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Looking within to find the answers

Life hits you sometimes clear between the eyes to let you know that something is amiss. Maybe you don’t feel well, your stomach feels full and yet, you haven’t eaten, you have some strange aches and pains, people make you agitated, and your thoughts may have become muddled. You don’t feel aligned with the planet or people and feel on the outside of the world. You are dying to hear or see a wake-up call and all along it is tapping its lovely little finger patiently waiting for you to notice. BOOM. It hits. (The wake-up call comes….) I hear this every day. Someone emails me, comments on my blog, calls me or stops me the street. “I can’t believe this is happening to me…” “I can’t believe my husband was diagnosed with this…” “Can you believe it? She was told she has cancer? I can’t believe it!!” Well here’s…

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Kelly Childs' Bunny Smoothie Carrot Cake Smoothie
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The Original Bunny Smoothie – Gluten-Free and Vegan (tastes like Carrot Cake too!)

I thought I’d share this healthy and delicious smoothie. We featured it often at our restaurant, LettuceLove Cafe, and the customers always love it! It tastes like Carrot Cake which makes it an instant “FALL IN LOVE” moment with the kids and if any of you know me by now, you know that this is ALWAYS my primary focus. To get kids turned ON to loving REAL FOOD!! For me, I’m always thinking about children’s palates (their sense of taste) and how they have changed over the past 30 years. So many children now have been swayed from healthy, whole food by the likes of McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Mars (Bar) Incorporated, Dairy Industry, Sugar Assoc.(Washington DC), etc. that they have no clear idea what REAL food should taste like and are subjected to the daily onslaught of media propaganda and peer pressure. It takes brave moms and dads and other care-givers…

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Kelly Childs' Raw Chocolate Chia Pudding
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RAW Chia Pudding – Gluten-Free

Chia Seed Pudding with Cacao (Raw Chocolate) – Vegan and just like old-fashioned Tapioca Pudding I first happened upon this delicious pudding last year in California while shopping in a very healthy grocery store in L.A.. I found it in their in the ‘take-out’ fridge section and was dazzled ever since. I was blown away at the simplicity of making it and the solid nutrition in it. There were 4 basic ingredients: Coconut Milk, Cacao Powder, Maple Syrup and of course, Chia Seeds. (Side note: Did you know that a Chia Seed can hold 9 times its weight in liquid? When you put Chia seeds in water or almond milk the seeds create a gel that us vegans sometimes use for baking (flax meal is also used this way). The basic substitution is equal amounts of “chia seed gel” to an egg (approximately 2 ounces).) Instantly, I was catapulted into…

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Dreamy GREEN MILKSHAKE Recipe

So yesterday, I was feeling a little stressed (BIG time), needed a lift of energy and craved a little sweet stuff but also needed my greens as well. There’s so much going on with the Kelly’s Bake Shoppe and at LettuceLove Cafe. New menu items, hiring for two stores, website crashes, writing blogs and fixing IT mistakes, creating new recipes, answering emails, update Facebook, look after Twitter,….you know, the usual. 🙂 What better way to incorporate all those GREAT ingredients than to make it all in a delicious smoothie (milkshake)?! Maca Root Powder (Maca nourishes the adrenal glands, heals chronic panic and anxiety disorders and balance hormones. Peruvian warriors used to eat maca root before battle to increase their strength and endurance). Store in the fridge once opened Organic Spinach (Full of Iron and other minerals, 1 cup of spinach contains 20% of your RDA of fibre, phytonutrieints, antioxidants Vitamin…

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Kale Caesar!

For those of you new to the world of kale, keep your eyes and ears open. This is an incredibly versatile and tremendously HEALTHY veggie that needs to be in your daily diet. Believe me, once you try kale, you won’t be able to stop incorporating it into your daily life. The health benefits of kale far outweigh the prep time of this vegetable. Loaded with protein, fibre, vitamins and minerals like calcium, it’s hard to top this powerhouse. Kale has so many new colourful varieties too (like dark curly green, purple, lavender, red and dinosaur- just to name a few) to choose from that will keep your cells happy with a rainbow diet and give you a abundantly healthy assortment of phytonutrients and antioxidants Kale is about as an unlikely star in your kitchen, as you can imagine. In days gone past, kale was used as the adornments on…

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Celery Juice Health Benefits and a Recipe too

Just by the sheer taste of this on it’s own, you would be surprised at the many health benefits of celery juice. The benefits of celery juice far outweigh the taste of it. For many, celery juice can taste salty and quite frankly, yucky and that is due to the natural salty (natural sodium) composition of this nutritious vegetable. I love juicing it as I can I can get so much juice from it and it is easily mixed with organic green apple juice and/or parsley juice to get a well balanced, more palatable flavour and I love it to start my day as often as possible. This vegetable is an all round body regulator. It is high in magnesium and this is a mineral that helps to reduce our stress levels and allow us to cope better and sleep well at night. It improves our immune system and reduces…

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BEST Butternut Squash Soup Ever – My favorite Soup!

Butternut Squash just happens to be one of the healthier things you can eat, and this recipe is totally delicious! I think of this soup as, “Comfort Food to the Max”, because it warms me somehow to the bone and makes me feel awesomely nourished. This squash is harvested from early fall through winter and can be found at most grocery stores and farmers’ markets. I easily find it at my local organic grocer all year round (remember to always look for organic). It’s very high in fibre, very low in calories but absolutely delicious in taste. It also can prevent a host of ailments and chronic diseases with it’s supercharged anti-oxidants and vitamins and minerals. (Did you know – It’s actually a ‘fruit’ because it contains seeds?) Here’s why you want to eat this incredible vegetable: Fight cancer and more: Just a little bit of this squash will release…

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Kelly Childs' blueberry chocolate vegan smoothie in a glass
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Chocolate Blueberry Vegan Smoothie!! A Superfood Powerhouse.

Rich chocolate and blueberries. Pure Deliciousness….as you’ll see below, I’m giving you the list of ingredients and WHY I use them in my smoothies. As always, if you can’t find them – let me know and I’m happy to help. Blueberries give you Vitamin C and E and those Antioxidants we need so badly to remove the Free Radicals that keep bumping around in our bodies creating havoc for our healthy little unsuspecting cells in particular, the anti-aging Free Radicals and helps to ward off wrinkles. It’s a brain protector because of some very special phytonutrients found in these berries that defend the watery and fatty parts of the brain against environmental toxins. …..Funny enough, Blueberries also activate the fat-burning gene in abdominal fat cells. Crazy! – So indulge in these beautiful creations. Did you know that Cacao (which is the RAW – unheated form of Cocoa) has 400X the…

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SHAMROCK Shake – Healthy, Vegan and Delicious!

“Happy to be Irish Day” to all of you! Being of Irish descent (my mom’s mom was from Ireland). I LOVE that I get to flaunt it today. My mom is Colleen, my sister is Shannon and my daughter is Erinn and we all get to indulge today and YES! We totally enjoy it! I wanted to share with you an article I found in Huffington Post today and I found it quite riveting and had to share. It’s about the TOXIC ingredients in McDonald’s Shamrock Shake. How sad that they can captialize on holidays (not to mention every other day of the year too) and prey on society and MAKE THEM SICK with the ‘food’ they make for us to eat. Fifty-four (yes, 54!) ingredients go into the McDonald’s Shamrock Shake! Sickness-causing toxic food colours, artificial thickeners, artificial flavours, cellulite-causing fat – why would anyone knowingly drink this? Huffington…

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Kelly Childs' apple pancakes piled high with syrup dripping down the sides
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Apple Pancakes for a Snow Day!

These are the BEST HEALTHY breakfast pancakes for kids (well okay, adults too)! The smell of these pancakes cooking in the frying pan is just the most incredible aroma to wake up to. After many attempts at Gluten-Free and Vegan (dairy-free and egg-free) Pancakes and keeping them moist and a totally delicate, I think we did it! This recipe is a healthy alternative to conventional pancakes and they give some much needed added fibre and vitamins and minerals to our diets too. These are a perfect treat on days that the kids are home from school on a “Snow Day” (like they’re forecasting for tomorrow here in Burlington, ON). What a wonderful idea to pick up all the ingredients today and have them make them with you in the morning. Apple & Cinnamon Pancakes – Gluten Free and Vegan 2 cups gluten-free all -purpose flour (you choose) 1 TBSP baking Powder 1/2 tsp…

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