Grace Blossoms

Vegan Sweet Potato Soup

You haven't had soup until you've tried this version of sweet potato soup. Its rich sweetness makes it one of our all-time favorite recipes.

Vegan Sweet Potato Soup

This vegan sweet potato soup is delicious.

It’s also delicious if you really love meat, too.

Creamy, sweet, and a family favorite.

Ingredients

  • 2 TBS of your version of butter (check lables–is it soy? Is it sprayed with pesticides?)
  • 1/2 organic onion 
  • 2 stalks of organic celery
  • 2 cloves of organic garlic
  • 1 TBS organic ground ginger
  • 3 organic sweet potatoes (we used organic purple sweet potatoes!)
  • Himalayan sea salt
  • Black Pepper
  • 1 TSP organic dried thyme
  • 32 oz box of organic vegetable broth
  • 1 TBS organic maple syrup
  • 3/4 C organic milk of choice (again-labels!)

Directions

  1. Chop onion, celery, and sweet potatoes
  2. Sautee onion and celery in butter for a few minutes then add the garlic for about a minute or so
  3. Add everything else and boil it for about 20 minutes. I left the lid on letting it reach boiling on high until it bubbled. Then I turned it down to medium for the 20 minutes.
  4. Turn soup down to low.
  5. Grab an oven glove and use your immersion blender on low to avoid splattering. Add salt and pepper to taste.
  6. Serve! We liked ours with bread and butter or organic croutons.

Vegan in our Synthetic-Free Efforts

Since going synthetic free in 2016, everything has changed.

It took me nine long months of vigorous research and calling companies to dig all the way down to the soil involved in what everyone was calling “natural,” to find out there was only one company I could trust.

After ditching all of our old, synthetic and pesticide-ridden products around the house, it was time to look into our food.

I figured we were eating great because everything I bought was organic.

That was already a big switch financially, so what more could we do?

Be careful when choosing vegan, friends.

While it’s not for everyone, if it is for you and you care about your health, remember this:

Every veggie listed in those “meat free meats” are sprayed with killer pesticides unless there’s an organic label in front of every single one.

Depending on an organic label on the front is no longer enough.

I mean, I hate to be so “trust no one,” but…trust no one.

Synthetic and Pesticide-Free Supplements

The only option is Young Living.

This is how we supplement our bodies , just like any other type of eating.

Thankfully, we get to save a ton on supplements and know we’re getting better-than-organic quality.

We are grateful for the power of plants in every aspect of our life!

You haven't had soup until you've tried this version of sweet potato soup. Its rich sweetness makes it one of our all-time favorite recipes.
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Chocolate Chip Cookies Vegan, Gluten-Free, Refined Sugar-Free

Vegan, GF, no sugar chocolate chip cookies
So simple and delicious!

Chocolate Chip Cookies

We recently became vegan, and I was wanting to surprise my boys, 8 and 6 with some chocolate chip cookies that weren’t loaded with refined sugar but still tasted like a normal cookie.

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I don’t follow the rules of mixing dry and wet. I just dump it all in there.

We like to keep it simple.

To make it even easier, I’ll provide links to the brands we use with each ingredient.

Ingredients

Directions

Stir, folding in the chocolate chips.

Make sure to make smaller cookies and kind-of press them down. These tend to rise more like a biscuit.

Bake at 375 for around 8-10 minutes depending on your oven.

*Bonus yum: no eggs means licking the spoon, which my boys always find to be the best part!

Final Thoughts

This was super fast and easy, which is exactly what I need in any recipe.

Mine weren’t very pretty, but the taste was good enough to make again.

The boys loved them, and I didn’t mind letting them have this as a healthier version of a sweet treat.

Ready for a Toxin-Free Lifestyle?

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They never spray any pesticides on their plants, never add synthetics or fragrance, and will prove it any day of the week on any farm in the world.

Learn more HERE.

When we want a sweet treat, it has to be simple. This dump, stir, and bake recipe is a great, healthier option for chocolate chip cookies.
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Banana Maple Muffins

Banana Maple Muffins

Banana maple muffins are quick and easy to throw together. My favorite kind of recipe!

Amazing Recipe

Thankfully, about a half hour before our first snack time today, I ran across a recipe on cookieandkate.com.

It looked not only easy, but also like a recipe that I could swing on grocery day when my fridge was looking fairly sparse.

The original post gives other options, but this is the one we used and enjoyed.

They are so sweet yet call for no refined sugar!

This banana maple muffin recipe is quick, simple, and filling all while using ingredients we always have on hand making this a go-to!

They are moist, delicious, and we topped them with strawberry jam (which we are also dangerously low on now that I think about it).

Muffin Recipe

INGREDIENTS

â…“ cup melted coconut oil
½ cup maple syrup
2 eggs
2 bananas
¼ cup milk of choice (I used raw milk from our local farmer)
1 teaspoon aluminum-free baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
1¾ cups whole wheat flour
â…“ cup old-fashioned oats

DIRECTIONS

1.) Preheat oven to 325.

2.) Mix ingredients in from the first ingredient to the last one (in that order). Nothing fancy, just pour and stir!

This banana maple muffin recipe is quick, simple, and filling all while using ingredients we always have on hand making this a go-to!

3.) The batter is thicker, so I scooped it into greased muffin tins (actually, we used paper cups on the first batch then the dye bled onto our muffins…sigh).

This banana maple muffin recipe is quick, simple, and filling all while using ingredients we always have on hand making this a go-to!

4.) Bake for 22 minutes.

5.) Enjoy!

Tasty Treat

We ate these straight out of the oven, broken up on a plate while the steam poured from the inside.

A little strawberry jam (we use organic strawberry jam from Costco…yum!), blow on your piece for a few seconds, and just like that, you’ve got yourself an easy, healthy snack!

I love recipes where I don’t have to go backwards in the list of items. I really get annoyed as a non-baker, when I have to use two bowls.

See? I mean e-a-s-y. Easy.

I know. It sounds ridiculous, but in my simplistic baking mind, everything should just go in one bowl when little hands are helping to prepare it.

Stir, no mess ups, pour, and go, right?

A Bit of a Difference

You’ll notice a considerable difference between my pictures and the original post. Hers are pretty. Mine had to be taken as quickly as possible before two little squirrels (and one hungry project-doing daddy!) gobbled them down.

I loved how they were like eating a sweet treat between the maple syrup and the banana, but I knew I was giving the boys a good, filling, snack. It held them for two solid hours!

Two hours, people!

I will admit after the second muffin they wanted a third because they were so delicious, but I told them no because that felt like plenty. I’m glad to report it most definitely was!

They had all the energy they needed to wrestle all the way down the hall jumping on each other and to make a fort from every piece of bed clothing and pillow in the house before lunch.

I’d say it was a win.

These banana maple muffins are quick, simple, and filling all while using ingredients we always have on hand making this a go-to!
This banana maple muffin recipe is quick, simple, and filling all while using ingredients we always have on hand making this a go-to!
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