Howdy Everyone!
How was your weekend? I can’t believe it is Sunday evening already and the weekend is all over.
Our weekend was full of beach visits, meetings, shopping and eating 
When we go out on our weekend treks we always bring a whack of snacks with us to keep us fuelled and fresh. I made a total of 3 batches of these orange-cocoa cookies! I didn’t eat all of them myself, I did share and handed some out as our days went on 
Today was a tad rainy and when we came home we decided it was a perfect night to make some soup….well it turned out more like stew – Hearty, Beefy, Good. Minus the Beef of course! Lentils were the mean protein source of this soup!
Instead of my usual bouillon cubes I went a little more high class today and used this Pacific Natural Foods brand Vegetable Broth – Amazing!
Here is the red soup:
Easy Red Soup:
2 large beets
3 carrots
1 onion
2 broccoli heads
1 large sweet potato
1 1/2 cups lentils
1 tbsp evoo
1 500 ml vegetable broth
2 cups water
sea salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
In your soup pot, heat oil over medium heat and add onion
Cook onion until tender, add chopped carrots and beets
Pour in the broth and water, add lentils, broccoli and sweet potatoes
Cover and simmer for 30 minutes, season with salt and pepper and serve!
This is such an easy and nutritious soup!
Since last week I have been drowning myself in organic pineapples from Whole Foods. I can’t stop eating them. On Saturday night we made a special trip to whole foods just for my pineapples….I am that crazy in love with them right now! I don’t know about you, but my favourite treat is pineapple and chocolate so tonight after my coffee meet up with my good friend Melissa I ate some of this:
Tasty, Sweet, Chocolaty Goodness!
Take some good (It has to be GOOD pineapple) and add some delicious dark, vegan chocolate chips! I usually melt some chocolate and drizzle it over my pineapple chunks, but I didn’t have the time for that tonight. Just straight to the goods for me!
Tomorrow I will be sharing something I am starting with you all!
OH! I almost forgot – Hudson got a new harness today! Isn’t it spiffy? Thanks mom and dad, you are the best grand doggie parents ever! I tell ya, this guy is so spoiled. Last week my sister bought him a bag of all natural peanut butter and parsley treats, and my nana treats him to some good ol’ german sausage whenever he stops by. He thanks you all
What is your Favourite fruit to drizzle with chocolate or pour chocolate chips over?
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Kris
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Hi Sweets! Thanks for the contest compliments. your food looks great.
Question about your site…did you do it yourself or hire someone? I am taking names and info as I am contemplating a big WP move and your site is sooo pretty I would love the info of who helped you and if u did it yourself, you’re a genius!
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Not to be a copy cat, but if I’m drizzling chocolate on fruit it definitely should be pineapple. Or if you have perfectly ripe strawberries… but I am horrible at picking out perfectly ripe ones.
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mm fresh pinapple!! i cannot wait for summer to have it more, that and mangoes! LOVE them and they remind me of summer so much!
OMG hudson is SO cute!!! you need to post more pics of him!!
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Oh so jealous of beach visits! Soup recipe looks really good by the way. Oh and pineapple is my absolute favorite. Never thought to pair with chocolate. Hmmmm…..
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I love chocolate & chocolate chips just about any way but not with fruit! Is that weird?
I received the detox drops on Saturday, thank you Kris! I can’t wait to try them out!! I really appreciate it and I am so excited that for the first time in my life I WON something!!
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pineapple and chocolate is delicious
i like chocolate with icecream with pb with pretzel…. haha
enjoy the day
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I could eat chocolate with just about everything! lol.
hmmm strawberries are of course a classic.
Sometimes a little orange and chocolate taste great together.
Banana and chocolate is probably my fav!
But that pineapple looks so good with chocolate. 2nd time today i’ve seen pineapple and thought about how good it looks. A sign maybe?
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Hey Kris! My fav is strawberries or dried mango covered in chocolate~ YUM!
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Hey Kris,
The Pacific Naturals broth are super good. I see you used the low sodium…I did find the original a tad too salty so I will look for this next time. I love pineapples..yum! I really like taking some chocolate and dipping bananas in them..addicting I tell you!
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Hudson is so cute!!
Right now Im obsessed with raspberries. I dont eat them with chocolate mainly because Im too cheap to buy the chocolate.
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Your doggie looks so cute!
What a nice weekend and your soups looks great….
I love chocolate chips on strawberries….yummmmm
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Chocolate over bananas…my fave!
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Mine would have to be apples! they are AMAZING!!
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Hey girl!
Hope you are doing great!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve been so busy, and not overly bloggy lately!! But I wanted to say hi!:)
Jessica
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Who could resist spoiling this guy! He is totally adorable. And isn’t it funny how we have phases for certain cravings of foods. Lately mine has been blueberries and strawberries, but I wouldn’t mind me some of that pineapple.
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