If you love and miss your Nutella, you are going to love today's recipe!

Enjoy this easy gluten-free, refined sugar-free, vegan and paleo recipe for a delicious chocolatey hazelnut spread!

How delicious does that look?! I know my mouth is watering for some already! I used to love eating Nutella and I would eat it by the spoon. I didn't even bother with toast (although it's completely delicious with toast!). But my Nutella-by-the-spoon days are quite over now. If I were to continue that particular habit, I'm 100% positive I would be struggling to pull on my jeans!

This recipe is a much healthier alternative to the usual, store bought version of the chocolate-hazelnut spread! There are no refined sugars or preservatives added and it's gluten free, vegan and paleo approved! Enjoy it with toast and sprinkle on some PGX for that fibre kick!

Thank you to Chelsy of Mangia for sharing this fabulous nut butter! Visit her page to see pictures for every step of the recipe. Enjoy!

Homemade Nutella

Prep/Total time: 15 mins

Serves: 2 cups

All of the things you love about Nutella, but homemade, and healthier with roasted hazelnuts, cacao powder, creamy hazelnut milk, and a touch of maple syrup for the perfect sweetness. Gluten-free/vegan/paleo/refined sugar-free.

Ingredients

• 2 c. unsalted, roasted hazelnuts, skins removed
• 4 T. raw cacao powder, or cocoa powder
• ¼ t. fine sea salt
• 1 t. pure vanilla extract
• ¼ c. pure Maple syrup
• ½ c. hazelnut milk (you can also use unsweetened, vanilla almond milk or another nut milk if preferred)

Instructions

• Place the hazelnuts in a large food processor and process on high until smooth, about 10 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
• Add the rest of the ingredients and process on high until smooth and creamy, about 3-4 minutes.
• Devour.

Image and recipe courtesy of Mangia.

Spice up your dinner time with these tasty tacos!

Healthy meals don't have to be boring and tasteless. This delectable recipe for soft tacos will prove that you can maintain your waistline while adding some Mexican punch to your dinner table!

All too often I hear people say, "I'm on a diet. Just chicken and steamed broccoli for me!" or something along those lines. Don't get me wrong, those two things can be extremely tasty, but they can get incredibly boring! For sure a diet of chicken breast and steamed broccoli will help you to lose weight, if anyone can stick to just that! I find that the best way to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle, happily, would be to have flavourful meals!

Like this recipe for Soft Tacos with Spicy Chicken from Health.com! It's full of delicious ingredients that pack a punch like fresh oregano, red onions, dark beer, cilantro and chipotle chiles! At only 225 calories and 5 grams of fibre per serving, it's a tasty way to get a shot of flavour and a does of fibre in one meal! Add some PGX into the mix and you'll be sure to get your daily fibre quota filled!

If these chicken soft tacos don't quite make you dance, Health.com shares seven other tasty taco recipes! Enjoy!

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No more aimless walking in the grocery store. It's time to shop ourselves healthy!

I can't even count how many times I walk over to the refridgerator, stare at its contents and close the door empty handed. From there, I cruise over to the pantry and start inspecting it's contents!

The crave monster has just sufaced and it's forcing me to begin the hunt for snacks! All too often this leads to snacking on things like chips and dip or if nothing else, buttered toast (I swear I could live on toasted bread with butter and I would be quite happy!). So what can one do to prevent this kind of craving grazing? It all starts at the grocery store...

Check out this infographic and learn how to shop yourself slim and healthy! (Click on infographic to enlarge.) Don't forget to add some fibre into your diet! PGX can help control that blood sugar roller coaster for you ;)

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Enjoy the flavours of spring without the worries of a disappearing waist line!

It's time to treat our taste buds to fresh spring foods, guilt-free!

The sun is shinging, trees are budding, and flowers are beginning to blossom... It's Springtime! Boy, am I ever excited for some sunshine and warmer, just-a-sweater weather! Every March, as spring begins to roll in, I get the urge to come out of my winter hibernation, so to speak.

Let's celebrate the coming of warmer weather with Shape Magazine's Top 50 Spring Foods that will keep our taste buds happy and our waist lines ready for summer!

I'm happy to see a lot of m favourite foods are on the list! Don't forget to take your daily fibre and add PGX to your list of spring foods this year! Fibre will go along away in keeping your blood sugar levels nice and steady and those cravings in check.

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Start your day with a burst of flavour and energy!

Combine this Eating Well recipe with PGX for a health morning boost! It's sure to keep you fuelled and in control of those pesky cravings...

It may seem like a lot of effort to whip up a smoothie in the morning but really, when you have the ingredients sitting in your refridgerator (or freezer), it's a piece of cake! All you have to do is throw in a few things into a blender, press a button, et voilà! You have a smoothie all set for a tasty, nutritious breakfast! How can you say no to a tumbler of this?! 

Eating Well Magazine share's deliciously simple recipe for their Wake-Up Smoothie. But it just needs one last ingedient... a PGX Daily Singles Stick! Add one stick containing 2.5 grams of PGX and you've a smoothie that will wake you up and keep your blood sugar levels nice and steady!

PGX health tip of today: always drink plenty of water and don't skip out on your breakfast!

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