I hosted a salad potluck for a group of vegan friends. Everyone was asked to bring a favorite salad to share. The day before our gathering, my friend Joanie reached out to ask if she could bring a pot of soup instead. Naturally, I said yes — and I am so glad I did. She…
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Quinoa Banana Oat Muffins
I am long overdue in sharing this Quinoa Banana Oat Muffins recipe. I have been making these muffins for the past year and every time I post a photo of these on Instagram or my facebook page people ask for the recipe. I didn’t have a recipe to share because I was just making them…
Sweet Apple Kale Slaw
It is really feeling like Autumn here and I love it! I have been making this crunchy Sweet Apple Kale Slaw to serve along side our soups and stews. I pair this salad with my recipe for Hearty Lentil Vegetable Stew – which is getting rave reviews from my readers. The addition of apples and…
Taco Salad Anyone?
I do love Mexican food, taco salads and chopped salads. So yesterday I combined all of my favorites into an excellent Big Beautiful Chopped Taco Salad. It was spicy, crunchy, filling and yes – even healthy! My tastebuds were happy, my tummy was full and I took delight in knowing that I fed myself a…
Mexican Chopped Salad
You all know how much I love my Big Beautiful Chopped Salads that I eat everyday for lunch. I have now created a new one that is so different and captures all the wonderful flavors of the Mexican and Southwest food that I love. It is still easy – peasy – which is the only…
Make A Great Tasting Ketchup & BBQ Sauce – No Added Sugar!
If you are trying to eat a clean healthy whole food plant based diet you become a proficient label reader. That is when you notice that condiments are full of sugar and salt. Now you start looking for recipes to make your own condiments. So when your on line friend posts a ketchup recipe that…
Heather’s Sweet Cherry Berry Oat Muffins
It’s so much fun when you get to meet your on line friends in person. I have “known” Heather from The Butterfly Raw Food Weight Loss Facebook and Her The Butterfly Effect Plant Based Weight Loss You Tube for about 3 years. We got to meet last year in Vegas at a conference for the…
How To Make Darn Good Vegan Sausages – Gluten Free & Oil Free
Yes it can be done! You can actually make healthy gluten, free, oil, free, vegan sausages. They just so happen to also be very low sodium and sugar free. It sounds too good to be true but trust me this works. I was inspired by the new Engine 2 Cookbook and their recipe for Epic…
How To Plan a Whole Food Plant Based Burrito Bowl Buffet
Entertaining can be stressful – there are so many decisions to be made and when you transition to a whole food plant based diet and you have no idea what to serve to company! Does this resonate with anyone? I have been eating a WFPB (whole food plant based diet) for 4 1/2 years and…
How To Cut A Fresh Pineapple Quick & Easy
I love fresh pineapple all year long and fortunately we are able to purchase them all year long. I used to dread cutting the pineapple up and sometimes I would cheat and buy the already cut pineapple at Costco or Sams’ Club. But that was so expensive and sometimes the pineapple wasn’t completely ripe so…