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Gelatin’s Superpowers and How to Make Gummies!

Hello Again 🙂 Here’s the basic recipe for gummies, fruit snacks, etc. You can use juice, tea, coffee, or other liquid (it also works with creamy ingredients, like add some coconut oil if you like!). Gummies 2 cups liquid 1/2 cup plain gelatin powder sweetener to taste (I like maple syrup best!) Directions: Add two …

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Fancy Grilled Cheese – Coconut Flour Flatbread {a year later}

  Yesterday, I randomly looked at my Google Analytics details (I should do that more often), and I noticed that the first coconut flour flatbread post is my most visited post ever. I’m not kidding you when I say that 85% of my web traffic ever is to that post. After I saw that detail, …

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Transformation: The Messy Stuff that Happens Before You Become a Butterfly

I was thinking a lot about the idea of transformation today (well, actually, I’ve been thinking about it pretty steadily since 2003, almost always claiming to be in limbo in some way), and my Mom sent me a link to a Dear Sugar column that had an awesome description of transformation in it (I heart …

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Superfood: Gelatin — aka Gut Healer

I’m a great big fan of superfoods—real accessible superfoods that have proven benefits, and that don’t (always) come from exotic lands and cost loads of money. I like to look to history and experience and stories in addition to research studies to find out what real superfoods are. Since I found information about gelatin several …

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Wine Fruit Snacks – Gummy Wine Hearts – Not For Kids – Great for Your Body!

I’ll cut to the point here, and I’ll explain much more about the health benefits of gelatin tomorrow, but I invented fruit snacks made out of wine yesterday (at least in my mind I invented them—maybe it has been done before?). They were amazing. So, I refined the recipe a little, and made them again …

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Grain Free Waffle Brownies in 5 Minutes or Less!

I’m not sure how many waffles one person can eat in a week…or how many different waffle recipes there can be (that taste good)… but I am currently testing the potential of those questions. I’ll share a couple of my actual waffle recipes soon, but it’s practically an emergency for me to share this brownie …

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