Make your own Cafe Mocha (low sugar)

If you must drink caffeine, coffee is a much better choice than soda.  In this recipe, you can vary the amount of coffee and milk to your tastes.  More milk will make the drink more calorically dense, more coffee will make it so the drink has more caffiene.

I take mine with very little coffee.

1/2 cup coffee
1/2 cup warm milk (whole milk from a local farm is best)
1.5 tbsp. quality Cocoa Powder
1/2 tsp raw sugar
dash sea salt

Put the milk in a saucepan over medium-high heat and wisk in the sugar and cocoa powder until they are melted and the milk is warm. Continue to stir as you add the coffee. Heat to your liking. Pour into a mug, add a dash of sea salt.  Delish.

Maple Bacon Brussels Sprouts

The key to making this recipe healthy is the quality of the bacon.  Farm-raised pork that has been raised on a pasture (the way nature intended) is an excellent source of healthy fat.  Pork that was raised industrially has been fed food that pigs are never intended to eat.  The result is that the pigs are unhealthy, and when we eat them, our body turns that unhealthy pig fat into unhealthy person fat.  Additionally, you want to avoid bacon that has been made with nitrates, which are known to cause cancer.

If you live in a rural area, you can get bacon like this at a local farm.  If you live in the city, most farmer's markets have this kind of pork.

If you live in New England and can get access to local Maple Syrup, all the better.  Aunt Jemima (and the like) is fake food, full of chemicals, sugar, and garbage, and does not qualify as a healthy choice.


1 lb Brussels Sprouts (Organic if possible)
3/4 lb high quality, pastured bacon (Nitrate-free)
1/4 cup real maple syrup


preheat oven to 425


Wash and slice the Brussels sprouts in half and place them in a pan.  Cut the bacon into small pieces and stir them into the Brussels sprouts.  Drizzle the maple syrup over the sprouts and bacon.


Bake for 30-45 minutes, until sprouts are tender.  Stir once at about 20 minutes.