Fave New Recipe Choco-Chia Smoothie

Every morning I have a yummy smoothie for breakfast. It changes from time to time. I add new things in and take others things out. Right now here is my favorite raw morning breakfast smoothie. Best part is it only takes 3 minutes to wizz up in my ahhhmaaazing new Vitamix blender!

2 TBS Raw Cacao Powder

1 Teaspoon STR-12 from Jing Herbs (awesome adaptogenic mushroom mix ground to powder that gives a nice deep ‘coffee’ taste but without the caffeine and jitters) – these mushrooms are great for immune support and very powerful to keep you healthy! Adaptogenic herbs and supplements are also great for strengthening adrenals which are so sensitive to stress!

fingertip spinkle of goji berries

2 drops vanilla stevia

1 TBS organic coconut oil

1 teaspoon raw honey

1.5 cups organic almond milk

sprinkle hemp seeds

1 TBS Chia seeds

That’s it! This recipe is so easy to make. It tastes great and keeps me satisfied nearly the whole day if I’m unable to get a healthy lunch in or on the go.

Do you have a go-to recipe of your own that keeps you full if you know your day is going to be busy?

Massive Gratitude & Something for YOU

First I wanted to say thanks so much for coming by! I’ve been away from this blog the last few months really because I have been busy creating some amazing new free stuff for you. I have been working on a cool new FREE e-course all about getting to you to look and feel amazing in 2011. It’s all about radical self-care, how to let go of sweets & how to get back to loving who you see when you look in the mirror. It’s really exciting. I’ll be sharing more details with you in the upcoming weeks.

My life has been such a blessing lately and I know it may sound corny and overdone but I cannot help it. Thanksgiving is right around the corner and…

I. AM. SO. GRATEFUL.

I feel super lucky for the love and support I have in my life and I am dedicated to helping you live the life you’ve always dreamed about. We all have grand visions of what we want to do, where we want to live, how we want to look and feel and trust me when I tell you it is all within your reach. I feel so lucky to have a supportive husband and a cute and funny ‘son’ our Boston terrier Enzo. Isn’t he so cute! I’m grateful for the clients who are getting results and who I truly admire and adore. I feel so lucky to be free from a full time job that wasn’t inspiring or encouraging me to be my very best.

I’m grateful for my teachers like Louise Hay, Kris Carr, Marie Forleo, Gabrielle Bernstein and Rose Cole (there are too many to count really). I have dreams and plans for my future that make me nervous but that isn’t stopping me. I keep taking leaps of faith and like Indiana Jones when he lept off the cliff the bridge appeared. It’s true in life… when you hold on rigidly to something that is keeping you stuck, making you unhappy and preventing you from doing the things in the world you are meant to be doing. It may be time to take that beautiful leap of faith. I did and the Universe has my back!

I just bought the cutest journal and I’m using it to create a new ritual for myself. It’s all about gratitude, being thankful and giving of yourself. Be endlessly generous. Be passionate. Be daring. Show others what you’ve got and the net will appear. Anyway, in this journal I’ve created a fun new night time ritual. I meditate. Go over my day in my head detail by detail and give thanks for the many miracles that have been showing up for me. I write a slew of things I’m grateful for until I feel my list is complete and then head off to sleep. Pretty awesome.

So… this leads me to YOU. What are you grateful for this year? What are you blissed out about, surprised it finally happened or hopeful that it will? Let me know in the comments! Let’s support each other to be our best.

In honor of you I’d love to gift you a FREE 30 minute Breakthrough to Wellness session with moi. We will talk about you and I’ll help you create a mini plan of action to love who you see when you look in the mirror, find happiness & true wellness in your life immediately. All you have to do is comment or email me eliza@peaceonmyplate.com

Spring water vs. all the rest

Yesterday my husband and I took a day trip all the way to the northern tip of NJ to Stokes State Forest to collect enough water for what we hope lasts at least a month! It was my first trip to a spring to collect water and we ended up having a ton of fun taking pictures, being outside and breathing in the crisp fall air, being surrounded with beautiful scenery both on the drive up and in the actual park.

But I wanted to take a moment out and talk today about water – it is something most of us completely overlook and it is such an integral part of our health. Like the food we put in our bodies, it is just as important that the water we take in is health promoting as well. Although I’ve known for a while now that spring water is the BEST I didn’t know where I could go to find some. I used an amazing resource called findaspring.com.Recently I was listening to Daniel Vitalis speak on the Renegade Health Show and he said something that makes complete sense to me and that was drinking water directly from the Earth makes us feel better. After my experience yesterday, tasting the water, bringing it home and incorporating it now into my daily life I completely understand now what he was speaking about. Filtered water, water that’s held in plastic containers in the grocery store vs. wild spring water has a completely different essence. Completely amazing, healing, grounding and refreshing.

I do know that it may not be feasible for us all to get into the car and take trips to the nearest spring to load up on water but I do know that it was fun to take some time out to be in nature, to spend time with someone I love, to have an adventure. Can you see how excited my husband was collecting the water! Completely awesome.

So, maybe this doesn’t resonate with you, but perhaps it does. Next time you are in the mood to get out of the house and be outdoors why not go to findaspring.com and go taste perfect spring water from the Earth and let me know what you discovered! xoxox