Healthy Homemade Turtles

Turtles! These were my husbands favourite chocolates pre-Eat2Run days. So this year (finally!!) I figured it’s high time I recreated them for him. It’s actually pretty crazy how similar in taste they are to the ‘real’ thing – the creamy caramel centre over the crunchy pecans and covered by rich chocolate. Only I’d like to argue these are more appropriately called …

Chocolate Mint Smoothie

I’ve always loved the chocolate mint combo – which is great because peppermint and cacao both come with great health benefits. Of course chocolate mint combos usually have a tonne of sugar accompanying them and therefore aren’t always a great choice. However, this shake is technically sugar-free… It uses medjool dates (aka natures candy) and a ripe banana as sweetener. …

Mocha Latte Smoothie

I love coffee. Always have, always will. Of course when I finally realized this love was hurting my health, I gave it up (went out kicking and screaming though, let me tell you).  Then I realized organic swiss water decaf existed. Oh thank goodness. Same great taste, caffeine-free, no chemicals that come with conventional decaf. All is good.  And then …

Peanut Butter Chocolate Shake

It’s true you won’t see a lot of peanut butter around here (on my website and in my recipes) – I prefer almond butter for many reasons. However, I had some organic all-natural PB kicking around and, after a conversation with another runner about attempting to mimic a certain cafe’s peanut butter chocolate shake, I knew exactly what I had …