The best Half and Half substitute for your coffee!

Recently I watched Dr. Oz and they were talking about nut milks as good substitutes for the cream in your coffee if you want a healthier lifestyle. What I liked about his advice was about what kind of milk to use for what type of coffee. For instance, for lattes he suggested cashew milk, iced coffee -almond milk and for any coffee which required half and half he suggested coconut milk for the same satisfying qualities. I have tried all these milks in the past and didn't enjoy them with my coffee but it reminded me of how I should look for a better alternative because I drink sooooo much half and half. Two days ago I made several different recipes with cashews, coconut butter and hemp. Nothing tasted good. The cashews were too thick and cashew and I didn't like the coconut milk at all. The last thing, hemp milk, was good but had a grassy taste to it which I did not prefer. I decided to mix them together. With a combo of cashew cream and hemp milk it was nearly a perfect substitute for half and half. The more cashew cream I mixed with the hemp the richer the taste. The less cashew cream, the more it tastes like milk.

Here is my recipe...

Hemp milk
1/2 cup dehulled hemp seeds
3 cups of water
pinch of sea salt
1-2 dates (depending on how sweet you like things)
half teaspoon vanilla extract

-blend all ingredients together in a high speed blender until it resembles milk.. don't even need to strain. Chill and serve


Cashew cream:

1/2 raw cashews ( I don't soak mine)
1 cup water

Blend until a smooth consistency is formed

mix the two together to make the perfect consistency for your coffee.



I personally enjoy drinking about a tablespoon of cashew cream with the 2 cups of hemp milk and drink it straight up. Very tasty and nourishing!

Adventures for 2016 require working out...

Ok it's been about 1.25 weeks now that I have stopped my daily goals routine. But what I notice I keep naturally are my meditations around 10 minutes per morning and night, eating more greens: smoothies and drinking water. What I've left out are my workout goals and the longer meditations. I've also slowed down on the prostrations. I also stopped working on my daily spiritual goal. I think it comes from being tired from work. However some goals did stick I guess I need to keep trudging through bc I am making all sorts of plans this year for fun but I need to be in super good shape in order to do them. I am doing a Canyon trip in March for 10 days and it appears that I am heading to the Rockies to hike up to Lake Berg and camp 😱😨.  I'm scared of the camping part but I imagine how beautiful it will be up there each morning when I wake up and I feel so excited. 

Dreams and goals. Don't let the adventures stop. 2015 was a pretty crazy year. I don't need to top but I do want to match it equally with fun and adventure. Just different kinds... And maybe open my mind a little to some of life mysteries.  

Pondering a situation

Had a conversation today... someone said it is possible that you could be with the right person but if you take too long to commit then that person could leave you and you would not be with who you are meant to be with because they would get fed up and find someone else.

Then I thought if that person was meant to be yours how could they leave you? How could they just easily give up that love and go to someone else?

My opinion... if someone loved you they wouldn't leave you... especially if you were meant to be. So perhaps if it requires you to make a decision before you are ready to make a decision for someone to stay is that person the one that is meant for you? Perhaps you are supposed to be with someone else and fear and forced you to commit and give up other life choices.

So what is it? Is it that you need to act when the time is right otherwise the time will run out... or do we work together to make things right?

What to believe? I dunno. I would not like to think that if there is love between two people that at some point that love with run out if you don't make huge life choices/ decisions for one another. I would hope that love will carry you both through until both are ready. I don't know. Wondering and thinking.

A walk by the river last week.

Whenever cold weather hits

It seems like it will never go away. So soon we forget about the rain we were complaining about. So quickly we start to complain about the snow. Last week, I went on a solo walk and it was cold. Normally I would have stayed home but it was part of my daily goal to do something outdoorsy on a Saturday. It was just before lunch and I was walking by the river. It was a foggy day. Most of the river walk was low in visibility. You couldn't actually see the river. You could only make out the floating logs and poles that were standing still out of the water. Once in a while you'd see the silhouette of a bird fly by. Around you everything was frozen. Every blade of grass, every branch and brave petal that stretched out to say hello was glittered with frost. It was quite spectacular. I savoured each vision because I had never seen that before. All spider webs lost their cloaking power as they stood in plain sight with the dangly and torn parts blowing in the wind like white strands of yarn. Other webs looked like perfectly crocheted lace doilies left on the railing of docks by a secret public artist. I guess spiders really are secret public artists. We never know what they are up to but if we could see we would be amazed. All that is gone now. A week later the sun is out and what looked like a frozen winter has turned into an early spring. So quickly the Universe changes it mind. It is the winds of change that direct life. If I had felt it too cold to linger around outside that day I would have never seen the frozen louvre by the river. As even the day after all that frost wouldn't have been able to form. It was like a lesson. Sometimes you only have that moment to enjoy what is given to you. Make sure you cherish that moment. Also when that moment passes don't think too much of the past because the present moment has something to offer to you too if only you decide to look. 

There are lessons everywhere and everyday.