"Riced" Cauliflower

More nutritious than rice X100! You can find the original recipe here.

A BETTER Almond Pancake Recipe!

This morning's breakfast was absolutely delicious as you can see in the photo! The last time I made pancakes, although it was a Maximized Living recipe, I felt it could be better. Then my chiropractor told me about Kimberly Roberto's blog. Kimberly is the co-author of the Maximized Living Nutrition Plans book. Her recipes are categorized extremely well and so far I like her recipes better than some of the recipes in the actual book. 


Here is the recipe for these almond pancakes which taste a little bit like a cookie! Remember.... no pancake syrup, maple syrup, or agave nectar can be poured on top. I simply tossed some wild blueberries on top of mine. EXTREMELY delicious and.... gluten-free! I didn't have almond meal at the time so I used almond flour.

• 1/2 cup ground almonds (or storebought almond meal)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons xylitol (or use stevia to taste)
• 1 organic egg
• 4 additional organic egg whites
• butter

Mix almonds, baking powder, cinnamon, baking powder, xylitol, and egg.  In a seperate bowl, whisk egg whites to soft peaks.  Fold egg whites into the almond mixture.  Heat a non-toxic skillet (no teflon!), add a pat or two of butter.  Drop batter into hot pan to size you prefer – silver dollar size to CD size.  When browning occurs around the edges flip and cook the other side.

Original recipe can be found here.

INSPIRED TIP: Be sure to beat the egg whites for quite a while before adding them to the mixture.

Wonderful Weekend Grainless Pancakes

Grainless Pancakes 

Pancakes - a real weekend treat, right?! This morning I decided to make the Grainless Pancake recipe from the Maximized Living nutritional plan book. On the ML plan there is no sugar of any kind so what the heck do you have with pancakes in place of maple syrup? Got me stumped so off to the fridge I go. I ended up throwing a few organic raspberries in a bowl, mushing them with a fork, and adding half a teaspoon of coconut milk and a teaspoon of Xylitol. I used this spread sparingly over the pancakes and as small as these pancakes were, I could only eat 2! That's the thing about Maximized Living: the food not only fuels you, it fills you up which means no hunger between meals. That's what sucks about DIETS right? The hunger.

Leftover Pancake Batter

I doubled the recipe which gave me enough batter for another 2 breakfasts, and I stored it in the fridge. This all a part of my scheme to be super "food organized" mwahhh ha ha! I have to tell you, the pancake recipe in the book doesn't look as good as the one on the Maximized Living website. I think that this is a better recipe: Almond Meal Pancakes. There have been several recipes in the book I have prepared now that I found the online version much more preferable. Another one of those is the Chocolate Almond Protein Bars: use the recipe online, not the one in the book. I will be making another batch of these bars today and will post photos :)