An Online Learning Community for Plant-Based Eaters
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…
Like most people I look forward to summer and all that the season holds.This includes a wider variety of foods. It seems that I crave salads more in the summer than the winter and have discovered 3 Plant-Based Salad Dressing Recipes for the Summer of 2023. Typically I don’t use salad dressing as I like…
Let’s face it. Switching to a plant-based lifestyle can create lots of changes to your life. It can also cause anxiety in what to feed a group of guests who have a range of eating habits. You know what I mean. You want to host a dinner for friends or family and still eat a…
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.…
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…
For lots of years I’ve been the one to offer to bring some type of dessert for the annual Fourth of July celebration. When I was still eating the Standard American Diet I enjoyed creating a “Fourth of July flag cake” complete with strawberries and blueberries making me feel like I was supplying something a…
The struggle is real! Deciding to switch from the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) to a Whole Food Plant-Based (WFPB) diet is often the easy part. The hard part is actually making the switch happen. Here’s why it’s hard to switch to a plant-based lifestyle. The inaugural issue of the True North Newsletter published in 2003…
With travel revving up and the number of plant-based eaters on the rise, there’s no doubt lots of newbie plant-based|vegans might wonder where they’ll be able to grab a quick bite while on the road (or anytime). Here’s the top 5 Plant-Based|vegan fast food joints (also known in the food industry as QSR’s or quick-service…
I can always detect the glimmer of doubt (if not fear) when my omnivore friends seek to find an appropriate answer to my question of “what can I bring” to their upcoming outdoor event. I have been living the plant-based lifestyle long enough to have discovered the 2 greatest plant-based|vegan dishes to share at a…
I use to dread getting a dinner party invite when I first transitioned to the whole food plant-based (WFPB) lifestyle. That’s because most (ok, like all) of the invites were from omnivores. Not that I have anything against omnivores, it’s just that I was no longer among them and I didn’t want to offend them…