Dark Chocolate Drizzled Fruit Skewers

These delicious skewers are the perfect treat without the guilt! They are a very easy and fun way to serve fruit as an appetizer, side dish, or even drizzle with chocolate for dessert!  The kids will also love to help!

This video tutorial will teach you how we make our fruit skewers!

Ingredients:

• Organic Fruit of your choice (We used watermelon, banana, and grapes)
• Quality Dark Chocolate (70% or higher - We used Lindt Dark Chocolate 85%)

Directions:

1. Wash and cut fruit as desired. Place on skewers.

2. Melt chocolate (heat in microwave in increments of 30 seconds) and drizzle over fruit.

3. Freeze, refrigerate, or serve right away.

Grain-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Eating clean doesn't mean you have to ditch the grains, but if it tastes good, why not? These grain-free chocolate chip cookies are fabulous and you won't miss the grain at all. The recipe is below.

Grain-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 c natural peanut butter
• 1/4 c coconut oil, softened
• 1 egg
• 1/4 c mashed banana (approximately 1/2 of a small banana)
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 TBSP maple syrup
• 1/4 c coconut flour
• 1 1/2 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• 1/4 c dark chocolate (70% cocoa or greater), chopped into chunks

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Combine coconut oil, egg and mashed banana, vanilla and maple sugar in medium bowl.

3. In a small bowl, combine dry ingredients: coconut flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and sea salt.

4. Add small bowl of dry ingredients to wet mixture (step 2) in medium bowl. Whisk to combine.

5. Fold in chocolate chunks.

6. Place drops or roll batter into cookies approximately 1 inch in diameter. Place cookies on parchment paper-lined baking sheet.

7. Bake approximately 11-13 minutes. Allow cookies to thoroughly cool to harden, otherwise cookies will be incredibly crumbly.

Makes approximately 12 cookies.

Enjoy!

Salsa Chicken {Revamped}

Our Salsa Chicken recipe is one of our most popular recipes and one that we make on a weekly basis.  We were starting to get pretty tired of it even after dressing it up with black beans, brown rice, or using it in a salad.  We decided we would start making it like we do the Buffalo Chicken with the chicken broth.  It gives it a nice, fresh new flavor!

Ingredients:

• 3-4 lbs of boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• 4 large diced tomatoes
• 1.5 cups (roughly) of your favorite salsa
• Organic chicken broth (enough to cover chicken)
• 2 tbsp garlic powder
• 1 tbsp black pepper
• 1 tsp cayenne pepper (if you want to make it spicy)

Directions:

1. Add all ingredients to your crock pot except chicken broth and salsa.  Pour in chicken broth until chicken is covered.  Add half of the salsa to the crock pot.

2. Cook on low heat for at least 7 hours.

3. Once cooked, shred chicken with a fork.  Pour all broth out.

4. Return chicken crock pot and add remaining salsa.

5. Cook on high heat for an additional 30 minutes.

He & She Tip: Add sliced onion, bell peppers, cilantro, lime, or your favorite pepper to enhance the flavor.

Macros (based on a 6 oz serving):

• Calories: 160
• Fat: 2 g
• Carbs: 2 g
• Protein: 36 g

If you like this recipe, try our "Italian Stallion" Crock Pot Chicken!

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- Whitney