When guests come in to town I often take them to at least one of my five favorite local ice cream shops.  Two of them are local dairy farms.  I honestly thought, on the first weekend we started eating plant based, ‘How am I going to give up ICE CREAM!’ and for that matter milkshakes, […]

So, we are halfway through the week.  I’ve been enjoying the meals I planned but I haven’t had a chance, until no, to post them here.  Many of these I modified, I am getting the hang of things and making this new way of eating our own. We are eating lots of snacks including fresh […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]