Category Archives: Conscious Living

Adventures in Baking: Gluten-free, sugar-free fruit muffins

Brian and I have been experimenting with gluten-free baking. It’s a big thing to add to our existing dietary restrictions, which include no sugar and minimal dairy (zero cheese). He’s been working on a gluten-free, sugar-free, dairy-free fruit muffin recipe (adapted from Kitchen Rag) and I’m loving it! We’ve tried it a couple of times […]

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My Life Vision Board 2013

Recently, I felt called to create a new vision board. I came back from my trip to Costa Rica in March with a strong need to nest, to begin making my adopted home of Northern California a real home base with a stronger sense of family and community. Hubby and I decided to dedicate our Thursday […]

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A decadent dessert for two (sugar free, of course!)

It’s been quite a while since I’ve had chocolate lava cake, my old-time favorite dessert. Its absence from my life is a result of sugar-free living. (I’ll explain the whys and wherefores to you soon but, for now, suffice it to say that I’m very careful about ingesting sugar and sugar substitutes, and I generally […]

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No-sugar-added birthday cupcakes

For the past couple of years, I’ve experimented with living sugar free. And by sugar free, I don’t mean using sugar-free syrups and so-called “diabetic friendly” sweeteners. I mean, adding zero sugar or sugar substitutes to my food. Therefore, when my 35th birthday came around this year, I wanted some no-sugar-added carrot cupcakes and my culinary […]

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