Health & Nutrition

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12 Healthy & Awesome Ways To Use Coconut Oil

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12 Healthy & Awesome Ways To Use Coconut Oil

You have probably been hearing about all the benefits of coconut oil. If you haven't... you can learn more by clicking HERE. If you know about the benefits, but don't know what to do with it, I'm here to help! 

Coconut Oil has been a staple in my family for awhile now, and we seriously use it ALL the time. Here's a few of my favorite ways. 

  1. Toss in your frying pan for anything you normally fry with canola or vegetable oil. It will cook the same, taste delicious, and be way more healthy. Cooking with coconut oil at high heat is fine. 
  2. Use it to grease your crock pot, muffin tins, baking dishes- or anything else you need non- stick. 

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Ginger Hibiscus Iced Tea Recipe

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Ginger Hibiscus Iced Tea Recipe

GINGER HIBISCUS ICED TEA RECIPE

Since you all loved my Sparkling Lemonade Recipe (click if you didn't see it yet), I thought I would share with you another warm weather favorite of mine. This recipe was from my mother in law, and gets tweaked a little bit each time I make it. 

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Sparkling Lavender Lemonade Recipe

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Sparkling Lavender Lemonade Recipe

Sparkling Lavender Lemonade Recipe

One of my favorite summery drinks- and oh so easy! Summer patio drinks don't have to be sugary or alcohol filled. Here is my simple recipe:

Put down that Chocolate bunny and step away!

Put down that Chocolate bunny and step away!

PUT DOWN THAT CHOCOLATE BUNNY AND STEP AWAY!

Is it time to admit you have had ENOUGH chocolate eggs, bunnies and chicks? For many people, the sugar roller coaster has made for a very long weekend. 

Sugar can be very hard on our bodies, in many ways. There are studies which report the average American consumes well over 100 pounds of sugar per year!!! Aside from our regular daily intake, holiday weekends like this don't help with our healthy eating plans. If you need some convincing to toss the rest of that chocolate away, here's just a few tidbits on sugar. 

  1. Our blood sugar levels need to remain fairly constant for our livers and other organs to function properly. When we eat refined sugars(sweets, candy, white sugar), it will raise blood sugar levels and help us to feel good. The liver and pancreas will try to decrease the sugar to a safer level, then this resultant drop in blood sugar results in a craving for even more sweets. Its a cycle, and a bad one.