If you’re in colder climes, it’s that time of the year when colds and sniffles arrive and sometimes nothing but a nice hot bowl of soup is going to make you feel better. And what is the “go-to” recipe for most people who are feeling under the weather? That’s right, it’s usually chicken noodle, but [...]
Listen, I know that not everyone is a sports fan, so if you’re not feeling overly excited about the upcoming Super Bowl don’t worry, we’ve got something you can get excited about… vegan food! We’ve put together a roundup of the most delicious vegan game food recipes that are so good that they might even [...]
Have you ever wondered why everyone’s all of a sudden calling grain bowls Buddha bowls? Me too. I did a little Google investigation into why this is. The only thing I could find was that Buddha did have a bowl and apparently he would wake up every morning before dawn, carrying his bowl through the [...]
Peganism. It’s seriously a thing! This mashup of a vegan and paleo diet has been around since 2015 and it’s quickly gaining popularity. “But why?” you ask. Because a Pegan diet is supposed to combine the best parts of both diets, with a heavy emphasis on eating lots of healthy fruits and vegetables, animal-free protein [...]
I recently posted a roundup of 20 vegan non-alcoholic drinks for Dry January and it kinda inspired me to create my own non-alcoholic beverage recipe. I know this Strawberry Fizz mocktail is going to be a hit in your household, especially if you have younger family members. My kids certainly enjoyed test-tasting the recipe while [...]
I read the other day that a health psychologist believes the reason why friends and family try to get you to drink if you’ve decided to go “dry” for January isn’t out of a ‘malicious desire for someone to fail’, their sabotaging is because they are feeling an extreme resistance to change. Those of us [...]
The first of January is not only the start of a new year it’s also the beginning of Veganuary, a campaign designed to support people in trying vegan for the month of January and then staying vegan. I know first-hand how transformative a campaign like Veganuary can be. I started out my own vegan journey [...]
The New Year is the perfect time to create positive health goals and to start being more mindful of how the food we eat impacts on the performance of our bodies. Eating a whole-foods, plant-based diet is a great first step to supporting good health and one of the wonderful things about this way of [...]
With its anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial and numerous other healing properties, ginger’s medicinal prowess has been well known for thousands of years. Transforming the fresh root into an infused oil – or ‘liquid gold’ as I like to call it – is not only really easy and cheaper than buying it ready-made, it also increases ginger’s versatility [...]
Sometimes, there’s nothing more satisfying than a nice big bowl of pasta. So imagine how much more satisfying it gets when you’ve made your own vegan fresh pasta dough from scratch! Usually, fresh pasta dough recipes call for eggs but the good news is that a vegan version sans eggs is not only completely possible [...]