I was super pleased to find Daiya dairy-free vegan cheese at my local Whole Foods (cheese? Don’t they mean chez or un-cheese?….but I digress). Their products have been winning rave reviews all over. It even won awards from VegNews (best of show at the Natural Products expo and 2009 product of the year in...
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Susan over at fatfreevegan.com has completed a site redesign. Welcome to the world of WordPress run web sites Susan! It looks AMAZING and it is incorporating discussion forums. You can sign up and contribute recipes, which I heartily encourage everybody to do. The web site is a great resource. I’ve used it many a...
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I’ve made it through yet-another-1st-day on the wagon. Yesterday, I got strict with the ETL for Lent, albeit a little late. Parties over the weekend are my downfall. I know there are ways to overcome the difficulties presented by socializing, but I’m still feeling the effects of my very strong addictions to dairy, sugar,...
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Dr. Fuhrman’s blog Disease Proof has a post about food addiction positing the good doctor’s maxim that in order to lose one’s taste for sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats, one must completely abstain from those types of standard American diet (SAD) foods. The article says, “You have to put in the time of abstinence...
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Lately many of the raw food blogs I read are having contests with prizes. The prizes are supplied by “generous” vendors who just happened to send the blogger products to sample. I have no idea whether these “donations” were solicited by the bloggers or if the vendors targeted bloggers and just sent them stuff....
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I’ve been gob-smacked with some very unpleasant surprises in the past week which have thrown me into a high anxiety stress-filled state. I hate to report that I’ve reverted to SAD eating as a form of comfort and convenience. Sticking to healthy habits is incredibly hard during a crisis. It’s true that SAD is...
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I’m a big proponent of planning ahead – as you could probably tell by all of the menu planning posts I’ve done. Doubling up on recipes whenever you make food makes leftovers for easier week night noshing. Laina over at Eat to Live has written a couple of great posts about making life easier. ...
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My favorite breakfast in a hurry: stopping at the grocery store on the way into work, buying pre-cut fruit — or even better, already done fruit salad — and then sprinkling ground flax seed on it from my office stash. Yummy, healthy, quick, and filling. Go fruit!
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