It has been a long week (and it’s only Wednesday), so last night Brian and I decided to do something we pretty much NEVER do… go out to dinner! Finding a place to get a relatively “compliant” meal can be a challenge, but I knew just the place. Continue reading
We were out of town and missed the very first St. Louis VegFest in 2018, so we were super excited to check it out this year! The festival is held at the World’s Fair Pavilion in Forest Park and features everything vegan – from food vendors to products, a speaker series and more. It was a busy day for us, so our time at the festival was limited, but we managed to try a bunch of great food and we thought we’d take you along. Continue reading
When following a whole food, plant-based diet, it can be a challenge to find meals that are easy to take on the go. We discovered Dr. McDougall’s instant soups and they are a great option for travel or just keeping around as a backup meal! Continue reading
If you’ve seen our videos, you probably know that we LOVE hummus! Unfortunately, most store-bought hummus has added oil, which is something we try to avoid on our whole food, plant-based diet. For this video, we found three varieties with no added oil! Continue reading
In the final video celebrating the start of our whole food, plant-based lifestyle back in June 2018, we decided to do a… BAKED POTATO THROWDOWN! Since we kicked this new lifestyle off with two weeks of nothing but plain potatoes (inspired by Penn Jillette’s book Presto!), we wanted to go back and test out a variety of plain potatoes to see how they stack up. We are gluttons for punishment! Continue reading
We eat a LOT of beans. They are a great source of whole food, plant-based protein and we love adding them to our salads, enjoying them in soup, blending them into hummus or even baking them on top of a pizza! But we have always wondered… are all beans created equal? Does it really make a difference if you use pre-cooked canned beans or cook your own dry beans? We set out to answer these questions and more with this Black Bean Throwdown! Continue reading
If you checked out our Top 10 Tools & Gadgets, you probably realize we have quite the collection of kitchen stuff. We got a ton of really great stuff when we got married back in 2011, and we have continued to grow our collection of kitchen “junk” 🙂 for the past 8 years of marriage. But what do we actually use the most while following a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) diet? In this post, we are going share our Top 7 Small Kitchen Appliances! Continue reading
We have always had a lot of kitchen “stuff.” Between small appliances, gadgets and random tools, we have collected a lot in our 7+ years of marriage. Since we are following a whole food, plant-based diet, we cook pretty much every single meal we eat. As a result, we have finally started using a lot more of the gadgets that we have collected over the years! But which tools and gadgets do we actually use the most? In the video, we count down our Top 10 list. Check it out and let us know what your favorites are! Continue reading
Trader Joe’s has a ton of products that make following this lifestyle just a little bit easier. We decided to make a “Top 10” list of our favorite products from Trader Joe’s, since they have so many unique products! Of course, all of these products are vegan as well. Continue reading
We try to stick to a whole food, plant-based diet as much as possible, which means we make 99% of the meals we consume at home from scratch. However, we both have full-time jobs and busy schedules, so it is helpful to have an easy “backup plan” waiting for us in the freezer! Continue reading
