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Healthy Peanut Butter Fudge Recipe

November 2, 2016 By Gwen Brown 22 Comments

healthy sugar free peanut butter fudge that's SO easy to make...you won't believe that it didn't come from a candy shoppe!

This Healthy Peanut Butter Fudge is going to save me this holiday season. They taste like something naughty and decadent out of that little candy shop that you passed on vacation. But these little treats are full of nourishing (think bulletproof!) fats, and protein, making them a perfect little pick me up treat. And they’re JUST…

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Filed Under: Low Glycemic Sweets & Desserts, THM Desserts & Sweets, THM S Desserts & Sweets, Uncategorized Tagged With: fudge, peanut butter

Blueberry Cheesecake Muffins- Sugar Free!

September 21, 2016 By Gwen Brown 20 Comments

These scrumptious blueberry cheesecake muffins are sugar free, and perfect for breakfast, a snack, or for dessert.

Blueberry Cheesecake Muffins, y’all! Hello to cheesecake for breakfast. 🙂 This wonderful revelation of a recipe is a recent discovery, pulled directly (and with permission) from the Brainy Breakfasts Cookbook by Tricia Gilkerson. Our family has been grain free for several months to work on some health issues, so this book is a huge support for me….

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Coldstone Peppermint Fudge Recipe

September 15, 2016 By Gwen Brown 36 Comments

This decadent peppermint fudge recipe will blow your mind...it's incredibly creamy, but sugar free, and packed with healthy fats like bulletproof coffee! Click here for the recipe...

This peppermint fudge recipe will blow your mind. It doesn’t taste healthy…it tastes like it came out of one of those overpriced vacation fudge shops. BUT, it’s actually sugar free, full of healthy fats, and it’s raw/uncooked, so it’s very, very easy to make. It’s a twist on an older coconut oil fudge recipe that…

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Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe – GF & SF

December 21, 2015 By Gwen Brown 43 Comments

My regular Christmas sugar cookie recipe is totally out of this world good, and SO not on my diet. But we’ve been doing homemade sugar cookies, and sugar cookies frosting parties on Christmas Eve since my baby girl was born, 16 years ago. So we keep the tradition, and I *ahem* attempt to rely on my willpower…

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Gingerbread Milkshake

December 9, 2015 By Gwen Brown 22 Comments

Baby, it’s cold outside! So WHY am I making a milkshake? Because it’s a gingerbread milkshake! That makes it a seasonal flavor, and totally legit. Just like my Frozen Eggnog Milkshake that’s my other favorite this time of year. And yeah…even the Peppermint Chip counts too. Anything that keeps me out of the drive through…

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Low Carb Streusel Orange Muffin Recipe [FP or S]

October 19, 2015 By Gwen Brown 30 Comments

When I was a kid, we lived less than a mile from a Big Star grocery store, and I would walk up there at least once a week with my allowance to score some treats. I usually went for the candy aisle, but one week, a 3 pack of giant streusel orange muffins caught my…

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Low Carb Streusel Recipe

October 12, 2015 By Gwen Brown 6 Comments

Know what your low carb muffin needs? Streusel. This yummy, sugar free, low carb streusel is so simple, and really elevates any low carb baked good from “this is good” to “this must be a special occasion!” And did I mention simple? It only uses 3 ingredients. You’ll need: butter, protein powder, and a low carb sweetener…

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Low Carb Butterfinger Shake

July 13, 2015 By Gwen Brown 20 Comments

this low carb, sugar free mock butterfinger milkshake ROCKED my world! OMGoodness!

OMGoodness!!! Y’all. I’m back on track with going low carb and ‘good girl’ and the scales show it. But I wanted a special treat to celebrate getting back on track. One that wouldn’t wreck my progress, but that would rock my world. I think this is IT. I got really inspired to replicate one of…

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