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…
Tag: plant-based nutrition
3 Meal Services That Make Plant-Based Cooking, Shopping, and Eating Easier Than Ever
First, I’m not compensated or commissioned in any way for sharing these plant-based menus options with you (I wish). These are just great, convenient ways to overcome hang-ups about transitioning to plant-based cooking or even just to get started eating…
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…
Guide to making your New Year’s resolution stick. (It’s not too late!)
by Max Seabrook Almost half of the American population make New Year’s resolutions! But a third of those drop out by February! If you made a new year’s resolution this year then that’s excellent because that means you’ve identified something…
Are Plant Proteins ‘Complete’?
YES One of the next most popular (and frustrating) questions besides “where do you get your protein?” we hear all the time goes something like “Do you have to combine foods at every meal for a complete protein?”. No. No…
Raw ’til 4 Helped My Rheumatoid Arthritis
As someone who’s been vegan for thirteen years, and who’s eaten a whole foods diet for half of that time, I never expected to deal with a chronic disease at my age (I’m 32). Yet, a few months after my…
Vegan Pregnancy and Vegan Kids
My long overdue article on vegan pregnancy and childhood is up! Building Vegan Bodies from Scratch: 3 Myths About Vegan Pregnancy and Raising Vegan Children Dispelled, Part 1 can be viewed at the website of our sponsor Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness:…
Getting Back in Shape – Losing the Baby Fat
By the time I had my son Miles at 41.5 weeks, I’d gained about 33 pounds, bringing me up to 150 lbs from my pre-baby 117. By then I was freakin’ huge, bigger even than in this shot taken at 39…
Plant Based Nutrition – Will I Get Anemic?
As a personal trainer I’ve talked with many people and even seen clients struggle with iron-deficiency anemia after adopting a plant based diet. I’ve even had people describe to me how much better they felt eating this way until the issue…
The Paleo Diet – The Ultimate Review Released!
Walk into any Crossfit gym these days and the predominant nutritional advice you’ll hear is unfortunately that of the Paleo Diet. Now I am by no means knocking Crossfit – it is a fantastic style of exercise programming that…
Heart Attack-Proof Diet in the Media! Watch it Tonight!
I’m really excited because plant-based nutrition as a means of improving your health has been in the media a lot the last few days! Former President Bill Clinton was in a special on CNN this past Thursday discussing his dramatic…
Plant-Based Potluck (brownies were involved)
Today was our first Plant-Based Potluck! I made Lentil loaf Mashed cauliflower/millet (stand-in for mashed potatoes!) Creamy golden gravy Kale with walnut sauce Green goddess dressing Raw chocolate walnut brownies Others brought: Fruit trays Salad Fresh local lima beans and…
World’s Tastiest Sandwich Snack
I first saw this sandwich prepared by Ann Esselstyn in the documentary Planeat and have since seen it in the Forks Over Knives companion cookbook; I’ve been making it as a sometime snack ever since – sometimes going all out…
Announcements!
Here they are: We’re hosting meal and recipe exchanges (Plant-Based Potlucks) starting August 7th, and you’re invited! We’re starting a lending library of cookbooks and health and nutrition books and DVDs! Plant-Based Potlucks I like to think that, with the…
Cookbooks You Must Own and Forks Over Knives DVD Release Update!
The Forks Over Knives DVD is now available for pre-order here at a discount; they’ll be shipped August 9th! You can even order DVD + companion book packages and 4-packs at further discounts…I know what everyone’s getting for Christmas… I…
Meal Planning
This seems like the perfect time to announce: we’re adding meal planning to our Fitness & Nutrition Consulting services! Two-week menus, with grocery lists (for locals a grocery delivery service called Relayfoods may make it possible for me to actually…
The New MyPlate Food Guide
By now you’ve probably seen that the USDA has come out with it’s latest rendition of the food guide pyramid- MyPlate. Its release last week led to some buzz (at least from my perspective on facebook and twitter), and I…
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…
Planeat @ Crossroads Was a Success!
How awesome: we had a full house at Crossroads Coffee last night for our screening of Planeat, a documentary exploring plant-based nutrition and the environmental impact of our dietary choices!! Events like this make all of our efforts so…
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…