GAPS Approved “Brownie Batter” Dip

Servings: 1–2
Preparation Time: 5–10 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup Tropical Traditions Coconut Cream Concentrate
• 1–2 teaspoons Tropical Traditions Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil
• 2 tablespoons organic tahini
• 3/4 ounce baking chocolate
• 2–3 tablespoons Healthy Traditions raw honey
• 1/4 teaspoon organic vanilla extract
• pinch Himalayan Pink Salt
• 1/4 teaspoon finely ground organic coffee

Directions:

Heat all ingredients in a double boiler over medium heat, stirring frequently until combined and smooth. Remove from heat and enjoy as a dip for fresh fruit, drizzled over ice cream, etc.

Note: Will thicken as it cools.

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Pink Flamingo Smoothie

Servings: 2–3
Preparation Time: 15–20 minutes

Ingredients:

Smoothie:

• 1/2 large organic beet, peeled
• 4 cups organic fresh pineapple
• 1 cup organic red cabbage
• 2 organic apples, quartered
• 8–9 large organic juicing carrots
• 2 stalks organic celery
• 2 tablespoons Tropical Traditions Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil, melted
• 1 pastured egg* or 2 pastured egg* yolks – See Note below.
• 2 1/2 organic frozen bananas
• 1/2 organic lemon, juiced
• 1/2–3/4 cup organic frozen mango

Optional add in:

• 1–2 tablespoons Vital Choice Collagen Peptides

*Note – This recipe contains raw or undercooked eggs. Please make a substitution if you have concerns about consuming raw eggs.

Directions:

Using a high quality juicer, juice beet, pineapple, cabbage, apples, carrots, and celery. This should produce approximately 4 1/2 cups of juice. Pour juice into a large high-powered blender and add in remaining ingredients.

Blend on high until creamy and well combined.

Enjoy with a fresh lemon wedge.

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Raspberries Visit the Tropics Smoothie

Servings: 2
Preparation Time: 5–7 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup frozen organic raspberries
• 1 1/2 cups organic frozen mango chunks
• 2 tablespoons organic orange juice concentrate, frozen
• 2 cups milk of choice*
• 1/8 teaspoon organic ground turmeric
• 1 scoop Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides
• 1 tablespoon Tropical Traditions Coconut Cream Concentrate
• 1 gram vitamin C powder

Directions:

Blend all ingredients in blender on high. It will have small “chunks” of Coconut Cream Concentrate. To eliminate those and make it perfectly smooth, first heat the Coconut Cream Concentrate, then add it in its melted state to the smoothie as it’s finishing blending.

Garnish with additional frozen raspberries.

*For the freshest coconut milk, make homemade coconut milk. (See video at this link.)

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