Simple Chia Seed Pudding

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Chia seeds are packed with nutrients, and there are endless ways you can use these powerful little seeds. I mostly use them in smoothies, but I recently tried making chia pudding! It's super easy and delicious, and is a bit better for you than regular pudding.

I originally found the recipe on Eating Bird Food's blog, but I made a minor change to it which was adding more chia seeds. I just wanted a thicker pudding. If you don't then feel free to follow their recipe instead! They also list some other sweetener options. Being the honey lover that I am, naturally, I chose honey for my sweetener!

You can use just about any type of 'milk' to make chia pudding. Almond milk, soy, coconut, basically anything you'd like to use. Personally, I used regular cow milk. I would have preferred to use coconut milk, but I ran out and just used what I had on hand.

Ingredients

8 to 10 tablespoons of chia seeds

2 cups milk of your choice

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 tablespoon honey

Fruit of your choice

Directions

You'll be leaving the chia pudding in the fridge for a while so choose a container accordingly. I used the glass bowl from my pictures. Keep in mind that the chia seeds soak up liquid and may expand slightly.

Mix together all the ingredients. Take care if you're using very thick honey (like me), it might get a little hard but just from being cold, but it should mix up if you keep working with it. If you're using thinner honey, it may not be an issue for you!

Let the chia pudding sit for a few minutes, and then stir it some more to make sure the chia seeds are all mixed into the milk.

Cover your dish and place it in the fridge overnight, or, if you're impatient like me, just keep it in for a few hours!

Now when you're ready to eat it, wash and if necessary cut up your fruit. I chose kiwi, strawberries, and blueberries. The kiwis were probably my favorite choice, but they were all delicious!

This has got to be one of my favorite recipes! I'm a pudding fanatic in general so it's no wonder I love it so much! I highly recommend you try this recipe too. 💖 If you do, feel free to share it with me on social media! I would love to see what you come up with. 😄

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I've been staying with my grandmother lately to help her out. I wanted her to try these delicious cookies! But she has celiac disease, so I had to figure out a gluten free recipe for her. She does eat wheat on occasion, but she shouldn't. So I didn't want to make her cookies that would just make her sick.

Posts You May Have Missed | October 2016

Little late with this post, been super busy!

It's just the usual recap of the posts from the last month, in case anyone missed them!

Halloween Fan Feature | 2016

Oh how I love Halloween. And fan features.

Today I'm featuring a few fans who sent in their Halloween nails! Enjoy!

Drag Marble Jack-O-Lantern Nails | Video Tutorial

I love Halloween! Jack-O-Lanterns are one of my favorites. I've been super into drag marbling lately so I thought why not try a drag marble Jack-O-Lantern?!

I'll be out of town this Halloween visiting family, so I'm not sure how much other Halloween stuff I'll be able to do. I'd been itching for a Halloween design for weeks and finally got around to it! Hope you like it.

And remember, I'm doing a Halloween fan feature this Halloween, so be sure to send in your fall/Halloween nail designs to be featured on the blog!!

Drag Marble Fall Nails | Video Tutorial

After being told by multiple people that my Red & Gold Glitter Nails weren't "fall enough", I thought I better try to do something that wouldn't leave anyone guessing as to what theme I was going for! The leaves are so beautiful in my town so I decided on a red, orange, and yellow design. It reminds me of a pile of leaves, and fall camo!

Red & Gold Fall Glitter Nails | Video Tutorial

Fall! One of the best times of the year. We just had our first frost here, the sun is setting later, the leaves are turning reds and yellows, so I was feeling super inspired to do some fall nails! I decided to do something with glitter, just cause!

Posts You May Have Missed | August 2016

Only a few posts this month. See if you missed any! 😊

Swirly Drag Marble Flowers | Video Tutorial

Drag marbling is so fun and easy. I'm just addicted lately! I got two Essie polishes a few months ago. They're red and pink so I thought they'd go great together! People keep sending me little drag marble compilation videos so I was feeling super inspired. I made a video tutorial this time! Let me know what you think! It's only my second video tutorial, I think it's much better than my first one, but you be the judge!

Polishes Used:

Essie - With The Band (Red)

Essie - Cascade Cool (Pink)

How To:

Start with your base color. You can do 2 coats if the polish you're using is thin. If you do this, let the first coat dry and then start the next step with your 2nd coat of fresh wet polish.

While the red polish is still wet add three dots of pink quickly. Drag marbling is done on very wet nail polish. I put a big dot in the middle of the nail and two smaller ones at the tip and base.

Use a dotting tool, needle, tooth pick, etc and swirl through the polish in any pattern you like. For this design I took a dotting tool and dragged it into the dot with a curving motion. Then I picked up my tool and started a new line into the dot still doing a curving motion. The dotting tool picked up some of the pink polish and that's what makes the little pink rounded spike things on the outside of the swirls.

Honestly, this was pretty confusing to try and type out. I really hope it made sense and I made the video tutorial just for this reason! Hope you guys aren't too confused!

I also want to invite you guys to come join a new Facebook group that I just became admin for. It's Nailart Adventures on Facebook! We have contests occasionally and it's ever growing with new members all the time.

I'm also introducing a YouTube new playlist with all my nail tutorials to make it easy to find them all. Right now I only have 2 but I plan to make lots more!

 Have you gotten into drag marbling lately too? Send me your pictures for a possible shout out on my social media accounts! ❤❤

Pink & Purple Drag Marble Nails

I love drag marbling so much. It's tricky at first but once you get the hang of it it's so simple and fun. The design possibilities are endless!

Drag marbling is where you paint some colors on quickly and drag something through while the paint is still very wet. A tooth pick, a needle, what have you.

Polish Used

Wet'n'Wild - Eggplant Frost

Essie - Cascade Cool

How To

Do one nail at a time

This ensures the polish stays wet. Otherwise it isn't going to work very well.

Paint 2 colors on opposite sides of the nail

Try your best to keep it even. Start on the sides and work your way into the middle. You can do multiple coats here as well, just let them all dry except for your last coat. To do the drag marbling technique you'll want the last coat to be wet.

While the polish is still very wet, quickly get your tool and drag it through gently

I did an S pattern for these. You can do swirls, lines, anything works really! Don't press too hard or you'll scrape down to the bare nail.

Apply your top coat and you're done!