Welcome to Simple Meals Friday!

1. Katie of Nourishing Simplicity
2. Amanda of Natural Living Mamma
3. Jacquelyn of LittleOwlCrunchyMomma

• Keep the foods “nourishing”, such as homemade chicken stocks, whole grains, vegetables, fruits, healthy fats (lard, coconut oil, butter, olive oil, tallow), unrefined sugars, flours and salts and meats.
• Please don’t include recipes using processed oils such as soy and canola oil, msg laden bouillon and other highly processed foods. Try to incorporate traditional methods of preparing foods like, sprouting, soaking, sourdough and lacto-fermentation. If I notice a recipe using these ingredients it will be deleted.
• Link back to this blog hop, it is a common linking courtesy. It helps to build a stronger blogging community. That way we can all learn and share with each other.

We enjoyed reading all your submissions. The hosts will pick a favorite post to feature on next week’s Simple Meals Friday. If you want to be featured please be sure to link back to this blog hop. Our favorites will be featured on facebook and pintrest!

Featured Simple Meals

This soaked teff and millet bread from Tessa seems like the perfect way to start off your day! 

Deep flavors of earl grey tea are highlighted by tangy lemon juice and then sweetened with raw honey. It is my favorite tea in the form of an icy treat.

Spring is quickly fading away into summer. Now is the perfect time to pull out your ice cream maker if it isn’t out already. My ice cream maker gets frequent use all year round because I love ice cream and sorbets so much! If you don’t have an ice cream maker never fear, Marillyn has a instructions on how to make ice cream without a machine in her gorgeous e-book, Just Making Ice Cream. It’s a true favorite around here.

Join me at The Nourishing Gourmet to read more! 

Just a reminder that there is still time to sign up for the 7-Day Real Food Challenge!

There is so much happening on the facebook group. Recipes are being shared, people are asking questions and receiving lots answers and encouragement. Some who have signed up are just testing the waters of Real Food while some of us are seasoned veterans. We are all learning something! I for one am loving the new recipes provided in the guide.

As most of you know I don not normally eat a grain free diet but for the sake of this challenge and in hopes of healing some gut issues I am giving it a try. Don’t feel bad is you aren’t up to the compleat paleo challenge, the goal is to help you get into eating real foods and away from SAD (the standard american diet). Feel free to make this challenge your own.

Click here to join us and get the plan, recipes, and support now!

I was honored to have two of my recipes featured in the 7-Day Real Food Challenge Guide Book.

Today I am happy to share links for those recipes as well as others to encourage you in your challenge. Remember if you “mess up” you can always start again the next meal or next day.

Spicy “Fried” Chicken Strips with Spicy Avocado Cilantro Dip

Powerhouse Mocha Frapuccino

Chocolate Coconut Milk Ice Cream

How To Make Coconut Milk, The Easy Way