Most of us are strapped for time, but getting a healthy and delicious plant-based meal on the table is essential. Check out these seven plant-based cooking tips for getting in and out of the kitchen in a flash without sacrificing nutrition or flavor. Plant-Based…
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How to Make Delicious Homemade Nut, Seed and Grain-Based Milk
Are you ready for some DIY plant-based kitchen fun? This article will show you how easy it is to make fresh, wholesome, and healthy plant-based milk from nuts, seeds, or grains right in your own kitchen with a blender. One sip and you’ll be…
10 Tips for Easy Plant-Based Kitchen Cleanup
You’ve probably found that cooking from home is a given if you want to eat healthy whole food. This, my friend can be a challenge, especially if you’re new to eating a plant-based diet. Not only that, but kitchen cleanup is also part of…
How to Make Plant-Based Vegan Cream Sauce
If you love rich foods as much as I do, you probably know how a cream sauce can really make a dish. Unfortunately, plant-based eaters are often unsure of how to make a vegan cream sauce without dairy milk, cheese, and butter. The good…
Zero-Calorie Sweeteners: Are They Healthy and Safe?
In my previous articles on sugar and sweeteners, we’ve learned why added sugar is so bad for you and how to avoid it, how mineral deficiencies can cause sugar cravings, and how the sugar in whole fruit is fundamentally different from other sugar. We’ve…
Coconut Sugar and Evaporated Cane Juice: Health Foods or Hype?
In our last Plant-Based Cooking “sugar” article, “Two Healthy Sweeteners You Need to Know About,” (fourth in my series on sweeteners), we discovered that two relatively uncommon natural sweeteners, date sugar and blackstrap molasses, are the only sweeteners with any kind of significant nutritional…
Two Healthy Natural Sweeteners You Need to Know About
Date Sugar and Blackstrap Molasses (This is the fourth in a series of articles on the perils of added sugar. Be sure to check out the third article, “The Truth About Fruit Sugar on a Plant-Based Diet.”) By now we’ve all heard of refined…
Plant-Based Meal Prep for Busy People: Five Tips to Keep You Cooking
Do your dreams of organizing and streamlining your plant-based meal prep always seem to fall short of your ideal? Is that lean, green, spotless plant-based cooking machine of a kitchen you’re trying to set up never quite getting up to speed? You are not…
Aquafaba: The Hottest Ingredient
Are you a vegan foodie who stays up to date with the latest and greatest in plant-based trends? Well, whether that describes you or not, if you’re at all into the plant-based lifestyle I want to make sure you’re in the loop when it…
49 Plant-Based Vegan Recipes Using Canned and Packaged Foods
If you’ve had a busy day at the office or shuffling children, sometimes tackling dinner is the last thing on your mind, but I know you want wholesome plant-based food. What’s a busy cook supposed to do? Pull from your canned and packaged whole…
3 High-Protein Plant Foods You Need to Know About
These days it can seem like everyone is jumping on the high-protein bandwagon. In fact, some folks may even hesitate when it comes to adopting a healthy, whole foods vegan plant-based lifestyle due to concerns about getting enough vegan protein. You can rest assured,…
The Lowdown on Arsenic in Rice
Does Rice have Arsenic in It? Perhaps you’ve heard about arsenic in rice and are wondering what, if anything, you should be doing about it? With all the food, health, and environmental concerns out there, it can be hard for the average consumer to…
Plant-Based Substitutions
When embarking on a new eating lifestyle, many people are concerned with finding plant-based substitutions for their old favorite recipes. Whether it’s dairy, eggs, meat, or seafood, don’t fret – you have many fantastic options! Below I’ve outlined all those and more. Consider this…
Seitan – Protein Packed Meat Alternative
Used as far back as the sixth century, seitan is a low-carb, low-fat, protein-packed meat-alternative derived from wheat. Perhaps you’ve seen bags of wheat gluten in the baking section of your local grocery store (also called vital wheat gluten)? That powder, the protein part…
Oil-Free Hummus Formula
Hummus is a great snack, perfect as an appetizer for a crowd, and much cheaper to make yourself than buy it at the store. It’s also one of the easiest ways to eat beans. Eating beans every day is a very good indicator of…
