You guys know I am all about quick ways to live the healthiest possible lifestyle. It can be a huge challenge to eat right when you are a busy woman. And let’s be real, we are all girl bosses over here and need ways to treat ourselves right even though time is a crunch! You feel me??

So let’s get real. Even though we all want to make super delicious breakfasts (think my Skinny Apple Pancakes) every day, that shit just isn’t going to happen on weekdays. Work, school, and just life in general can make mornings hectic.

This is where simple preparation comes in. I am a majorrrr planner. I like to plan everything. It is a pretty safe bet to say whatever I am doing in a day was pre-planned. So anyways, this homemade museli is way better than anything you can get in stores, takes like 3 minutes to make, and will set you up for a week of healthy breakfasts. 

Ingreds:

• Whole rolled oats (about 1 cup)
• Kamut grain flakes (about 1 cup)
• Goji berries
• Raisins
• Cashews
• Ribboned and unsweetened coconut
• Pecans
• Dried figs (to top)
• Cinnamon (to rop)

There is legit only one step here. Dump all your ingreds into a bowl & mix. BOOM. Done.

Told you, so simple. 

Museli can be eaten cold & uncooked. All you do is pour your favourite non-dairy milk (coconut tastes best to me) over this and top with some cinnamon and dried figs. I like to let it sit for about 5 mins before eating, just because the kamut flakes and oats get a little softer. The besssssst.

Side note: I didn’t really put any specific measurements on this recipe, because it is totally up to you! If you like lots of dried fruits and nuts, add more! If you like less, add less. #science 

Enjoy babes! <3

x,

Woooo!!! You guys I had such a fun weekend in Vegas! 

So obviously this photo is not from Vegas…. I major failed at taking any photos this weekend because it was all fun all the time. I will be better next time, promise 🙂 But anyways, I am in the airport right now waiting for my flight back to Vancouver. I am going to need to do some serious healthy eating this week to make up for all the food and festive drinks this weekend. And rest, I need that. Lots of it. 

For those of you who might be taking a trip to Vegas soon, there are a few things you can do to make sure you stay healthy while you are staying out late and living it up.

Here are my fave quick tricks for staying healthy on a not-so-restful trip:

VITAMINS!

Bring like 740328742038748 packs of Emergen-C with you. Drink like 5 of those bad boys a day. It will save you, I swear haha. 

WATER!

Drink way more water than you ever think you need. Keeping your body hydrated is so key when you are staying up late and dancing the nights away!

PROTEIN

Eat it. All of it. Make sure your meals are substantial and you get some meat or vegetarian protein in you.

There you have it friends! Those are my quick and easy tricks on how to survive Vegas. I feel pretty damn good right now so I would say they are “tested and true.”

Lots of great stuff coming for you this week! I hope you are hungry, there are some tasty recipes coming your way. 🙂

x,

La la loveeeeee this hat. I totally bought it as a predictive “rain hat” for the winter here in Vancouver. Once those rain drops start to fall, they tend to not stop for a few months. Any woman living in Vancouver understands the futile plight of “hair in the winter time.” You can try all you want to make it look decent, but you will just end up with frizzy half-done hair that you kind of want to cry about every time you see it in a mirror. Yes, this is a thing that happens in my life.

Anyways, for the time being it is still used as a sun hat. If you want to pick up your own hat like this, head over to Aritzia.

x,

Meet my dirty little secret to keeping my pores clean.

Biore Deep Cleansing Pore Strips are honestly the shit. For the majority of my skin care routine, I am all about using the most natural products possible that are not processed in any way. Think: Coffee Scrub, Vanilla Sugar Scrub, and the Lush Face Mask that I love to use. Biore does not exactly fit in the “natural” category, but holy god does it ever work.

You put these magical little strips on your nose for about 15 minutes, and then slowly peel them off. It legit pulls all the crap in your pores out, and you will feel like you somehow instantly lost 10 pounds (<– I dunno try it for yourself haha.) Your nose will be so smooth, and so fresh. I am secretly super addicted to doing these… like, verging on way to excited every time I pull them out lol.

The best part? You can pick these up at any drugstore for about $8. All kinds of winning if you ask me.

Now you know my dirty little secret! But it’s okay, because now we will both have clean pores. 😛

x,

Happy early Labour Day to my Canadian and American friends! In honour of the long weekend, I thought I would share a recipe that should basically be mandatory to serve on long weekends. 

Meet my Chili Lime Corn — The perfect way to celebrate an extra weekend day and finish off the summer BBQ season. It is super duper simple, clean, and packed with flavour. Sometimes I fire up the BBQ and just make this corn as a snack haha. This recipe is also pretty much guaranteed to make you seem like you know what is going on in the kitchen. (Always a bonus.)

Want to get in on this BBQ action? 

Here are the ingreds:

• Fresh corn
• Chili powder
• Fresh squeezed lime juice
• EVOO (Extra virgin olive oil) or melted butter
• Sea salt

Step 1: Turn your BBQ on to medium-high heat. Shut the lid and let that bad boy warm up. 

Step 2: Shuck your corn, and cover in melted butter or EVOO. Sprinkle with chilli powder and sea salt. 

Step 3: Put your corn (whole) on the BBQ and slowly cook for a few minutes on each “side” with the lid shut, rotating it around until the skin is nice and roasted. While the corn is on the BBQ, carefully squeeze your fresh lime juice allll over it. Once your corn is a darker yellow toasted colour all the way around, take it off the heat.

And you are done! Simple, and oh so flavourful.

I may or may not have crushed all three of these by myself. I encourage you to invite friends over so you don’t do the same. (The struggle was very real.)

x,