If you haven’t thought about it before, you might consider roasting your own nuts and seeds at home because store-bought nuts and seeds are typically coated with oil. When you make them at home you can skip the oil and dry roast them instead. Nuts are a powerhouse of nutrition. Studies have shown that if…
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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
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A Vegan’s Guide to Vitamin D: How to Make Sure You’re Getting Enough
Most Vitamin D Is Not Vegan-Friendly Did you know that most Vitamin D3 supplements are not vegan? That’s right. If you look on the label, you’ll see the word “lanolin” in the “supplement facts” section. “Lanolin” might sound innocuous enough, but it’s actually a wax secreted by the sebaceous glands of woolly mammals. Lanolin is…
How to Beat Cold Symptoms with Natural Remedies
Cold Relief is as Close as Your Kitchen When it comes to colds and flu, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. First, the bad news: cold and flu season has arrived and is here to stay for awhile. Now the good news: natural remedies for cold and flu symptoms are as close as your kitchen…
5 Tips for Successful New Year’s Diet Resolutions
With New Year’s Eve just around the corner, there’s no better time to start thinking about goals and New Year’s resolutions related to healthy whole foods plant-based eating. What do we want to do differently next year? How do we want to support our diet and well-being? The New Year is an ideal time to…
Tools, Tips and Freebies
Beginners Quick-Start Guide On this page, you’ll find links to articles that will help you quickly start your journey on a plant-based diet including FREEBIES. Scroll down to see links that have a printable FREEBIE included in the post. Success is our aim. I’ve distilled the ideas down so they’re easy to understand. You’ve got this… Let’s jump in. Getting Started Your…
6 Green Holiday Gifts Good for People and Planet
It’s so easy in our society, and especially during the holiday gift-giving season, to believe that bigger, shinier and faster is better, and that material things will make us happy. But deep down we all know that the best things in life aren’t things at all, it’s our relationships that determine the quality of our…
Candy Central: 5 Holiday Healthy Eating Tips
It’s not easy eating clean – especially around the holidays. It seems that everywhere we look at holiday time there’s food temptations staring us in the face – candy bowls filled to the brim in offices and lobbies, boxes of chocolates from our neighbors, sugary eggnog on tap at holiday parties, and of course, beautifully-decorated…
Help for Depression, Stress, and Anxiety: Mood-Boosting Plant Foods That Might Surprise You
We all know how important diet is to overall health and for preventing many chronic conditions, such as heart disease and cancer, but did you know that certain vegan plant foods can actually lift our spirits, providing dietary and nutritional support for depression, stress, anxiety, and seasonal affective disorder? Eating deliberately to boost our mood…
5 Tips for Plant-Based Vegans on Turkey Day
It’s that time again – another year, another Thanksgiving! And, that time when “Turkey Day” could send a plant-based vegan searching for coping tips. For plant-based vegans, the annual Thanksgiving celebration of friends, family, gratitude – and large quantities of poultry protein – can be a challenging mix. Like everyone else, we too love the togetherness and…
Gluten-Free Eaters Beware
Higher Arsenic and Mercury Levels Gluten-free eaters beware. According to a May report, “The Unintended Consequences of a Gluten-Free Diet,” new research indicates that gluten-free dieters may be at greater risk of exposure to two highly-toxic metals, arsenic and mercury. Both metals tend to bio-accumulate in rice, a popular gluten-free substitute grain. A team of…
The Low-Down on Arsenic in Rice
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 know what to take seriously. But inorganic arsenic, a naturally-occurring trace element, is extremely toxic to humans,…
Staying Motivated on a Plant-Based Diet
Staying motivated on a plant-based diet is super important. Like many worthwhile things in life, adopting a whole-foods vegan lifestyle may have its challenges, often requiring major changes to familiar routines. It takes intention to be food-conscious at every meal, change shopping habits, make food from scratch, and most of all – to release longstanding…
Dining Out on a Plant-Based Diet
Plant-Based Dining in Beef Country Dining out on a plant-based diet can be a challenge, even for seasoned vegans, and the thought of eating out on the road can seem especially daunting. But don’t despair – with a little flexibility, creativity, and research, you’re bound to find some decent options no matter where you are….