Shanti Landon Life Made Full

Life Made Full

Filling our lives with faith, family, and clean food.

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Balsamic Marinated London Broil Steak with Pan-Fried Zucchini Noodles

  Pin it for later! I am soooo excited about this nifty contraption I got a few weeks ago: World Cuisine A4982799 Tri-Blade Plastic Spiral Vegetable Slicer Seriously, it's awesome. It took me like 5 minutes to make all those zucchini into noodles (aren't they purrrty??) Note: If you don't have one of these, you can use a vegetable peeler or mandolin to get flatter noodles.      Like what you read? Sign up here and get my Top 10 Recipes ebook for free! ... continue reading...

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Frozen Banana Berry Sandwich Bites

Recipe: Frozen Banana Berry Sandwich Bites 3 ripe bananas 1/2 cup frozen blueberries 1/2 cup frozen strawberries 2 TBSP full-fat, unsweetened coconut milk Cut each banana in half and then slice length-wise in half. In a food processor, blend together the frozen blueberries, strawberries and coconut milk. Top 1/2 of the bananas with the fruit mixture. Place the other half banana on top, stick a toothpick in them to hold them together and quickly place in freezer. Freeze for 45 ... continue reading...

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Does Our DNA Tell Us What To Eat? And Why Do We Crave Things We’re Sensitive To?

Last night we watched an episode of a show on Netflix called "Medicine Men Go Wild." If you haven't seen it, it's about 2 identical twins, doctors, who travel around the world to indigenous tribes studying their medicinal practices. It's pretty fascinating. In the episode we watched last night, the two men traveled to a remote part of Siberia, where a small village of 400 people not only survive, but thrive on a diet consisting of almost all walrus, whale and reindeer. The doctors ... continue reading...

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Sugar Consumption and Inflammation

So after my diagnosis of bone spurs, spinal stenosis and disc degeneration, I decided to do a Whole30. Actually a "Whole14," since I did it for 14 days. The only difference between this Whole30 and the others I've done was that I took out coffee and I eliminated all fruit for the first week, and the 2nd week only introduced a bit of apples and an occasional piece of banana. I felt great. My back was doing awesome, I started Whole Family's Burpee Challenge, and was moving along swimmingly. After ... continue reading...