Seasonal fruit compote. One of our favorite breakfast and dessert accompaniments for winter - sweet without sugar, tangy, and spicey!

Does that look like a cupcake?! You’re looking at a grab-and-go meal in a muffin that tastes delish! The seeds, nuts, and cacao provide healthy fats that are so good for us in the winter all packaged together with the fiber that makes this a filling choice for meal on the go or a hearty snack.

Just 6 all food ingredients that you make into your next not-so-guilty secret. Seeds, cacao, pistachio nuts, macadamia nuts, almond or other milk and pure monk fruit powder combine in all the right ways for a luxurious, low glycemic decadent treat you can make a meal of! …

Not only are seasonal fruits and veggies less expensive and possible to grow on your own — or help a friend with harvesting, by eating seasonally and possibly even locally or hyper-locally you are tending your microbiome.

Recent circadian biology research has shown that populations eating traditional diets have gut microbiomes that change seasonally. Not only do our bodies modify the molecules they create — like melatonin — based on light, moisture, and temperature, but we also shift the microbes in our guts based on either these factors or our diet, and almost certainly both.