It has taken me entirely too long to get this up. But as promised here you are. Hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

1 3/4c of fresh cooked black beans

1 1/2 sweet potatoes

1/4c millet

1/2c oats (ground finely)

1/2 red onion chopped

1/4 bunch of cilantro

1 jalepeno

1 green pepper

1 clove of garlic

1tsp cumin

1 tsp chipotle powder

1/4tsp of cayenne pepper

salt & pepper to taste

Place sweet potatoes in the oven face down on a baking sheet for 20-30 min or until firmly soft at 380 degrees. Cook black beans in 3 cups of water until firmly soft. Cook millet in 1c of pure water, set aside and let cool. Meanwhile chop onion, bell pepper, garlic, jalapeno, & cilantro. In a food processor grind up the oats finely, but not to a flour consistency. Once beans & sweet potatoes have…

In my quest to try to get as healthy as possible, and cut my food costs as well, I decided to try my hand at making my own vegetable stock. I found a really good recipe here: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_make_vegetable_stock/. Seemed simple enough, so I figured – why not!?!

I won’t give all the details here – you can check out the recipe on the original site, but I will tell you what ingredients I used.

• mushrooms (not dried)
• fennel
• carrots
• celery
• onion
• thyme
• rosemary
• parsley (dried)
• salt
• peppercorns
• tomato paste

Let me start by saying this – I didn’t read the recipe close enough. I thought it called for one can of tomato paste, rather than the 2 tbs it really listed (a 6 oz can of tomato paste = 10 tbs). Needless to say, my broth will be extremely tomatoeee lol! I’m thinking it will be just fine though…

In 2011, the American professional cyclist David Zabriskie (Garmin group – overalls), that this year is going to compete in the Tour de France just a purely vegan diet. There is no doubt that he has challenged hard, when the average day of the Tour, the cyclist to return to his body about 8000 calories, lots of meat, to complete the protein losses of the day.

Each and every one must have recently been exposed or another video on YouTube, which encourages the movement of vegetarian or vegan diet. Some of us move on and continue as normal, some are beginning to question eating meat or animal products at all, and some people are persuaded, and inscribe on their banner vegetarian or vegan diet. If once to encounter in man a vegetarian was a rare sight, surely today come to me quite a few people vegetarians, vegans or other combinations…

One of the first health movies I watched was Forks Over Knives.  First off, I want to say that it is another great movie…a must see!   I think when I watched it, it was one of those moments for me when I knew the information hit home and that I needed to act. Along with Food Matters, I would say these two movies were the biggest recent push for me to start really paying attention to what goes into my mouth.  The Forks Over Knives diet (referred to as a plant strong diet) is very similar in some ways to a vegan diet.  I tried to define it as best as I could on the “The Diets” page of my blog.  I have to admit, I’m not sure the oil-free diet is totally for me.  Olive oil is used often in my kitchen, and I know of…

I’ve had some of the store bought kale chips in this particular flavor and I did enjoy them, but let me just say… These ones are so much better! Not to toot my own horn or anything like that… Seriously, give these a shot. I just kind of threw the ingredients together by taste and ended up with something that I’m going to make again and again since they keep disappearing!

Sour “cream” & onion mixture per one medium head kale:

• 1 1/2 Cup Raw Cashews (soaked for 3-4 hours and drained)
• 1/4 Cup Chopped White Onion
• 2-3 Scallions
• 2 Tbsp Lemon Juice
• 2 Tbsp Nutritional Yeast
• 1 Tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
• 1 tsp Sea Salt
• Water (as needed to make a creamy texture)

Combine all ingredients into a high speed blender and blend thoroughly until a very creamy texture is achieved. In a large bowl combine washed and torn…

Benefits of a Vegan Diet: Should You Eliminate Meat and Dairy?
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Tatiyana_T]Tatiyana T

Recent research shows that a vegan diet if planned correctly has many health benefits. Elimination of meat and other animal based products can help reduce excessive consumption of fats, proteins and sugars. These changes to the diet can help lower cholesterol, reduce risk for cardiovascular disease, obesity, etc. Well planned vegan diet is low in calories, yet very nutrient dense. For years the question was if vegan diet is appropriate for children, adolescents, and pregnant women or elderly. The concern was that certain lifecycles require more nutrients, protein, etc. The argument was that vegan diet is low in protein and fats, hence unhealthy for children, adolescents, etc. Recent research has proven this assumption incorrect. It is important to note that there are different types of vegan diets out there and older research studies did not take…

I’ve been at raw food living full bore he last few weeks. Not saying I haven’t had ANY cooked food, but the vast majority of my diet has been raw. I’m juicing every morning, eating raw for lunch &/or dinner (I don’t always eat lunch), and trying to stick to 80% or more raw foods with great success.

Today I was eating some watermelon for lunch and wondered if it would juice well. Let me tell you – it did!!! As I stood marveling at the copious amount of juice I know have, I glanced to my continuous booch system and thought to myself,”I bet THAT would be good!!!”

So, I mixed about 1/2 & 1/2 booch & watermelon juice in 4 bottles. I added chia seeds to 2, and will refrigerate them for use whenever. I’m going to let 2 ferment and see what happens.

Until later (will let…

Breakfast

Peach and apricot balance, chopped kiwi fruit, soya milk

A repeat of yesterday, but I had a final kiwi that needed eating and thought it went well with this type of cereal (lucky really, as that was the only kind I had in the cupboard).

Lunch

Cranberry and watercress salad, french bread, vegan chocolate

Sainsbury’s seem to sell a nice par-bake bread that’s labelled as vegan. It’s the Basics range, but the packet boasts that it uses real French flour. Last night I’d thrown together a quick salad, and this morning I gave the par-bake loaf 10 mins in the oven. I had to pack it into my bag while still warm, but I don’t think it did any harm (and made my bag smell really nice). The salad was just watercress, cucumber, dried raisins/cranberries and a few stray pine nuts that were left over from a batch that…