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Regrow Green Onions

Looking for a fun, easy home project to do today? Time to regrow your store-bought green onions at home! No soil or patio required (though digging in the dirt can be fun!). All you need is a small glass jar or cup and a pair of scissors – let’s get started! Supplies: Maintenance: This is…

Tofu – Description + Recipe – Baked Tofu Nuggets

If you’re new or seasoned to veganism, tofu has undoubtedly been a frequent part of your lifestyle. But what is it, and why is it good for us? Here is a brief description and a bonus recipe to showcase the delightful soybean. 🙂 What is tofu? Tofu is a processed food product created from culturing…

How to Read a Nutrition Label

Nutrition labels… am I right? Some of the most helpful yet confusing text that is the bane of anyone working towards improving their health. Serving sizes, calories, fats, and vitamins are enough to make your head spin! Well, fear no more! I am here to help you better understand the “language of the label” so…

Vegan Supplements

Vitamin supplementation is a hotly debated aspect of nutrition. Since most of these products are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it can be quite daunting to pick the “right” one. This is especially so when you are vegan. It may surprise the average person that a balanced vegan diet is much…

How Fiber Lowers Cholesterol

We have been told multiple times over that a diet high in fiber helps improve the health of your heart. But why? I was curious of the exact science behind this statement and the biological reason is quite fascinating. Fiber, at it’s core, is “filler”. It fills up the bowel and helps propel digestion forward….

Vegan Starter Guide – The Basics

So… you’ve decided to adopt a vegan lifestyle. Fantastic! But now what? The realization of just how many animal products the average person consumes is enough to turn your stomach. The challenge before you is the same that many of us have faced: what CAN I eat now? The good news: it’s easier than you…

Flax Seeds

If you’re hip to nutrition at all, you most likely have heard of flax seeds. They are these small, unassuming brown seeds that are often associated with healthy eating. But why? Turns out that these tiny linseed hulls are a valuable addition to anyone’s diet, vegan or omnivore alike. Flax seeds, AKA linseed, are grain…

Vegan vs. Plant Based

Ah, semantics! The basis of misunderstandings across languages, including within one’s own. You may have commonly heard the terms “vegan” and “plant based” used interchangeably. Then you come to find that the two are actually different, although only slightly, and that the meaning changes depending on who you ask. If academia has taught me anything,…

First Plating

Let us go back to August 2019. Life for me at this time had changed dramatically. I left my former career as a licensed veterinary technician in pursuit of my lifelong dream of working with food. On the same day I quit my last animal nursing job, I applied for college (yet again). My focus…

Welcome!

Join me on my culinary arts journey into vegan food and wellness! I am approaching my second year in Culinary Arts Management, focusing on plant-based and vegan food lifestyles. I am passionate about vegan activism and find the science of vegan cookery absolutely amazing. Humans have evolved and created such innovative technology, causing meat and…