Whole Foods Anyone?

Cha-Cha-Cha-Chia Seeds:
aren't just for a Strange Christmas Gift Anymore!
If you are like me and always seeking affordable, family friendly, whole and raw foods recipes, you may just LOVE chia pudding as much as my family. This can be used as a dessert, or as a breakfast. Chia seeds are FULL of Omega-3, protein, rare antioxidants, and fiber! They are gluten free and keep you feeling satisfied long after you eat them. This recipe does not affect blood sugar, which prevents your body from producing insulin, that triggers the storage of fat in your cells.

Cocoa Chia Pudding (yields 4 HEARTY servings)
3/4 cup chia seeds
2 cups almond milk
Dash salt (I use Himalayan Pink Sea Salt)
Natural (unbulked) stevia to taste (3-5 of the tiny scoops)
2-3 rounded Tbl. natural cocoa powder
optional: vanilla extract (1/4-1/2 tsp.) to taste

Simply mix the ingredients together, and let them rest for a few moments. Stir the mix well with a fork every five minutes or so. At first, it’ll seem far too liquidy, but over the course of thirty minutes the chia seeds will plump up, till the pudding resembles tapioca pudding. I love to throw the entire batch into the blender and process it until it resembles a creamy pudding, but if you like little tapioca-like balls, just don't blend up! If you serve the pudding in the quantity as in my photo, you'll easily serve 8. 

Unblended

Cocoa Chia Pudding

 I'm a real fan of unsweetened vanilla almond milk. We add about 3 tiny scoops of 100% pure stevia to the entire carton and shake it up if we are going to drink it by the glass.