These brownies replace a large amount of the fat usually present from butter or shortening with whipped prunes. They still seem sinfully rich, and no one needs to know how you did it. In addition they use date sugar instead of brown sugar. Date sugar is actually not sugar at all but ground dates, unlike refined [...]
Thrush in the patient’s throat is one of the side effects of killing all the healthy flora in your body with chemicals. Keep a few of these in the refrigerator and let them melt in your mouth a few times a day. It can help remove that metallic taste in your mouth from the drugs [...]
Tags: chocolate, coconut oil, truffles
Refined sugar is the devil. There, I said it.
Date sugar on the other hand has a lovely “brown sugar” flavor and is digested more easily without the humongous gluccose spike you see with refined white sugar.
1/2 c vegetable shortening
1/2 c date sugar
1/4 c warm water
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 c Flour
1 c Organic rolled oats
1 tsp [...]
Tags: date sugar, oatmeal cookies
This apple sauce is comforting and the fiber and pectin help sooth post chemo nausea. Cinnamon is also good for nausea or try it with some fresh ginger.
8 lg apples – peeled, cored and chopped
1 1/2 cups unsweetened organic apple juice
Pinch kosher salt
1 tablespoon agave nectar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Put the chopped apples in a 2 qt. [...]
Tags: cinnamon apple sauce