Chunky Mango Avocado Dip Recipe

Perfect for gatherings, you can prep the ingredients ahead, but don’t make this dip until right before serving. Serve with radish rounds and tortilla chips.  Ingredients: 3 large mangoes (peeled and diced to ½-inch pieces) ¼ cup fresh lime juice 3 tablespoons orange juice 1 serrano or jalapeño pepper (seeded and finely diced) ⅓ cup finely chopped fresh cilantro 2…

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Make mine a Cold Brew, please!

Coffee—it’s a universal beverage, but much more concentrated in Finland, Norway, Iceland and Denmark (where it’s cold a good percentage of the year.) Surprised?  With the United States and Canada being the no. 2 and no. 3 countries (behind no. 1 Monaco) where Starbucks has entrenched its tentacles, one would think the U.S. would rank…

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Zero calories and diabetic friendly. Sweet!

November is National Diabetes Month—a time to bring attention to diabetes and its impact on millions of Americans. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 30.3 million Americans, (9.4 % of the United States population) have diabetes. And another 84.1 million people have “prediabetes,” a condition that often leads to type 2…

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Easy, tasty springtime eating!

With all the beautiful, ripe fruit and vegetables beginning to come into Green Acres, it starts some of us thinking of easy, breezy springtime entertaining. Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, dairy-free, caveman, gluten free or grain-convinced, you’ll love these recipes that are spotlighted in the recent Garden of Life magazine called, Extraordinary Health.  Just looking at…

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It’s Halloween! Half the fun is keeping it healthy

You don’t have to give your kids, your family or your friends a sugar rush to ensure they have a happy Halloween.  In fact, hosting a “healthy” dinner party or presenting your family with an extra special “spooky, playful meal” before donning costumes and heading out for a neighborhood Trick-or-Treat might be more novel than…

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Suja—Making detox delicious!

Wherever do the young find these things?!  Suja, an organic cleansing drink developed by a RAW chef and his partner, a woman who wrestled with autoimmune skin disease as a teen, has become a staple of those who take getting and staying in shape seriously. Founders Eric Ethans and Annie Lawless have a passion for…

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Our customers babble about Babka!

They can’t seem to get enough of that chocolaty, cinnamon goodness that reads like an Easter bread for the Czechs and the Poles, but more like an every-day cake for the Jews. The Czechs, Hungarians and Ukrainians made Nut Roll—layers of pastry, brushed with butter, dusted with pecans, raisins and cinnamon sugar, then rolled into…

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Eat your greens…Guy says!

All these little “adultisms” handed down from generation to generation. Where do they come from and do they have merit? Well, greens it seems hold a wealth of nutrition in some very large leafy, almost plant-like leaves that embody a whole subculture of eating. There are collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, spinach, chard, kale. …

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