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5 Reasons Why California Grapes Need To Be In Your Lunchbox

August 8, 2017 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 20 Comments

*This post is in partnership with Grapes from California through Kitchen PLAY.

What’s one of the best portable, easy, healthy, and delicious snacks you could add to your lunch to brighten it up? Grapes of course! Here are 5 reasons why California Grapes need to be in your lunchbox this year!

Grapes from California, are one fruit that I always pick up on my weekly grocery runs. I’ve loved them since I was a kid (they taste like candy, don’t they?). Red, green, black, I love them all! A bite-sized, portable, non-messy fruit is always a win for parents packing their children’s lunches (and young adults like myself!) But they have more benefits than just being delicious! Here are my top 5 reasons to choose California grapes:Read More

24 Gifts For The Breakfast Lover

December 1, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 46 Comments

It’s the most important meal of the day! Cozy, delicious, and practical things to start the day right! Here are 24 Gifts For The Breakfast Lover in your life to bring some extra sunshine and smiles in the morning!

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Do we need an explanation here? Breakfast is one of my favorite events of the day and I know I’m not the only one! Receiving a breakfast-centric gift would totally be acceptable to me! Plus, who doesn’t love those special Christmas and holiday breakfast feasts? Do you do anything special? You may want to give these gifts a day early so you can break them in on Christmas morning! Or you can just prep some rustic gluten-free vegan cinnamon buns and use these breakfast lover gifts later in the day…you know, “The Christmas Breakfast 24-Hour Event”! I’d happily spend my Christmas cooking up breakfast goodies…I did last year 😉

So here are some fun gift ideas for the breakfast lover in your life! Or in my case…my personal wish list 😉Read More

13 Gifts To Stock A New Gluten-Free Kitchen

November 17, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 36 Comments

After stripping down the gluten-filled kitchen to its bare bones and sweeping it clean, you’ll need to re-stock! Here are 13 Gifts to Stock a New Gluten-Free Kitchen that every celiac and gluten-free foodie will love!

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It’s gift guide time! I love putting these together for my own blog, but I also love looking at other gift guides around the web as well! Always so much spirit and inspiration for just about everyone and everything! I love scanning them and lusting over things I know I’ll never get (or need). My own Christmas List to Santa is rather short this year. Since I got my last essential big ticket kitchen appliance last year (aka the Majestic Beauty), the #1 gift priority, and truthfully the only thing I really need, is a brand new, fully-loaded, and powerful laptop! I don’t know the type I should even be looking at (not a Mac! PC only!), but any suggestions are very welcome 😉

Anyway, I decided my first gift guide would be cooking related and just what a newbie celiac might need! My kitchen is stocked will all these appliances and they are very loved! Of course, these great kitchen gifts can be for any foodie, but these picks are guaranteed to make the new lifestyle of a celiac 1000x better, more fun, and well…delicious! After getting rid of contaminated appliances and needing to learn a new way of cooking, helpful and innovative kitchen appliances can make the transition that much easier!Read More

How-To Make Sugar-Free Vegan Marshmallow Fluff

August 8, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 170 Comments

The easiest way to make sugar-free, allergy-free, vegan marshmallow fluff with an unexpected ingredient! This multi-purpose condiment & sweet topping recipe will become a staple and have you buying cans of beans just for aquafaba!

Breathe deeply! Your fluffy sweet marshmallow dreams are about to come true! Just when you (at least I did) thought all hope was lost due to all vegan, gluten-free marshmallows having SOY and normal marshmallows having gelatin, there would never be marshmallow anything again.Read More

DIY All-Purpose Seasoning + Pantry Supplies Storage Hacks

July 25, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 134 Comments

A perfect DIY All-Purpose Seasoning recipe, gluten-free, salt and sugar-free, that will spice up any dish! Plus some trendy hacks for traveling, transporting, storing and organizing all you small pantry cooking and baking essentials!

Young adults live a pretty nomadic life. Traveling back and forth from our childhood homes, college dorms, apartments, cross-country, overseas, we are always moving. Never settled, we basically live out of our suitcases. We can never “unpack” everything because we know we’ll just be packing it all back up in a few months (even weeks!). And I don’t know about you, but packing is not my idea of fun! Especially those smaller, harder to keep track of and organized, items.Read More