Cherry Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Cherry Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

These cherry chocolate oatmeal cookies have not one, but two secret ingredients! Pure maple syrup to cut down on the amount of refined sugar necessary and shredded coconut to add moisture and chewiness! I kind of consider these my pantry dump cookies. A little bit of everything in the pantry mixed together creates one heck of a cookie. It seems … Read More

Alternative Sweeteners to Refined Sugar

4 delicious alternatives to refined sugar

Ok, so January, we’re supposed to be cleaning up our eating right?  Well, for me, that has meant that I am trying more and more to cut out processed foods.  I can’t say exactly when I started, but over the course of the last few years I have been phasing out and reducing my intake of processed and pre-packaged foods. … Read More