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Superfood And Super Good – Vegan Cupcakes with Coconut Oil

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| Desserts, Recipes
August 19, 2013

One of the new superfoods is coconut oil. After a bad reputation for years because of its saturated fat content, coconut oil is now known to contain medium chain fatty acids which are used by your body quickly as energy as opposed to being stored as fat. Raw coconut oil...
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Serve Avocado Wasabi Salad for the Perfect Vegan Brunch!

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| Recipes, Salads
April 16, 2012

Avocados are another newly crowned superfood. Like coconut oil, people have avoided avocados because of their high fat content. The truth is that avocados are high in protein, enzymes, fiber, potassium, vitamin E, and healthy fats. The fats in avocados are monounsaturated fats. Avocados are rich and creamy and versatile....
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Easy, Fun, and Tasty – Your Own Pizza Garden

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April 14, 2012

Most people love pizza, right? With just a few big containers or a few feet of garden space, you can have the freshest, tastiest, healthiest organic pizza sauce you’ve ever eaten. It’s easy and fun to grow these ingredients, and you’ll eat great pizza all summer. Here are some great...
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Plantain Wraps with Black Bean Spread for a Fresh-as-Springtime Vegan Brunch

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April 10, 2012

Spring puts me in the mood for a fresh, light, colorful, flavorful brunch. This recipe for Plantain Wraps from thedailygreen.com (a division of Good Housekeeping) is just the thing to satisfy that mood. The recipe was created by Jennifer McCann Author of Vegan Lunch Box: Around the World, a book...
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9 Healthy Herbs You Can Grow Yourself

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April 8, 2012

This is the time of year when we start thinking about our gardens. But even if your garden is the window sill in your kitchen, you can grow herbs for cooking and for health. All you need is some sunlight and some seedlings or, if you’re brave, a package of...
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Vegan Easter Brunch – Try A Flavorful Country Skillet

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| Breakfast, Recipes
April 6, 2012

If you’re spending a leisurely Easter Sunday, Tamasin Noyes’ Country Skillet might be the perfect main dish for brunch. It’s a vegan translation of a flavorful, satisfying country classic. Tamasin is a Midwesterner who’s been vegetarian for over 30 years and vegan for many of those years. To Tamasin, being...
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Easter Feast – Vegan Chickn with Rosemary and White Wine

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April 4, 2012

Are you having a hard time coming up with a dish to serve for Easter dinner? You might like Bryanna Clark Grogan’s vegan Chickn Breasts with Rosemary and White Wine. It’s easy to make but flavorful and festive. Bryanna has devoted 40 years to studying cooking and nutrition, the last...
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Low Fat, Whole Grain, Vegan Delicious Carrot Bread

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| Breakfast, Recipes
April 2, 2012

Vaishali has the first Indian vegan recipe blog on the web. She became vegan in 2007, thanks to her dog, Lucy. She’s a vegan for ethical reasons, and the stories she tells about all her wonderful rescue animals are truly heartwarming. If you a new vegan or you’re thinking about...
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Go Vegan for Your Health – 4 Plant-Based Sources of Protein

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March 31, 2012

There’s more evidence than ever that eating red meat or processed meats is detrimental to your health. Harvard School of Public Health recently completed a study which examined data from more than 110,000 people and found that eating as little as two pieces of bacon or one hot dog a...
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Getting Healthy, Living Free – It’s a Vegan Bonus!

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March 29, 2012

Ah, Spring! The world (at least the part of it where I live) is clean and fresh and starting to live all over again. I love that because if the world can do it, we can do it too. At every age. Some of the most important Spring cleaning you...
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