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Eating healthy, nutritional meals is super important to keep immune system balanced and working well.
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Dairy Free Potato Soup

This potato soup is our family favorite, vegan friendly and contains only 8 ingredients!
You will need:

1. Yellow flesh potatoes cut in chunks (5-6 large)
2. Carrots, peeled and cut in chunks (2-3 large carrots)
3. Onion, cubed (1 large red or white onion); 2 garlic cloves smashed
4. Celery sticks cut in chunks (2-3 sticks)
5. Vegetable Broth ( 3 cups)
6. Full fat coconut milk-one can
7. Salt 1/2 tsp and black pepper 1/2 tsp, 1/2 tsp dried dill, 1/2 tsp celery salt
8. Fresh kale for nutrition 
9. Bacon for serving-several crisp links, or fried pancetta

Instructions: add first seven ingredients into pot, close the lid and cook for 25-30 min. After that open the lid, add washed kale leaves and let them wilt for about a minute. Using immersion blender puree the soup.
​Serve with bacon crisp or pancetta bits.

Cranberry punch

Ingredients:

• 1 bag of frozen cranberries, thawed;
• 1l water or cranberry juice (use 500 ml water and 500 ml juice). Apple/Orange juice will work too;
• 1 orange cut in wedges;
• 1/3 cup of sugar
• Cinnamon stick and star anise (one each) if desired, but not necessary

Add thawed cranberries into the pot and smash them, releasing jelly-like substance. Place smashed cranberries into the sieve over a clean bowl and squeeze juice from smashed cranberries. Reserve the juice ( we preserve vitamins in raw juice).
Add smashed cranberries into a pot, add water, apple/orange juice if using, sugar, spices and bring to boil. Turn of heat and let it cool. Add reserved cranberry juice. Pour into mugs and decorate with orange slices.