The key to successful healthy nutrition starts in the kitchen. Taking the time to properly set yourself up is step one for transitioning to a healthier and more sustainable way of life. In this post/podcast we will explains how to properly set yourself up to optimize your plant-based diet and ultimately succeed by consuming the…
This best plant based recipe round up was inspired by one of Michael Pollan’s food rules : “Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can’t pronounce.” Real food doesn’t have a long ingredient list, isn’t advertised on TV, and doesn’t contain stuff like maltodextrin or sodium tripolyphosphate. Real food is things that…
This is the “ultimate” question many plant based eaters ask and often times even the reason that holds people back from adapting this animal free lifestyle. To be honest I am not surprised that there is much confusion surrounding this topic. Most of us have been conditioned to associate cheese, eggs and a steak as…
The word ‘vegan’ doesn’t simply mean meatless, milk-free, or egg-free. Unfortunately, various animal parts and bodily fluids have found their way into numerous food items that are often mistaken as being plant-based. No need to panic. In this post and a podcast we want to help you recognize these items and give you an idea what…
We often hear about people having a huge success dropping weight after changing their diet to fully plant-based losing 20, 40, 60… or even 100 lbs. is not an unusual story. However there is also another side to this story we rarely hear or read about. Throughout the past decade I’ve worked with many vegetarian…
Factory farming poses serious health risks for people, animals and the environment, but critics can cite more than just poor treatment of animals and environmental pollution as major reasons factory farming should be abolished – there are many other large and small reasons why factory farming is bad for us. Unfortunately, many people are simply…
Hey guys! Okay so I love when random things come my way. Especially those that make me either laugh or smile, or both! And well this was one of them… I just got a message from this guy from Toronto who created this awesome rap video about being vegan – I have to share it!…
It may come as a surprise to some, but buying foods labeled cage-free or grass-fed does not necessarily mean that those items are what they say they are, or what we assume they mean. This can be really frustrating if you are trying to do your best to purchase humane and sustainable food, not to mention…