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chia pudding 2 c  coconut milk 1/3 c chia seeds  *pour milk into jar. add chia seeds. *stir well with  a fork. shake and stir every 20 minutes for the first hour to ensure each seed gets to expand. *the seeds will expand and create a thick gel-like pudding in about two hours. *store in the fridge.

  assuming you started your whole30 journey at my first weekly meal plan.... welcome to whole30!!! you got this! so, lets start out with the easiest recipe. we drink coconut milk at our house on a regular basis. to by pass all the chemicals, thickeners, sugars and strange additives, we avoid the coconut milk sold in the cold case near the dairy milk. that stuff scares me! its a little extra work to make your coconut milk this way, but it actually tastes much better too, making the extra step completely worth it! you could always use it directly out of the can, but its so thick it would be a little strange poured over cereal. youll use this recipe in multiple ways over the next 30 days. it adds the perfect cream factor to whole30 chia pudding . its the base for nourishing hot cocoa and smoothies. (yes i know we "cheated" on that one.) and its life changing in a bowl of whole30 cereal ... to make it whole30 approved, instead of sweetening it with...

Happy New Year! I'm so excited to be sharing my first recipe of 2016 with you! and boy is it goooood..... We had a wonderful holiday season, ending 2015 on a relaxing note with our family in Florida. Sometimes I do crazy things, and my husband has a full time job of reeling me back into normalcy. So when I had the craziest idea of all, I was surprised that he said "Yes, let's do that!" with out hesitation. On our drive back to North Carolina, I had this crazy, crazy, really crazy thought. Seemingly out of nowhere I had the desire to start 2016 adhering to the Whole30 detox plan. And not just me.... the entire deer pack!! So, here we are three weeks in and I can't believe I have even kept the kids on it too! One week to go and we'll celebrate crossing the finish line! I can see an elegant cheese platter just on the horizon..... In the weeks to come I will be able to summarize our whole experience and talk a little bit more about our deci...