Breakfast, Snack: Sugar-free Banana Bread

The key ingredient to this recipe is 3 very ripe bananas. Most of us have them close by, looking one step away from being useless. Today, they are your best friend. Marinating the raisins adds a nice citrus element to the bread – especially the day after baking.

Ingredients

• 3 very ripe large organic bananas
• 1/2 cup of liquid organic honey
• 3 tablespoons light olive oil*
• 1 large free-range egg
• Olive oil spray (or other equivalent)
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 2 cups of organic whole-wheat flour**
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda
• ½ cup mix organic orange juice and filtered water
• ¼ teaspoon of sea salt
• ¼ teaspoon of organic cinnamon
• 1/2 cup organic raisins* *

*Olive oil in a lighter form can be made by substituting ½ teaspoon water with the remaining 2.5 tablespoons required in the recipe. **Using whole wheat flour is important to get the nutritional and baking results this delicious recipe provides. ***Raisins are wonderful in here, but if you really want accolades try a mix of organic chocolate chips and raisins!Continue reading→

Well Being: 9 Proven Ways to Break a Habit.

1. You have a greater will to stop than to continue.

2. Stop cold turkey.

3. Be accountable first to yourself. If you are doing this for the benefit of others, you are destined for failure.

4. Find a higher stake reason – by focusing on an end goal with a BIGGER purpose, the habit becomes an obstacle to achieve the new goal. For example – smoking and being healthier.

5. Start a new habit that the old habit cannot co-exist with – put your energies into something you truly enjoy doing that the old habit cannot be involved in.

6. Get outside help. If someone around you is affected by your habit and they are important to you – enlist them to empower you (not be a nag) and be your other conscious self.

7. Reward yourself over time. Set rewards for yourself over a 6 month period that lead to an ultimate reward so much more exciting that the dirty ole’habit.

8. Isolate yourself from other people with the same habit.

9. Keep the company of others who do not share this habit which will make it easier for you to stop missing it.