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Happy New Year Everyone! I have been exploring and creating recipes to bring to you guys this year! Let's start with a easy and quick vegan breakfast. Strawberry Banana Oatmeal Smoothie 1 cup of almond milk 4 large strawberries 1 cup of rolled oats 1/2 frozen banana I added the almond milk and oats in the blender first and blended them for 2 minutes. Then I added the strawberries and banana in the blender. Blend to your liking. There you have it! Less than 10 minutes and breakfast is done!

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Pink Grapefruit Smoothie 1/2 Pink Grapefruit 1/2 Organic Banana 4 strawberries 1/2 blood orange 4 ice cubes Blend for 5-8 minutes

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Breakfast Baked Grapefruit 1 half of a pink grapefruit Two sprays of butter (I used Parkay) Pinch of topping of your choice (I used traders joes cinnamon sugar)

Bake in oven for 5-7 minutes

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Happy Valentine’s Day Enjoy this awesome smoothie recipe Chocolate Smoothie 1 cup chocolate almond milk 1 small hand full of spinach 1 ripe organic avocado 1 small organic banana 1 tbsp cocao powder Topping is option

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Happy Meatless Monday! Vegan Pad Thai

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Strawberry Banana Chai Smoothie 10 strawberry halves 2 tbsp of chai seeds soak in water for 5 minutes 1 organic banana 4 ice cubes 1/2 cup of almond milk Blend for 7 minutes

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Strawberry Smoothie 1/2 cup of Almond Milk 8 strawberries cut in half 1 Organic Banana Place items in blender for 3-5 minutes. Enjoy

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For this awesome Green Smoothie You will need the following Spinach Romaine Lettuce Banana Apple 1 spoon full of greek yogurt Put in the blender for 3-5 minute Enjoy! Have a Great Day Everyone!

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Need a Idea for quick meal? Try a nice and easy spinach salad Ingredients Baby Spinach in bag Boiled eggs Salad topper (opitional) Crunchy Onions Low fat raspberry vinegarette

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Meatless Sloppy Joes Sliders I toasted the slider buns in a small skillet. This meal was served with mango chunks & Alexia all natural crinkle cut fries with baslamic ketchup.

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Happy 2014 Everyone! New Post coming Monday

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Buba and Oleku is the new black these days! I am used to having my dresses made but this time I chose this style! I was going to my friend's wedding and did not want to worry about anything going wrong or mishap.

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What's Cooking in my Kitchen!🍴

I bought some chicken sausage from Trader's Joes and decided to make dinner!

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Castor Oil Challenge & Protective Style Break😃

I have been protective styling lately. I would seal with Jamaican Black castor oil and while my hair was in Havana twist, I would rub Jbco ony scalp at night! 4 months lately and I notice growth and a difference it's makes to protective style! The results are so worth it! Sooo I am on this break of protective styling. I will be trying new products and giving my hair a break before the next set of Havana twist or other styling.

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Havana Twist 4.0

My Havana Twist are back baby! This time I used the fingercomber Havana Hair. I bought 2 dark expresso, 2 onyx, 1 amber and 1 spiced clementine. I installed them myself and it took about 8 hours! I don't know why! I took some breaks for real! And started late Wednesday night at 9 pm and then at 8 on Thursday night. I was tired already! This is my fourth set of Havana Twist and I can say the hair makes a difference. I used for the bottom dark expresso then at the top I used spice clementine and amber as highlights! The color took a few days to get use to but I am loving! The hair is pretty coarse but it has soften up some! Until the next time! Later Eri