Navigating Thanksgiving as a Plant-Based Eater

In 2013, our Thanksgiving took an unexpected turn as we embraced a plant-based lifestyle, bidding farewell to the Standard American Diet. Today, I’m sharing a bit of our journey and some mouthwatering plant-based Thanksgiving recipes to help navigating Thanksgiving as a Plant-Based eater. Faced with the challenge of creating a Thanksgiving feast without compromising our…

6 Insanely Easy Plant-Based Meals That Will Change Your Life

Ever have a defining moment in your life? Yep, me too. Mine involved my husband’s double bypass surgery.  I learned that it’s highly possible to have another bypass after 10 or 15 years. This is due to more clogging in the arteries.  That’s what fueled me (and my family) to adopt a plant-based lifestyle and…

7 Secrets to Self Care and Why it Matters

I know what you’re thinking.  You’re thinking that self care seems like the latest buzzword and something that you don’t have the time to tackle. That even if you did try to give yourself some self-care you’d fail, or that you’d feel guilty for even trying. That’s why I’m sharing 7 secrets to self care…

3 Steps to Building Healthier Habits Even if You Love Cheese

Like most people who love cheese I too thought I’d never be able to “go plant-based” because I was certain that I’d never be able to give it up.  I was also certain that I’d always crave all things sweet and salty. Sound familiar? Here’s 3 steps to building healthier habits even if you love…

Advice I’d Give My Younger Self When Starting My Plant-Based Journey

 I remember it like it was yesterday. I was sitting in a hospital room because my husband was one day into recovering from double bypass surgery to relieve two 100 percent blockages to the arteries that lead to his heart.They’re called the widow makers.  It was a surprise surgery (at least it was a surprise…

How to Build Healthier Habits and Adopt the Plant-Based Lifestyle

Is there ever the “perfect time” to start something or create new habits? With the current distractions of summer in the northern hemisphere or perhaps the “winter blues” in the southern in full swing you might think that now is not the time to tackle anything that’s life changing. Yet, if not now, when? Here’s…

Warning: Eating These Types of Meats May Change Your Life

It’s possible that eating certains types of meat changed my mother’s life expectancy. I believe I’m changing history. My personal history, and I believe that you can do the same. It was only 3 weeks from diagnosis to death for my mother who died of colon cancer at the age of 68 in 1993. I…

How to Deal with Loved Ones Who Aren’t Interested in Switching to the Plant-Based Lifestyle

When I discover something that’s fun like a hot sale or a life changing way of eating, I love to share it with others. Most of us are wired to want to help others. Especially to help those that we are closest to. Do you have loved ones who aren’t interested in ditching their standard…

7 Secrets to Travel as a Plant-Based|Vegan

Planning an upcoming trip but wondering how to do so as a plant-based|vegan eater?  You  don’t have to compromise your eating lifestyle. Here’s 7 secrets on to travel as a plant-based|vegan eater. 7 Secrets on to travel as a plant-based|vegan eater: 1. Plan Ahead Among the best things that you can do is plan ahead.…

Declare Your Independence from the Standard American Diet

If you haven’t already done so, it’s time to Declare Your Independence from the Standard American Diet. Every year Americans celebrate the fourth of July which marks the date that the Declaration of Independence was signed.  This also marks the celebration of the birth of the nation. In some ways, switching to a plant-based lifestyle…