Cooking with Herbs to Boost Flavor and Health

Cooking with Herbs

If you start cooking with herbs regularly you will not only boost flavor, you’ll also boost nutrition. Historically, herbs have been used for adding flavor to foods but research now proves herbs pack a powerful phytonutrient-punch that can slow aging, lower inflammation, assist with detoxification and improve health. Read more about the tremendous health-boosting benefits [...]

Superfood Hemp Seed Benefits and Hemp Seed Smoothie

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In the world of “super natural” eating, hemp seed benefits have been known for years.  And now Hollywood has heard the word and hemp seeds are the hot new superfood. But for good reason too! Hemp seeds are one of the healthiest and most nutritious foods you can eat. What Are Hemp Seeds? Hemp seeds [...]

Warm Banana Smoothie for Chilly Days

Hot Banana Smoothie

If you liked cozying up with our recent feature recipe on Clean Cuisine for the you are sure to love this one…especially if you have a weakness for warm banana nut bread! I’m guessing a lot of people must like banana bread a whole lot because I recently heard on the TODAY Show that it [...]

Cold Weather Hot Cinnamon Apple Smoothie

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If you follow Clean Cuisine on Facebook you know I make a lot of smoothies! I just love the whole concept of putting all sorts of good-for-you ingredients into a blender, pressing a switch and presto!—a delicious, nutritious and easy-to-transport breakfast (or snack) is made in minutes. Love that. I also love ice cream and [...]

Dairy Free Pumpkin Pie Smoothie

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Calling all pumpkin pie-lovers! This would clearly include me, especially considering I have two different versions of pumpkin pie on the Clean Cuisine website (Persimmon Pumpkin Pie with Coconut Crust and Dairy-Free/ Gluten-Free Pumpkin Pie) This quick and easy Dairy-Free Pumpkin Pie Smoothie tastes like the real-deal – minus the guilt – and can be made in [...]

Barlean’s Omega Swirl: The Omega-3 Solution for the Whole Family

Barlean's Omega Swirl

Andy and I have been big supporters of omega-3 supplementation for over a decade.  Not only does our entire family supplement with omega-3’s, but Andy routinely recommends omega-3 supplements for his patients. Omega-3 supplements are the most validated supplement that exists; over 19,000 scientific studies have been done on omega-3′s. These “super fats” are vitally [...]

Quick Summer Smoothie – Edible Sunscreen “Carrot Cake” Smoothie

Quick Summer Smoothie on Clean Cuisine and More

If you read the article my husband, Andy Larson, M.D., wrote a few weeks ago about the proven (including carrots) have against sun damage you might want to try this refreshing Clean Cuisine style “Carrot Cake” Smoothie before you head to the beach. Originally, a version of this quick summer smoothie was posted on our Facebook page and some [...]

Raw Gourmet at Christopher’s Kitchen (Video Interview)

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I was out with my mom and cousin the other day and talking up the new raw gourmet restaurant, Christopher’s Kitchen, that recently opened in the Legends shopping center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. “Raw gourmet?” I could tell my mom and cousin were a little suspicious. “What do they serve there? Is it just [...]

10 “No-Milk” Shakes with Juice Plus+ Complete

Juice Plus+ Complete Smoothie Recipe / Photo: Debby Gans Photography

Protein shakes and packaged nutrition shakes are not generally something we endorse as part of the anti-inflammatory diet recommendations we make on the CleanCuisine.com website. But Juice Plus+ Complete nutrition shakes are different. My husband, Andy Larson, M.D., and I were introduced to Juice Plus+ several years ago by one of his patients and we [...]

Green Smoothie Recipes that Taste Great!

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I’m really not a fan of juice, but I’m especially down on packaged boxed, jarred and canned juices. You will never see a carton of OJ in my fridge. In fact, even when my son was very little and all the kids had juice boxes we were a distinctly different no-juice box household. Why? First [...]

Eat Clean Healthy Travel Tips: Get Your Greens On the Go (Watch Video)

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It’s been almost one year since I’ve been on my green drink kick. I started drinking green smoothies after the 4th of July segment I did in NYC for Good Morning America last year. I brought my good friend Cherie with me on the trip and we went to Pure Food and Wine, a gourmet [...]

Video for Fun Healthy Kids Snack: PB & Strawberry Jelly Smoothie

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“Moooom!!! I’m HUNGRY!!!” I’m not sure how frequently other moms hear this but I hear it constantly. My nine year old son is super active…and super hungry. And, because our family follows an “eat clean” whole foods diet, he requires a large volume of food in order to get enough calories to meet his high [...]

The Health Benefits of Hemp Seeds (Plus a Raw Eating Recipe)

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Technically, hemp “seeds” are really not seeds at all, they are actually a fruit. Tiny and round, sort of like itty bitty sunflower seeds, they have a pleasing, mild and slightly nutty flavor. Unlike sunflower seeds they aren’t crunchy but instead are a bit more like sesame seeds, but even softer in texture. Hemp seeds sort of [...]

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