by Brigitte | March 4, 2022 | blog, grocery shopping, meal planning, printable, template
What’s on my healthy vegan grocery list printable? Eating a (mostly) whole foods plant based diet means that I am cooking from a set of vegan pantry staples. It’s amazing how many different, delicious, and nutritious meals one can cook from this set of...
by Brigitte | February 16, 2022 | blog, nutrition, recipe
Replace eggs? What do you mean?! My egg-loving self from 10 years ago would not believe I would ever willingly stop eating eggs. To me, eggs were the perfect food: such a convenient package of carbohydrates, protein, and fat. I would batch prep a dozen hard-boiled...
by Brigitte | February 10, 2022 | blog, how-to, pantry cooking, program, recipe
Making vegan pizza is much easier than you think and, just like everything else, it gets easier as you practice. It’s definitely not something you need to outsource to the pizza guy across the street! In this 60-minute workshop, I will take the mystery out of...
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 18, 2022 | blog, meal planning, recipe, template
Do you find it hard to get motivated to cook proper dinners because it’s “just” for you? I totally get it. I say “just” because that’s the way we often talk, like: “oh, it’s just me.” But, really, that is wrong:...
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 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 | 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...
by Brigitte | October 14, 2021 | blog, family, podcast, strategies, vegan parents in the kitchen
Many of us, myself included, can occasionally feel resentful when it comes time to prepare dinner. “Why me (again)?” “Didn’t I just feed you?” “Cooking takes too long!” “I’m sick of cleaning up after meals.”...
by Brigitte | October 8, 2021 | blog, how-to, nutrition, pantry cooking, 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...