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[RECIPE] Pumpkin Oatmeal



[RECIPE] Pumpkin Oatmeal
Recipe Type: Breakfast
Author: Taryn Perry
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Ingredients
  • 2 cups steel cut oats
  • 7 cups water (depending on how thick you like it)
  • 1½ cups pumpkin puree (ORGANIC taste much better)
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 T pumpkin pie spice or 1 T cinnamon
  • 1 T vanilla extract
  • 1 T of chia seeds or ground flax seed
  • TOP WITH: Peanut/Almond butter, chopped pecans, raisins, chopped dates (optional)
Instructions
  1. Combine steel cut oats, w…

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Big Goals Are Overwhelming!

Big goals ARE REALLY overwhelming!

I think personally, big goals are really overwhelming and intimidating, because they seem like they are so hard to achieve and it's such a journey to get there. Let’s use my pregnancy as an example. When I was pregnant I gained 30- 40 pounds each time. My first two I gained over 40 pounds because I had zero interest in nutrition, and I didn't eat healthy. I didn't watch what I ate; I just ate whatever the hell I wanted in sight, because it was the typical pregn…

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[Recipe] Breakfast Quiona



 
[Recipe] Breakfast Quiona
Recipe Type: Breaskfast
Author: Taryn Perry
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Ingredients
  • 1 cup quinoa, uncooked
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 cup canned coconut milk, full fat
  • 2 tbsp maple syrup or raw honey
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • Splash of any milk (optional)
  • Toppings of choice like nuts, berries, fruit, honey, vanilla extract, cinnamon
Instructions
  1. Place quinoa in a fine mesh colander and rinse very well under cold running water, for about a minute.
  2. Add…

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[RECIPE] Greek Chicken & Quinoa



 
Greek Chicken & Quinoa
Recipe Type: Dinner
Author: Taryn Perry
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Ingredients
  • 1-2 lb. chicken cut into cubes or strips
  • ½ cup chicken broth
  • 2 T lemon juice
  • 1 T honey
  • 1 T dried oregano
  • 1 T minced garlic
  • ½ tsp onion powder
  • ½ sliced red onion
Instructions
  1. In slow-cooker, combine cup chicken broth, lemon
  2. juice, and honey.
  3. Combine dried oregano, minced garlic
  4. and onion powder in a bowl and mix to coat chicken
  5. with seasoning.

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Beachbody All Access - The Netflix of Fitness

What Is The All Access Beachbody On Demand Challenge Pack & Membership

ON SALE NOW FOR A LIMITED TIME!

If you follow me on my Facebook page Taryn Perry - Fitness, Nutrition, & Motherhood you might have saw my Live broadcast on the exciting news that Beachbody has for us! I am not completely sure I have every given the complete run down on what Beachbody On Demand is, so first let me give you the spill on that!

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[RECIPE] Bison Chili



 
Bison Chili
Author: Taryn Perry
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Ingredients
  • 2 lbs of ground bison, beef or turkey
  • 2 15 oz cans of rinsed kidney beans
  • 1 medium onion
  • 1 1/2 package of mushrooms
  • 2-3 cloves of garlic
  • 1 large can of stewed tomatoes
  • 1 Family Size of Tomato Soup
  • 1 tbsp of chili powder
  • 1 tbsp of crushed red pepper (or more if you like it spicy)
  • Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Place onion in bottom, adding ground meat and layer beans, toma…

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[RECIPE] Thai Peanut Chicken



 
Thai Peanut Chicken
Recipe Type: Dinner
Author: Taryn Perry
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Ingredients
  • For The Chicken:
  • 1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup natural peanut butter
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 1/2 cup light coconut milk
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons ground ginger
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic, minced
  • 1 pound chicken breast, trimmed of fat
  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch
  • For The Bowls
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 cup quinoa, uncooked
  • 1/2 cup plain greek non fat yogurt
  • 1 tablespoon sriracha c…

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[RECIPE] Salsa Chicken



 
Crockpot Salsa Chicken
Recipe Type: Dinner
Author: Taryn Perry
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Ingredients
  • 2 lbs of chicken breast (I prefer frozen)
  • 16 oz of salsa (feel free to be liberal)
  • garlic
  • 1/2 chopped medium onion
  • any extra seasonings you see fit!
  • 15 oz canned rinsed black beans
  • Optional - corn & cilantro
Instructions
  1. Place chopped onion in bottom of Crockpot
  2. Add chicken breast on top.
  3. Dump salsa on top of chicken, garlic and any extra seasoning…

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[Recipe] Homemade Turmeric Latte

Ok, so recently I’ve become a little obsessed with Turmeric and now, Turmeric Lattes, particularly because I’ve started to really learn more bout it’s health benefits! We’ve been sprinkling it in our coffee grounds so it’s brewed right into our first cup o’ Joe. 

But then I started hearing more about these Turmeric Lattes and I knew I had to try one. So my first one, was from a Raw food bar, call Revitasize in Toronto. It was DREAMY. They make their own Cashew Milk so it was raw and as pure as y…

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[RECIPE]: Salmon Cakes

I was telling my neighbor that we needed to fold in more seafood into our diets, as we get used to having the usual staples - chicken, ground Bison, chicken sausage, etc. She is the queen of healthy eating too, so she when she offered to whip up a batch of these Salmon Cakes for a weekend trip we had with our families, I had to have the recipe and fold them into our meal plans.

In full disclosure, these are from the Whole 30 Cookbook, and like any recipe I try, I tweak it to make it our own. Now,…

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