Easy and Natural Homemade Sugar Wax!

Super simple recipe for sugar body wax.  Sugar waxing is less painful to me, and has a better result than shaving.  If you can only shave your bikini area so often due to ingrown hairs or razor burn, then you might like this option!  

You only need a few things, so let's get to it!

Items Needed:

1 medium pan

measuring cups

plastic storing container

1 cup white sugar

1/4 cup lemon juice (about 1 lemon)

1/4 cup water

 Method:

Add ingredients to sauce pan and bring to a rolling boil.  It can foam quite a bit, so you really need to watch it.  Keep it at a medium high simmer for 5-8 minutes, until you see it turn golden brown.  Make sure you stir it throughout, and don't let it burn.

Then,
gently pour into your plastic container and let cool for 10 minutes at least before use.  Test the wax on the inside of your arm to make sure it isn't too hot.  The plastic container will reheat more evenly then glass.  Reheat at 10 second intervals.  It doesn't have to be very hot, just warm enough to spread.  You can spread it on with popsicle sticks or a butter knife.  I recommend getting a wax kit that contains a pre cleaner, powder for before waxing, and a post wax lotion.  This is optional, but the powder especially helps the wax only adhere to the hair which makes for less pain.  You can pull the cooled wax off by hand, or pull off right away with cloth strip.  You should be able to buy all these things at a drug or beauty store. Then just be hair and irritation free for weeks!!  I only recommend using this wax for body waxing.  It works well on underarms and bikini areas!

Let me know if you try it, or have questions!

2 Ingredient Breakfast Cookies with Optional Add-Inns

Two Ingredients to a fast, easy, tasty, healthy breakfast!  And I finally got silpat baking mats for my cookie sheets!  Now I can ditch the parchment, and save some money and help the environment a little.  They work great, Here is a link to Amazon where I ordered mine.  Anyway, these cookies are great and you can customize them to your liking!  This recipe makes enough for 2-4 people depending on how many you eat.  I just adjust the oat serving based on how many people you're baking for.  Try and let me know what you think!


Preheat oven to 350

Ingredients:
2 bananas
1 1/2 cup rolled oats

Throw in a food processor and swirl it up into a cookie dough!  If it's too thick add some applesauce or water, or non dairy milk.  If it's not thick enough add more oats.  Spoon onto a baking sheet in whatever size cookie you normally like and bake for 5-8 minutes.  7 is usually perfect for me, then make sure to let them cool and set on the sheet for a few minutes. Enjoy!


Optional Add-Inns

Chocolate Chips
Almond Butter or any nut butter
Chia Seeds
Coconut Sugar
Dried Fruit
Raw nuts or seeds

You could add all these or none, and still have a great result!  What's your favorite thing to add?

My New Food Obsession: Roasting Veggies!

Easy and tasty!  I'm officially obsessed with roasting veggies, so there will probably be a lot of recipes following!

Not only is roasting veggies crazy good, but so easy!  I've mostly been using root vegetables, but you can roast anything and I intend to!  So far, I've roasted carrots, sweet potatoes, white sweet potatoes (which are amazing), turnips, garlic, onions, and parsnips!  I love all of it, and my three year old actually eats it.  Sometimes she won't eat cooked veggies, but seems to like these!

So, last night I roasted veggies and put them over brown rice and threw some mixed spring blend lettuce and chopped walnuts, and it was to die!  So I mentioned easy right?  Wash, rough chop, throw on parchment lined baking sheet, sprinkle with oil and spices, and bake.  That's it!  Easy and little prep are key things to me actually getting dinner ready on time or at all.

I've seen many different temperatures, but for now I like to cook them at a lower temperature for a longer time.  At the last five minutes or so I'll crank up the heat to 480 just for fun, because I like it crispy!  Here's what I did last night...

Preheat oven to 390
Ingredients:

1 white sweet potato
2 yellow potatoes
1/2 of a red onion
1 turnip
8 cloves of garlic
3 tbl extra virgin olive oil
Salt/Pepper

Method:

Wash and rough chop veggies, peel garlic.  Throw it all on parchment lined baking sheets with plenty of room.  I used two.  Pour the oil evenly over the veggies.  Season generously with salt and pepper.  Bake for 20 minutes, stir and have the baking sheets switch places and bake for another 20.  I like to crank up the heat for the last 5 minutes to 480 or something, but this is optional.  I just like it kind of burnt.  Do it!  Let me know, how it turns out!