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New to avocados or just tired of them spoiling on you? In this article, I’ll show you the many ways you can enjoy avocados, how versatile they are in the plant-based kitchen…and what to do when you have too many ripe ones on your hands!

Growing up, I can’t remember eating any avocados, but the first ...

You may have heard that a whole food plant-based diet is one that centers around unprocessed or minimally processed whole plant-based foods such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, and mushrooms. But how exactly does one get started with whole grains? This article suggests som...

What’s your relationship to fruits and vegetables? Perhaps you grew up loving them, or maybe you developed a hatred for them because your parents always forced you to eat them. Yet, curiously enough, every national dietary guideline embraces and promotes them. You have probably also heard countless ...

When you first start a plant-based diet, everything feels overwhelming – there are so many meals and drinks that you used to have with meat, dairy or eggs in them! So how do you make substitutions, and what can you use instead? One area of concern is how to substitute the cow’s milk that you may hav...

Are there some natural immunity boosters you can build into your meals for yourself and your family to reduce chances of catching a cold, virus or even…COVID? This article will show why vitamin C is important to our immunity and highlight some surprising fruits and vegetables that top the list in vi...

Acorn squash is one of the most nutritious squashes around. It is also a vegetable that can be used in a myriad of ways in the plant-based kitchen. In this article, I will show you some surprising facts about acorn squash, how it compares nutritionally to a few other squash vegetables, and just how ...