Apple Cranberry Steel Cut Overnight Oats

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Our Apple-Cinnamon Steel Cut Oats are one of our most popular recipes and it's been a while since we had a new crock pot oat recipe! Remember how we said we bought way too many cranberries (when we posted the Cranberry Banana Muffins)?! Well, we put those extra cranberries to good use in this recipe. It smells delicious and tastes even better!

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Clean Eat Recipe: CRANBERRY APPLE STEEL CUT OVERNIGHT OATS

Ingredients:

• 2 cups gluten free steel cut oats
• 1 Tbsp honey
• 1 1/2 cups fresh cranberries
• 3/4 cup unsweetened organic applesauce
• 2 apples, cored and sliced
• 1/4 cup Stevia in the Raw
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract (avoid HFCS)
• 3 cups unsweetened vanilla almond milk
• 3 cups water

Directions:

1. Spray your crock pot with non-stick spray (we use an olive oil mister).
2. Put all the ingredients into your slow cooker and cook overnight on low (around 8 hours).
3. Once cooked, stir oats to combine and serve.

How do you Measure Your Best?

People always tell you to do your best - your parents said it, your teachers said it, your friends said it. We tell our friends and our children. It's encouraging, right? But how do you know when we are really doing our best?

Here's the thing: We are often our worst enemy. We try our hardest only to measure that effort to our own standard and fall short of the outrageous standard we created for ourselves. That's when we fail or simply give up because trying to reach our bogus ideal isn't feasible. It's why diets often fail. It's why we stop exercising after one week because we just can't work to the point we think we should. 

It's why we don't reach a goal that we think is really important to us. We are, in fact, our worst enemy. 

So, how do we actually measure what our best is? It all starts with goal setting. We have written many posts on it (read

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), but before you commit to a change in your life, take a moment to walk through the steps you will have to accomplish to make that change. Even if it's taking part in an event - it's a change from your norm. 

Mentally or Physically Map out the Steps to Meeting Your Ultimate Life Change/Task/Goal

Set Small Goals Pertaining to Each Step

Determine a Reward Structure to Reinforce Completion of Each or a Few Steps at a Time

Reach Your Ultimate Goal and Do your Best!

Tiffany

Chicken and Kale Crockpot Soup

Fall weather always reminds me to bring out one of my favorite kitchen gadgets - the slow cooker! Honestly, if you don't have a CrockPot, you are missing out! Slow cookers are so easy and because the food is cooked at a slower, more even temperature for a longer period of time (usually), you don't lose key nutrients that you might with a higher heat. We hope you enjoy this recipe - it was the perfect chicken soup for our chilly Georgia weather this weekend!

Chicken & Kale CrockPot Soup

Ingredients:

• 2 split chicken breasts, skin on
• 16 oz low-sodium, organic chicken broth
• 2 c water
• 1 lbs frozen green beans
• 1 c carrots, sliced
• 1 sweet onion, diced
• 1 TBSP garlic powder
• 1 TBSP onion powder
• 1 TBSP sea salt
• 3 c kale, broken into 2-3" pieces (can be done by hand)

Directions:  

1. Wash and pat dry split chicken breasts and prepare vegetables accordingly.

2. Place all ingredients (except kale) in a large slow cooker and cook on low for approximately 8 hours or 4 hours on high.

3. With heat still on, remove CrockPot lid (Be careful!) and remove and discard the skin from the chicken breasts.

4. Remove chicken from slow cooker and shred chicken, removing the meat from the bone. Discard bones and return chicken to CrockPot.  

5. Add kale to slow cooker, replace lid and cook for an additional 1 hour on low, 30 minutes on high.