I whipped this hummus up this morning and it was delicious!  I hope you enjoy it, too. 2 cans of chickpeas (rinsed and drained) or 4 c.1/2 t garlic2 T tahini2 T soy sauce4 T lemon juice1/4 c parsley1 t cumin Combine all ingredients. Blend well. Serve as a salad dressing, with veggies, on sandwiches and more!

We’re in our 4th week now of eating plant-based and the changes have been amazing.  To fill you in, 3.5 weeks ago we watched the movie Forks Over Knives by Fulkerson, Lee/ Aucoin, Joey/ Barnard, Neal, MD [ (Google Affiliate Ad).  The research made sense to me and my husband and we agreed that our whole family would try a plant-based diet for two months.  We’ve been tracking changes daily and have been amazed with the benefits.  I really didn’t think

I am getting later and later on getting these menu posts up and I realized I haven’t made any updates since I posted the last menu.  So this post will be about this week’s menu and the next one will be on the changes we have seen. I am starting to get the hang of this and develop my own recipes so there are not links to every recipe.  But if you see something you would like the recipe for

The table format for the menu was fun but it was cutting off the end of the week.  So I am just going to list the days and meals below.  Also, for the most part we have left-overs for lunch.  In that case I do not indicate a meal. Tonight, we had the bean wraps and all by the littlest child cleaned their plate.  Little M even asked for a side of steamed kale.  We are all getting LOTS more

Towards the beginning/middle of last week I was feeling pretty bummed about the food I was making.  I made a couple of ‘dud’ recipes and I accidentally undercooked the beans I was using for the week making all my subsequent recipes with those beans very dry. But, then I started planning for Valentine’s Day and Little M’s birthday for Thursday and Friday and we found some great options!  For Valentine’s Day I made broccoli w/ peanut sauce over brown rice.  It was

We are not even two weeks into this adventure yet and today was difficult. It started out as a great day but had a lot of mental highs and lows. Our breakfast was oatmeal bars and chocolate (spinach, banana, cocoa, etc) shakes.  I thought the kids would love them but the girls were not thrilled and took a while to plow through them.  Little J, Jason and I enjoyed these and the shakes turned out much better than the first

Here is the menu and recipes for this coming week. I think I did a little bit better planning the full week this time.  Links are provided for the recipes I will use except for Friday (I haven’t decided which burger recipe to use yet) and Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream (it is from Furman‘s Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained (Google Affiliate Ad) book) Today we tried a LOT of new recipes including “bacon” for breakfast

Saturday is typically our pancakes morning so adapting our traditional recipe would have been a little challenging (though not impossible).  So I returned to a whole wheat recipe I have used over the past year. PANCAKES Here is the original.  My adaptations are below: Combine: 1 c. whole wheat flour1/2 c. oats1/4 c. corn meal1/4 c. flax seed meal1 t. baking powder1/2 t baking soda Add:2 c. milk alternative (I used Almond)1 mashed banana Stir and let sit while you

Netflix so kindly recommended other documentaries that would enjoy since I just watched, “Forks Over Knives”.  From the list I chose, “Vegucated.”  I made the mistake of watching it over dinner.  Although I knew most of the information regarding factory farming and I am learning about the health benefits of a plant based diet, to see the reality of those types of farms was sickening.   I am thankful that it’s been years since we stepped off of that terrible

We are 3 days in to our ‘plant based, whole foods’ lifestyle change.  I have been surprised by several things.  First, the children are actually receptive to the change.  We have told them nothing at all about it.  But, they have been eating and enjoying the meals I have prepared and snacks.  They were especially excited today when I made tortilla chips and the desserts have been a huge hit.  None of these items contained any added sugars, fats or