There are so many awesome whole food plant based recipes that even your non plant loving family and friends will enjoy. The secret is to not tell them ahead of time that it’s plant based – some people have a bias if they know in advance. I love seeing how much they enjoy something that…
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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…
Instant Pot Wild Rice
Some people think when you adopt a whole food plant based diet that your menu will be limited and your food choices are restrictive. Actually the opposite is true. Suddenly you discover a wide array of new food choices that you never even thought of before. Wild rice is one of my favorite foods now…
Oat Groats What Are They & How Do You Cook Them?
Just when you think you have tried most of the whole grains and cereals a different one crosses your path. Such is the case with myself and oat groats. Recently my friend Barbara Whitney suggested that I might enjoy oat groats in place of brown rice in savory dishes. In the past I have made…
Instant Pot Steamed Vegetables
The Instant Pot pressure cooker is amazing for making, soup, chili, stews, rice and beans. It also can be used to lightly steam vegetables. Did you know you can set it for 0 minutes? That is the perfect amount of time to lightly steam some greens. I even made a video so you could see…
No Oil French Fries In The Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer
Everyone most likely purchases an air fryer so they can make healthy fries at home – am I right? Come to think of it, I don’t think I have ever met a person who doesn’t like french fries! In an air fryer you can make delicious crispy crunchy fries with out any oil. That is…
Plant Based Batch Cooking To Start The Year Off Right!
Happy New Year! What better way to start the New Year then batch cooking and prepping for the week ahead. Since adopting a whole food plant based diet – WFPB – I have found that batch cooking makes my life so much easier. Once a week I spend 4-5 hours cooking and prepping food that…
Whole Food Plant Based Brunch SOS Free
This year for Christmas Day our daughter proposed we forgo the traditional big holiday meal that we usually serve midday. It requires us to spend the day before in the kitchen creating wonderful whole food plant based dishes and then on Christmas day we spend all morning in the kitchen putting on the final touches….
Fall Pudding SOS Free
Even though we follow a Whole Food Plant Based lifestyle that doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy a holiday dessert. Everyone likes dessert and especially at the holidays. That doesn’t mean that you have to give in to overly indulgent unhealthy food that might send you right into The Pleasure Trap and cause you to crave more…