to go with the mango.
This combo of flavors creates a sweet and spicy taste that tickles my tongue and leaves me wanting more than one crab cake (more like three) at a time.
Top with sliced avocado and drizzle some sriracha and you got yourself a delicious crab cake thats almost as good as a Maryland crab cake, almost. But no Maryland crab cake can say that it’s gluten-free, grain-free, paleo and whole-30 friendly!
Simple Cilantro Avocado Crusted Salmon
Coconut Lime Crusted Mahi Mahi
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This Healthy Banana Bread Fruit Pizza is a delicious dessert, breakfast or snack! It has a banana bread-like crust and is topped with a strawberry cream cheese frosting, fruit, nuts and chocolate. It is completely gluten-free, paleo and has a vegan option!
*Pictures updated 5/31/2017*
Can you believe that we started Athletic Avocado two years ago? It seems like yesterday when we were writing our first post. God has blessed us with this blog and we are so thankful for all the support you guys have given us!
Athletic Avocado would not exist if it weren’t for awesome readers like YOU! We also recently just celebrated our 21st birthday, so of course we had to make something real good for ya.
This banana bread fruit pizza screams “Athletic Avocado.” If you have been following us for awhile, you know sweet pizzas are kinda our thing. From zucchini to pumpkin bread to apple pie to peach pie to strawberry lemon, we’ve done it all. Or so we thought.
We were figuring out what to make for the blogiversary, and it hit us that we have never made a banana bread version of our favorite kind of recipe. Like how did we miss that? Banana bread is the BEST kind of bread ever? #amirightoramright?
So of course we had to make this banana bread version and top it will ALL the toppings for this special celebration! This is actually our favorite breakfast/dessert pizza of all-time, well so far anyways…
Unlike the other sweet pizzas we’ve made, this one serves 2, not 1 but it’s a GIANT serving for two people, so more pizza=more fun. You can honestly eat it for any meal because it’s that good and good for ya.
We split it for our birthday breakfast but wished that we made another one for that day because we loved it so much and wanted it for dessert.
This Pizza’s got three fantastic layers that will make you swoon:
Banana Bread crust made with coconut flour
Strawberry cream cheese frosting
Toppings consisting of sliced fruit, nuts and CHOCOLATE
This recipe here is a banana bread crust made with coconut flour and tasty fruit toppings (which can be totally adaptable to your preference). It’s a perfect birthday treat or an any-kind-of-occasion-treat!
Zucchini Bread Breakfast Pizza
Strawberry Lemon Cream Pie Breakfast Pizza
These Honey Mustard Pretzel Crusted Roasted Brussels Sprouts are a healthy, crispy and delicious side dish or appetizer! They are so easy-to-make and will please the pickiest of eaters! Also can be gluten-free and vegan!
You guys are going to think we’re insane with what I’m about to tell you. For our birthday, we told our Mom that we’d rather have a nice serving of crispy brussel sprouts than have a birthday cake. Yes, we like brussel sprouts more than cake, DEAL.
we did get my crispy brussel sprouts from an awesome restaurant and they were everything we could ever want. I didn’t even let my brother share because that meant less for Rachel and I, selfish I know, but it was our birfday😉
If you are reading this post right now and don’t like brussels sprouts, don’t stop reading it. I promise you’ll DIE for these crispy, crunchy brussels. They’re bathed in honey mustard, coated in gluten-free pretzel crumbs and roasted until crispy perfection.
If you are already one of those people who are obsessed with roasted brussel sprouts, be prepared to become even more obsessed. I’m talking about a “can’t stop won’t stop” Miley Cyrus obsession.
These Honey Mustard Pretzel Crusted Roasted Brussels Sprouts are the perfect appetizer or side dish for a family dinner or get-together. They will even please those who swear that they “hate” brussels sprouts!
Pineapple Teriyaki Cauliflower Poppers
This Spicy Grilled Chicken Pineapple Buddha Bowl is a delicious and healthy dinner that is bursting with flavor! Also paleo and whole 30 approved!
So you probably are already aware, but about 80% of our recipes are breakfast, 18% of them are dessert and about 2% are dinner/savory. I guess it’s because I’m an early bird and breakky if my favorite meal of the day, but no matter the reason, we kinda feel guilty for not creating delish dinner recipes.
Lets be real here, If I had to choose between a bowl of ice cream and a bowl of mashed potatoes, 99.9% of the time that ice cream will be dominant. My sweet tooth just can’t stop, and it won’t stop until I make it stop.
When I make a savory recipe, aka this one, I always feel the need to add something sweet because it’s my (sinful) nature. Don’t get me wrong here, I love every kind of veggie (except artichokes, they make me wanna choke), they usually just need an added omph of flavor.
Cauliflower rice is great, but when combine with sweet pineapple, lime and cilantro, it become BAE. Grilled chicken is a good versatile protein, but when marinated in spicy pineapple-yogurt marinade and grilled ( YAS to grilling season), it becomes fingerlickin’ gud.
Scoop it all in a bowl made from pineapple, and you gotta a dinner that I would (shockingly) choose over a bowl of ice cream.
Simple Almond Lime Crusted Salmon
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This Healthy Toasted Coconut Cashew Pineapple Vegan French Toast Bake is a delicious addition to your brunch or weekend breakfast and is so easy to make.
Back when I was younger, one of the most exciting things that happened during the weekend was my Dad making breakfast. I’ve always been a pancake girl at heart, but every once in a while I asked for french toast.
I’ve always helped him flip them on the griddle because french toast is a thousand times easier to flip then pancakes (can I get an AMEN!).
It occurred to me that pancakes seem to dominate on this site. Now I’m kinda over them (for a hot minute), and moved on to the other side of town, aka french toast. I feel like there aren’t many variations that you can make with french toast, so I needed to change that ASAP.
I decided to crust the french toast in toasted coconut and cashews because I like coconut and nut-crusted stuff. And by stuff I mean Salmon and Tilapia. So if coconut and nuts are good on seafood, they must be good on french toast (seems logic right?).
I felt like I going down the tropical route, so I thought that I might as well add pineapple and more coconut in milk form. So when you eat this you can imagine you are on a vacation in Fiji and sitting by the beach relaxing with your toes in the sand.
I mean, I may be a little biased, but this french toast is the ish, the big bambino, the cream of the crop, the latest fashion of the breakfast/brunch world! It’s vegan, paleo, gluten-free and naturally sweet and no one will know that it’s healthy.
This Toasted Coconut Cashew Pineapple French Toast Bake is perfect for a weekend breakfast or brunch with friends and family. No matter what occasion you make it for, I can promise you that this will become your new favorite way to make french toast!
Chunky Monkey French Toast in a Mug
This Blueberry Strawberry Rhubarb Berry Chia Seed Jam is super easy to make and is the perfect healthy spread that tastes like pie filling! It contains no refined sugar and is vegan, paleo and gluten-free.
Guess what guys? Summer’s coming soon if you didn’t already know! And you can guess what that means: beach dayz, shades on, bikini tops, but most importantly, summer PRODUCE. The abundance of fresh fruit and veggies is arguably the best part of summer, especially when you’re a food blogger!
No more spending $6 on a tiny pack of berries that can be eaten in less than one minute. #firstworldprobz
Rhubarb also makes it’s appearance in the summer, usually in pie form. To be honest, I never knew what rhubarb was. I thought that the rhubarb in strawberry rhubarb pie was just another type of berry, embarrassing, I know.
It looks like pretty pink celery and doesn’t taste much like anything, but when combined with berries, it shines!
What sparked my idea to make this jam was a blueberry extract that I found on Hatchery. Hatchery is a cute little site for foodies (aka moi) that sells unique and ah-maz-ing products from small companies. They have a large selection of everything you could ever want and more!
You can even receive a monthly tasting box that contains gourmet small-batch ingredients and condiments, sourced from independent makers across the country.
Never have I ever seen blueberry extract, so you imagine my excitement when I saw it on Hatchery. The company Meso Nutso grows and picks the blueberries themselves, and handcrafts the extract without the use of yucky chemicals.
It’s high-quality extract lends a strong blueberry flavor to jams, baked goods and even oatmeal.
This Strawberry Bluebarb (aka blueberries + rhubarb) Chia Seed Jam is super easy to make! It tastes like summer sunshine in a jar, and takes only 30 minutes to make!
The magic of chia seeds is that they soak up the liquid from the berries, creating the thick, gooey texture of jam without the use of pectin. Spread this ‘ish on everything, literally. Or be like me and eat it by the spoonful, it’s like eating pie filling!
Rhubarb
Blueberries
Strawberries
Lemon Juice
Blueberry extract
Rhubarb: You can omit if you don’t have this and just add more berries instead.
Blueberries/strawberries: You can use 3 cups of one or the other, or use blackberries or raspberries instead.
Maple syrup: You can use stevia or another liquid sweetener such as honey or agave.
Blueberry extract: You can simply omit.
Spread some on toast, add to this mug cake, make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, add to these flourless peanut butter and jelly blondies, add on top of yogurt or ice cream, add to oatmeal or eat by the spoon!
Peanut Butter and Jelly Acai Bowl
Peanut Butter and Jelly Flourless Blondies
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This EASY Almond Crusted Salmon is the perfect healthy, easy and delicious dinner made in only 25 minutes! Also paleo and whole 30 approved!
This is the time of year where I want salmon ALL THE TIME! I think it’s because I spend all my weekends at the beach where I can get fresh seafood that’s the best of da best. The beauty of making salmon is that you only need a few ingredients and about 30 minutes.
While looking on pinterest for recipe inspiration (my tactic when I’m lacking in creativity), I kept on seeing salmon recipes that used mayo as a marinade. Now, I was never about the mayo, but I’m all about GoAvo.
GoAvo is a mayo-like spread thats 85% avocado and a few other ingredients (grapeseed oil, white wine vinegar and lemon juice). It’s the perfect replacement for mayo in everything. Oh, and did I mention that it contains the same healthy mono and poly unsaturated fats of avocado with only being 25 calories per tablespoon?
There are three creamy, great tasting flavors of GoAvo: Original, Basil and Chipotle!
This salmon recipe is seriously the easiest dinner that you could possibly make! All you need to do is mix the GoAvo with lime juice, salt and pepper, spread it on the salmon, pat on the cilantro and almond meal, top with lime slices and pop it in the oven for 25 (ish) minutes.
It kinda tastes like the salmon is covered in guacamole, not complaining here!
Use this store locator to find GoAvo Spread!
“Thank you to GoAvo for kindly sponsoring this post. All opinions are 100% honest & completely my own.”
