Sweet Carob Hearts

Written By Leanne de Groot

Ingredients:

3/4 cup organic carob powder (see picture for the one I love & recommend)

3/4 cup organic coconut oil (I use the one in the picture when I don’t want too much coconut flavour)

Optional 1/4 cup (or less) maple syrup or raw honey

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

1 pinch of sea salt

1/2 tsp of organic monk fruit (optional) * don’t use if you use honey or maple syrup as your hearts will be sweet enough

Ice cube trays or chocolate moulds

Option to add a drop of your favourite food grade essential oil (use code: LEANNE20 to receive 20% off at https://pacificscents.com.au/

Instructions:

If necessary (if it's cooler than 23 degrees C in your home) melt mixture in the microwave for about 30-60 seconds. The stove top would work too.

In a small bowl mix, or in your thermomix gently blend all ingredients together until the mixture is an even consistency.

Pour mixture or spoon (this mix tends to set quickly so you need to move relatively fast) in an ice cube trays or chocolate moulds and place in the fridge or freezer.

Your Carob hearts will be ready in about 30- 60 minutes.

Store in the freezer in a freezer a Ziploc bag. Place at the back of your freezer or each time you open your freezer these little delights will entice you to eat them!

Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

https://www.bodyfuel.org
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