Carrie Forest, www.carrieonliving.com

The ingredients in this recipe are health-promoting especially for people who can tolerate grains. These Honey - Bran Muffins are gluten, dairy, and refined sugar free. As an additional treat, I’m offering adaptions to make the batter into a coffee cake with another option to make it vegan.

There are two main obstacles in juicing regularly: The first one being, having enough produce on hand and the second one is making time to prepare the vegetables.

Enjoy your last summer peaches in a delicious way. Here are two options to prepare peach crumbles. The first has no oil or added sugars and is sweetened only by the peaches and dried fruit. The second, more decadent version uses some naughties like sugar and oil, but some might argue that it’s okay to be a little bit bad on occasion.

A sweet, creamy, chocolatey and nutritious green smoothie. It is an energizing smoothie that uses a blend of cacao nibs and cocoa powder for a rich, chocolatey - flavor. Deciding on your greens is important. I tend to rotate between spinach, collard greens, kale, and romaine for my green smoothies. It’s actually really important to switch up your greens since some of them are high in oxalic acid and, besides, variety is the spice of life, no?

This soup is easy and quick and the ingredients used are really simple - jarred tomatoes, butternut squash, beans, mushrooms, onion, herbs, and coconut milk.

This recipe for Dessert Hummus is so easy to make, it literally just takes minutes to combine the ingredients in a food processor. If you were really desperate, you could even mix the ingredients in a bowl and use a fork to mash it together.

To make a vegan sushi roll you can use toasted nori sheets. They don’t need to be warmed up or anything, you just lay them on a cutting board to fill them up. Each nori sheet has only 10 calories so you can make two of them per person with a lot of filling.

This Ocean-Friendly Mock Tuna Salad skips the vegan mayo and uses white miso, grainy mustard, and sweet pickle relish for flavoring instead. There is some added salt and sugar from the spices, but I think it’s worth it to re-create a cruelty-free, easy, delicious alternative to a real tuna salad.

Wild blueberries as opposed to conventional don’t change the flavor that much, but the wild ones supposedly have more health-promoting properties. Here is the recipe.