Experiment Gone Right

Six months after the wedding I noticed my better half was becoming my better two-thirds, so I challenged Franco to a 30-day healthy lifestyle binge. I'll let him explain in detail, but basically it means daily workouts and a pretty much vegan, whole foods diet.

We're on day seven and a colleague brought some homemade brownies to work today. As I sat at my desk, I could only think of the fudgey brownies in the copy room that I COULD NOT EAT. Insanity drove me to turn my kitchen into a test lab after work and the results were surprisingly good. Let me introduce you to challenge-friendly brownies:

The delectable treat above contains no dairy, no grains, and no processed sugar (making it the most ingenious way to stick to our challenge diet yet). After looking at a few brownie recipes online, I created a recipe that uses almonds, avocado, honey, bananas, cocoa powder, shredded coconut, a little water, and a pinch of salt. I seriously doubted that the brownies would turn out good and was ready to settle for a meh chocolate-treat-substitute, but they are actually GOOD.

30 days may not be such a challenge after all...