Chocolate can relieve inflammation. Did you know that dark chocolate is ‘choc-olate’ full of antioxidants and flavonoids which have anti-inflammatory properties? Inflammation can lead to a number of health issues, like sore muscles, headaches and even more serious diseases, like Rheumatoid Arthritis. While [continue reading]
Plantains are one of my favourite foods. I love plantains! They are tasty, filling, easy to cook and versatile. Before adopting a lectin-free lifestyle, I would eat sweet plantains; ripe plantains. But I discovered that I much prefer green plantains; unripe plantains. Now, green plantains [continue reading]
Back in the day, I would occasionally eat at the IKEA restaurant. Yes, IKEA sells food! Their restaurant is really a cafeteria where you walk around, tray in hand, select and pay for your food and sit down to enjoy it. It was always an [continue reading]
Chocolate Is Good For Your Gut. Hold the Lectin was created to help you reach your best health potential, the lectin-free way. Living lectin-free empowers us to remove harmful foods from our diet and lay the ground work for optimizing our best health. [continue reading]
I’ve been on a chocolate kick this month. I normally eat dark chocolate all the time, but the month of February usually sends me into a chocolate overdrive. Chocolate overdrive? Yes, it means that I don on an apron and make my own assorted chocolates [continue reading]