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DIY Healthy Homemade Blueberry Applesauce

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DIY Healthy Homemade Blueberry Applesauce made in a crockpot!

Healthy Homemade blueberry applesauce! It's easy and super-duper healthy too! Who doesn't love blueberries and apples!?

There are so many things I love about summer.  I love going to the beach and enjoying the sand between my toes.  I love having summer bbqs with my large family.  I also love when my mom buys 30 pounds of blueberries to make blueberry pies (and that is why we are made this healthy homemade blueberry applesauce).

We usually make so many that we have frozen pies in our freezer for a whole year.  This particular year we had 5 leftover pies in the freezer from last summer so my mom decided not to get blueberries this year.

Healthy Homemade blueberry applesauce! It's easy and super-duper healthy too! Who doesn't love blueberries and apples!?

After throwing a fit like a toddler, she finally gave in and ordered the bloobs.  Now we have 30 pounds of fresh blueberries just sitting in your fridge.  As much as I love eating the fat and juicy berries, there is only so many blueberries I can eat without getting diarrhea sick.

Healthy Homemade blueberry applesauce! It's easy and super-duper healthy too! Who doesn't love blueberries and apples!?

Healthy Homemade Blueberry Applesauce

Luckily I came up with adding blueberries to my already banging homemade applesauce and voila, an even better homemade applesauce recipe thats so easy even my dad can do it ( sorry Dad the truth hurts).

DIY Blueberry Applesauce

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Ingredients
  

  • 5 apples cored and sliced
  • 4 cups fresh blueberries
  • cinnamon optional

Instructions
 

  • Place all ingredients in a crockpot and place on low heat for at least 3 hours, or until sauce-like.
  • Place in a large container and store for up to two weeks.

Healthy Homemade blueberry applesauce! It's easy and super-duper healthy too! Who doesn't love blueberries and apples!?

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Healthy Pumpkin Apple Butter

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I am totally obsessed with all kinds of fruit butters, peach, pear, apple, pumpkin, you name it, I love it. But the downside of these sweet condiments is that many of them contain more than fruit, they contain sugar and other additives, with the exception of Kauffman’s.

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They can also be pricey, reaching up to 4-5 dollars for a small jar. Good thing I decided to make my own, not only is it healthy, clean and no sugar added, It’s dirt cheap as well. This butter is the perfect topping to almost anything, toast, waffles, pancakes, ice-cream, yogurt (I Love mixing it into plain greek yogurt!)

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Pumpkin-Apple Butter

  • 1 cup pumpkin puree
  • 1 baked apple (chopped then cooked in microwave for 3-4 minutes or until soft)
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 1/2 tsp Nunaturals stevia simple syrup or 1 tbsp maple syrup, honey, agave

1. Place all ingredients in a small sauce pan over medium-low heat

2. Constantly stir and keep on the stove for 10 minutes 

3. Take off stove top after mixture is hot, let cool and place in a mason jar, if desired

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DIY Gourmet Nut Butter: Red Velvet Cookie Butter!

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This Healthy Red Velvet Cookie Butter is a delicious and healthy spread on pancakes, waffles, french toast or mixed in ice cream or yogurt!

I noticed that gourmet nut butters have been all the rage lately and I can see why. They are so stinkin’ good! But they can have their downfalls, a lot of them are loaded with refined sugar, which is a no-no in my book, and number 2: they can cost up to $12 per jar! For those of you who don’t want to spend a fortune on these tasty products or are trying to eat healthier, this recipe is just perfect for you! What’s better than red velvet cake? NOTHING! Except this Red Velvet Cookie Butter! It’s so easy to make with NO ADDED SUGAR! It taste like the real thing in a sweet and luscious spread that is perfect on bread, crackers, waffles, pancakes, bananas, apples, you name it! So save some money and make this gourmet butter, you’ll swear that you bought it from the grocery store after one lick!

This Healthy Red Velvet Cookie Butter is a delicious and healthy spread on pancakes, waffles, french toast or mixed in ice cream or yogurt!

DIY Gourmet Nut Butter: Red Velvet Cookie Butter!

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Ingredients
  

  • 1/4 cup natural smooth almond butter or peanut butter
  • 1/2 cooked beet skin removed
  • 1 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tbsp honey/agave/maple syrup

Instructions
 

  • 1. Combine all ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth, about 1 minute
  • 2. Use this Cookie Butter to spread on bread, pancakes, waffles, crackers, fruit, you name it!
  • 3. Enjoy!

This Healthy Red Velvet Cookie Butter is a delicious and healthy spread on pancakes, waffles, french toast or mixed in ice cream or yogurt!

Health benefits

  • Healthy fats, protein, vitamin E from peanut butter
  • vegan
  • All natural
  • Non GMO
  • Dairy-free
  • Gluten-free
  • No added sugar
  • Paleo
  • 100% clean
  • Vitamin C, B6 and dietary fiber from beets

This Healthy Red Velvet Cookie Butter is a delicious and healthy spread on pancakes, waffles, french toast or mixed in ice cream or yogurt!

This Healthy Red Velvet Cookie Butter is a delicious and healthy spread on pancakes, waffles, french toast or mixed in ice cream or yogurt!

DIY Healthy Gourmet Popcorn: Peanut Butter Chocolate Crunch Popcorn

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I have a little bit of magic for you today, something peanut-buttery, Chocolatley, Crunchy,  fluffy in your mouth, and perfectly healthy and clean at the same time.  Can you guess what it is? There, I got ya! You don’t even have a clue, but the answer is my newest creation, Peanut-Butter Chocolate Crunch Popcorn, so decadent, so sweet, so tasty, you wouldn’t even guess that it is sugar-free, preservative-free, all natural, 100% clean, and super-duper simple to make, now that’s magic!

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Crunch Popcorn

  • 8 cups freshly popped plain popcorn
  • 2 Tbsp. coconut oil
  • 2 Tbsp. peanut butter
  • 2 Tbsp. slivered almonds

Chocolate drizzle

  • 1 Tbsp. coconut oil
  • 1 Tbsp. cocoa powder
  • 1/2 Tbsp. honey
  1. Melt coconut oil and peanut butter in microwave for about 30 seconds, or until fully melted.
  2. Mix peanut butter mixture  and almonds into popcorn.  Mix thoroughly, or until each piece is evenly coated.
  3. For the chocolate sauce, melt coconut oil in microwave for about 30 seconds, or until fully melted.  Stir in cocoa powder and honey.
  4. Drizzle chocolate on top of popcorn.
  5. Enjoy!

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Health Benefits

  • Whole grains
  • Fiber 
  • Protein
  • Healthy fats
  • 100 % clean
  • All-natural
  • No added sugar
  • No preservatives
  • Gluten-free
  • Dairy-free
  • Vegan
  • Vegetarian

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Microwave Salted Caramel and Banana English Muffin

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So it happened again, I got a little too carried away made another english muffin.  They are just so easy quick and delicious that I could not help myself!  But this time I made a more unique flavor. Bananas + Salted Caramel = HEAVEN!  Add some natural peanut butter and the rest of the banana, and you got yourself a beautiful, fiber-filling, tasty breakfast in a mere 4 minutes!

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  • 1/3 cup oat flour (1/3 cup pulverized oats)
  • 1/2 small banana
  • 1 egg white (2 Tbsp. applesauce for a vegan option)
  • 1 prune
  • 4 whole unsalted cashews
  • 1/8 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/8 tsp. flaked salt
  • 1/8 tsp. vanilla extract
  1. Add all ingredients into a food processor and pulverize for about 30 seconds (or until ingredients are fully mixed.
  2. Spray cooking spray in a mug and add mixture.
  3. microwave for about 2 1/2 – 3 minutes (or until fully cooked).
  4. Top with natural peanut butter and the other half of banana, if desired.
  5. Enjoy!

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Health Benefits

  • Fiber from the oats and prune
  • Vitamins B, E, and K  from oats
  • Protein from egg white
  • Potassium and natural sugars from banana
  • antioxidants
  • all-natural
  • no sugar added
  • 100% clean
  • no preservatives

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