Peanut Buttery Hummus (No Tahini)

Planning on whipping up some hummus but don't have any tahini on hand? Let peanut butter come to your rescue!

It happened to me one day few weeks ago. I forgot to get more tahini when I went grocery shopping. Save myself from taking another trip back to the store, I saw my best friend, Google. I searched for the best substitution of tahini - peanut butter. Decided to give it a try. My family never noticed the difference especially saying the flavors I make every time tastes good & delicious. My oldest is NOT a peanut butter person, she dislikes anything that tastes or have peanut butter. She ate hummus wraps, hummus w/ crackers, and few others.. Never noticed the difference! 

I tripled the recipe as I make for family of SIX. Very simple and easy!

ENJOY!!

Ingredients

• 1 can (19 ounces) chickpeas (garbanzo beans), rinsed and drained
• 1-2 garlic clove, peeled and chopped
• 2 tablespoons smooth peanut butter (preferably unsweetened, but conventional is fine too)
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• Himaylian salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1/4 cup of chopped peanuts (optional, for serving)
• Pinch of smoked, hot paprika (optional, for serving)
• Parsley, herbs and seasonings for taste 
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Preparation

1. Put everything except the parsley in a food processor/blender and begin to process; add the chickpea liquid or water as needed to allow the machine to produce a smooth puree.

2. Taste and adjust the seasoning (I often find I like to add much more lemon juice). Serve, drizzled with the olive oil and sprinkled with a bit more cumin or paprika and some parsley.

Ultimate Reset

I will be starting my Ultimate Reset 21-day detox journey starting this Wednesday, May 23rd with my husband, Gary.  I will be sharing my experience, photos, meals, & more on my blog and on my Facebook - be sure to follow & check my progress with Ultimate Reset starting May 23rd for next 21 days!

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Beachbody Ultimate Reset - Every Body Needs a Tune-Ups (check the video by click the link below - there is closed-captioned for Deaf and Hard of Hearing - click CC on the video)

http://beachbodycoach.com/esuite/home/ThriftX?bctid=1534876093001

Why Reset?

Our environment has become more and more toxic. Our bodies absorb pollution and harmful chemicals all our lives, along with the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink. These toxins can get stored in our bodies, clogging our cells and slowing down their natural functions.

It's not enough just to work out and eat right. At Beachbody®, we realized we had to take a break from the everyday and find a way to get those toxins out of our bodies. Along with getting in shape on the outside, we had to start getting healthy on the inside. We decided it was time for a Reset. 

What is the Beachbody Ultimate Reset?

The Beachbody Ultimate Reset is a complete, three-phase, 21-day program that provides everything you need to:

• Phase 1: Balance Body Chemistry Reclaim your body's natural balance. Constant consumption of preservatives and chemical-laden foods along with exposure to toxins and pollution impair normal body processes. During Phase 1, you’ll balance your body chemistry with four of the six supplements in order to optimize its systems. This will also reduce cravings or dependencies on items such as sugar or caffeine
• Phase 2: Remove Toxins & Reset Digestion Release the harmful materials you may be storing within you. In Phase 2, you’ll be reversing the effects of poor habits, unhealthy foods, and environmental toxins. You’ll modify your diet so that your digestive system won’t have to struggle, and digestive problems you may have experienced before such as bloating and indigestion will be significantly reduced as your gastrointestinal tract is cleansed.
• Phase 3: Rejuvenate Your Health  Restore your system to its maximum health.  When you reach Phase 3, you will experience a profound positive change in your mood and energy level. During the final week, you’ll eat foods of high-nutritional value whose nutrients are easily absorbed and return healthy bacteria to your freshly scrubbed digestive tract with pre- and probiotics. This will set you on the path to long-term healthy living.

What are the benefits of the Beachbody Ultimate Reset?

In just 21 days, the Ultimate Reset can help you gently restore your body to its original factory settings," to help you:

• Have more energy and greater focus
• Experience better digestion and a more positive mood
• Enable your body to function more efficiently
• Lose weight
• Improve your overall health

What the Beachbody Ultimate Reset is NOT:

• A starvation diet. (You'll eat three filling, healthy meals every day.)
• An abrupt cleanse that's hard on the body. (The supplements work together gradually to gently shift your body's internal settings.)
• A laxative-based, colon-focused cleanse, which fails to truly detoxify the whole body. (You won't be running to the bathroom every hour!)

What's included in the Beachbody Ultimate Reset?

Six Essential Supplements: The Ultimate Reset Nutritionals are uniquely formulated to help restore your body to optimal health.

• Alkalinize – Helps maintain alkalinity.
• Oxygenize – Helps provide supplemental oxygen to the body.
• Mineralize – Adds natural minerals needed by the body.
• Detox – Helps remove toxins and waste in the colon.
• Revitalize – Helps revitalize flora in the digestive tract.
• Optimize – Promotes healthy metabolism and effective body functions.

Program and Nutrition Guide

• Detailed step-by-step instructions on your 21-day Reset journey.
• Plus a 3-week eating plan with recipes, cooking tips, shopping lists, and more.

Two DVDs:

• Reset Your Health! Includes a complete program overview, instructions for getting started, and Success Stories to help motivate you.
• Cooking Class! Provides an overview of the foods recommended in your Reset, including sample meal-preparation videos.

Support Tools

• Unparalleled support from your Team Beachbody® Coach (ME), fellow Reset participants, and Challenge Groups.
• Access to exclusive UltimateReset.com content.
• Day-by-day online support:

o    Food preparation videos for each day's meals

o    Daily cleanse tips, recipes, and shopping lists

o    Personal experiences from fellow participants

• Mobile-enabled Web site content

Reset Bracelet

Natural fiber bracelet symbolizes your dedication to transforming your life—a reminder to commend yourself for doing your best and give thanks for all you have.

Reset Caddy

 

 With convenient vitamin caddy, you'll never have to worry about missing your supplements. The convenient case is perfect for travel or taking to work.

How is the Beachbody Ultimate Reset different from other cleanse programs?

• The Ultimate Reset isn't a crash diet or a synthetic meal replacement.
• It's an integrated, whole-body reset solution—a step-by-step program that lets you have real food, provides specially formulated supplements, and teaches you conscious living techniques that work to detoxify and restore your body.
• You'll not only help return your metabolism to optimal function, but you'll learn conscious self-care behaviors that can help you maintain better health, even after your Reset.

 

How Do I Get the Ultimate Reset Cleanse?

To learn more about the Ultimate Reset and to order, check out my site at

 www.myultimatereset.com/thriftx

Mother's Day Weekend

Happy Mother's Day!!

Mother's Day Gifts

FIRST 5 PEOPLE WHO COMMITS TO MY 30-DAY CHALLENGE WILL RECEIVE WORKOUT DVDS FOR THEMSELVES OR FOR YOUR MOTHER/GRANDMOTHER/FRIEND (ROCKIN' BODY, BRAZIL BUTT LIFT LEANROS SECRET WEAPON, TURBOFIRE KEEP ON BURNIN) OR E-GIFT CARDS!

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ONLY!!

DEAL ENDS SUNDAY NIGHT 5/13/12!

Not sure what to get your mom, grandmother, friend, anyone for Mother's Day.... Why not invest into something to help your mom, grandmother, friend to become healthy, exercise regularly & help them lead a healthy lifestyle?

OR treat yourself with a great Mother's Day gift to help yourself becoming healthy, learn to eat clean, exercise with a great support system, a FREE accountability coach...

Tomorrow on Mother's Day, if you are a mom, pamper yourself with wonderful day with your family and your kids.  It's about YOU.  How special you are to them in their lives, how you have been a great role model and great person in the family.  You know we often forget this... VERY OFTEN, as we always put others first before ourselves.  We put our husbands, our children, job, school, any particular reasons FIRST before ourselves.  How can you be healthy and be able to help yourself and your family if you aren't putting yourself FIRST?  Let say, you got sick often, your husband and children needed you, you aren't able to due to your sickness.  If you take care of yourself BY eating clean, exercise regularly, lead a healthy lifestyle, you will be able to take care of your husband, your kids, family, etc.

Guess what???  Sustainable weight loss is a complete lifestyle change, not a 12-week eating plan.  Make a HEALTHY choice.... join my 30-day challenge!!

Eat clean, workout, and live healthy!!

I'm hosting 30-day challenge, this is GREAT time to join, get yourself ready to committing eating clean, exercise regularly & get healthy for YOURSELF and for your family! 

JOIN MY 30-DAY CHALLENGE

 Where you will eat clean, workout, be active, feel amazing!!

YES, I CAN!!

MOTIVATIONS!!

Blueberry Streusel Muffins

INGREDIENTS

Muffins: 

• 1 ½  cups gluten-free flour
• 2  teaspoons baking powder
• ½  teaspoon baking soda
• 2/3  cup non-dairy milk or organic milk (I used Almond milk)
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/3  cup of orange juice (can use pineapple or apple juice)
• 1/3  cup of organic applesauce
• ½  cup organic sugar
• 1  cup fresh blueberries (can use apple, strawberries, mixed berries)

Steusel Topping:

• 2  tablespoons organic brown sugar
• 1  tablespoon organic sugar
• 2  tablespoons gluten-free flour
• 2  tablespoons organic applesauce
• 3  tablespoons old-fashioned oats
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon 

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Spray a muffin tin with cooking spray and set aside or line with muffin papers
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder and baking soda and set aside.
3. In a smaller bowl, mix milk, vanilla, juice, applesauce and sugar.
4. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and stir until just combined.  Fold in blueberries (or other fruits).
5. In a small bowl, combine streusel ingredients with a fork until the topping is uniform and crumbly.
6. Spoon muffin batter into a prepared muffin tin, filling each cup 2/3 full.  Top each cup with 1 to 2 teaspoons of streusel topping until it's all used up.
7. Bake for 20 to 23 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING:


173  calories
8  g total fat
1  g saturated fat
0  mg cholesterol
24  mg sodium
24  g carbohydrates
3  g fiber
3  g protein
 

What Plant-Based Nutrition is all about?

Many of you have asked and wondering what plant-based diet are & its benefits. In this blog, I will explain little more on plant-based diet comparing to other vegan/vegetarian diets.



What is Plant based diet?
It's a way of eating based on foods that come from plants and avoiding animal products and highly processed foods.






Some of you asks about what is Vegan? Vegetarians? What is different from plant-based diet?







Vegan is an herbivore, or plant eater, who lives solely on plant products and excludes all animal flesh, including that of poultry and fish, as well as any product made by an animal, such as milk and all other dairy products, eggs, gelatin, and honey. Most vegans typically don't wear clothing or other items made with animal products (such as fur, silk, wool, feathers, or pearls.)

• A vegetarian doesn't eat animal flesh but may consume other animal-based foods like eggs and dairy.  There are several vegetarians.

• Lacto-ovo vegetarians eat dairy (lacto) and eggs (ovo).

• Lacto-vegetarians eat dairy but not eggs.

• Ovo-vegetarians eat eggs but not dairy.

• Flexitarians eat mostly plant-based foods but occasionally eat meat, poultry, or fish, too.

• Semi-vegetarians exclude some meat (usually red meat) but still consume limited amounts of poultry, fish, and/or seafood.

There are several health benefits of a plant-based diet.  There are disease prevention and reversal, weight management, decreased cholesterol levels and improved performance.


Great pictures to learn how to eat plant-based diet/vegan diet. If you need help or learn how to make vegan meal plans, converting into plant-based diet, etc... please feel free to contact me and I'll help you!!

Fruits, Grains, Legumes, and Vegetables chart

The Vegan Food Pyramid

Crack Wraps

Oh my! Tonight's dinner has become my family's BIG another winner! Another favorite meal of ours, Crack Wraps, definitely will make this sometimes!  Easy to make and healthy - one wrap is 276 calories.

ENJOY few of the recipes I posted below:

CRACK WRAPS

Make 4 wraps (we double the ingredients as we are family of 6)

INGREDIENTS:

• 4  La Hacienda de Peas Tortillas (see recipe below on how to make this)
• 1  cup Crazy Good Hummus (see another recipe below on how to make this)
• 1 to 2 ounces shredded or sliced non-dairy Swiss or mozzarella cheese (Daiya mozzarella shreds)
• 1 to 2 teaspoons of melted vegan margarine (Earth Balance)

DIRECTIONS:

1. Place a medium skillet over medium-high heat.
2. Spread your tortilla or wrap with a generous amount of hummus and top with cheese. Tuck both ends of the tortilla up and roll like a burrito.
3. Brush the outside of the wrap with a light coating of melted margarine or a quick blast of cooking spray. Grill wrap on both sides until the outside is toasted and the cheese has melted.

 la hacienda de peas tortillas recipe

makes 6  6-inch tortillas

INGREDIENTS: 

• 2  cups all purpose gluten-free flour
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1  tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon vegan margarine  
• 1/2 to 1 cup water

DIRECTIONS:

1. Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl. Add margarine and work through flour evenly with your hands until fully incorporated. 
2. Pour in water, a few tablespoons at a time, and work in with your hands until a soft ball forms.  Knead dough on a floured board for a few minutes until dough is no longer sticky.
3. Divide the dough into 6 balls and set aside to rest for approximately 20 minutes.
4. On a floured board, roll the dough flat (as thin as possible).
5. Place the tortilla in a skillet sprayed with cooking spray over medium heat, cooking until slightly golden and puffed on each side, about 1 to 2 minutes per side.  Repeat with remaining dough.
6. Store the finished tortillas in the oven on the lowest setting, covered with clean damp tea towels until ready to use.

 
                   Crazy Good Hummus recipe

Makes 2 cups

INGREDIENTS:

• 1  14-ounce can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed (reserve liquid)
• 2  tablespoons tahini
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 2  tablespoons lemon juice
• 2  teaspoons minced garlic
• 1/2  teaspoon cumin
• 3  tablespoons reserved liquid from canned beans
• OPTIONAL GARNISH: paprika and/or olive oil

DIRECTIONS:

1. Drain and rinse chickpeas and place in a colander. Remove skins from chickpeas by squeezing each bean gently between your thumb and forefinger.
2. Place de-skinned chickpeas in a food processor with remaining ingredients. Process until smooth and creamy.

VARIATIONS:

Roasted Red Pepper Hummus: add 1/3 cup jarred roasted red peppers to mix during processing
Kalamata Olive Hummus: add 1/3 cup pitted Kalamata olives to mix during processing
Rosemary and Pine Nut Hummus: add 2 tablespoons fresh, chopped rosemary and 1/4 cup pine nuts to mix during processing.

Organic VS Conventional

Do you know what the difference of Organic and Conventional?? Study and research!! You want the best nutrients to feed your body in a healthy way!