You may have discovered that eating a whole food plant-based diet can involve quite a bit of cooking at home. But that doesn’t mean you have to be a slave to your kitchen! What I’ve learned is that it’s all about good design, about making your kitchen work for you! If you set up your…
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7 Tips and Timesavers for Plant-Based Cooking in a Flash
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 tips for getting in and out of the kitchen in a flash without sacrificing nutrition or flavor. 1. Cleanliness is Next to …. I once took a flower-arranging class and the…
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 hooked – homemade plant-based milk is fresh, rich, and more flavorful…
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, almond, soy, and rice milk now seem almost old fashioned compared…
Olympic Skater Meagan Duhamel: Living the Plant-Based Dream
To most of us, Canadian pair skater Meagan Duhamel is living the dream. An Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist, two-time World Champion Figure Skater, and seven-time Canadian National Skating Champion, Duhamel and partner Eric Radford are currently skating…
Plant-Based Heart Health for Endurance Athletes and Everyone Else
There’s a common perception out there about fitness —the longer and harder you exercise, the better your health – right? Not so fast. Read on to learn about the little-known risks of high-intensity endurance athletics and how a vegan plant-based diet can help protect your health – and everyone else’s! Expert Interview: Plant-Based Sports Dietician…
The Science of Plant-Based Athletic Advantage
Have you noticed? Plant-based eating is a red-hot trend these days for elite professional athletes. From tennis pro Venus Williams to Olympic skating medalist Meaghan Duhamel, ultramarathoner Scot Jurek and numerous NFL players, the list of plant-based athletes grows longer by the day. Is this just the latest fad or is there something more to…
5 Tips for Happy, Healthy Plant-Based Kids (and Parents!)
If you’re loving your plant-based diet, you’re probably wanting to share it with your kids – of course, you want to have them be as enthusiastic about this healthy lifestyle as you are! When we see the benefits of eating this way, we naturally want to set our plant-based kids up for success. This means…
Can You Raise Healthy Kids on a Plant-Based Diet?
Whether you’re new to a whole food plant-based diet or have been whole food plant-based for a long time, you may have some questions and concerns when it comes to raising plant-based kids. After all, the dietary wisdom we’ve inherited as a culture – which is advanced by numerous nutrition policy recommendations – is that…
Seven Classic Recipes Every Plant-Based Cook Should Know
If you’re new to eating a plant-based diet, you might feel overwhelmed with how to proceed. Not only are you trying to figure out what foods to eat, but also may be struggling with how to make a plant-based meal or how to make recipes that everyone will love, plant-based or not. Eating a plant-based…
Five Ways to Improve Weight Loss on a Plant-Based Diet
While there are lots of reasons people are attracted to a whole food plant-based vegan diet – such as animal welfare and the environment – a desire to lose weight for overall wellness or to overcome conditions associated with obesity, such as diabetes and heart disease, is right up there at the top of the…
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 gone plant-based and are raving about it? If you’ve grown curious…
Why a Daily Weight Tracker is Your Waistline’s Best Friend
Who doesn’t want to look and feel their best? Have you noticed that life is just better all-around when we’re at the best weight for our height and body type? We feel lighter, more graceful and more “at home” in our bodies. Our clothes look and feel better and we have an enhanced sense of…
Plant-Based Moroccan Holiday Menu
Wasn’t it just January? The months do 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 meal, my plant-based Moroccan Holiday Menu. I’ve made this on…
A Plant-Based Eater’s Guide to Thriving During the Holidays
If you’re not feeling entirely “holiday happy” right now, rest assured that you’re not alone. The holidays are supposed to be a joyous time of year filled with rich and meaningful moments of connection with families and friends, but the reality is that the pressures and often unrealistic expectations of the season combined with family…
