Join me online… I posted this today because I don’t want you to miss out! PLANT-BASED COOKING SUMMIT Join me for my first ever online summit interview starting Monday, February 20th. A big part of eating a plant-based diet is preparing your own meals. I…
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10 Plant-Based On-the-Go Meal Ideas
It’s always good to know what people find challenging, like on-the-go meal ideas. I love it when people ask me questions about their journey eating a plant-based diet. And these make for great blog posts. I received a question on my Facebook page about…
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, which is the…
Cooking with Tempeh
A traditional Indonesian food, tempeh is mainly used as a meat-substitute. It’s dense and chewy with a savory, earthy, nutty sort of flavor. It’s a great source of plant-based protein, with a 3-oz serving containing roughly 16 grams. That same serving also provides you with about…
Intermittent Fasting for Optimum Health
With 2017 just hitting, you might feel that you overindulged during the holidays. Consider, to the rescue, intermittent fasting for optimum health! It just might jumpstart your health while contributing to anti-aging. A few years back, I started a program of intermittent fasting. I’ve heard…
Getting Started on a Plant-Based Diet: 12 Tips
How to Start a Plant-based Diet Where are you right now? You may be thinking as I did a few years back … did I even eat any vegetables today? Yep, there was a time when I realized that vegetables were almost totally missing…
Create a Vision Board to Rock Your Plant-Based Goals
Why Create a Vision Board? The Brazil Olympics just ended last weekend, and I thought I’d share a skill that many athletes use to accomplish their goals. Visualization. You may have noticed athletes seemingly concentrating and tuning out all else around them just before…
The Safety of Soy
Ask someone for their opinion on the healthfulness of soy and you tend to get one of two answers: it’s a nutritious superfood we should all be eating, or, it’s a poison that wreaks hormonal havoc. The Kind of Soy Makes a Difference Soy…
10 Things About Me
Here’s a few more things about me… For more, read My Story. 60th Birthday Celebration I’ve been married for 40 years. Charles was a budding studio photographer when we were first married. Since then he’s had a great career and started one of the first…
4 Reasons Why Diets Don’t Work
I’m excited to share an article about why diets don’t work from Jill Thomas, Healthy Habits Hypnosis. Jill is a certified clinical hypnotherapist. Her services were a wonderful help to me when I was going through a tough time. I still have the hypnosis session…
6 Tips for Dealing with Food Triggers
Do you get cravings you can’t ignore? Just recently I made the mistake of looking at desserts on Pinterest – late at night. Oh boy, that was a mistake. I just couldn’t wait to make the blondies I discovered. Good thing they were made with chickpeas and oats,…
Uncommon Plant-Based Recipe Ingredients
Does it seem that many plant-based recipes have strange and uncommon ingredients? The main reasons are that they are great for getting the right nutrition and are often substitutes for the missing protein you get from meat and dairy. Some are for flavor and…
10 Every Day Quickies for Health
What You Do Counts! These 10 EVERY day quickies for health can make a difference in your life – who you ultimately become or what you end up doing. Every step contributes to that. It’s the same with our health. We make choices every day…
My first Giveaway October 1-31
I’m excited and ready for my first ever giveaway to celebrate reaching 1000 followers on Facebook and the opening of our new tee shirt shop. I feel so honored to share plant-based recipes and how to live a healthy life. Not to mention how excited I am to…
Oil-Free Hummus Formula
Why eat hummus? Well, it IS a great snack and much cheaper to make yourself than buy it at the store, and it’s also one of the easiest ways to eat beans. Eating beans every day is turning out to be a very good…