cooking with coconut oil

Spinach and Feta Breakfast Egg Muffins

With the Holidays around the corner, it’s time to discuss what should be the #1 ingredient in your pantry – coconut oil. Coconut oil is a great replacement for butter or oil when cooking and baking. My personal favorite is substituting it when making baked goods – your cookies and cakes will never be dry or dense again! Today I wanted to share a recipe for individual egg muffins that I made over Thanksgiving and were a hit! I love love love this recipe because it’s super simple to make and quick. These egg muffins can be made with any […]

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Top 5 Evidence Based Weight Loss Tips

With the New Year underway, many of us are putting our will power and resolutions to the test. Diet and weight loss may be number one on your list of goals for 2015 and if so, make sure that you’re doing this the healthy way. Years ago when I first started trying to lose weight and do “crash diets,” I would end up hungry, tired, and eventually hitting a plateau. After doing my own research, I learned that going to almost zero carbohydrates, taking out all healthy fats from my diet, and spending hours on exercise was not the way […]

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Peanut Butter Blossoms

Every year, when the holidays come around, I always get a hankering to bake! Whether it’s cookies, muffins or savory dishes, I always want to make it all. My favorite cookie of all time are peanut butter blossoms, how can you go wrong with peanut butter and chocolate? I’m not a fan of butter when baking because I feel like it makes your cookies or muffins taste buttery, I like for my baked goods to taste like the flavor I intend for them to taste like. I replace butter with coconut oil in a 1 to 1 ratio and am […]

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