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What is a Morning Routine? Essentially, a morning routine consists of a series of habits and small actions that you take to prepare for your day ahead. Some people start off with exercise, while others take a moment to pause over a cup of coffee. There is no wrong way to do it as long as you set yourself up for success in the process. Can Healthy Morning Routines Boost Everyday Wellbeing? Absolutely, a morning routine can significantly enhance your mental and physical health, improving your mood, reducing stress, and boosting productivity. If you’ve been looking for a way to make a positive change in your life, give it a try!

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Chocolate lava cake is a French dessert that features a warm, rich chocolate cake with a gooey, molten, "lava" chocolate center. Legit is one of the best and easiest desserts that come together in no time! Chocolate lava cake is best served and enjoyed while it is warm. This recipe requires only a few simple ingredients, and I'm excited to show you how to make it.

Easy to Make Chocolate Lava Cake (Molten Cake Recipe)

Here is how to make the most delectable oven-baked bacon wrapped chicken breasts recipe without brown sugar. This juicy and nutritious chicken recipe is easy, tasty, and such a crowd-pleaser! Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Breasts is kid-friendly as most kids love everything bacon! The ingredients for oven-baked bacon wrapped chicken breasts are simple. First of all, the chicken is well seasoned and then wrapped with bacon, protecting them from over-drying. In the end, you are left with juicy, tasty chicken breast that you can serve with any side dish.

Oven-baked Bacon Wrapped Chicken Breasts (No Brown Sugar)

This simple oven-baked buttery honey mustard salmon recipe is first seasoned with the honey mustard sauce and then baked to perfection. These salmon are tasty, flaky, and buttery, and not to mention that they are super easy to make and require no expertise! I have several salmon recipes on the blog, including air fryer and pan-seared salmon. However, this oven-baked buttery honey mustard salmon is our favorite. The butter, honey, and mustard are used to make this recipe unique. These will be your favorite, too! This oven-baked salmon recipe is ideal for meal prepping and can be versatile and great for special occasions.

Favorite Oven-Baked Buttery Honey Mustard Salmon Recipe

Healthy Recipes

Silky red beet puree, aka beetroot puree, is simply a recipe of pureed cooked beets, coconut milk, fresh garlic, salt, and pepper. Red beet puree is sweet, savory, flavorful, colorful, and comes with a perfect kick of freshness from the fresh raw garlic. Red beet puree recipe is easy to make; easily peel and cut up a couple of raw red beets, boil to soften, and then blend the boiled beets to become creamy and smooth! Healthy beet side dish is ready in less than 40 minutes. Serve pureed beets with salmon, meat, or any choice of main. #Beet #Beetpuree #Pureedbeet #Gardenbeet #Beetrootpuree #pureedbeetrot #Beetsidedish #Beets #beetrecipe #vegetablesidedish

Red Beet Puree: Homemade Beetroot Purée from Scratch

This healthy Salmon recipe is easy to make; it is tasty, gluten-free, low-carb, and perfect for family dinners, hosting, and holidays. Healthy salmon with lime-cashew-spinach green sauce can be cooked in the air fryer or stovetop and will be ready in under 20 minutes. This salmon recipe requires only a few ingredients; salmon, olive oil, and Cajun seasoning. For the green sauce, you will need spinach, cashew, lime, salt, and pepper. #Vegetarianrecipe #fish #salmon #airfryerrecipes

Salmon with Spinach-Cashew Sauce (Stovetop & Air Fryer)

Easy to make healthy charcuterie board is vegetarian (no meat) and more nutritious than most cheese boards. Packed with summer fruits, brined veggies, dried fruits, and nuts, this is the only vegetarian charcuterie board recipe you will ever need! The best thing about a charcuterie board is that it is very customizable, so a charcuterie at BBQs, picnics, parties, and gatherings is a great idea! If you are looking for a 4th of July charcuterie board or summer charcuterie board idea, I got you! This board has the perfect red, white and blue patriotic colors to celebrate American Independence. #charcuterie #healthycharcuterie #Vegetariancharcuterie

Healthy Charcuterie Board Without Meat

A simple recipe of air fryer mushrooms requires sliced mushrooms, paprika, olive oil, onion powder, garlic powder, dry thyme, salt, and pepper! Making mushrooms in your air fryer is the easiest way to make mushrooms. It takes only a few minutes, resulting in the best tasting mushroom ever! You can add sliced air-fried mushrooms to salads and bowls or use them as appetizers or snacks. This easy salt and pepper air fryer mushroom recipe with paprika is vegan and can replace meat/fish!

Sliced Air Fryer Mushrooms with Paprika

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Healthy pomegranate arugula salad with apples and pecans is easy to make, pretty, and perfect for any occasion! My pomegranate salad bursts with delicious flavors from the slightly spiced arugula, sweet and crisp apples, and crunchy pecans. This easy salad is bejeweled with fresh pomegranate seeds or arils and finished with pomegranate salad dressing. This would make an enviable summertime salad recipe as well! #Pomegranatesalad #arugulasalad #pomegranate #salad

Pomegranate Arugula Salad, Apples and Pecans

Super healthy and easy-to-make strawberry blueberry spinach salad, aka berry spinach salad with lime olive oil vinaigrette, is loaded with nutritious antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. Amazingly this spinach and berry salad calls for only a few ingredients - spinach, strawberries, blueberries, walnuts, and a simple lime olive oil vinaigrette! This strawberry blueberry spinach is low-carb, gluten-free, vegan, and easily customizable. #Salad #Spinachsalad #healthysalad #Strawberrysalad #detoxsalad #vegan #lowcarb

Easy Strawberry Blueberry Spinach Salad Recipe

Healthy and delicious keto cobb salad is low-calorie (low-carb, obviously), gluten-free, very tasty, and full of flavors. This salad is made with fresh romaine lettuce, sautéed chicken breast, crispy bacon, hard-boiled eggs, cherry tomatoes, avocado, and crumbled feta cheese. The best thing about this cobb salad is it can be prepped ahead, which means it comes together quickly whenever you want to eat it! This is the low-carb meal prep salad recipe you are looking for; easy, breezy, and tasty! Definitely a must-try!

Easy Keto Cobb Salad with Creamy Yogurt Dressing

Healthy and fresh blueberry watermelon feta salad recipe with balsamic reduction is refreshingly sweet, savory, and easy to make! The best part about this recipe is that it comes together so fast and is equally cheap with readily available ingredients! This easy watermelon salad needs only four main ingredients – fresh watermelon, fresh blueberries, feta cheese, and fresh mint leaves. Look no further for an easy nutritious watermelon salad recipe for summer picnics or potlucks. This blueberry watermelon feta salad is equally excellent for Memorial Day or July 4th red, white and blue patriotic recipes!

Blueberry Watermelon Feta Salad (Best Summer Salad)

Air Fryer Favorites

Cooking chicken thighs in the air fryer is currently my (healthy) obsession and, honestly, the best thing! These bone in chicken thighs in the Air Fryer are crispy on the outside and yet very juicy on the inside. Air fryer thighs are packed with flavors, easy to cook, and ready in 30 minutes or less. The best part is that you can serve air fryer chicken thighs with just about any main side dish. Relatively, they pair so well with fried rice, cabbage, roasted veggies, salads, and literally any dish as a choice of protein. #Airfryerthighs #Airfryerchicken #Chickenthighrecipe #Airfryerrecipe #Chickenrecipe

Air Fryer Chicken Thighs (with Bone in Thighs)

A simple recipe of steak bites in an air fryer with bell peppers, onions, herbs, spices, and cooks in less than 15 minutes is the satisfying pick-me-up dish you want on your table today! Air-fried steak bites and peppers are tasty, flavorful, colorful, scrumptious, crispy, shiny, juicy, and just finger-licking good! These steak bites are equally keto, gluten-free, whole30, and sugar-free. Cooking pepper steak, aka steak bites or beef tips, is easy and comes through quickly in an air fryer. I hope you can give these air fryer steak bites a try! #Steakbites #Steak #Peppersteak #Steakrecipe #beefbites #Beeftips #airfryersteak

Air Fryer Steak Bites and Peppers (Pepper Steak )

A simple recipe of garlic butter shrimp cooked in the air fryer is buttery, flavorful, and satisfyingly delicious! All you need is a few ingredients alongside fresh garlic and a good quality butter. Then season the shrimp with the ingredients and melted butter, and simply air fry for less than 10 minutes. Air fryer garlic butter shrimp is the perfect weeknight or weekday recipe everyone will swoon over! This garlic butter shrimp is an excellent keto meal with low carbohydrate and high protein. #Airfryershrimp #Garlicbuttershrimp #Shrimprecipe #Airfryerseafood #airfryerrecipes

Air Fryer Garlic Butter Shrimp Recipe

Healthy and easy zucchini chicken stir fry made in the air fryer is easy to make, flavorful, colorful, delicious, and satisfying! This unique stir fry with chicken and zucchini chicken makes a quick weekday lunch or dinner! With just a few easy steps and a short cooking time, this easy zucchini stir-fry with chicken will be your new go-to dinner on a busy night. And the best part is that you use your air fryer!

Zucchini Chicken Stir Fry in the Air Fryer

Let’s Make Smoothies

Easy blueberry smoothie recipe is nutritious, creamy, and satisfyingly delicious! This blueberry smoothie recipe requires only four ingredients - frozen blueberries, frozen banana, yogurt, and orange juice! Blueberry smoothie is kid-friendly and one of my kids' favorites, aside from my tropical smoothie and peach/strawberry smoothie! A healthy and refreshing blueberry smoothie is what your body needs to start the day right! Healthy smoothies are packed with plenty of health benefits. Blueberries, particularly, are incredible heart-healthy foods. They are equally notable for brain health and blood sugar!

Easy Blueberry Smoothie Recipe for Breakfast

Are you looking for a way to increase your daily vitamin C intake as you quench your summer thirst? I got you! This simple and easy immune-boosting citrus smoothie, also known as Vitamin C smoothie, is equal to the task. With its high vitamin C content, citrus is essential for preventing infections and reinfection. Your immune system can benefit from consuming vitamin C

Vitamin C Immune-Boosting Citrus smoothie

beet strawberry smoothie is healthy, wholesome, refreshing, beautiful with a pinky-purple color, and satisfyingly delicious! This healthy smoothie recipe requires only 5 ingredients! Fresh beet (beetroot), strawberries, yogurt, banana, and orange juice. If you have never tried a beet and strawberry combo before, you are indeed in for a treat! The earthiness of beetroot is perfect with the sweetness of strawberries.

Healthy Beet Strawberry Smoothie Recipe

Healthy and nutritious mango pineapple smoothie recipe is refreshing and perfect for those hot days! We call it "nice cream" around here, and the kids love it! This creamy tropical smoothie deliciousness can easily replace your ice cream. To make this vegan mango pineapple smoothie, you will need only five ingredients and a high-speed blender. A thick smoothie by nature, but you can thin it out by adding more liquid. #Tropicalsmoothie #Mangosmoothie #summersmothie #Pineapplesmoothie #nicecream

Mango Pineapple Smoothie (Best Tropical Recipe)

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A simple recipe of fresh peach iced tea without sugar is healthy, cooling, refreshing, tasty, and the perfect thirst quencher all year round. I typically joke that fresh peach iced tea is the drink of summer. This peach iced tea is ideal for cooling down during the sweltering summer heat! The best thing about this iced tea with fresh peaches is that it uses fresh peaches. We skipped the sugar and sweetened this iced tea with monk fruit sweetener so you could drink as much as you wanted without feeling guilty.

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Nigerian moi moi, also spelled Moin moin, is steamed bean pudding. This simple but very delicious dish is one of the most famous African street foods. You can easily combine (blended) bean paste with onions, peppers, garlic, tomato paste, herbs, and spices to make this unique, tasty dish. Nigerian moi-moi is savory, flavorful, nutritious, and insanely delicious. I am excited to show you how to make it. The best part is that this recipe is vegan.

Nigerian Moi Moi/Moin moin: Steamed Bean Pudding

Nigerian Chicken Suya Recipe

Nigerian egusi soup is one of the best soups in African cuisine. With a slightly yellow and reddish color and sprinkles of green leaves, this African soup is rich, flavor-packed, and hearty. This favorite soup is loved both at home and in the restaurant. Egusi soup is easy to make as it requires only a handful of ingredients, including ground egusi seeds, meat, dry fish, ground crayfish, and other ingredients. Most African countries and tribes generally enjoy it, especially Nigeria. In Nigeria, egusi is a show stopper and a well-referred soup! This spectacular soup is versatile and typically eaten with "swallow" such as fufu, garri/eba, pounded yam, amala, oat fufu, etc. You can also pair egusi soup with plain white rice.

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Avocado is a superfood! There are different types of Avocado, and Avocado has so many health benefits! They're delicious, incredibly nutritious, and have many health benefits! If you need an excuse to eat more Avocado, here's what to know about this delicious fruit! Also, you can add them to recipes! From avocado smoothies to guacamole or avocado sweet potato bites!

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Easy recipe for healthy banana oat granola clusters in the air fryer! This chunky granola is vegan, gluten-free, and refined sugar-free, and they come together so quickly in your air fryer! Homemade granola clusters are healthier and better than anything you can buy. Banana granola has no preservatives, refined sugar, or artificial ingredients. It is also dairy-free! Simply combine overripe banana and oat to make these healthy chunky granolas in your air fryer! #bananagranola #chunkygranola #airfryergranola #granolarecipe

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Air fryer salmon is easy, quick, tasty, and cooks in less than 10 minutes. This best healthy salmon recipe has a crisp outside and flaky + tender inside! Air-fried salmon is flavorful, tasty, light, and perfect with any side dish! This is genuinely the best healthy salmon recipe; also, it is low-carb, keto, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, and nut-free! #Salmon #seafood #Airfryersalmon #Fishrecipe #salmonrecipe #healthysalmonrecipe

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Acorn squash is a winter squash variety that is loaded with nutrition. It's low in calories but full of fiber and deliciously hearty. This buttery roasted air fryer acorn squash recipe is flavorful, easy, and perfect for your holiday dinners. Need a quick and delicious side dish everyone will want to pile onto their plates? Air fryer roasted acorn squash is the answer you need! You can also bake fresh acorn squash in the oven if you do not have an air fryer! Baked acorn squash is the best fall side dish for the holidays!

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A simple and easy recipe for air fryer green beans with garlic butter sauce requires only a few ingredients; fresh green beans, onions powder, salt, pepper, avocado oil as well a drizzle of garlicky, buttery sauce! Air fried garlic green beans are easy, quick, tender, crisp, deliciously delightful, and perfect with any main dish. P.s. I love it with salmon! This air fryer fried green beans recipe cooks in less than 10 minutes in the air fryer (well, obviously)! But we don't stop there; I take it a little further with my garlic butter sauce. #airfryergreenbeans #greenbeans #garlicsauce #airfryerrecipe

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HEALTH is WEALTH

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Healthy Recipes

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The healthier life

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