Dips, Spreads & Sauces

When the garden gives you apples…you get your slowcooker out and make an apple butter 🙂  This delicious butter is nicely spiced with fresh ginger and slowly cooked for several hours until the apples just start to caramelize.  This absolutely natural, no sugar added spread can be used in so many different ways – on pancakes…

Low-carb eating is a great way to manage blood sugar and many people find it also helps with digestion, managing diabetes, and maintaining  a healthy weight (even if not trying to lose weight). Low carb eating also provides some brain-boosting benefits, due the higher amounts of healthy fats and proteins – these aid in neurotransmitter and…

Prepping your food ahead of time is honestly  the #1 one strategy you need to implement to make sure you and your family eats healthy meals throughout the week. I know what you might thinking…Who wants to cook bunch of  meals all at once! But hold your horses. What we are about to show you  makes…

Kale has undergone a serious image overhaul in recent years. It has evolved from being a decoration in salad bars and seafood display cases to being perhaps the most popular superfood. By now, you must have tasted – kale smoothies, salads, and chips… and most likely paid a ridiculous amount for it! 😛 Kale is one of…

In need of a good summer meal recipe? Don’t worry – we’ve got it covered! If you are anything like us, you probably don’t want to be spending hours in the kitchen during these summer months. Don’t make me wrong, I love cooking however when the good weather starts here in Vancouver, all I want to…

Have you’ve ever wished you could recreate Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls, Cheesecake Factory Avocado Eggrolls, tasty Sheppard’s Pie, or Starbucks Pumpkin Scones all in a healthy vegan way?  Well today is your lucky day 🙂 With the help of our fellow health conscious bloggers we came up with the “Best Copycat Vegan Recipe Round Up”. Not only that…

Today we are excited to share with you a guest post from Green Evi.    “I am so glad to be here at the awesome Active Vegetarian and to share with you one of my favorite recipes! I am Evi, a photographer, food enthusiastic, animal lover and the girl behind the blog Green Evi. I’ve…

It’s no secret that Salads make a healthy foundation for any diet — but it’s all too easy to ruin their nutritional benefits by drizzling on the wrong salad dressing. At the same time, to keep you in love with lettuce, you want choices that keep your taste buds satisfied and turn every salad experience…

I have a confession to make. For a large part of my life I was having a love affair with cheese. Not just any cheese, but real, wholesome European kinda cheese. I am blaming my parents for this addiction because growing up cheese formed an important staple of our daily diet. I mean the Czech kitchen…

2 small sweet potato 2 tbsp coconut oil ¾ tsp smoked paprika Salt Black pepper 1 large bunch of kale 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 cup of cooked quinoa (brown rice would work as well) 2 tbsp raw pecans (or other raw nuts of your choice) Peel the sweet potatoes, and cut it into cubes.…

Hi guys, the past two weeks we have been talking about detox and cleanse diets. So for our recipe I decided to go with this very simple salad packed with nutrients. The only time consuming part is the chopping all the veggies,but you can use a chopping attachment for your food processor and speed things…

Do you ever wonder what the healthiest sweetener is? Is it agave? Maple syrup or raw cane sugar? My opinion is always any sweet whole food, still pretty much in it’s original form.  I think anything that’s been extracted and heavily processed and preserved isn’t going to be anywhere near as healthy as a whole fruit…

  Alright so we are 2 months into the new year, I hope you are sticking to your new years resolutions! If weight loss or diet was a key word in your goals for 2013 I am sure you have found yourself eating more leafy greens (aka salads). Am I right? 🙂 Now let me…

Ok this post was inspired by my recent trip to Whole Foods. As Nikki and I were working away on creating the “Pumpkin Madness” post we knew we needed a good pumpkin spice mix. However a small jar was $6.49….WHAT???? So we decided to make our own 🙂 If you’ve never made your own spice blends, I’d encourage…

Did you know that you can easily make your own scrumptious almond butter ? And without paying the high prices at your local grocery store? Yes it’s true 🙂 This chocolate cinnamon kind is one of my favorite healthy versions……. 2 cups raw almonds 1/4 cup dark cocoa powder 1 tsp coconut oil 1 tsp ground…