If you find yourself scrambling last minute to put balanced, healthy lunches and dinners on the table, you’re not alone! We’ve all been there (well, at least most of us!) In fact, I’ll confess that to save my own sanity I got creative and developed a weekly meal planning worksheet, and it’s changed everything. No…
Meal Planning
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 alone! Many things, especially any kind of organization and time management,…
Beginner’s Guide to Easy Plant-Based Vegan Meal Planning
Meal planning is often a significant challenge for those just starting out on a plant-based diet. In fact, according to my online survey of Plant-Based Cooking email subscribers, meal planning is the #1 challenge! Since meat is not the main event on a plant-based plate, people can tend to feel lost and not know where…
49 Plant-Based Vegan Recipes from 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 food cupboard quickies. Although you may have time to prepare homemade…
How to Stock Your Plant-Based Pantry
It may seem basic, but knowing how to stock your plant-based pantry with essentials is an important step to staying on a plant-based diet. Keeping a well-stock pantry leads to better meal planning and saves you time and effort, as well. You might find like I have, that eating pretty much the same thing over…
How to Save Money on a Plant-Based Vegan Diet
Plant-Based on a Budget Eating healthy gets a bad rap when it comes to cost sometimes – there’s a common belief that eating healthy is expensive, out of reach for average folks and that it’s basically a luxury that few can afford. But if we sidestep the hype and take a closer look, we’ll find…
Meal Planning Myths & How to Avoid Them
STOP AVOIDING THIS POWERFUL TOOL IN YOUR STAYING HEALTHY TOOLBOX If you’ve sought out plant-powered documentaries to watch, or seen the success stories of others, you’ve experienced firsthand the power that eating a diet without meat and dairy has to increase vitality, help you lose weight or bring back health. So why does the idea of actually…
10 Plant-Based On-the-Go Meal Ideas
It’s always good to know what people find challenging. I love it when people ask me questions about their journey eating a plant-based diet. And these make for great blog post. Today, I received a question on my Facebook page about plant-based on-the-go meal ideas, “My husband and I just started this way of life yesterday…
What I Ate for Seven Days on a Plant-Based Diet
I’ve been working on making a list of a week’s worth of meals so that you can get an idea of how to plan. If you start practicing meal planning, it makes your week in the kitchen go more smoothly and it can help with losing weight, as well. I often just decide what veggies…