We continue DAY 21 of "Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville" with the INCREDIBLE Donna Richards and Tora Cullip, founders of the Ultimate Weight Control Formula, and the AMAZING healthy living, weight loss, and workout website, Donna and Tora. I cannot rave enough about this two extraodinary woman. They are a constant source of inspiration for me, and I really wanted you to know about them, and their sensational website. If you want to lose weight in a healthy sustainable way, stay motivated, and get in the best shape of your life, these two powerhouse ladies can help! I connected with these two brilliant woman through Twitter, and after exchanging numerous emails, finally met them in L.A earlier this year, which was a meeting of... Keep Reading
We continue DAY 7 of "Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville" and I am thrilled to be featuring one of my favourite food bloggers, the wonderful Wendi Polisi from Cooking Quinoa. This woman is HILARIOUS! I just LOVE her! I LOVE quinoa, and nobody knows more about using it than this lovely lady. Her fabulous website is a one-stop-shop celebrating "all things quinoa", and she has some incredibly inventive ways to use it, including these incredible Gluten Free Vegan Flourless Chocolate Quinoa Cookies. Besides writing her very popular blog, Cooking Quinoa, Wendy is the author of THE QUINTESSENTIAL QUINOA COOKBOOK. Whether you are a quinoa connoisseur or new to cooking with quinoa, there are over 200 pages of flavourful inspiration. The... Keep Reading
It is DAY 28 of "Raw Food Recipes with Excalibur" and I am delighted to feature the dazzling Kristen Suzanne from Kristen's Raw. If you are not acquainted with this lovely lady, then you are just letting some of the best in the raw foods world pass you by! Kristen is AMAZING. As a former competitive bodybuilder, Kristen Suzanne has been studying nutrition, fitness and food preparation for more than 15 years. She is now an accomplished raw vegan chef, and author helping people succeed with a raw foods lifestyle. Kristen has authored 12 incredible raw vegan recipe and lifestyle books, and through radio, television, classes, her newsletter, and very popular blog, Kristen's Raw, she is helping people all around the world to get the... Keep Reading
It is DAY 25 of "Raw Food Recipes with Excalibur" and we continue to celebrate our Excalibur Dehydrator Giveaway with the gorgeous Cecilia Kinzie from Raw Glow. She has brought her fantastic raw vegan no nut carrot pulp cookies to the party, and these little morsels are DELICIOUS! What a FANTASTIC way to use leftover carrot pulp from your juicing! These cookies literally took me 10 minutes to make, before they were in my Excalibur dehydrator filling my house with the warm scent of Christmas! We had a dinner party while these babies were "baking" and, as people were entering the house, they all cried out in unison, "Wow, something smells AMAZING!" They then tasted these cookies, and were all scrambling in their purses to write down the... Keep Reading
It is DAY 23 of "Raw Food Recipes with Excalibur" and I am excited to introduce you to Dina Lauro and her AMAZING Chunkie Dunkies raw vegan cookies. I connected with Dina on Twitter, and was thrilled to discover her incredible company. For each of these community events, I always pick a new blogger or company to feature in addition to the top established people, and this month it is all about Chunkie Dunkies! This little business started just over a year ago, and is growing so rapidly it is set to become one of the premier raw vegan cookie companies in the country in no time! Whole Foods is banging down their door, as well as many other national retailers and distributors. When we start seeing Chunkie Dunkies raw vegan cookies in every... Keep Reading
It is DAY 14 of "Raw Food Recipes with Excalibur" and we celebrate our Excalibur Giveaway with the vibrant and beautiful Diana Stobo. I absolutely love this lady's philosophy, "Loving your body is loving the planet." I couldn't agree more. This from the lady that is inspiring America to "Get Naked!" Diana Stobo is a health and wellness expert, raw advocate, inspiration and motivational speaker, and a two time award-winning author of GET NAKED FAST! A GUIDE TO STRIPPING AWAY THE FOODS THAT WEIGH YOU DOWN and her second book, NAKED BLISS: NAUGHTY AND NUTRITIOUS DAIRY FREE MILKSHAKES. A classically trained Cornell culinary artist, Diana healed herself with the power of live whole foods. After weighing 247 pounds while she was pregnant... Keep Reading
It is DAY 12 of “Raw Food Recipes with Excalibur” and the gorgeous Raw Judita joins our Dehydrator Giveaway Celebration. This stunning red-haired beauty has brought a plate of her delicious raw vegan orange and cranberry scones to the party, and you do not want to miss these delectable treats! Judita says, “Orange cranberry is one of my absolute favourite flavour combinations and unbelievably delicious in this moist and chewy oatmeal based recipe. I enjoy these for breakfast as well as for dessert, paired with a warm cup of herbal tea.” I say, “These scones are scrumptious, and take them any way you can get them! YUMMO!” Just a note about the oats: oats have long been known for being an excellent source of soluble fiber which is... Keep Reading
It is DAY 11 of "Raw Food Recipes with Excalibur" and we continue our celebration of the Excalibur Dehydrator giveaway with the inspiring Natasha Kyssa, bestselling author and founder of Simply Raw. This stunningly beautiful woman is a glowing example of the power of RAW. A health pioneer, raw food chef, and TedxOttawa speaker, Natasha has been living as raw vegan lifestyle for over 21 years. She is regularly featured in the media for her dedicated work as a raw lifestyle coach with thousands of clients from all over the world, facilitating cleansing and detoxification programs since 1991, and teaching "Life in the Kitchen Food" workshops helping people improve their health, one meal at a time. Natasha's personal story with food is an... Keep Reading
It is DAY 9 of "Raw Food Recipes with Excalibur" and we continue our celebration of the Excalibur Dehydrator Giveaway with the incredble Jason Wrobel, from The J-Wro Show, who is always the life of the party. I swear, J-Wro is the definition of a true RAWkstar! He has more energy than anybody in the raw foods world, and a dynamic quality that is hard to match. If you think raw foods are not for you, Jason will be the one to change your mind. He makes healthy raw vegan foods FUN! Watch one episode of The J-Wro Show and he will have you in stitches. He is absolutely HILARIOUS. But more importantly, he has a TON of information to share which makes preparing healthy whole foods a breeze. I can't wait until his new TV show debuts on the... Keep Reading
It is DAY 2 of "Raw Food Recipes with Excalibur", and after opening with supermodel Carol Alt we continue our celebration with another RAWKSTAR beauty, -- the inspiring co-founder and owner of Pure Food and Wine, and CEO of One Lucky Duck in NYC, Sarma Melngailis. To say this lady was building a raw foods empire would be an understatement. After ditching her life of mergers and acquisitions in corporate America, and training at the French Culinary Institute in NYC, Sarma was introduced to raw food at a chance dinner with a friend. After experimenting with, thriving on, and embracing this new lifestyle, Sarma abandoned her idea for a Morrocan eatery, and instead opened a raw foods restaurant with then partner Matthew Kenney in... Keep Reading
