Start a Vegan Diet
Healthy eating can be quick! The trick is to prep and cook veggies when I have time, so my fridge/ freezer is always stocked with vitamin-packed foods. That way if I get home from work late, and the fierce growling in my stomach threatens to disturb the neighbors next door, I won’t have to settle for pasta and canned sauce. By cooking a few things on the weekend, I’ll have lots of leftovers to make a new dish!
Vegan Wine: Learn the Basics. Did you know that most wines available in stores are not vegan? How can that be? Wines are made from grapes. Grapes are vegan. …
We discovered The Raw Food Coach, Karen Knowler, and fell in love with her easy-to-follow style when we found her You Tube video showing us how to make almond milk. We are very excited to be part of Karen’s virtual book tour to help promote her new book: Raw Food Made Simple. Read our interview with Karen and learn why she transitioned to raw foods.
When my friends first learned that I was vegan, their first question was, “How do you get enough protein on a vegan diet?” In response to their genuine concern for…
I love this easy vegan sambar recipe. Thanks to Mrs. R. for sharing special recipes for homemade sambar. Pair with a dosa, or pesarattu, for a super yummy south Indian…
Very soon, homes across the US will be celebrating a day of gratitude with the Thanksgiving holiday! Yummy Plants has created a special vegan Thanksgiving Recipes section to share some delicious vegan menu ideas. We’ve featured vegan versions of old favorites like Pumpkin Pie, Herb Stuffing, and Whipped Potatoes with Gravy, as well some exciting new dishes like Kamut Berries with Porcini Mushrooms and Butternut Squash.
Dr. Dean Ornish says a plant-based diet can reverse heart disease. Since plants are free of cholesterol, let’s talk about cholesterol and a vegan diet. (Only animal-based foods contain cholesterol.)…
Have you ever tried a dosa from scratch? Homemade dosa batter is a million times better than the frozen or instant batter. Crispy, protein-packed deliciousness, I fell in love with…
According to Dr. Ragnar Berg, a Swedish nutritionist and Nobel Prize winner, we should be eating about 80% alkaline forming foods and 20% acid forming foods at each meal. Why…
Thanks once again to Mrs. R. for sharing this amazingly yummy recipe! I originally was just making this potato “masala,” which means “mixture,” to place inside the dosas. But I am so in love with this spicy blend of ginger, mustard seed, cilantro, chilis, onion and potatoes, that I started making at at least once a week just to eat as a side dish!
