With fabulous products like Gardein there is no reason to skip on flavor. Show your love for the environment and the animals by embracing Meatless Monday with all the taste and none of the cruelty. Today I'm sharing my Vegan Cottage Pie recipe with the Gardein Beefless ground, and a twist! If you're not keen on veggies then read on! Disclaimer: I partnered with Gardein and Meatless Monday in this post. I received products from Gardein in exchange for a recipe post. But if you're a reader of …
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Vegan Taste Test: Gardein Crabless Cakes
When I first started this blog I was vegetarian. One of my missions since going Vegan 4 years ago was to show people how easy it was to be fit and healthy on a plant based diet. I started doing recipes, nutrition posts and food reviews... then somewhere along the way I kinda, well, stopped. Recently I've had no less than 5 people in the last month as me about a plant based diet. So I'm bringing back the food reviews, recipes, nutrition, and yes the workouts. Basically more blogging in general …
Review: Trader Joe’s Meatless Meatballs
Sometimes I forget that not everyone knows the same things I do. When one of my friends recently told me she was trying to make more plant based choices in her diet, she asked for a list of brands to look for while shopping. That question prompted my 15 meatless brands blog post. When I looked at my YouTube statistics recently I noticed my review of the Gardein Holiday Roast was one of my more popular recent videos. All I did was cook it on camera. This all got me thinking that I need to …
Meatless Monday: Dairy-Free alternatives
You may not know it but some vegan bloggers, like myself, often receive disdain from some other vegans because we choose to promote Meatless Mondays, in fact I'm a Meatless Monday blogger. Not sure what Meatless Monday is? It's when non-vegans choose to choose to go plant based for one day. As a Meatless Monday blogger I help by uploading recipes, food posts, reviews and more. Sounds good right, so what's the problem? Some vegans think that everyone should just go vegan, the end. As someone who …
Recipe – Chipotle Style Burrito Bowl
BOOM! Hear that? That's the sound of shit getting done. Namely it's the sound of me uploading to YouTube, posting on social media and the blog, and generally getting my shit together. Nope hell didn't freeze over, I just decided to make motivating, inspiring and sharing a priority. So with that here is a "what I ate in a day" post (including a recipe for a burrito bowl a'la Chipotle) as a plant based or vegan athlete. Why share that? Because: I realized that people have no clue how to eat …
Less Stress at the Holidays with Lotus Foods
The Holidays can be a super stressful time, and this week leading up to Christmas is an 11 on a scale of 1-10. My schedule is screwy right now as clients have busy schedules, I had a birthday (I know you're thinking "Oh Di, happy birthday!" so thanks for the birthday wishes!), and basically we have no routine due to gatherings, parties and events, plus Bob got the horrible flu bug that's going round. It's times like this that meals and food prep gets put further down the priorities list and I …
One Pot cooking: Chik’n Pasta
So I'm going to admit that I'm a lazy cook. I don't really measure anything, I see ingredient lists as suggestions, and I hate anything that takes longer than 30 minutes to prepare AND cook! So I'm making it a mission to become the queen of 30 minute meals, and if that 30 minutes is actually 5 minutes prep with 25 minutes cooking in a rice cooker where I don't have to 'baby' it, then Yay! One Pot Cooking: Chik'n Pasta This dish was born last Friday. I'd been at Gold's Gym and …
Vegan Options at Johnny Rockets: The Streamliner
Yesterday morning we went to an advanced screening of PAN. Being Bafta members has perks and advanced screenings are one of them (along with parties, plus some pretty freakin' awesome Q&A events!). Anyways PAN was great, I really enjoyed it and Hugh Jackman was so good as BlackBeard! The movie was screened at the Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles at 10am which meant when we got out 2 hours later we were starving hungry. In that area of Los Angeles there are a few vegan options but in that area …
Vegan Aquafaba Chocolate Cupcake
Confession: I've never really had a sweet tooth. It seemed like a waste to me that people would eat dessert at the expense of not eating all of their entree. In fact I'm the person that loads up on extra potatoes and veggies rather than have a dessert. True that's because most of the time the dessert isn't vegan but even when it is I have to be 'in the mood'. Like recently when I started experimenting with Aquafaba. What is Aquafaba? I know right... aquawhata? Aquafaba. Technically it's the …