The last couple of weeks one of my lovely stepsisters has been kind enough to share some of the produce from her garden with me. Yesterday I received some freshly cut microgreens and a fairly large container with microgreens that were still planted. She gave me a quick run down on how to harvest them, … Continue reading A Quick Run Down on Microgreens
People unfamiliar with this world often think vegans can only eat "rabbit food". If you just take a second to think about it, you'll see there are a lot of foods, even junk foods, that contain no animal products. Key example: Potatoes. Potatoes are a plant, but they make French fries, hash browns, tater tots, … Continue reading What Vegans Eat
I've seen a lot of misinformation out there about which plant foods are good sources of key nutrients. There was an image going around that stated that broccoli had even more protein per calorie than beef does. This is incredibly misleading. Think about how caloric beef is compared to broccoli. Now imagine how much broccoli … Continue reading What does Good Vegan Nutrition Actually Look Like?
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."- Hippocrates You've probably heard this quote at some point in your life. It's an ideology that I've come across a lot in the vegan community, but it certainly spans across a wide variety of diets/lifestyles. It's certainly a consensus that a healthy diet plays a … Continue reading Is Food Medicine?
We had a garden when I was growing up, but I didn't have much interest in it besides playing between the beds and prematurely pulling out the occasional carrot. Sometimes I'd pull out flowers from the trees and plants and decorate the lattice fencing that surrounded the garden. (That didn't go over well - Sorry … Continue reading Maybe Consider Starting a Garden
How many people can say that they loved spinach as a child? Anyone? Anyone? That's what I figured, but you know who did? My sister and I and we have our grandma to thank for that. She lived with us when we were growing up and she would do a lot of the cooking, which … Continue reading Easy Spinach and Kale Soup
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