by Brigitte | March 10, 2022 | blog, grocery shopping, podcast, strategies, zero-waste
Anne-Marie Bonneau has been living plastic-free since 2011 and you’ll find her story and tips inspiring and empowering. In this episode, we discuss what motivated her and her daughters to say goodbye to plastic and reduce their food and packaging waste and...
by Brigitte | February 2, 2022 | blog, essentials, how-to, strategies
The most important kitchen tool for vegan and plant-based cooks isn’t an Instant Pot, a slow cooker, or even a high-power blender. It’s a knife. If you are going to eat more plants, and especially vegetables, chances are you will be chopping more...
by Brigitte | January 28, 2022 | blog, essentials, podcast, strategies
Many people bought a slow cooker only to leave it to gather dust on top of their fridge. That’s really too bad because using a slow cooker for plant-based cooking is a great way to decouple cooking from eating: throw in the ingredients in the morning, switch it...
by Brigitte | January 20, 2022 | blog, meal planning, podcast, strategies
Meal kits take the entire mental load and most of the physical load off cooking a meal: you choose your meal from a restricted menu of options, and all the ingredients and directions come to you in a neatly packaged boxed, pre-portioned and ready to be turned into...
by Brigitte | January 12, 2022 | blog, grocery shopping, podcast, strategies
For the past 10 years, I have been an on and off subscriber of veggie boxes via a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme or another. Yet again this winter, I ask myself: should I sign up for a CSA box this year? Are CSA boxes worth it? The answer isn’t...
by Brigitte | January 10, 2022 | blog, how-to, program, strategies
How to convert a recipe from stovetop to Instant Pot… from Instant Pot to stovetop? It will become easy for you once you understand how your electric pressure cooker works. In this 60-minute workshop, I: Quickly explain how electric pressure cookers such as the...
by Brigitte | January 4, 2022 | blog, family, podcast, strategies
About a third of American and Canadian households have a dog, and the numbers have grown since the beginning of the pandemic. My own household does not include tail-wagging friends, but I know dogs are part of the family for many. So what do they all eat? Can dogs be...
by Brigitte | December 9, 2021 | blog, health, strategies
The best way to nurture your own health and that of the planet is to eat a healthy plant-based vegan diet consisting mostly of home-cooked foods. If you are just getting started with this healthy vegan plant-based lifestyle, it can be overwhelming. There is so much to...
by Brigitte | December 8, 2021 | blog, podcast, strategies, subscriber spotlight, vegan journey
What do health and wealth have in common, other than 5 letter? Alison Setton and I, in this conversation, conclude that both health and wealth require some effort to build and maintain, but it’s totally worth it: both reward investors with the fruit of compound...
by Brigitte | December 3, 2021 | blog, preparedness, strategies
Plant-based and vegan people need to start thinking about food preparedness. With climate change, extreme weather events are bound to increase in frequency and severity, and those events impact the food that is available to us. That is not a prediction, but a fact we...
by Brigitte | November 24, 2021 | blog, strategies
How is it possible to find joy in cooking? So many people hate preparing meals! If you find yourself in charge of cooking, you may dread it as a chore or even resent it because you feel taken for granted as the default cook. Maybe you think that you have more...
by Brigitte | November 9, 2021 | blog, podcast, strategies
When I ask people what stops them from cooking more healthy meals from scratch at home, I often hear some version of the following: “I hate cooking!” “Cooking feels like a waste of my time.” “I’m sick of making dinner.”...
by Brigitte | November 4, 2021 | blog, essentials, strategies
What are the really, truly useful kitchen appliances for plant-based cooking? Here are my choices as a professional home cook who prepares a different plant-based meal, mostly from scratch, using whole foods, most days of the year. There are no affiliate links here,...
by Brigitte | October 28, 2021 | blog, essentials, how-to, podcast, strategies
It’s time to make cooking fun. Does cooking feel like a chore? It doesn’t have to! I interviewed Siobhan Coates, the fun coach, to ask her why we perceive cooking so poorly, and for her to share her best tips to make cooking fun again. She has great...
by Brigitte | October 20, 2021 | template, blog, meal planning, printable, strategies
It may be time for you to start plant-based vegan meal planning if: you want to feed your loved ones healthy home-cooked meals based on whole plant ingredients, most nights of the week, you are a busy person, suffer from decision fatigue, and/or need to decrease your...
