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Vanilla Cranberry Orange Smoothie

I love cranberries!  So I am super excited to see them popping up in all the area grocery stores.  I scored myself a bag of fresh organic cranberries today to use in cranberry sauce and was left with 1/2 cup of these babies.  So I ate some (yes I do love them straight, I am unique) then decided to blend them into my post workout protein shake.  Yum-o!!!

For sure I had to add orange, because what’s cranberry without orange?  Zzzzzzzz

So here you go everyone, Vanilla, Cranberry, Orange smoothie.

Place all ingredients in blender with ice and blend.  Enjoy!

Vanilla Salted Caramel with Dates

I know now it’s hard to always eat healthy, cutting sugar is no joke!  Sometimes you just want something sweet.  Sweeter than a piece of fruit.  Maybe caramel?  There is nothing like a good salted caramel…am I alone here?  While this isn’t a sticky ooey gooey sugar based caramel, it is a lovely sweet and salty, velvety caramel you can customize to your taste.  In the recipe you can take out the vanilla, making just a salted caramel, add some cocoa to make chocolate caramel…there are so many possibilities.

Now that I am full out drooling, here is the easiest caramel you will ever make.

Place all ingredients in your blender (please make sure your dates are pitted).  Blend until smooth.  Done.  Now enjoy with some sliced apples as a dip, over apple crisp or chocolate cake, frozen then dipped in some naturally sweetened chocolate, you decide.  I would love to hear what uses you found for it.  Shoot us a pic!

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