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Supersized Vegan Olive Oil Tahini Chocolate Chip Cookies

Healthier than the butter-sugar-and-white flour variety, but still definitely a special treat rather than health food 😄. They are the everlasting gobstoppers of cookies, according to our 8 year old,…

Breakfast Recipe

Portable Oatmeal: Easy Plant-Based Breakfast for Busy Days

We've been eating oatmeal for breakfast for over a decade, and we're not bored yet! Not only are there a bunch of options to choose from for the grain itself…

Bodybuilding Breakfast Disease Prevention

Plant Based Protein Super Shake

I've been perfecting the craft of whole-food vegan shakes for nearly a decade now. When I started, my goal was simply to pack the most possible calories and protein into…

Breakfast Nutrition Recipe

Plant-Based Breakfasts for Vegan Bodybuilders (and Everyone Else)

...or anyone who wants to eat simple whole foods that build and maintain a lean physique! The skyrocketing popularity of vegan foods (yay) means that there are more and more…

Main Dish Recipe Soup

Oil-Free Plant-Based Summer Squash and Corn Chowder

Summer Squash and Corn Chowder Who says you can't have a chowder in summertime?! The key to creating a summer soup that packs a punch of flavor, as…

Dessert Gluten-Free Holiday

Crustless Low Fat Pumpkin Pie

Pie crust, although delicious, is often what turns an otherwise healthy fruit pie into a gut bomb of fat. This is the most recent update to a pumpkin pie recipe…

Breakfast Dessert Gluten-Free

Gluten-Free Fig Bar Muffins (with a PB&J variation)

One morning we were out of oats and just about everything else that I could make breakfast out of. There was, however, half of a pre-baked sweet potato in the…

Breakfast Recipe

Deliciously spiced without being "spicy", this is my absolute favorite tofu scramble version yet. Our almost two-year-old ate four plates of it this morning murmuring "good", "very good", and "tasty"…

Lunch Recipe Salad

Raw Cauliflower Tabouli

Surprisingly filling but very light and summery, this version of tabbouleh replaces the grains with cauliflower and the olive oil with olives. Have this with Hummus and Kale Open-Face…

Main Dish Recipe

Spanish Rice

Here's my non-authentic, totally made up and easy version of Spanish rice. "Spanish" Rice 1 clove garlic, chopped 1/2 onion, chopped 1/2 red bell pepper, chopped 1/2 green bell…

Lunch Main Dish Meat Substitute

Lentil Taco Filling

An easy alternative to faux ground beef and TVP, lentils (especially French lentils) make a great taco filling! I like to use this recipe for double-decker tacos, spreading mashed…

Breakfast Recipe

Fruits and Veggies Disguised as a Delicious Chocolate Milkshake

Pregnancy has taken me back to a point in my life about 11 years ago, pre-vegan, when I hated pretty much all fruits and vegetables and was, in fact, one…

Dessert Main Dish Meat Substitute

Plant-Based Potluck (brownies were involved)

Today was our first Plant-Based Potluck! I made Lentil loaf Mashed cauliflower/millet (stand-in for mashed potatoes!) Creamy golden gravy Kale with walnut sauce Green goddess dressing Raw chocolate walnut brownies…

Lunch Recipe

World’s Tastiest Sandwich Snack

I first saw this sandwich prepared by Ann Esselstyn in the documentary Planeat and have since seen it in the Forks Over Knives companion cookbook; I've been making it as…

Recipe

Cookbooks You Must Own and Forks Over Knives DVD Release Update!

The Forks Over Knives DVD is now available for pre-order here at a discount; they'll be shipped August 9th! You can even order DVD + companion book packages and 4-packs…

Main Dish Recipe Soup

Red Lentil (Dal) Soup and Flourless Flatbread!

Been making a lot of Indian food lately, inspired by an awesome cookbook I picked up: The Indian Vegan Kitchen. There's a ton of vegetable and bean dishes that, so…

Lunch Main Dish Recipe

Spicy Indian Chickpeas

Here's an interpretation of the Indian dish Chana Masala made with stuff you're likely to have around. If you have an Indian market nearby, I suggest checking out their spice…

Main Dish Recipe

Easy Southern-ish Black-Eyed Peas

Black-Eyed Peas Try serving with this cornbread! You can also sub pinto beans for the black-eyed peas. about 2 cups cooked black-eyed peas (or pinto beans) - if canned, rinse…

Breakfast Lunch Main Dish

Outline of a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Part II

Here's a blueprint of what we eat. You can basically take this list and choose from the different breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and post-workout drinks according to your tastes and…

Dessert Nutrition Recipe

Planeat @ Crossroads Was a Success!

How awesome: we had a full house at Crossroads Coffee last night for our screening of Planeat, a documentary exploring plant-based nutrition and the environmental impact of our dietary…