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Grandma Kay's 5 Minute Frozen Cranberry Dessert Recipe

I’m sharing a super special recipe with you all — my family ate they frozen cranberry dessert every Thanksgiving for my entire life as it was my Grandma Kay’s signature! It’s SO good and the perfect balance between sweet and tart. Now that she’s passed, I make it every year in her honor and my dad and I pretty much eat the whole pan.

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30 Minute Dinner: Gluten Free Greek Pasta

If a recipe takes more than 30 minutes, I’m not interested, ya feel me? I started making this super easy Greek pasta YEARS ago and now have modified it to be gluten free (also easily dairy free). This dinner makes an appearance a couple times a month because it’s so quick and EVERYONE loves it!

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Super Easy and Healthy 3-Bean Salad Recipe (half the sugar!)

My parents are just OBSESSED with 3-Bean Salad. I mean, it's absurd. They buy it for like, every event. Recently, they've been making alot of health changes and I wanted to be able to create this salad in a healthier way. The pre-made kind is FULL of sugar and nasty industrial oils so I took it upon myself to take care of that.

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Recipe: Crockpot Pasta Fagioli {Gluten Free + Vegan}

Growing up, one of my favorite memories was going to Olive Garden with my Italian grandma and eating Pasta Fagoli and mountains of breadsticks. Although I can no longer have gluten or dairy, this soup comes pretty darn close and takes minutes to make.

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Healthy-ish Unicorn Hot Chocolate Recipe {Gluten + Dairy Free}

First, we just need to stop kidding ourselves. Nothing about unicorn hot chocolate is healthy. Have you seen it lately? If not, scroll down because there's about 4,735 photos of it.

But after being overwhelmed by it's cuteness online, and finding a newfound appreciation for all things unicorn, I had to find a way to make it at least healthIER, so that kids everywhere don't just start dropping dead. I never knew that blogging would turn into a life saving endeavor.

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How To Meal Prep For Breakfast + Lunch

When it comes to healthy eating on a busy schedule, meal prepping is a MUST! Do you hear me? I realize that isn't what you wanted me to say, but lying to you isn't gonna get us anywhere. I know, you have visions of like seventeen pots on the stove and stuff spilled everywhere whilst you try to jam another container in the fridge - but it doesn't have to be that way. And it doesn't have to take all weekend. Just so happens I have quite a bit of experience in the meal prepping arena and I've developed a formula of sorts. And if I've been able to teach my parents how to do it - you got this.

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Easy Roasted Tomato Basil Capellini | Gluten Free + Vegan

I'm Italian. And in 2013, when the powers that be told me I could no longer have gluten, or dairy, and about a billion other things, I had a bit of a bad reaction. It involved a lot of crying, spazzing, and laying on the floor crumpled up questioning, "Why?" While I was down there, I also questioned why my forefathers decided to settle in the Midwest as opposed to, I don't know, Hawaii or New Zealand. 

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How To Pack An Amazeballs Gluten Free Picnic: No Weaved Basket Required

There's nothing worse than seeing a charcuterie board when you can no longer consume gluten or dairy. Picnics and charcuterie boards are like besties, and it's annoying. So let's solve this dilemma once and for all and show you how to have a fabulously tasty, dairy free, gluten free picnic. Because I did, using some of my favorite items (all linked below). And actually, it works out better if you have dairy free stuff considering the spoilage factor. So boom.

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Step By Step: How To Make Nice Cream | Paleo + Gluten Free + Vegan

I can't even right now. So good it almost makes me want to sing a Neil Diamond song if I didn't despise him. I woke up this morning with this recipe in my head. And it's not just any plain old banana nice cream, y'all. It's new and improved and awesomer. But, first we need to talk about nice cream - do you even know of what I speak? 

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Chocolate Strawberry Smoothie | Paleo + Gluten Free + Vegan

Looking for a gluten free, dairy free, refined sugar free, perfectly balanced smoothie that doesn't taste like cardboard and is still good for you? Such a thing DOES EXIST!

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