Disclosure: It's always my policy to make you aware that some links contained in this blog post may be affiliate links, meaning I earn a small commision on each purchase. Giving you the heads up because I keep it real :) So I'm back from Blogfest, Idea World, and Zumba training. It's been a strange five days and I will recap the convention days, plus the Zumba training but today I wanted to recap some of the delicious plant based food I ate during blogfest and Idea World. Honestly it's always …
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Meatless Monday: Almond Flour 101
About two years ago I started getting digestion issues, heavy bloating when eating bread and similar products. Uncomfortable bloating with stomach pain and just a feeling of being general miserable. I spent about a year eliminating bread and wheat from my diet, and felt WAY better. Over the last year I've slowly reintroduced wheat and discovered that I can handle a little, but there is a limit. No gluten intolerance but definitely a wheat intolerance, it's something I have to limit to …
Meatless Monday: Dominex Eggplant Cutlets
As an official Meatless Monday blogger sometimes we get perks, one is that we sometimes get to try meatless products, test them, review them, try them out, and generally see what we think. Recently I got to try out two Dominex products. As I'm all about the blogging I figured I'd spill the results into a few different posts and share little by little, and honestly because I'm a photo taking and food eating fiend ;) Dominex are known as the "eggplant people" and you might think "really? …
Meatless Monday: Peanut butter salad dressing recipe
So recently I got a vegetable spiralizer. Honestly I've been getting a lot of new toys lately and not having enough time to play with them let alone write a blog post or review BUT the spiralizer review will be coming tomorrow! Honestly these new things push me outside my box. I love veggies and having new ways to prepare them excites me :) Today though for Meatless Monday I wanted to share this recipe for a thai style peanut sauce salad dressing. Remember to check out last weeks …
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Meatless Monday: Veggie Salad dressing
Creamy salad dressings are something I kinda miss since going vegan, and especially since switching to clean eating and avoiding all the preservatives and junk they put in bottled dressings. So I went on a search for dressings and tried a few. Whilst I didn't like little bits of one or another I came up with my own version that's creamy but cheesy (thanks to nooch). The important thing is to try stuff, add things in for different combinations and variety. Pretty much no two dressings I make are …
Meatless Monday: Fruit Krumble Recipe
Another Monday rolls around, and as it's Meatless Monday I want to share this recipe for a warm fruit Krumble. In England we have a dessert called apple crumble which has stewed apples and a topping of a crumbled cooked mixture of flour, margarine sugar. Not the healthiest of things to combine with fruit eh? Delicious though. So I decided to come up with something that would work instead of the fat laden, processed original and make it healthier and whole foods based. Enter dates, coconut and …
Meatless Monday: Vegan Greek Falafel Salad
I'm all about quick and easy meals that take under 30 minutes to prepare and cook and they don't come much quicker than this Falafel Salad because I use the Fully Cooked Frozen Falafal from Trader Joes. These are in the frozen aisle at Trader Joes and just delicious. They aren't an everyday food for me as they have 490 mg sodium per serving but until I get to a point where I can prepare my own (my next step, experimental recipes ahead!) then these are a good substitute. [yumprint-recipe …
Meatless Monday: Vegan Tostada Salad
I have a few favorites at Natural Cafe, the Yogi Special, Black Bean enchilladas or Buddha Burrito and pretty much anything can be made vegan by asking for no cheese or sour cream. I've liked the Natural Salad for a while but wished there was more substance to it, like rice and beans and then Bob introduced me to the Tostada Salad. Tostada Salad $9.49 Baked whole wheat tortilla topped with black beans, rice, mixed greens, carrots, jicama, salsa, sour cream, guacamole. I ask for no …
Meatless Monday Review: So Delicious CocoWhip
Over the holidays we had our Tofurkey Roast which this year we got from Whole Foods and opted for the 'feast'. Which included the roast, savory gravy, wishstix and organic chocolate cake. These were a bargain over the holidays under $20 and though it 'serves 6' let me just tell ya that the roast might serve 6 but there is NOT enough gravy for 6 people. The wishstix are kinda pointless too, we gave ours to the dogs. Now I like vegan chocolate cake as much as the next girl, …