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Healthy Homemade Vegan Doritos “Nacho Cheese” Flavor (Gluten-Free, Allergy-Free)

January 9, 2019 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 22 Comments

An easy and healthy copycat recipe for your favorite bold-flavored tortilla chip snack! Homemade Vegan Doritos in classic “nacho cheese” flavor that are gluten-free, allergy-free, and baked instead of fried! Addicting, crunchy, and great for parties!

Is it possible? Can you actually enjoy your favorite crunchy, cheesy, tortilla chip junk food without all the fat, oil, salt, sugar, and dairy? Those nostalgic memories of munching through a bag of Doritos and licking the nacho cheese dust off your fingers. Whether it was part of your school lunch snacking with friends, mindlessly munching away during a movie, or while cheering on your favorite sports team in your living room, everyone has some Doritos-eating memories!Read More

Gluten-Free Cinnamon Sugar Pretzels (Vegan, Sugar-Free, Allergy-Free)

November 22, 2017 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 77 Comments

A super easy, salty, sweet, and crunchy snack recipe! These Gluten-Free Cinnamon Sugar Pretzels are vegan, sugar-free, and top-8 allergy-free! Perfect for gift-giving, late night snacking, or a healthier kid-friendly treat!

Snack attack! Remember those chocolate-covered pretzels I shared last year? I gave them as Christmas gifts to some of my family, but I also gave these very cinnamon sugar pretzels too! They are super easy to coat and throw in the oven to bake up. Your house will smell like a sweet cinnamon wonderland! These pretzels are one of those extremely addictive snack foods. Sweet, salty, crunchy, and of course gluten-free, vegan, and sugar-free!Read More

How-To Make Eggplant Bacon In Your Dehydrator

September 21, 2017 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 32 Comments

Here is a simple and easy way to make meatless, gluten-free, vegan, paleo, raw, and allergy-free eggplant bacon right in your dehydrator! Eggplant bacon is a great smoky, crispy, no oil, no fat, low-calorie and carb vegetarian swap to the greasy classic!

A few weeks ago I realized I never shared a proper tutorial on how to make my favorite “bacon” (aka, eggplant bacon!) You’ve seen me use it before in my popular “Ultimate Vegan BLT” recipe and I have another recipe coming up on Monday that uses it. I have a few other recipes that require the eggplant bacon in the “to-post” files as well, but always held off because I knew I needed to get a tutorial up before I went to “bacon-crazy” on the blog!Read More

Savory Italian Tigernut Flour Crackers (Gluten-Free, Vegan, Paleo)

May 3, 2017 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 43 Comments

A healthy and delicious grain-free snack! Savory Italian Tigernut Flour Crackers, easy and homemade, baked in the oven, and gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and allergy-free! They are perfect for an everyday snack or a fancy addition to an appetizer platter!

Put that bag of gluten-free crackers down and step away from the snack aisle! You need your crunchy afternoon snack, you say? You can’t live without visiting your favorite aisle, the snack aisle, in the store? Don’t worry! I’m not here to take away your snacking addiction, but I am here to make it even better!Read More

Freedom Feature: Nancy Kalish “Rule Breaker Snacks”

February 23, 2017 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 33 Comments

Connecting the celiac disease and food allergy/intolerance community together by sharing our stories to food freedom. From our beginning struggles to striving after a diagnosis, we can all relate and help each other out by sharing what we’ve learned and our unique personal journeys.

Fulfilling my promise! Today’s Freedom Feature is all about the fabulous brand Rule Breaker Snacks (formerly Pure Genius)! I personally met the brand at the GFAF Expo last year and knew I had to have them on for a Freedom Feature! Their Brownies and Blondies are some of the best, soft, chewy, chocolaty bars you will ever have! And guess what? Totally Top 8-Free and made with BEANS! You all know that beans and legumes have a very special place on this blog. They really can be made into anything, eh?

background: who are you?

I’m a former health journalist (Oprah Magazine, Prevention, SELF, NY Times, etc.), certified health coach, as well as a healthy restaurant consultant.