by Brigitte | July 16, 2021 | blog, essentials, family, grocery shopping, how-to, meal planning, strategies
Drawing parallels between meal planning and project management can help us make decisions about what to cook. In the kitchen as on any construction site, scope, time, and cost have to be kept in constant balance if you want to serve your loved ones really good food....
by Brigitte | July 2, 2021 | blog, health, how-to, nutrition, pantry cooking, picky eaters, recipe
When you have a power blender (Vitamix, Blendtec, or similar), there’s no need to use packaged ingredients like plant milks and ground flax seeds. You can make these super healthy vegan blender waffles using just whole pantry ingredients and no oil. The start of...
by Brigitte | June 24, 2021 | blog, guest appearances, meal prep, recipe
Think you’re too busy to eat healthy home cooked vegan meals? Think again! This 1-hour cooking demo from the Virtual VegFest shows a quick vegan meal prep plan you can accomplish in just one hour. Thanks for Helene of Virtual VegFest for hosting this fun event!...
by Brigitte | June 16, 2021 | blog, family, health, strategies, vegan journey, vegan parents in the kitchen
Dreena Burton has published six vegan cookbooks and raised three children in 20 years. That elevates her to superhero status to me. Her recipes take nutrition, appeal, and ease into consideration all at the same time, and she keeps on showing up to inspire us with...
by Brigitte | June 9, 2021 | blog, family, health, strategies, vegan parents in the kitchen
Traditional medical education makes very little room for nutrition and disease prevention. As a result, “health care” often ends up looking more like “sick care.” But the tide may be turning and the number of plant-based doctors is growing....
by Brigitte | June 2, 2021 | blog, health, nutrition, recipe
Should we cook with oil? Opinions differ wildly on that topic within the plant-based community, and there are many people out there who avoid all oils as much as they can. As a result, as a professional meal planner, I often get asked by prospective clients whether my...
by Brigitte | June 1, 2021 | blog, family, strategies, vegan journey, vegan parents in the kitchen
When one spouse – often the wife – is going vegan but the other one isn’t there yet, what happens? I have told my own transition story from meat lover to ethical vegan and plant-based eating advocate a few times, including along with some tips for...
by Brigitte | May 13, 2021 | blog, essentials, family, health, nutrition, pregnancy, strategies, vegan journey, vegan parents in the kitchen
Should I supplement B12? My answer is straightforward: yes. This is probably true regardless of one’s dietary choices, but even more so if vegan or even just a part-time plant-based eater (flexitarian). This article is required reading for all Vegan Meal Plans...
by Brigitte | May 10, 2021 | blog, essentials, meal planning, meal prep, recipe, strategies
What I eat in a day as a vegan is mostly whole-foods, usually healthy, always plant-based food. In this post, I share what I ate on a typical weekday (Friday May 7th, 2021), and what guides those choices. I will mention what the rest of my family eats in passing, but...
by Brigitte | May 3, 2021 | blog, how-to, recipe
Why make tofu scramble instead of scrambled eggs? I used to think of eggs as the perfect food… but that was until I really explored the wonderful world of tofu. Tofu, in its different textures, can mimic many different egg preparations, with an advantageous...
by Brigitte | April 26, 2021 | blog, family, health, zero-waste
In April 2011, I quit drinking coffee. This was an unexpected move for me because I loved coffee. Back in the mid-1990s, I had a blog and many posts were about the art and pleasure of coffee making and drinking. My espresso machine was my most beloved appliance. I...
by Brigitte | April 19, 2021 | blog, strategies
What happens roughly 24 billion times per day on Earth? Humans having a meal. About a third of all of the resources we extract or use from the planet are funneled toward our insatiable appetites. If we are to continue living together on this planet for a little...
by Brigitte | March 8, 2021 | blog, health, strategies
I came to plant-based eating for environmental reasons, and decided to go 100% vegan for the animals. But fitness was also on my mind: would I continue to perform well as a vegan runner, or even improve? I’m no elite athlete: just a happy age-grouper aiming to...
by Brigitte | March 1, 2021 | blog, family, strategies, vegan journey, vegan parents in the kitchen
Like so many other vegans, the only regret I have about veganism is not embracing it earlier. Going vegan in my mid-20s would have been so much easier. Back then, I was living with roommates and mostly cooking for myself. I even ate a lot of accidentally vegan food,...
by Brigitte | February 22, 2021 | blog, family, health, strategies, vegan journey, vegan parents in the kitchen
What if committing yourself to doing some vegan meal prep on the weekend, using only whole foods plant-based ingredients, could mean something as profound as healing yourself from a disease that’s been dogging you for over 20 years? That’s what happened to...
