HSM August 2015 Newsletter

HealthStyles Market November Newsletter

Food Allergies Holding You Back?

We hope to see you soon!
~Crystal

HealthStyles' Makes Snowmen

Snowman
Gluten-free and dairy-free

 

 

What you will need:

 

·        Dandies: Vanilla Marshmallows

·        Glutino: Pretzel Sticks

·        Enjoylife: Mini Chips and/or Sunspire: Sundrops

·        Cherrybrook Kitchen Frosting: Chocolate

·        Stretch Island Fruit Company: Fruit strips

·        Skewers

Place marshmallows on skewers (about 3).

Insert pretzel sticks to make arms.

Use frosting to attach eyes, nose and buttons. Cut fruit strip into thinner strips and stretch to make the scarf.

Printable Recipe Here

HealthStyles Market Makes... Christmas Trees

Christmas Tree
Gluten-free, dairy-free

 

What you will need:

·       Let’s do… Gluten-Free Sugar Cones

·       Cherrybrook Kitchen Frosting: (Flavor of your choice)

·       Let’s do…Organic Coconut Shreds

·       Enjoy Life: Mini Chips

·       Sunspire: Sundrops

Place cones upside down and coat with frosting of your choice. Decorate to with your favorite candies.

 

Printable Recipe Here

HealthStyles Market Cook's Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream Cheese Frostings

Two recipes, both sugar-free and dairy-free!

 

Cream Cheese Frosting “T”

Ingredients:1 pkg. Tofutti cream cheese
½ tsp. Frontier vanilla extract
¼ tsp. Sweet Leaf vanilla cream stevia
1 tbsp. Xyla Xylitol
1 tbsp. Good Karma flax milk, coconut milk or almond milk

Beat ingredients together with hand mixer until blended and smooth.

 

Cream Cheese Frosting “D”

Ingredients:

1 pkg. Daiya cream cheese
1 tsp. Frontier vanilla extract
2 tbsp. Xyla xylitol
2 tbsp. Native Forest coconut milk, flax milk or almond milk

Beat ingredients together with hand mixer until blended and smooth.

 

 

 

Printable Recipe Here

HealthStyles Market Cooks... Gluten, Dairy & Sugar Free Pumpkin Cake

Pumpkin Cake

Gluten-free, dairy-free and sugar-free.

Wet Ingredients:

1 can Farmer’s Market organic pumpkin

3 large eggs

¼ cup Frontier sunflower or safflower oil

½ tsp. Sweet Leaf English toffee stevia

 

Dry Ingredients:

1 ½ cups Bob’s Red Mill blanched almond flour

1 tsp. Rumford baking powder

1 tsp. Bob’s Red Mill baking soda

½ tsp. Redmond Real sea salt

1 tsp. Frontier ground cinnamon

½ tsp. Frontier ground nutmeg

¼ tsp. Frontier ground ginger root powder

½ cup Xyla xylitol

 

 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Coat 11x7 glass baking pan with spectrum shortening.
3. Whisk wet ingredients together and separately whisk dry ingredients. 
4. Stir together and whisk until smooth.
5. Bake 25-30 minutes.

 

Printable Recipe Here

HealthStyles Market Cooks... Coconut Cream Recipe

Coconut Cream

Non-dairy whipped cream substitute.

Ingredients:1 can Native Forest coconut milk (13.5 ounce can)

1 tsp. Frontier vanilla extract

1 tbsp. Xyla Xylitol

 

*This requires some planning ahead. Start by placing an unopened can of coconut milk in the fridge at least 3 days prior to when you want to use the whipped cream- it needs time for the water and fat to separate.

Also, the key is to use only the thickest, fattiest part of the coconut milk.

 

When you are ready to make the cream:

1. Open the bottom of the can and skim off the fat from the water. Use the fat for the cream. Use the water for something else.
2. In the same bowl with the coconut milk fat, add the vanilla and sweetener.
3. Beat on high with a mixer until the desired consistency. It does take much longer to thicken coconut milk, but it will eventually thicken.
4. Store the whipped coconut cream in the fridge to keep it thick.

 

 (At this point I am not sure how long it will remain thick, but I think for longer than real whipped cream.)

 

Printable Recipe Here

HealthStyles Market Cooks... Gluten Free Tart Crust

Gluten Free Tart Crust

Gluten free tart crust, made with only four ingredients! 

Ingredients:2 cups blanched Bobs Red Mill almond flour
½ teaspoon Eden Celtic sea salt
2 tablespoons Dr. Bronners Organic coconut oil
1 egg

 

1. Place flour and salt in food processor and pulse briefly.

2. Add coconut oil and egg and pulse until mixture forms a ball.

3. Press dough into a 9-inch metal tart pan.

4. Place pie filling of your choice in crust.

5. Bake pie as directed per pie recipe.

 

 

Printable Recipe Here

HealthStyles Market Cooks... Gluten Free Pecan Pie

Gluten Free Pecan Pie

Gluten-free, dairy free, and sugar-free.

Filling Ingredients:
1 cup Eden organic unsweetened applesauce
½ cup Xyla xylitol
1 tbsp. Frontier maple flavor
plus 1 tsp. Frontier maple flavor
1 tsp. Sweet Leaf English toffee stevia
4 tbsp. Organic Valley butter or Purity Farms ghee or Earth Balance buttery spread.
3 large organic eggs, lightly beaten
1 tsp Frontier vanilla extract
¼ tsp. Real Salt
2 cups whole pecan halves or more!

2 Kinnikinnik gluten free pie crusts (1 pkg.)

 

1.    Preheat oven to 350 degrees

2.    Blend all filling ingredients together until well blended.

3.    Place a layer of pecans on the bottom of each pie crust.

4.    Pour into pre-made gluten-free crusts.

5.    Top with additional pecans.

6.    Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

7.    Allow to cool and refrigerate.
                                                                         

 

Makes 2- 8” pies

 

 

Printable Recipe Here

HealthStyles Market Cooks... Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie

Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie

Gluten-free, dairy-free and sugar-free never tasted so good!

 Ingredients:
1-12 oz. pkg. Morinaga firm silken tofu
1-15 oz. can of Famers Market organic pumpkin
1 ½ tsp. cinnamon
¼ cup of So Delicious coconut milk
¾ tsp. of ginger
½ tsp. of nutmeg
½ tsp. of salt
1/3 cup Spectrum safflower oil
1 tsp. of vanilla
½ cup of Xyla xylitol
1 tsp. of Sweet Leaf English toffee stevia
1 pre-made Kinnikinnik gluten-free pie crust

1.    Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

2.    Combine all ingredients, except for pie crust in a blender and process until smooth. Pour into pie crust.

3.    Bake for one hour.
 

Chill before serving and top with Soya too! Rice whip or homemade coconut whip cream.

Printable Recipe Here

Dairy Free Joy!

Oh. my. GOODNESS!!!   New Dairy Free JOY!

I just have to tell you about the newest dairy free "milks" that have just arrived at HealthStyles Market!  Two new additions...Flax "Milk" and Sunflower "Milk".

Good Karma Flax Milk is just like you guessed....made out of cold pressed flax oil! It is lactose and dairy free...gluten free....soy free! Each 8 oz serving has 1200mg of Omega 3 plus 345 mg of Omega 6 and 385mg of Omega 9 -  and yet is only 25 calories!

Its as rich in calcium as diary milk and is also kosher, vegan and non-GMO!  Your child will never know that they are getting the benefits of flax oil right in their serving of "milk"!   But the best part?  It is rich and creamy and tastes wonderful!  We have both the original and the unsweetened versions available in our nondairy refrigerated section!  

Want to know more?  Check out their website: http://www.goodkarmafoods.com/

The second new option is Sunrich Naturals Sunflower Beverage and it is made from sunflower seeds!   It also is diary free...gluten free...soy free! One 8 oz serving is 45 calories and contains 50% RDA of Vitamin E and 20% RDA of Folic Acid!

It is shelf stable and we are stocking all three options, the original or unsweetened or vanilla.  It too is rich and creamy and just delicious!  An added convenience is not having to refrigerate it until opened.  If you want to know more, their website is:  http://www.sunrich.com/

EIther one of these new beverages are the perfect base for your morning smoothies or to pour over your favorite cereal or to cook with in any recipe calling for dairy!

How do I describe them to you?  To me, its almost like the Flax milk is similar to Coconut milk and the Sunflower milk is similar to Almond milk.  

For years, I have used Rice Milk as the dairy substitute in my kitchen and it always seemed like a very weak skim milk to me.  Having grown up in Minnesota, I was never a big skim milk fan and I liked cream way too much!  I LOVE these new choices....they are so much richer and creamier and it helps me to feel like I am not missing the dairy at all!

Perhaps you are thinking that you have no interest or need for a dairy substitute?

Let me give you some "food for thought" - as quoted from a book we offer in our Customer Checkout Library called "Go Dairy Free" by Alisa Marie Fleming.

First of all, I LOVE her book!  Its the BEST guide and cookbook for milk allergies, lactose intolerance and casein free living that I have ever seen!  All under one cover!  We also have her book for sale in our book department.

Quoting from page 21 she lists the most common symptoms of milk allergy as:

SKIN:
Itchy Red Rash
Eczema
Hives
"Shiners" of Black Eyes
Aphthous Ulcers (Canker Sores)
Swelling of Lips, Mouth, Tongue, Face, or Throat
DIGESTIVE:
Abdominal Pain
Abdominal Cramps
Abdominal Bloating
Diarrhea
Gas/Flatulence
Nausea 
Vomiting
RESPIRATORY:
Runny Nose/Congestion
Sneezing
Watery Eyes
Itchy Eyes
Coughing
Wheezing
Shortness of Breath
Recurrent "Colds"
Recurrent Ear Infections
Sinusitis
Behavioral:
Fatigue
Migraine Headaches
Hyperactivity (ADHD)
Irritability
Night Waking
Anxiety
Sore Muscles and Joints


Alisa has a beyond fantastic website and blog at: ghttp://www.godairyfree.org/
She offers everything you need to join the dairy free lifestyle and still enjoy life!

With just one or two of these symptoms, your life can become a daily challenge of suffering and really....is it worth it to you?  Really?

We, at HealthStyles Market are stocking a very large variety of dairy free food options like milks, cheeses, yogurts, kefirs, sour cream, cream cheese, butter substitutes,  ice creams, frozen treats,  pudding cups, chocolate bars, chocolate chips and more!

We are here to help YOU in whatever way we can - so stop in our store and allow us to serve YOU with positively outstanding personalized service!

See you soon!
Arlys