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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…

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Homemade Almond Milk

Three Great Reasons to Make Your Own Almond and Other Plant-Based Milk

Perhaps you’ve noticed the milk aisle is looking a little more plant-based lately? Plant-based milk is big business these days – it seems like every week a new brand, flavor, or type of plant-based milk appears on the shelf. Once considered exotic fringe foods,…

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Vegetables

The Basics: Your Guide to a Whole Food Plant-Based Vegan Diet

With plant-based diets and especially plant-based athletes getting so much media attention lately, you’ve probably seen and heard the news and maybe even some hype. Perhaps you’re wondering what all the fuss is about? Or maybe you have some friends or family members who’ve…

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Vegetable Tagine

Plant-Based Moroccan Holiday Menu

Wasn’t it just January? The months seem to slip by quickly, and with Thanksgiving behind us, it’s time to think about our holiday meal (if you’re celebrating, of course). I’m sharing something a little different than what you might typically expect for a holiday…

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Coffee & Sweetener

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…

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Evaporated Cane Sugar

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…

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Dates

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…

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Grapes

The Truth About Fruit Sugar on a Plant-Based Diet

(This article, The Truth About Fruit Sugar, is the Third in a series of articles on the perils of added sugar. Be sure to check out the second article, “Fight Sugar Cravings with Plant-Based Nutrition”).  My previous two articles in my series on added…

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Sugar

Fight Sugar Cravings with Plant-Based Nutrition

Sugar Cravings Can Be a Sign of Mineral Deficiencies (This is the second in a series of articles on the perils of added sugar. Be sure to check out the first article, “12 Tips for Avoiding Added Sugar On A Plant-Based Vegan Diet.”) If…

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12 Tips for Avoiding Added Sugar On A Plant-Based Vegan Diet

(This is the first in a series of articles on the perils of added sugar. Be sure to check out the second article, “Fighting Sugar Cravings with Plant-Based Nutrition”).  Sugar is one of the hardest things for many people to give up on a…

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Beets-Fresh

Does Organic Really Matter?

Some people swear by organics, while others couldn’t care less. Where do you fall on that spectrum? Are you someone who won’t even take a single bite out of a conventional apple because of concerns about pesticides or artificial waxes? Are you constantly reading…

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Aquafaba

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…

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Lentils

Gentle Lentils: Nutrition and Health Benefits

Lentils, a dietary staple of world cuisines such as Indian, Nepalese, Greek and Italian, are a wonderful and sometimes-overlooked plant-based food. Lentils come in many varieties ranging in color from black and various shades of brown to red, orange, yellow and slate green. As…

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"49 Plant-Based Vegan Recipes from Canned and Packaged Foods Article by Diane Smith of PlantBasedCooking.com"

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…

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How to Keep Fruits and Vegetables Fresher Longer

If you’re like me, you may wonder how to keep your fruits and vegetables fresher longer. There’s nothing worse than getting ready to prepare a delicious meal only to discover that the lettuce, kale, carrots or cauliflower we need for our favorite recipe have…

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