Want to know the nuts and bolts of how vegan strength athletes eat?? Nick over at BarBend was a pleasure to speak with about plant-based nutrition and did a phenomenal job with this article and video. In it he goes…
Category: Breakfast
Portable Oatmeal: Easy Plant-Based Breakfast for Busy Days
We’ve been eating oatmeal for breakfast for over a decade, and we’re not bored yet! Not only are there a bunch of options to choose from for the grain itself (quick oats, rolled oats, thick rolled oats, steel cut, oat…
Plant-Based Groceries Made Cheap and Easy
Welcome to the details behind my earlier post: How We Saved 7000 Annually on Our Plant-Based Grocery Bill! In that post, I talked about the year we spent tracking our plant-based groceries and how we’ve figured out which stores and strategies…
Plant Based Protein Super Shake
I’ve been perfecting the craft of whole-food vegan shakes for nearly a decade now. When I started, my goal was simply to pack the most possible calories and protein into a drink made from whole plant foods – and you…
Plant-Based Breakfasts for Vegan Bodybuilders (and Everyone Else)
…or anyone who wants to eat simple whole foods that build and maintain a lean physique! The skyrocketing popularity of vegan foods (yay) means that there are more and more great, fancy, and mind-blowing vegan recipes out there for fabulous…
Vegan Low Fat and Sugar Cinnamon Rolls as Good as the Original
What’s the secret to sugar free vegan cinnamon rolls that taste AS GOOD as our old sugar-laden favorites of yore? Erythritol! You can learn more about this sugar alcohol that has zero calories, doesn’t ferment in your gut like some other sugar…
How To Get Ripped On A Vegan Diet – New Article on Vice!
I’m always excited to get the message out about healthy, sustainable and compassionate bodybuilding and fitness flowing a plant-based diet, so I was very excited to be interviewed by Vice for their recent article ‘How To Get Ripped on A…
Gluten-Free Fig Bar Muffins (with a PB&J variation)
One morning we were out of oats and just about everything else that I could make breakfast out of. There was, however, half of a pre-baked sweet potato in the fridge and a frozen banana that I could defrost…and some…
Gluten-Free Quinoa Pancakes
I’ve been experimenting with more gluten-free recipes lately due to some crazy inflammation in my finger joints. Seems like we hardly eat anything to eliminate with an elimination diet to determine the cause, but we do eat some gluten, although…
Delicious and Affordable Plant-Based Meals 10 Percent Off!
We have good news for those of you who may be struggling with transitioning to a vegan diet or preparing nutritious plant-based meals during a busy week: Veestro is here! Veestro is a plant-based, vegan meal delivery service that makes healthy organic…
Ethiopian Tofu Scramble
Deliciously spiced without being “spicy”, this is my absolute favorite tofu scramble version yet. Our almost two-year-old ate four plates of it this morning murmuring “good”, “very good”, and “tasty” appreciatively all the while! The injera, which is a spongy…
Holiday Recipes
Another Thanksgiving…another chance to try out a bunch of delicious holiday recipes! This was our menu: Squash, Corn, and Quinoa Chowder (see Greens & Grains on the Deep Blue Sea) Whole Wheat & Spelt Herb Biscuits (see Vegan Brunch) Mashed…
Fruits and Veggies Disguised as a Delicious Chocolate Milkshake
Pregnancy has taken me back to a point in my life about 11 years ago, pre-vegan, when I hated pretty much all fruits and vegetables and was, in fact, one of the pickiest eaters in the world. Now the culprit…
Outline of a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Part II
Here’s a blueprint of what we eat. You can basically take this list and choose from the different breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and post-workout drinks according to your tastes and cooking skill and create a menu for yourself. W e…
Outline of a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Part I
So what does a plant-based diet look like in practice? I touched on that a bit in this post by reviewing an example grocery list and what I made with all the food…but I think in general we present a…
Vegan Breakfasts of Champions
Keeping my body fat % down while building muscle has always been a challenge. So, if I make a diet change that results in my suddenly losing a few percent body fat – without losing muscle – I’d have to…
Experimental Eating- Marcella
I’m trying an experiment. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I ate far more and far less strictly on our cruise and somehow dropped a bunch of fat and looked pretty ripped by the end of the week. While…
Omelets! – Marcella
Authentically “eggy” and rich, accomplished with tofu, chickpea flour, and black salt. The last two ingredients are really what give it the egg-like taste and texture. It’s genius – this recipe, very slightly modified, is one of many awesome recipes…
Derek’s Workout
Today was an exciting day (haha) because I was able to do a full-blown legs routine without my knee acting up. I went light on the exercises, but this is very much what one of my leg routines would normally…