Easy desserts that are also deliciously good for you: fantasy or fiction? Something you’ve dreamed about but thought too good to be true, like a perfect body or winning the lottery? Well, I have some interesting news for you.
Fabulous desserts that are super healthy and that only take minutes to prepare are entirely possible. Fancy a chocolate mousse after your dinner? Or perhaps a thick and gooey strawberry coconut ice cream sounds more to your liking? You can even get your kids involved: they’ll love my homemade banana pudding.
In fact, healthy and easy desserts are something I even enjoy for breakfast, because they’re entirely guilt-free. Yes, you can start off your day with some fat free mango ice cream. I encourage you! Make a batch of my chocolate mousse parfait and take it to the office with you for an afternoon snack: you can say goodbye to the mid-afternoon slump.
My secret, which I am now going to share with you, is all about the ingredients. When you use real foods (i.e. whole and unprocessed, and therefore full of flavor) you can toss the unnecessary junk that makes most desserts so hopelessly bad for you: refined sugar, preservatives, pasteurized dairy products.
On any given day you can see beautiful fruit ripening in my kitchen. I let it ripen to completion, because only then are the flavors and nutrients released and ready to be utilized by our bodies. And once it’s ripe and ready, I use it to create all kinds of super healthy and easy desserts.
Did you know that simple frozen bananas, blended until they’re creamy and smooth, make the most delicious ice cream? It’s true! Try adding in some fresh coconut water and medjool dates when you’re blending them up, and you’ve really got a treat.
I last ate refined sugar in 2008, and in the years since then I have really watched my taste buds bloom. I no longer have the slightest craving for artificially sweetened foods, and am completely and totally satisfied by the natural sweetness found in fruits.
Creating a collection of dessert recipes based around simple, sweet and wonderful fruits has been so rewarding, because it has enabled me to share with you my discovery that life without refined sugar is pretty darn sweet!
Not all of my easy desserts utilize fruit. I highly recommend my chocolate mousses – yep, I’ve got two, both made with completely healthy ingredients that won’t spike your blood sugar or make your doctor frown.
In fact, there is not a thing wrong with having a sweet tooth, so stop fighting it! Our sweet tooth is Nature’s way of guiding us to eat delectable and juicy fruits as part of a balanced diet. Doctors have been hammering home for quite some time now that we need fresh fruits and vegetables, and lots of ’em, to keep our bodies healthy and strong. The occasional banana or apple isn’t going to cut it.
Eat many servings of fruit, every day. They are loaded with antioxidants and are some of our most powerful weapons against cancer and other scary life-threatening diseases. Honestly, the more fruit I eat, the more I can feel my energy levels affected in the most positive, nourishing way. Fruit is truly nature’s dessert.
My easy desserts make eating lots of fresh fruit so simple. All you need is a good blender or food processor. Anyone can do this, and that includes YOU! Give up refined sugar and embrace your sweet tooth with my super healthy, easy desserts designed around fresh, whole, unprocessed ingredients. Get ready to seriously dazzle your taste buds!
