Please keep in mind we are not nutritionist or doctors. We recommend checking in with your doctor before making any changes to your diet and exercise routine. Most of our information is based upon our own experiences and research, although we do hope you keep an open mind.
It makes us so happy that everyone is loving our t-shirts!!!!! We are so excited for them and think they will be great for everyone to wear and enjoy Hard to believe the Fitbloggin is only a few weeks away. Michelle and I got so much work to do from now till then.
on our blog a few times or two.. we like to call it our favorite cocktail Synergy is the brand, and you see it out in your stores and if you do not have the time to make kombucha yourself. But I promise making your own kombucha is not that hard! And makes it more affordable when you make it yourself!
There are just so many great health benefits about drinking this fabulous drink! I really think incorporating this drink into one’s lifestyle would not hurt because many people lack ‘healthy’ bacteria in their diets! A simple natural fermented aged culture, made with pure water, sugar and black or green tea. Kombucha is a probiotic. Pro = in favor of; biotic = life. Kombucha balances the pH naturally. Pro-biotic drinks are good for us, they aid digestive health and they give our digestive system balance. Probiotics – means “for life.” It is used to describe products which include microorganisms that are beneficial to health.
And once you drink kombucha a few times you will start craving the flavor and taste. It is sour and can be fizzy!
We find it a much better choice over regular sodas on the market because of the health benefits from drinking kombucha! So go give it a try if you have not already!
Now we are not experts but we have been making our homemade kombucha for a few months now and absolutely love it and know that if we can do it anyone can do it!
Here is the video of Michelle showing how we make our kombucha! Enjoy!
Now we purchased our Mother Scoby from Cultures of Health. They also sell kits that includes mason jars and strains!! But the Kefir lady sells them too. It comes with directions. And the mother comes in a packet on ice. Just place the mother in the fridge till you are ready to place it in tea. Only use pure black or green tea nothing with flavors.
As you will see in this video Michelle splits a baby from the mother, you do not do this with the one you buy. After your first batch you separate the two to make two batches, and the cycle continues with each scoby.
Like the music??? We are getting fancy over here, haha.
Have fun making your homemade Kombucha!!! You can flavor any way you like once it is done fermenting.
Recipe:
For One quart you will need
1 1⁄2 t. loose tea or 2 tea bags
1/4 c. sugar
3 1⁄4 c. (approx.) water
some starter tea from your previous batch (or first kombucha does come in tea)
For Half- gallon
1 T. loose tea or 4 tea bags
1⁄2 c. sugar
6 1⁄2 c. (approx.) water
1 c. starter tea, although we never do that much
Brew the tea with sugar to dissolve. Let it cool to room temperature before adding scoby. Put scoby in mason jar, with whiter side up, and cover with cheesecloth. Leave on counter at room temperature, out of direct sunlight for at least 5 days. We let ours ferment from 10 to 30 days. The longer it ferments the less sugar.
News:
St. Patty’s day is coming fast. And in honor of the great fun holiday we are going to be offering sales on our ‘green’ product line and offering some special extra treats for the holiday like mint chip macaroons and green cookie!
We will posting those new items up on our store here soon and we will let everyone know when the sale on our green crackers and flat breads will be going on for.
Well as many people are running in the half marathon this morning like Sabrina, Katy, and Melissa to name just a few. We wanted to wish them all the best of luck in the race
We have been getting questions of why we are eating the foods we are eating before our race and we plan to share that with you all over these next few days.
We started our day yesterday with a few chocolate truffles and treated ourselves to some coffee.
Than we went to the hotel’s gym to do a easy 30 minute workout. We did a mix of walk, sprint, and easy jog. Then we did a little stretching. Felt great!
Back in the room we enjoyed a romaine grapefruit smoothie with some maca, coconut oil, sunflower lecthin, and msm powder. Delicious!!!! It got thick from the coconut oil so it turned out to be more like a pudding!
Seriously one of the best ways to start the day!! Although it turned out to be our lunch.
Next we packed up all our bags again and moved into another hotel! Traveling with us can be crazy sometimes!
As we drove over to the other hotel we snacked on some raw crackers that we made before leaving NC.
This is our home for the next two days. This is the new tower at the Contemporary Resort.
By the time we unloaded all the bags again we got a little hungry. So Michelle whipped up some coconut yogurt with some spirulina, yacon syrup, and chia seeds.
Plus we sipped on some kombucha.
Then it was time to start making all the goodies for this weekend. All of our pre-workout, during workout, and after workout goodies.
Had to buy some more bananas though – the older sis wanted some of our treats! She wanted energy too and didn’t want to be left out ! Love her!
These little bananas cost us $5.50!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Better be some good bananas!
Dinner – Round One
One jar of sauerkraut with hemp seeds
Round Two
One jar of fermented veggies (daikon, leeks, beets, carrots) topped with dulse flakes and tahini once again!!!!! Heather we are in love!!!!
Dessert was a few more chocolate truffles! YUM! Can’t get enough of these babies. Good thing we made a double batch.
Our older sister gave us a surprise!
Thanks sis YOU ARE THE BEST!!! It was a package full of marathon goodies to help get us get through the race.
Some water, epsom salt, hand warmers, hand bands, chapstick, nose strips, and kleenax plus a few more things!
Well time to go cheer everyone on and than Food Bloggers Lunch with a bunch of great girls. We are very excited to meet everyone!
I do not know about where you live but it is freezing here in NC! We got our fireplace on, still trying to hold off on putting the heat on.
Here is a quick recap of what we enjoyed yesterday, our 3rd day of candida cleanse:
Breakfast – green smoothie – bok choy, raspberries, ginger, chia seeds, lemon zest
Post-workout meal – hemp protein shake with fresh coconut water
Lunch – homemade raw coconut yogurt
Snack – a small cup of homemade Kombucha
Dinner – Avocado cilantro salad with sea salt, garlic, and a drop of apple cider vinegar
Dessert – a cup of warm homemade hemp milk with vanilla and coconut oil
We both very satisfied all day. No complaints…yet ; )
Twins Workout
6 mile run
It was one of our fastest 6 mile run : ) Not bad for running in the cold!Then plan was to run another 11 or 12 miles today, but we ran out of time. We were very busy yesterday and time just flew by, so we decided we needed to get outside for a little bit (the sun was out). And we are still loving our Under Armour Cold Gear outfits!!
We received a comment/question from this amazing lady in regards to us eating fermented foods while on this candida cleanse. This really got our thinking caps on and made us do some reflecting!!
We started to incorporate fermented foods ever since Michelle got back from school at 105 degrees where she learned more about them. And Michelle was immediately hooked, and so was I. Yes there are many health benefits around fermented foods, but we also loved the taste of them, which we were surprised by. Although Kombucha tea I loved immediately as Michelle had to work her way there Now we actually crave them and for us that means our bodies need them due to lacking the good bacteria in us, which we trying to rebuild! This is important for us especially due to getting regular colonics, which strips both the good and bad bacteria.
So when we began this candida cleanse journey just a few days ago, we never thought twice about eating fermented foods (which we have been enjoying them for the past 2 months). Although now we are re-thinking this because we are realizing maybe we were overdoing them, or then again maybe not! Yes there are a lot of positive health benefits around fermented foods (good bacteria – help digestion) but we are realizing we need to find our balance.
I cannot say how much I would recommend a person eat, all I can say is try them and see how you body likes them. From our research, one needs to slowly add fermented foods into your diet and over time you can increase the consumption. For us we somewhat started slowly, mainly drinking Kombucha tea (everyday) and our homemade yogurt (twice a week), but lately we have added raw saukerkraut (2-3 times a week) and water kefir (was about every other day) into our diet….in addition taking a probiotic supplement.
This made me think maybe we have been over doing fermented foods at the beginning stages of our healing. I came across this and sparked major discussing between Michelle and I.
I quote: “You may experience symptoms of “die off,” as the “bad guys” (candida, pathogenic bacteria and parasites) die and leave your body. These symptoms can include digestive pain like gas and bloating, headaches, flu-like symptoms and skin eruptions.
Please note: Bloating and gas our common when you first introduce the good bacteria and will go away.
Now I am not saying this is the reason why I broke out, I still think it was due to getting off birth control and detoxing into a high raw diet. But this might have caused it to continue longer than I expected. I know my body will get used to the fermented foods! As of now I am going to cut back just a little on my fermented food intake and see how that goes.* Side note we do feel better though after we do eat or drink something fermented? So?
So I am going to do a better job of rotating my fermented foods and just have 1-2 meals a day be a fermented food/beverage. I am still going to take my probiotic twice day, because I do feel my body desperately needs good bacteria due to my issues of stomach and constipation problems. I just need to build it slowly!!
Thank you Earth Mother for bringing this to our attention : ) We have some of the best bloggy friends!!!
Again we hope others are learning from our journey! We are actually not surprised about our somewhat over-consumption of fermented foods, because we have always been that way about things. Whenever we heard about something being healthy or would help make us feel better we were all about it. This too happened when we heard about raw foods and all the health benefits. Lesson Learned!! Start slow on anything and let you body tell you to increase it.
Twins Reasons we eat fermented foods:
natural source of good bacteria – do not always like to take supplements
improves digestion – contain lactobacilli and bifidobacteria (which helps constipation, a major health issue of ours)
helps maintain a proper balance of bacteria in the gut
increases vitamin content – fermentation increases vitamins and makes ones present more bio-available.
helps absorbs nutrient being consumed
rich in enzymes (the bases around raw foods)
Inexpensive, especially if you do it yourself
And to end our lovely discussion today we came accross ths quote and wanted to share it with you all.
“In the normal scheme of things, we’d never have to think twice about replenishing the bacteria that allow us to digest food. But since we’re living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I’d group together as a ‘war on bacteria,’ if we fail to replenish [good bacteria], we won’t effectively get nutrients out of the food we’re eating.” – Sandor Katz
Our morning as been going great because we made some of these yummy treats
You may have saw us Tweet these this morning…a new holiday flavor to sell this weekend at the farmers market! And yes we will share the recipe with you all later : ) And yes this is not part of the Candida cleanse, Michelle such a small swipe to ensure taste, and it was hard for her not to keep eating. Anything mint or peppermint is her fav : )
Re-cap of our eats from yesterday
Morning: romaine,grapefruit, chia seeds, and ginger smoothie
Snack: a glass of homemade water kefir
Lunch: homemade raw coconut base yogurt – we sweetened with stevia and cinnamon
Snack: homemade kombucha tea
Pre-dinner snack: sauerkraut topped with spices and Udo’s Oil blend
Dinner: wilted swiss chard salad with black sesame seeds, salt, and lemon juice
Today’s meals were all simple, easy and delicious! So far day 1 of cleanse is going well. We also took all the ‘extra’ supplements throughout the day.
We decided to end our night with coconut milk. Last night on twitter we mentioned that we were going to make some. Now we made ours a little different than how Michelle learned at school
picture from when Michelle was at school - using mature coconuts to make fresh coconut milk
*again this picture from Michelle’s class when she learned how to make
After debating on how we will go about making our own coconut milk without cracking open a ton of mature coconuts. Because as Michelle learned in school they are not fun to open!!!! Therefore we decided to try being a little lazy creative we used plain spring water with coconut butter to our vita-mix and blended till smooth. Overall outcome…. not bad. Needs a little work though we did not add anything else to it like vanilla, salt, or sweetener.
We ended up adding stevia and cinnamon!
Twins Workout:
40 minutes of yoga
push-ups, abs, and leg exercises
How we are feeling/doing:
Overall first day we went well! Though we did not drink a lot of water so tummy did get a little bloated as the night went on. We think it was from our colonics getting things stirred up inside us!
Our energy levels were good we managed to get a good bit of work done. Though I did start to break down again last night while I was washing my face but kept telling myself I am healing and my face will get better!
Well time to get back to work. And don’t forget about our first giveaway!
Sorry for no post yesterday, we were in the car for 10 hours and decided to take the night off when we got in. Thank you for all the safe travel wishes! The road trip went well despite both of us were just extremely anxious to get out of the car, so made the hours, miles go by slow.
Lucky for us we packed along some treats to enjoy during the ride. But before we got in the car, we enjoyed a green smoothie, which we made the night before so when we pulled it out of fridge in the morning it was more pudding like….and surprisingly good.
Thinking ahead, like the smart people we are ; ) we made some “fudgy” macaroons the last night at our parents house…they are a must for us when we travel. I think this wonderful lady would approve.
Yes we enjoyed every single one over the 10 hours…it was like having a treat when we made it to the next city…or crossed over into the next state.
They were so delicious I cannot even tell you : ) There was a mix of chocolate, lime and hemp seeds macaroons!!
We both did not get good sleep, I guess just wanted to get the drive over with and be home already, so we were struggle more than usual to stay awake so to speak. Lucky for us as were pulling off to use the restroom, we were saved my Starbucks!
Unfortunately it did not save us. Lori did not want any so I enjoyed it. I managed to drink about 1/4 of it. It just did not taste good to me, one was because I was drinking it black which I hate. If I am going to have coffee I have to add my hemp or almond milk, I do not like sweet coffee but creamy yes! And second I just do not like the taste of coffee, no matter where it came from, coffee taste like dirt to me now. Period. Which is weird for me to say because I used to be addicted to this stuff.
I have learned my lesson, no worries though, I did enjoy a un-pictured Kombucha Tea!!
Now you may be thinking eating macaroons is not the healthiest to have as our meals (well actually for us it is : ) ). We did pack along although eats.
And
Both of these were from the Whole Foods in Orlando made by the company Glaser Organic Farm. You have seen us eat a lot of their sauerkraut here and here, while we were in Florida, they all have been delicious.
The Nori Crackers were different…took us awhile to get use to the flavor. Despite the fact that we love kelp and dulse, Nori is a little harder for us.
We liked the idea though of mixing a bunch of veggies with tahini and then spreading them on nori, dehydrating them till crispy. Idea wonderful, taste not so much, unless you like the taste of nori!! We had just a few of them so we have some leftover that we will try to get down today ; /
As for the sauerkraut it was perfect.
Yes we travel with nutritional yeast : )
What is nutritional yeast?
A vegan must have condiment. It is a large flake, yellowish in color, that is an non active yeast. So it won’t affect someone who suffers from yeast over growth or Candida. In Australia and New Zealand, nutritional yeast is also called “savory yeast” or “savory yeast flakes”. It is not the same things as Brewer’s Yeast!!
6 reasons why we love nutritional yeast:
yummy nutty cheesy taste
full of b-vitamins
good source of protein
low in fat and sodium
gluten free and vegan
adds a whole new level to any dish, in our opinion
We love to sprinkle it on salads, sauerkraut, mix in salad dressings, sauces, spreads, hummus, or sprinkle it over any vegetable or meal. We love this stuff!!
Our dinner last night was a typical one for us…now our friend Heather thinks her foods is not always pretty (we beg to differ cause your food always looks great to us)… what till you see this.
We were starving so quickly made zucchini pasta with basil sauce topped with turmeric, nutritional yeast, and black sesame seeds.
I know it is not pretty looking, but it hit the spot for us.
Have you had a not too pretty meal but tasted great?? We tend to have a lot of meals like this, you?
Here is to another week…for us vacation : ) We have not been up to anything special, sorry we live boring lives, just usually in the kitchen making goodies for the family to enjoy.
We made a raw key lime cheesecake for our dad because he loves key lime plus he pulled a bunch of fresh limes of his lime tree. So we thought it would be nice to make him something with them, plus nothing beats fresh limes right off the tree.
He loved it, now he says he eats RAW : )
We also have been making a lot of yummy green smoothies for everyone to be enjoying while we are home. Everyone wants a Vita-mix for Christmas We will be posting some of these yummy green smoothies soon.
But we wanted to share with your today that we love health food stores. Even in lovely small Fort Myers there is a small health food store that we are able to go and buy things like nutritional yeast, raw nuts and seeds, agave, and most importanly they offer Kombucha teas and Raw Sauerkraut!!! Yes!! Sorry these little things excite us, we just love going to all types of grocery stores : )
Check out our lunch that we enjoyed after getting some goodies for the week.
Sauerkraut and avocado topped with lime juice (fresh from our dad’s lime tree) and nutritional yeast!
We just think it is so exciting that more and more health food stores are opening up in all areas of the world. Everyone deserves to shop for there favorite things conveniently in their own home town. I know there are a lot of online stores, but sometimes it is fun to be able to go to a store and actually buy things you can eat : ) Do not forget to support your small local stores!!
Last night we made a delicious raw dinner featuring another one of our favorites: KELP NOODLES
Everyone was curious about this, so we sample dand all seemed to like it. Or so they say, LOL> The sauce was real simple: zucchini, tahini, nutritional yeast, olive oil, and basil.
Tonight’s dinner we are making a raw tostada. Lori and I have made a few of these before, plus I made one at school. So I wanted to make one for the family, although the “tortilla” is a new recipe, so we will see.
Have a great evening…we get our Christmas tree tonight, so we are getting all the Christmas decorations out! And for all of you who have contacted us we wanted to let you know we have not forgotten just have not really been on the computer much, but we will get caught up this week. Thanks!
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Can you believe Thanksgiving is already over and now onto Christmas? Last night we went looking at Christmas trees though we ended not buying one yet. Plan to get one before we leave
Must say our eats these past few days have not been too exciting. There has been a mix of:
green smoothies
raw sauerkraut nutritional yeast sandwich (check out our friend Elizabeth who has great tips on making this new obsession of ours)
Raw avocado key lime pudding
Sauteed spiced apples with coconut oil
Raw chia spirulina pudding topped with cacao nibs
And some no pictured items we have enjoyed are leftovers from our thanksgiving dinner so our plates looked pretty much the same. It was really weird having leftovers because we typically do not have leftovers. We usually eat everything that we make that day! We have had some kombucha tea (got the family hooked on these instead of soda : ) ) and a mix of our raw crackers and flat breads (we are obsessed with these that we eat them constantly it feels like).
Also while we have been home it has been a little bit more difficult to get into the workout groove. We have done a little bit of exercise each day though nothing like we were up in North Carolina. We have not figured out why we get in this non-motivating mood while home… maybe it is from being home we feel we can be more lazy? Or that since we are not running around like crazy with orders, etc we can take it more easy here? Grrrr…. need to find our happy medium while being home.
Does that ever happen to you when you go home? That you have all this motivation beforehand but once you get home you loose it all?
Side Note: You might have been noticing some changes on our blog… we finally had the time to start changing our blog design and information. There is still more to come though!! Slow progress Please bare with us, being home our focus is sometimes elsewhere (plus our first time blogging during the holidays).
Hope everyone else is having a wonderful holiday as we are…we will share a very yummy recipe tomorrow : )
Can you all believe Thanksgiving is 2 days away?? Have you started prepping your holiday meals? We have not, but hopefully tonight we will be able to get some prep work done. Lucky for us all the girls in our family like to cook/bake so we are not the only ones responsible for the meal. Plus everyone eats differently in our house, so pretty much you cook or uncook your own food if you want to eat.
Last night we did manage to get a 12 mile run in with the older sis. Sure felt good to finally get in good sweat in. Lori and I have not worked out since Friday. One down side to traveling you do not always have the luxury of working out all the time. But hey you do what you can, right?
We enjoyed 2 not so great green smoothies yesterday. We are really missing our Vita-mix. Our older sister has been interested in green smoothies, but did not have a blender. So we brought down one of our older ones before we got a Vita-mix. It does pretty good, but the texture is a little chunky than we prefer. So we have been having to deal with poor green smoothies : ( Although, our sis has already asked for a nicer blender for Christmas…yay for green smoothies!!
Yesterday’s lunch we had an avocado and another raw sauerkraut from Glaser Organic farm . This one was just a basic red cabbage.
It was alright, not as good as our homemade sauerkraut
But it was not bad once we added some nutritional yeast
Although we were still hungry so we had a few slices of our raw onion green flatbreads
While our sister was at work we got busy doing work at her place.
Here is our home away from home office or we call it our traveling office
Pretty isn’t ? Only thing required is a floor and outlets.
Now here is our older sister’s home office
Her’s a little bit nicer than ours
We did manage to get a good bit of work done! And than went of our 12 mile run that evening followed by a simple hemp protein shake!
Today’s eats have been pretty much the same… green smoothie, snacks of onion breads and macaroons and we each got one of these to drink in our car ride down to Ft. Myers. We got our sister hooked on these too : )
Sorry for the poor quality pictures and random eats, we promise it will get better this week.
Now it’s time to head home : ) We will check in later!
We made it!!! We are in Orlando, FL with our big sis
Here is a quick re-cap of our day yesterday in the car. When we got back from the farmers market (which we sold out we quickly unloaded the car, cleaned, and than packed up my car!
Than it was time to hit the road. Glad that everyone enjoyed our gluten free pumpkin pie recipe It is the recipe we have used for the past few years now!
Here are some of the goodies that we took with us…just a few things ; )
We snacked on some of these little goodies during our road trip done to Valdosta,GA to get us through the long 9 hour trip
Our breakfast before the market was a lovely banana collard green smoothie. Then before we left for our road trip, we each enjoyed our homemade yogurt with some maca, spirulina, and yacon syrup (sorry no picture we were in a hurry)
Our first snack in the car was a slice of one of our onion breads with a cashew ‘hummus’ spread. YUM
Little bit later we enjoyed our cocktail – Kombucha tea
Later we enjoyed one two three four coconut macaroons!
We also ended up grabbing a few more slices of our onion bread (turned out to be our dinner). We didn’t want to stop so we just ate these snacks throughout the drive!
Than we FINALLY made it to Gina’s!! Pulled up to her place a little bit before 11pm (thanks Tom for helping us with directions)
It was so great to see Gina again… I missed my roommate from school. We enjoyed some wine and talked till 2am! I guess we had a lot of catching up to do! Sorry for no pictures of the night.
Lori and I woke up around 8:30 and got ready to get back in a car for the second part of our journey down to Orlando, FL. Sorry Gina and Tom for leaving so early and not being able to hang out more… we will have to plan another visit and stay longer Thanks again for your hospitality and wine You two are the best!!! We hope you enjoy your goodies.
We sipped on some water for the majority of the morning than finally when the sun came out (first two hours of the drive was a down pour) we had one slice of another onion bread and some of our chocolate carob fudge coconut bites (sorry for no recipe – we just threw some ingredients into a food processor)
These little fudge bites were addicting… though helped pass the time
When we finally made it to Orlando, we stopped by heaven Whole Foods Market to get some goodies for lunch and smoothies for the next couple of days.
Enjoyed this in the car ride back to sis’s house!
Hit the spot!
Finally it was time to EAT!!! Since we have been craving raw sauerkraut we found some at WHF and wanted to give it a try. We were so excited to eat this : )
Lunch is served
YUM We both really liked this raw sauerkraut it was flavored with some ginger! We love ginger. We got two more of this brand’s sauerkraut to try over the next few days!!! I am excited. The company, Glaser Organic Farms, is out of Miami, FL so for those of you that live in Florida lucky you!! They offer other goodies but we just wanted the sauerkraut.
Also we got more cocktails to enjoy
And ended our lunch with some
Vanilla hemp macaroons – and new flavor YUM!
Ok now relaxing with the older sis and probably heading to Disney parks tonight to see all the Christmas lights!!
Well it has been raining here in NC all day …though we need the rain here. But my herb garden is slowing getting washed away from all the rain.
Our day was pretty productive I must say Here is what we got done:
emails
phone calls
made batches of our coconut oil agave based frosting for some cupcakes and cake orders
tons of laundry
made a few rounds of kale onion breads for market
made our samoa cookies for market
made a new yogurt recipe
made a new round of kombucha tea
prepping for baking all night for a large order for tomorrow :/
25 minutes of kickboxing, abs, push-ups and calisthenics
45 minutes of core yoga from yogadownload – its a killer!
Pretty proud of myself for getting all that done on this rainy day. Usually I am never in the mood to do much! So what do I do to treat myself …make some raw ice cream of course. Who doesn’t love a good bowl of ice cream now and then?
Not just one flavor of ice cream but TWO!!!!
As part of our dessert theme week
Can you guess the two flavors… we will reveal the flavors and recipes tomorrow morning I know you all just love the anticipation. We had an unexpected change in our recipe… find out why tomorrow
Flavor one
Flavor two
Find out more about these two delicious recipes tomorrow!
Twins Eats for the day:
Both of us were feeling really good today and having happy tummy’s and success in the bathroom (sorry again had to say it… because this is huge for us)
Ok back to the goods
Morning started with green smoothie (cilantro, parsley and papaya, Vega’s EFA blend, and flax meal)
Than made some ice cream and had to try a few bites!! YUM!!
Dinner was another green smoothie (more cilantro, parsley, kiwi, stevia, lime)
Evening snack: avocado chlorella pudding filled with yacon, maca, and stevia (though it may not look too pleasing… it really hit the spot… I just love how avocadoes get so light and airy when whipped in a blender.
I stirred my yacon syrup Michelle left hers on top so that is the brown liquid stuff you see on hers!
Simple yet satisfying late dinner snack!
Plus we had a glass of our cocktail homemade kombucha tea (we flavored it with fresh ginger) This batch fermented for about 10 days!
Don’t worry though we got plenty more kombucha fermenting for us later this week and some will be ready next week! So excited… can’t seem to get enough of this stuff.
Plus we made a new yogurt recipe today – Can’t wait to eat it tomorrow!!!
Both of our bodies really seem to like and appreciate all the fermented foods and drinks (we also have water kefir every other day). Good bacteria finally growing and staying inside us!!!
Oh yeah almost forgot we also finally ordered our new Nike Frees for our marathon. Check them out.
We have been wearing them around the house to help break them in. Now they are not the most stylish shoe but we like how they feel on our feet!
So far we are liking them… though have not ran in them yet. Maybe tomorrow or Friday!
Have a fantastic evening… it is going to be a long one here for the twins.
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Hard to believe the Fitbloggin is only a few weeks away. Michelle and I got so much work to do from now till then.
Synergy is the brand, and you see it out in your stores and if you do not have the time to make kombucha yourself. But I promise making your own kombucha is not that hard! 
You may have saw us Tweet these this morning…a new holiday flavor to sell this weekend at the farmers market! And yes we will share the recipe with you all later : ) And yes this is not part of the Candida cleanse, Michelle such a small swipe to ensure taste, and it was hard for her not to keep eating. Anything mint or peppermint is her fav : )
Yes we enjoyed every single one over the 10 hours…it was like having a treat when we made it to the next city…or crossed over into the next state.
They were so delicious I cannot even tell you : ) There was a mix of chocolate, lime and hemp seeds macaroons!!
And
Both of these were from the Whole Foods in Orlando made by the company 
We liked the idea though of mixing a bunch of veggies with tahini and then spreading them on nori, dehydrating them till crispy. Idea wonderful, taste not so much, unless you like the taste of nori!! We had just a few of them so we have some leftover that we will try to get down today ; /
Yes we travel with nutritional yeast : )
We were starving so quickly made zucchini pasta with basil sauce topped with turmeric, nutritional yeast, and black sesame seeds.
I know it is not pretty looking, but it hit the spot for us.
Sauerkraut and avocado topped with lime juice (fresh from our dad’s lime tree) and nutritional yeast!
We have done a little bit of exercise each day though nothing like we were up in North Carolina. We have not figured out why we get in this non-motivating mood while home… maybe it is from being home we feel we can be more lazy? Or that since we are not running around like crazy with orders, etc we can take it more easy here? Grrrr…. need to find our happy medium while being home.
Pretty isn’t ? 
Hit the spot! 
