Category: Recipes

Do you have a half hour, somewhere in your day?

What if I told you could feel better, lose weight, have more energy, even save money.

All you have to go is take the time to prepare and cook your lunch every day .

You decide what goes in your body, your food is your fuel, the better your fuel the better YOU will function.

Think Fresh, plant based , whole grains, fruits,vegetables, beans, tofu or tempeh if you like.

Easy and fast!

Like my lunch..and I’ll tell you how to make it..,

Don’t Go Hungry Go Healthy

So I found this big green cabbage that has been hanging out in my fridge for a while.

Finally, today was the day: I’m going to cook it up. So I sliced it in 1 inch thick wedges, put it in a roasting pan and added gold potatoes, carrots, parsnips, yellow onion, and garlic.

All chopped in bite-size pieces. Then I mixed together some avocado oil, veggie stock, liquid smoke, cumin, turmeric, Italian seasoning, Tamari sauce, tahini sauce, maple syrup, chili powder, salt and pepper, and poured it over the Veggies. I then roasted it all for 2 hours at 400 degrees.

Wow!! I got an extremely flavorful, healthy, vegan comfort food! So good.

Remember, look in your fridge–so many ingredients hanging around just waiting for you! Create, your tastes buds will be happy, and so will everyone who eats your creation!

One thing about eating like a vegan is that you have to be prepared. It is much easier to eat healthier when you have your delicious food prepared ahead of time. I’m always thinking ahead about what I want to eat, especially planning something Vegan for my lunch at work.

Like you, I’m busy, so I try to get my meal preparation done as fast as possible, without giving up taste or health. Here is a quick way I prepare a healthy, vegetable-filled lunch. I use my rice cooker  with a steamer basket inside.

In these pictures, I use quinoa, but you can use any type of rice instead if you’d prefer that (although quinoa has some extra protein!). For veggies, I have Brussels sprouts, broccoli, yellow squash, and zucchini, but you can really use any vegetables you want.

Add one cup of quinoa (or rice) and two cups of water to your steamer.

Add the vegetables in the steamer basket, above the quinoa or rice

Turn it on and let everything cook, the veggies until soft and the quinoa or rice until all of the water is gone.

When the veggies are done, I toss them with some nutritional yeast, tamari sauce, pepper, turmeric, and some hot sauce, if you’re feeling spicy. Put your veggies over your quinoa, and boom…a quick, healthy lunch with enough leftovers to use for dinner time.

To spice up your leftovers, sauté some onion, garlic, and peppers in a little oil (I like avocado oil because of its higher burn point). Add your leftovers, some veggie stock, and tamari sauce.

You can add any thing you have in your fridge..Cooking should be fun, so experiment with spices, ingredients, flavors…don’t be intimidated, taste and keep adding until it’s right—you never know the deliciousness you have within you!

Enjoy! And please share some of the healthy, easy meals you come up with!