Garlic-basil shrimp with chick peas, broccoli slaw, and tomato basil sauce + garlic-basil roasted eggplant for dinner. I’m obsessed with broccoli slaw and garlic with basil.

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Lemon-basil Shrimp and Veggies

Healthy Donuts!

I decided to give Cassey’s “Cheap Clean Eats” donut recipe a try last night. However, I didn’t have any almond flour so I swapped in oat flour, plus a tiny bit of whole wheat flour and I think they came out pretty alright!

Also, I have a donut pan that yields much bigger donuts than the ones she made, so I reduced the recipe by 1/3 because I didn’t want to use up three of my eggs for the week and I really only wanted to make three donuts anyway. Don’t yell at me for the weird measurements. I’m bad at math.

You’ll need:

1/3 cup oat flour 

1/3 of 1/4th cup whole wheat flour (I just eyed this using a 1/4 cup)

a dash of salt

a dash of baking soda

optional: a dash of cinnamon

1 egg

1/3 of 1 tablespoon honey

1/3 of 1/4th cup coconut oil (again, I just eyed this using a 1/4 cup)

scant 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

1.) In a small bowl, mix together the dry ingredients.

2.) Add in the remaining ingredients and stir until well mixed and the egg is blended.

3.) Scoop the dough into an oiled donut pan. (This made three donut pan sized donuts for me.)

4.) Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes.

5.) Remove from oven and let cool for 2-3 minutes.

6.) Serve and enjoy. Check out Cassey’s recipe video for healthy icing ideas! (I was too lazy to make icing, which would have made them much prettier looking. :P)

The Most Important Component of a Healthy Diet

While I was obsessing about which food would make me feel good, whether or not I should eat that piece of toast, or why it was important to stick to the green juices until 1pm – I was missing out on the whole point.

No matter what we eat, whether it follows ‘the rules’ or not (and by now, Im a big fan of throwing the rulebook out altogether) – we can stop obsessing about whether it’s “right” and just love it anyway. “Is this food healthy?” Say yes. Love that piece of bread, bite of kale, or bit of cheese, no matter if the textbook says it’s alkaline or not. Feel good about what you eat. Bless it. Fill it with love and appreciation as it enters your body. 

And then know, without a doubt, that you just ate something nourishing. You accepted nourishment from the Universe, and you accepted it with love. Then let it go, and think about more important things, like how you’re going to love yourself so much that it inspires all those around you to do wonderful things.

Does this mean pick up the nearest Kit-Kat and mow it down? Maybe, but probably not. Do you really love that Kit-Kat? Will you be able to truly feel like you’re eating something nourishing when you’re eating processed sugar? For me – I don’t feel that way. I feel the love when I eat chia, toast + coconut oil and green juices. For others, they may feel the love while munching on free range meat + goat cheese.

It all just comes down to love.

What really matters is that we invite love into our mouths with every bite. That, no matter what is available to us in that moment, we decide it’s going to nourish us, or we don’t eat it. We choose to feel good about what we eat, and if we can’t do that, we don’t eat it.  We pour our love and appreciation into every bite, every morsel, and in that way, we truly adopt the best diet ever – that of love.

- Beth Watson for HealthyCrush.com

[image via Healthy Crush]