With the emphasis on bacon, eggs, and buttermilk pancakes, brunch is enough to make any vegan cringe. Not any longer: this easy-to-make pancake recipe is 100 percent vegan and off-the-charts delicious. With only six ingredients, you can whip this batter up and have pancakes on the griddle in 10 minutes. These pancakes are sweet enough…
Tofu gets all the love when it comes to a vegetarian diet, always leaving tempeh in the dust. Made with whole soybeans, tempeh is less processed than tofu and offers more protein and fiber per serving. If you’ve never cooked with tempeh, this is the perfect first recipe to try. Made with cumin, cayenne, fresh…
Sometimes you don’t want a spinach-kale-flaxseed-avocado smoothie. You want something that tastes super unhealthy, but you actually want it to be healthy. It’s a tough predicament, but this smoothie is stepping up to the challenge. Sweet and creamy and such a gorgeous vibrant color, this breakfast will remind you of cheesecake drizzled with blueberries. But…
If you’re following the Whole30 program, our guess is that breakfast is especially hard. No more grab-and-go yogurt cups or comforting bowls of oatmeal. Gone are weekend brunches filled with stacks on stacks of pancakes. This doesn’t mean breakfast has to be boring, tasteless, or difficult. These Whole30-approved breakfast ideas are simple to put together,…
Spaghetti with meat sauce is practically the definition of a home-cooked family dinner (especially if you’re Italian), but it’s not exactly a dish you want to devour every night if you’re watching your weight. Since this healthier version swaps out traditional pasta with spaghetti squash, and lentils for ground beef, it offers more fiber than…
Sometimes you just want to make and devour a huge pan of brownies. We totally get that. But we also get that you want to feel good in your leggings. So here’s a compromise. Delicious brownies in bite form, so they’re just 150 calories. There’s a secret ingredient, though. And it’s beans. Yup. Black beans.…
Green food on St. Paddy’s day is such a fun tradition, but since we can do without the artificial food dye, here’s a fun (and healthy) way to green up your holiday this year. If you love green smoothies, get ready for this frozen version. This treat is made with frozen banana, mango, pineapple, and…
Sometimes your brain says, “muffin,” when you wake up in the morning. And although typical baked goods you’d find at Starbucks or other coffee shops are loaded with the white stuff, these are not. With less than nine grams of sugar per muffin, these light and moist muffins deliciously sweetened with lemon juice and blueberries…
Moist, sweet, and cinnamony. What’s not to crave about a slice of carrot cake? You can enjoy those same warm flavors in your morning bowl of oatmeal, and the best part is it only takes five minutes to prep. Just throw everything into the slow cooker before hopping into your snuggly bed, and in the…
It feels sacreligious to say this, but I’ve been a vegetarian for 25 years and have never once made my own beans. I know, right?! It’s not that I don’t like beans – I eat them seven days a week, at least twice a day. So what kind of legume-loving vegetarian am I? The lazy,…
