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Banana Nut Muffins

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I present to you my simple grain-free banana nut muffins! They’re simple to make and easy to grab-and-go!

Banana Muffins

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Banana Nut Muffins
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Recipe type: Advanced SCdiet, Baked Goods, Snacks
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Serves: 16-18
 
This is an advanced SCdiet/GAPS recipe. Grain-Free, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Soy-Free, Refined Sugar-Free
Ingredients
  • 3 cups blanched almond flour*
  • 3 eggs
  • ⅓ cup coconut oil
  • ½ cup honey
  • 2 ripe organic bananas, mashed
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. sea salt
  • **optional: ¼ cup chopped walnuts for topping.
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a medium size mixing bowl, combine all ingredients except walnuts.
  3. Line muffin tins with paper liners.
  4. Fill paper liners to ⅔ full.
  5. **Optional: sprinkle with chopped walnuts.
  6. Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until muffin springs back to the touch.
  7. NOTE: Muffins are just about finished baking when you begin to smell them.
  8. *If you can’t find almond flour in your area, you can buy blanched slivered almonds at Trader Joe’s, and grind them in a coffee grinder. Two bags of Trader Joe’s blanched slivered almonds yield approximately 5 cups of flour.

Stuffed Bell Peppers

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I have always loved stuffed bell peppers. I think they taste even better the next day, fresh and chilled straight out of the fridge after all the flavors have merged!

Stuffed Bell Peppers

Using a muffin tin makes it so much easier to handle and fill these delicious bell peppers!

Stuffed Bell Peppers

 

 

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Stuffed Bell Peppers
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Recipe type: Main Dish
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Serves: 6
 
Grain-Free, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Soy-Free, Refined Sugar-Free
Ingredients
  • 6 large bell peppers, tops, seeds and ribs removed
  • 2 Tbsp coconut oil
  • 1 large organic onion, diced
  • 3 cloves organic garlic, minced
  • 1½ lbs grass fed ground beef
  • 2 cups organic tomato, diced
  • 1 Tbsp sea salt (yes, 1 tablespoon)
  • ¼ tsp black pepper
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 tsp chopped fresh cilantro
  • 1 tsp chopped fresh or dried basil
  • ½ tsp paprika
  • ½ cup organic tomato sauce + ¾ cup organic tomato sauce (for topping)
  • *optional: additional 3 cloves fermented Japanese Aomori Black garlic, chopped (from Trader Joe's) This adds such a unique delicious flavor!
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350
  2. Remove tops, seeds and veins of bell peppers.
  3. Stand your peppers up in a muffin tin.
  4. Heat coconut oil over medium high heat in a large cast iron skillet.
  5. Saute onions and garlic until onions are transparent, stirring frequently.
  6. Add beef to onions and garlic.
  7. While beef is cooking, add oregano, cilantro, basil, paprika, salt & pepper.
  8. Stir until beef is cooked through.
  9. Turn heat off.
  10. Add and stir in diced tomato, and ½ cup tomato sauce.
  11. Add optional fermented black garlic.
  12. Stuff each pepper to the top of each pepper.
  13. Spread 2 Tbsp tomato sauce on top of each pepper.
  14. Place muffin tin full of peppers on a cookie sheet to catch any juice that may overflow.
  15. Bake for 1 hour.

 

Watermelon Popsicles

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After a day at the beach, all we could think of were Watermelon Popsicles!

Watermelon Popsicles

 

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Watermelon Popsicles
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Recipe type: Snacks
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Serves: 8
 
Grain-Free, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Soy-Free, Refined Sugar-Free
Ingredients
  • 2½ cups organic watermelon
  • ½ cup organic apple juice
Instructions
  1. Mix ingredients in blender.
  2. You may need to stop the blender and push the watermelon down with a spoon. Blend again.
  3. Pour into popsicle molds.
  4. Freeze for 6 hours or more.

 

Orange Creamsicles

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This is my recreation of my very favorite treat when I was little. I just LOVE the push up orange creamsicle! You can find these push up containers on Amazon.com.

Orange Creamsicles

 

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Orange Creamsicles
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Recipe type: Snack, Raw
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Serves: 3-4
 
Grain-Free, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Soy-Free, Refined Sugar-Free
Ingredients
  • ½ cup Trader Joe’s light coconut milk
  • ½ cup organic orange juice
  • ½-1 cup organic mango
  • 2 Tbsp raw honey
  • ½ tsp vanilla (I prefer pure vanilla powder or vanilla in a base of glycerin)
Instructions
  1. Blend all ingredients in blender.
  2. Pour into popsicle molds.
  3. Freeze for 6 hours or more.

 

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I'm Summer Williams, a Clinical Nutritionist who specializes in gastrointestinal health. With a firm background in healing, I believe anything is possible. All of my recipes are Grain-Free, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Soy-Free & Refined Sugar-Free. Learn More →
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