A Natural Anxiety Remedy You Haven’t Thought Of!

Feeling anxious, depressed, angry, or any other negative feeling?

First: click here for my 4 Natural Anxiety Remedies.

Next: try grounding!

It’s like meditating, but easier.

I try to do this once a day, in addition to meditating once a day.

NOTE: Grounding and meditation don’t have to be religious–they are simply helpful tools for a happy life!

So, how do you ground yourself?

Just go outside and stand, sit, or lay down on the ground.

You can also lean against a tree🌲 or sit at the base of the tree.

When it gets too cold❄️, you can still ground yourself indoors.🏡

There is no wrong way to ground yourself.

You can imagine roots coming out of your body and into the earth.

You can pray or say a mantra.

Or, just enjoy nature.

Look at the trees…🌳

Flowers…🌷

Grass…🌾

and the sky.🌈 

Appreciate the beauty of nature around you.🌄

Most importantly “ground” yourself to nature. Feel a connection to the earth and the nature around you.

I know it sounds weird, crazy, and a little out there, but trust me! You should feel more calm and positive.

🌌Also, ground yourself to the earth via the lunar cycle.🌒🌓🌕🌓🌘

🌚Ground yourself while the moon is new, and when it’s full. Sometimes seeing the beauty of the moon is calming in itself.🌝

To find out when the next new moon🌑 and full moon🌕 will be, click here.

Just try grounding once, I dare you! Let me know how it goes!

Have any questions about grounding? Comment below or e-mail me at happyhealthynoms@gmail.com

Super Simple Vegan Smoothie Bowls

Hey there! Thanks✨ for visiting Happy Healthy Noms for this week’s Smoothie Sunday!

This week I have 2 yummy and super healthy Smoothie Bowl recipes!

 😸Kitchen Sink Smoothie Bowl👍

🌟I made this veggie🍅-packed, vegan, smoothie bowl for dinner🍴 recently, but I was pressed for time and running late~🕔So I made this in literally 5⃣ minutes!

This was super yummy👌, super simple, and best of all: super fast🏃 to make.💙

⭐️What’s in it?💛

🍵Smoothie: spinach, kale, mixed greens, frozen broccoli, spirulina, ginger👌, and avocado.

🍃Toppings: cucumber, black olives, broccoli sprouts, cilantro, sugar snap peas, baby carrots, almonds, pumpkin seeds, lime juice, and hemp hearts.

👍And I wouldn’t change a thing! It had a nice assortment of veggies and enough protein and fiber to make me satisfied and full!✨

 🍎Newbie Fruitie Smoothie Bowl🍏

Take a trip back in time…

⏪This was the 1⃣st smoothie bowl that I ever made! It wasn’t the prettiest, but it tasted really yummy.👏

🍍What’s in it?🍊

🍅Smoothie: spinach, tomato, blueberries, avocado, apple, and vegan vanilla flavored protein powder.

🍓Toppings: strawberries, blackberries, kiwi, pineapple, chia seeds, and flax seed meal.

✔️The only thing I would change is presentation~✨

Until next time, remember: have your veggies🍅 and eat your cookies🍪 too!

Foodie Friday: Easy Healthy Vegan Nachos + How To Make Homemade Tortilla Chips

Hey there! Thanks✨ for visiting Happy Healthy Noms for this week’s Foodie Friday!🍴

One of my favorite snack, lunch or dinner? Nachos! 

Today I’m sharing with you some fun vegan nacho ideas that I adore, I also have a great recipe for Oil-Free Happy Healthy Homemade Tortilla Chips! 
The Tortilla Chips:

• Garden of Eatin’ Blue Chips
• Homemade Tortilla Chips (recipe below)

The Cheese:

• Daiya Cheddar Shreds (Or as I like to call it, the best vegan cheese ever! Seriously. It tastes AMAZING, and even melts and stretches like real cheese!)

 
Choose your Toppings:

Veggies:

• Tomatoes
• Avocado
• White, Red, or Green Onions

Beans:

• Kidney Beans
• Black Beans
• Chili Beans
• Vegan Refried Beans

Grains:

• Quinoa

Other:

• Salsa
• Hot Sauce
• Nutritional Yeast
• Cilantro
• Black Olives
• Squeeze of Lime

 ⭐️Homemade Corn Tortilla Chips⭐️ 

• Cut 1-4 tortillas (depending how many chips you want) into strips. 
• I love💛Food for Life’s Sprouted Corn Tortillas! 
• Place the strips on a parchment paper lined pan in the oven on 425. 
• Keep checking on them, and take them out when they feel crispy! 
• No oil necessary, and completely guilt-free!

 Nachos with my Homemade Tortilla Chips!   Sometimes you just want to keep it simple for a snack.

 Other times you want to load those nachos up for lunch or dinner!

   

Until next time, remember: Have your veggies and eat your cookies🍪 too!

Vegan Baking Cheat Sheet + Celebrating The Autumnal Equinox: The First Day of Fall!

Hey there! Thanks✨ for visiting Happy Healthy Noms for this week’s Tidbit Tuesday!💫

Fall is approaching, in fact Wednesday is the Autumnal Equinox, AKA: the official First Day of Fall! I don’t know about you, but I LOVE Fall!  (Image by: Heather Dawn)

With cooler weather and leaves changing colors, we’ll all be baking bread, muffins, cookies, and all kinds of goodness! 

But, chances are not all these recipes are vegan! Maybe you have baked goods that are a tradition for you and your family, or you find great recipes that aren’t vegan.

I know that’s been happening to me lately!

So, here’s a guide to vegan-izing your baked goods!
  (Image by: Rebecca Siegal)

NOTE: Unless specified, use the same measurements from the recipe for the replacements!

Eggs can be replaced with:

• A Flax Egg (1 Tablespoon Flax Meal + 3 Tablespoons Water)
• A Chia Egg (1 Tablespoon Chia Seeds + 3 Tablespoons Water)
• 1 Banana
• 1/4 Cup Applesauce
• 1/4 Cup Canned Pumpkin
• Or Ener-g Egg Replacer

Click here to check out PETA‘s other egg replacement suggestions!

Butter can be replaced with:

• Coconut Oil 
• Earth Balance Buttery Sticks

Unhealthy Oils should be replaced with:

• Coconut Oil 
• Applesauce 
• 1 Banana

Click here to check out PETA‘s Ultimate Vegan Baking Cheat Sheet!

Speaking of the Autumnal Equinox, did you know that besides being the First Day of Fall, it is also the Pagan Holiday of Mabon?

I know, I said Pagan, but don’t run away! Anyone can celebrate the First Day of Fall!

Afterall, the way I see it is that Mabon is simply celebrating Fall’s arrival and acknowledging that Winter is coming (Yeah, had to put in that Game of Thrones reference.)  

Here’s an article on the Huffington Post about the Autumnal Equinox and Mabon.

Below are some ways that you can celebrate Fall’s arrival!

  (Image by: Ian Sane)

How To Celebrate the Autumnal Equinox or Fall’s Arrival:

1. Bake something festive for fall. 

• Examples: Vegan breads (apple, banana, pumpkin,) cookies, scones, cakes, or a pie.

3. Drink something festive for fall.

• Apple cider, vegan hot cococa, or hot tea.

4. Eat something festive for fall.

• Get your soup amd stew recipes out!
• Cook with squashes and pumpkins!

4. Take a walk outside and look at the leave’s changing colors, and the fallen acorns.

• Maybe collect a few leaves or acorns to decorate your house, or to craft with.

5. Acknowledge the bountiful harvest we have, and give some of the bounty to a Food Drive!

6. Do Fall-inspired crafts involving apples, corn, acorns, fall leaves, and other fall finds!  (Image by: Kim)

Above is a creative apple🍎 craft! Cut the top of the apple, core the inside out, and put a tea light in it.

• Speaking of Apples🍎. Did you know if you cut an apple in half it looks like a star⭐️? It’s true! Go try it!

Until next time, remember: Have your veggies and eat your fall favorites too!

How To Make Creamy Banana Ice Cream + Nicecream Recipes

Hey there! Thanks✨ for visiting Happy Healthy Noms for this week’s Smoothie Sunday!🍵

This week instead of smoothies, I have 2 recipes for deliciously simple Nicecream!

This is my favorite dessert, and I’m sure it’ll be yours too! (I have seen people eat it for breakfast actually.)

What is Nicecream? It’s Vegan ice cream that’s just made with frozen bananas!  I’ve posted how to make Nicecream before, but, for your convienience here’s the Nicecream recipe:

Nice Cream

• Servings: As much as you want!
• Time: Less than 5 Minutes
• Difficulty: Super Easy
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What you need:

• Frozen bananas
• Your favorite flavorings
• A Vitamix makes this PERFECTLY, but if you don’t have one any blender or food processor is fine.

How to make Nicecream:

1. Blend frozen bananas.
2. It will be hard to blend at first, but stick with it.
3. When it looks like rice, you’re doing great. Now, keep blending until creamy and ice creamy!
4.  Ta-da~ Nicecream
5. Add a datel/sweetener to make sweeter.
6. Add fruits or flavoring to make different types of Nicecream*.

*Flavorings: 

• Vanilla: Blend with vanilla extract and/or vanilla vegan protein powder.
• Chocolate: Blend with chocolate extract, chocolate chips, vegan chocolate protein powder,carob  powder, and/or cacaco powder.
• Fruity: Blend/top with berries, cherries, or any fruits.
• Coconut: Blend with coconut milk and top with shredded coconut.

Check this blog post to see how to freeze bananas!  Classic Nicecream

Nicecream: Just Frozen Bananas–go here for details. 

Toppings: Coconut Flakes, Caramelized Buckinis, Goji Berries, Cacao Nibs, and Coconut-covered Date Candy (see this post for the recipe.) 

Mango Nana Nicecream

Nicecream: Frozen Bananas and Frozen Mango.

Toppings: Coconut Flakes. 

Until next time, remember: Have your veggies and eat your cookies🍪 too!

4 Natural Anxiety Remedies

Hey there! Thanks✨ for visiting Happy Healthy Noms for this week’s Tidbit Tuesday!💫

Suffering from mild anxiety? Having a hard time relaxing or quieting your mind? Help has arrived in All-Natural and Vegan forms!

NOTE: I am not trained in any way in psychiatry. I am only speaking based on experience. I am not liable for any side effects. Results may vary.

ALSO: If you are suffering from serious anxiety, then I urge you to see a psychologist or a psychiatrist. Remove the stigma. There is nothing wrong with getting much needed HELP!

To supplement psychiatric help, or just in cases of mild anxiety, I have a few natural solutions for you, along with a Happy Healthy Calming Drink recipe! 

I use these solutions whenever I need them! These are all safe and healthy! 

1. Lemon Balm Extract  

• This is a mild anti-Anxiety solution. I find it very helpful for general anxiety, or mild social anxiety.
• I add this to a shot glass filled with water, knock it back, and fairly immediately feel more calm.
• Don’t add more than a tincture full! 
• It tastes fine with water. But, don’t take without water, it tastes horrible on it’s own!             

2. Chamomile Tea  

• I know, I know you’re thinking seriously? Yeah, seriously! 
• Drink a cup of hot chamomile tea.
• Feeling extra anxious? Add a second chamomile tea bag to your cup.
• Still feeling anxious? Drink another cup, and another!
• This is one of the few things that you can drink many cups of without side effects!
• You can even order this at most Starbucks! (If you order larger than a Tall, ask them to add an extra Tea Bag!)  

Speaking of Starbucks…

3. Lower your caffiene intake.

• If you love your morning cup of coffee, that’s great. 
• But, you might consider switching to half caffinated (you can buy “half caf” or make it buy mixing half of your coffee with caffinated and the other half decaffinated)
• If you can’t give up your morning coffee, don’t drink more coffee after that first cup.
• Anxiety revs you up enough, caffiene will make it worse!
• Instead of coffee or caffienated beverages, drink herbal tea (only herbal! Decaffinated Tea that is not herbal can actually contain some caffiene)
• OR drink my calming drink that I list below!

3. Happy Healthy Calming Drink

• Iced: Fill a glass with ice and water. Add a bag of chamomile tea and a tincture full of Lemon Balm Extract.
• Hot: Fill a mug with boiling water. Add a bag of chamomile tea and and a tincture full of Lemon Balm Extract. 

If you try these, please let me know how it helps you out!

Until next time, remember: Have your veggies and eat your cookies🍪 too!

Easy Vegan BBQ Baked Beans Burgers

Hey there! Thanks✨ for visiting Happy Healthy Noms for this week’s Foodie Friday!🍴

Today I have a super yummy and super easy dinner for you: Vegan BBQ Baked Beans Burgers! 

This recipe is bound to please Vegans and non-Vegans alike! The secret ingredient, Baby Bella Mushrooms, gives it a nice meaty texture! 

Not Vegan? Try doing Meatless Mondays! Try BBQ Baked Bean Burgers for next Monday’s Meatless Monday! Trust me, you won’t miss the meat, this recipe is just that good!

 Vegan BBQ Baked Beans Burger 

Vegan BBQ Baked Beans Burger

• Servings: 4
• Time: 5-10 Min.
• Difficulty: Easy
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• 1/2 cup Chopped Baby Bella Mushrooms (washed/dried)
• 1t Onion Powder
• 1t Garlic Powder 
•  1 can Canellini Beans (drained/rinsed)
• 2/3 cup Quick Oats
• 1/4 cup Annie’s Vegan BBQ Sauce.

1. Sauté Mushrooms on Medium Heat with Water (add a T or so).
2. Put the Mushrooms in a bowl and add Onion Powder and Garlic Powder.
3. Add the Canellini Beans!
4. Mash it up, leaving some Beans whole for texture.
5. Add the BBQ sauce and stir in the Quick Oats.
6. Divide into fourths andmake into patties.
7. Bake for 7 minutes each side.
8. Put in a Toasted Whole Grain Vegan Bun or a Lettuce Wrap. 
9. Top with Homemade Vegan Cheese or Daiya Cheddar Slices. 
10. On the side add Corn that’s been roasted over the stove’s burner!

Until next time, remember: Have your veggies and eat your cookies🍪 too!