As the holiday season approaches, people start asking me questions. The conversation typically going something like this: "Hey Di, so you're vegan right? My (insider family member) is coming home for the holiday. But, they are bringing their vegan partner! What do I cook? Help". Well, thankfully, there are a ton of options now for Vegan Holiday eating. So, here are my tops tips for veganizing a holiday meal along with a review of the Gardein Holiday Roast. Links in this post may be …
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Unboxing the October Beauty Box
When you subscribe to a beauty box every month feels a little like it's your birthday or Christmas. Each month it's a little surprise showing up at your door. I've been subscribing to Vegan Cuts Beauty Box for almost 18 months. Not only do I get to take care of myself and my skin, while look fabulous but, I also get to support companies that promote cruelty free beauty and skincare. To help people make a decision on subscribing I decided to do unboxing posts on my blog and my youtube channel, …
Vegan Cuts Beauty Box – June Unboxing!
If you know me you'll know I'm not a girly girl. Honestly I'm more TomBoy really, one of the guys, but as the years have gone by I've started to embrace girly things more, including color, patterns, and makeup. I went vegan in 2013 and since then I've been slowly transitioning all my makeup and skincare to cruelty free, animal free, and eco-friendly products. To make myself try new things I decided to sign up for a subscription service and got my first Vegan Cuts Beauty Box back in May of …
Meatless Monday Review: Gardein Fishless Filet
Comfort foods. We all have them, we all love them. In America it's Mac'n'cheese or burger and fries and when you think of England you think Fish'n'chips right? You can take the girl out of England but you can't take England out of the girl! Growing up chip shop tea is a what of life, and when I was vegetarian living in England I remember having Linda McCartney vegetarian fish fingers that were amazing, and last year I was so happy to find Gardein Fishless Filets. Childhood comfort foods …
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 …
5 Tips for eating out as a Vegan
Years ago it was pretty difficult to eat out as a Vegan, you usually got the choice of salad, salad, salad or the old staple... stuffed bell pepper. Thankfully times have changed, and the plant based diet is more popular than ever before as not only celebrities but athletes start to embrace the Vegan lifestyle. And while not impossible to eat out as a Vegan it can sometimes be challenging. My preferred restaurants are vegan or have vegan options firmly on the menu, however sometimes you have to …
Recipe: Chocolate Covered Brazil Nuts
Another Meatless Monday (insert fanfare) and another full day of eating, plus a recipe for chocolate covered brazil nuts. I've made a full vlog which is embedded and linked below but just to show you the most delicious food I ate Saturday it was this meal at Lotus Vegan: Chickn & Pancakes!!! Let me tell you it was freakin' awesome! Looks good right? Yep, vegan diets are so restrictive, lol! Bob had a chickn wrap and his was equally delicious. Their curry is good too (my favorite is the …
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 …