New York Times Best Selling cookbook author Danielle Walker dropped by the 'Wake Up With Cheddar' studios to teach us all how we can make a Lemon Chia Pudding recipe in no time. Plus, how we can all stay healthy in a hurry. Watch! 

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How To Stay 'Healthy In A Hurry' With Danielle Walker 

recently got to meet with the new york times, bestselling cookbook author and self trained chef Danielle walker and she brought along a very yummy treat for you to make it home, Take a look at this. So you brought something for us to make today. It is a chia pudding, which I'm really excited because I put this in my oatmeal, but clearly you could do it in a bunch of different ways here, you can, you can, so we're gonna do a dairy free chia pudding chia when it gets together with liquid expands, so it almost makes a pudding without needing like gelatin or starch. Right, right. And it kind of has like an interesting sort of like tapioca taste to it in a little bit of a crunch and it's really good for your gut. So if you're focusing on trying to just get healthy, that's the first place to start. So let's get going on this. But while you're doing this, tell us a little bit about also why you sort of became gluten free because I heard you had a health scare when you were 22. Yes, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called all sort of colitis. It's kind of like Crohn's disease when I was 22 was hospitalized in and out of hospitals for many years and I fully overhauled my diet and it's really what's helped me stay on track, It hasn't been a perfect road, but it is one of the biggest tools in my toolbox to maintaining and keeping my health totally. So what's the first step on the alright, so we have a little bit of almond milk. So the recipe in the new book, it will make enough for four or five and I love doing it and putting them into mason jars because I can grab one and take it with me in the car to go to school drop Yes, but we're gonna do a little single serving here. So we've got almond milk already in here. We've also got full fat coconut milk if you want to dump we can just about two tablespoons of those and this one is lemon but you can flavor these in tons of different ways, you can do vanilla one if you want. That is fresh lemon juice important here. Yes, I think so. It just tastes so much better. Way better because it kind of has like a little bit of a plastic taste. It does, it does and we do the lemon zest in there too. So that's already mixed in there just gives so much better of a lemon flavor. Okay, we've got about just a quarter teaspoon or so of vanilla, kind of eyeballing this because we're doing a single serving here and if we've learned anything from the garden, it's good vanilla, good vanilla, make sure you get the good vanilla, the good salt and then I'm doing honey in here. The nice thing about this is if you are doing like a whole 30 for september, you could leave the sweetener out because the coconut milk plus the lemon juice makes it kind of sweet in and of itself and you can put berries on it, keep it totally free of sweetener if you wanted. And then we're just gonna put a little bit of salt just oh, just a little bit, just a little dash in there. But that's good. But like you, by the way, big health advocate because because of your health scare, you obviously wanted more people to do more gluten free grain free dot. Is that for anybody who has a health care, like what you've gone through or is there somebody like me who you know, has no problem with gluten can still do something like that. Yeah, So I think my husband, I like to point to him as a good example. He doesn't have anything that he's diagnosed with, he doesn't have an autoimmune disease. He's not celiac and he eats this way with me and he just feels so much better for the first couple years, once I switched, I mean, I've been eating this way for almost 12 years, he would go to work or he'd go out to lunch with friends and kind of eat whatever he wanted and he'd come home and just tell me he had brain fog or his joints felt funny or if he was working out, he just didn't feel like he had as much stamina, he didn't sleep as well. So just inherently this way of eating is anti inflammatory and we can all stand to have less inflammation in our bodies. So I think even if you're not diagnosed with something, I still think it's good to even do like an 80 20 type of a principle trying to eat that way, eat healthy, you know, 80% of the time. And if on the weekends you want to have a few things and you're not allergic or anything like that. But I still think it's a it's a huge step To just maintaining your who I mean, nobody wants to be bloated, bloated, nobody wants to be bloated and it can affect, you know, I mean, it's not even just blow, it can affect so many other things. You're not sleeping well if you're running and you're like, my knees hurt, but I'm only 25. Like those are some signs that things are not going the way that they should. So you may not have an actual diagnosis, but you can just feel better. Okay, so where are we at right now because of all that. But just extra pinch yourself, it's okay if you like it a little. So you would put this in the and then after just a couple of hours, these chia seeds are going to expand and got something more like, okay, this one does not have too much salt. This one, by the way. Look how much it has expanded just over this last little bit, The difference between these two is kind of incredible right here. By the way, you've released several cookbooks. Your latest one that just came out healthy in a hurry, was just released on september the sixth. Tell us a little bit about this one. Yes. So this one focuses on getting healthy meals onto the table for your family quickly. I have three kids. I run a full time business and I want to know what's going into my kids bodies. I also want to feed myself, my husband healthy meals and so their meals that even if you don't eat grain free gluten free all the time, they're still incredible meals just to put in your weekly rotation that everybody will love. They've been tested on three picky kids, my neighbors, my family people. Yes, exactly. So 100 and 50 recipes in there, they all fall within a paleo guideline. If you're doing a whole 30 they fall within that as well. But they're all inherently gluten free. And thanks to daniel walker for bringing along those delicious lemon Shia, putting seeds and be sure to pick up a copy of her new book healthy in a hurry wherever books are sold