Month: January 2022

Easy Recipes

Quick Plant-Based Pancake Recipe

Corie Muldoon

Back with another hearty and delicious plant-based recipe for you to add to your collection: pancakes!


What ya need:

  • non-stick frying pan, blender, spatula
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • old fashion oats
  • plant-based milk or water
  • ripe bananas
  • fruits / nuts for toppings
  • pure maple syrup
  • optional: peanut butter

What to do:

Step 1: Pre-heat your pan on low heat with extra virgin olive oil

Step 2: Blend 1 cup of oats until they’ve turned to powder (mix as needed)

Step 3: Add to blender 1 cup of plant-based milk or water and 2 bananas to your blender

Step 4: Blend until smooth

Step 5: Turn up to medium heat and pour batter onto your pan. I find small sliver dollar pancakes are easiest and quickest to make

Step 6: Flip your pancakes when they have bubbled on top and are slightly brown at the edges

Step 7: Once your stack of pancakes finish up, pour on some pure maple syrup and top with fruit and/or nuts (I did strawberries – get creative with what you have!)

Optional: Add 1 hefty scoop of peanut butter on top

✨ Certified Sweet Treat ✨

Healthy Habits

Breathing Stress Away

Corie Muldoon

Can deep breathing really help ease my stress? Yes!

When you find yourself getting worked up in a stressful situation…

Taking a few deep breaths is an easy way to calm your mind and nerves.

Deep breathing = natural stress reliever

Here’s how to utilize deep breathing to help reduce stress:

 1. Find somewhere quiet that you can sit comfortably – preferably in a low light area (or even better, a room with candles). 

2. Sit or stand as upright as possible, pretending there’s a string that’s connected the top of your head to the ceiling and pulling upwards. It’s important that you are in this lifted position as this will allow more oxygen to get into the muscle tissues and mind, helping to ease your stress. 

3. Once comfortable, begin to regulate your breathing. 

4. Take a deep breath in (4-5 count) drawing to yourself the feelings of calmness, serenity, tranquility.

5. Slowly exhaling (6-7 count) – imagine your inhale and exhale as one continuous flowing movement.

Deep breathing for stress relief can be done anywhere at any time. Even in a busy place, deep breaths will do just the trick to re-center your mind and ease your nerves.

My Experience with Deep Breathing

This technique has helped me so much through the years and has been a go-to tool for controlling allergy symptoms that I experience from time to time.

For two years, I would sneeze all day every day refusing to take allergy meds. I refused to believe that I had somehow developed allergies and I was searching for a natural way to figure this problem out.

I found what I was looking for when I realized that my sneezing was triggered by stress and dehydration. It took a lot of trial and error to get to this point of discovery (cutting out things from my diet, etc.).

So now, when I start sneezing, I do some deep breathing and drink more water, and my sneezing goes away. This combination works every time.

Maybe breathing will help you in some way too.

Happy breathing!
x Corie