Continue for: a recap of the Dietitian James Marin’s brilliant podcast interview where we first heard about baking-soda-soaks (it also has a spot-on mechanistic description of how your body develops Type 2 diabetes and how to prevent it); examples of plant-based whole-food feasting; examples of how we keep active in this Lifestyle Medicine Household; some of Q’s best artwork yet.

Continue for our: Omega Green Smoothie (or Orange, Mango, Ginger Smoothie if you won’t have/don’t want to get the spirulina); benefits of the algae for getting omegas, protein, vitamins, minerals (and making stuff look like Ecto Cooler); remote kindergarten 2020; 3 days of plant-based whole-food low-waste big-love living.

Continue for: our Crust Bar Recipe

Continue for: our super simple Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe; the nutrition facts for said sauce; a full day of meal-prepping/test-kitchening which lead to me finally writing down the process for a feast of tasty/body-kind/earth-kind/compassionate offerings that’ll be coming up soon (CRUST BARS are part of that list! <3 ); a boy obsessed with graboids; plus 3 days of this plant-based (mostly) whole-food family living by Lifestyle Medicine example.

Continue for: our super simple chocolate sauce recipe (3 ingredients, no refined sugar); the nutritional benefits of dark chocolate; tips for relieving stress; some helpful hints on how to transition to plant-based feasting; another really helpful/illuminating podcast (a Grandfather who’s working through his first month of transitioning plant-based <—ie really helpful for you souls who are just starting out); how Ian reminds me of the nutritional guide in that interview because he’s been sparking up the health of many of his coworkers; plus 3 whole days of examples of what this plant-based (MOSTLY) whole-food :-) family is feasting on & and the heart-fluttering ways we keep active via Lifestyle Medicine guidelines (<— dance breaks with my cub all day, every day).

Continue for: a metaphor for the robbery of our future; our Cappello Cornbread Recipe (plant-based, whole-food, gluten-free); the nutritional wonders found within; a perfect day at my childhood beach with souls that fill my heart to bursting; plus 3 whole days of what this family feasts on while we’re living our healthiest lives via plant-based diets and Lifestyle Medicine pillars.

Continue for: our super simple chocolate mint nice cream recipe; the environmental and nutritional reasons you want to steer clear of cow breastmilk (<— and this is coming from someone who only stopped those book reports because I started slinging scoops of frozen custard as my first job… <—and chose that profession so I could gorge myself at a discount); a whole family working on Dr Dean Ornish Lifestyle Medicine principles (including our 5 year old); plus three full days of examples of what we’re eating: the healthiest, cheapest, kindest diet there is.

Continue for: our Cappello Chili Recipe; the many benefits of beans; Q’s first foray into political commentary (and subsequent discussions on how to redirect that anger); and three full days of this family thriving off the kindest/cheapest/healthiest diet there is.

Continue for: Quill’s favorite Super Simple Sesame Dressing (<—plant-based, but we do this in moderation because it is not a whole-food); studies that point to the nutritional benefits of sesame oil; a podcast interview with yet another Pediatrician explaining why and how you should shift your children away from animal products (just like us, she started out as your Standard American carnivore and then learned better through science); Dr. Joanne Kong illuminating that The American Cancer Society, The American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, The Mayo Clinic, Harvard School of Public Health, and the National Institute of Health are also urging you toward a Plant-Based diet; a podcast with a Nutritionist illuminating how to raise healthy children with PBWFs; and 2 full days of what this family is eating (<—the cheapest, kindest, healthiest diet there is.)

Live Kindly, Feast Kindly, GROW FORWARD. If not for yourself, then do it for YOUR CHILDREN.

Continue for: our favorite PLANT-BASED WHOLE-FOOD way to start the day (<—remember, “Saving The Planet Begins At Breakfast”, this Sweet Cinnamon Oatmeal is a delicious way to move forward, and it's an Overnight recipe so you don't even need to cook it!), why I’ll be spending 4th of July at home and avoiding a family cookout of disease and environmental harm (additionally: why I will no longer meet with folks and the fresh souls they’ve brought into this world if those parents are still selfishly doubling down on a diet that is ruining that soul’s future. My heart can’t bear it and my brain can’t reconcile the negligence), plus 2 full days of a family living-by-example and showing y’all how you can eat joyfully, healthfully, kindly, cheaply on Plant-Based Whole-Foods.

Continue for: how charring meat causes carcinogenic heterocyclic amines (MMMmmm, Cancerous grilling!), how consuming animal products causes bacteria in your gut to create hydrogen sulfide (<—associated with colitis) and secondary bile salts (<—associated with the following cancers: colon, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, liver, pancreas, and biliary tract…and that’s on top of the diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and all the other diseases I’ve mentioned many times, and on top of the irreversible damage those products are doing to our environment, BUT IT TASTES GOOD, RIGHT?!); plus two full days of a family feasting and living-by-example with plant-based whole-foods (cheapest, healthiest, most environmentally friendly diet of them all.)

Continue for: how to make our “Holy Moly!” Sauce (Q’s response at first taste: “HOLY MOLY! This tastes like guacamole! I want this on ALL my meals from now on!!!”) including its health benefit line-up; even more planetary imperatives (The Arctic hit 100.4 this week); and 2 full days of this family living-by-example and eating the cheapest diet, the most environmentally sustainable diet, the HEALTHIEST DIET: Plant-Based Whole-Foods.

Continue for: Plant-Based Whole-Food “Loaded Potato” Soup, even more planetary imperatives (fresh and forward-shaking podcast), and 2 full days of a family thriving on Plant-Based foods and Lifestyle Medicine pillars.

Continue for: our basic polenta recipe, some pages from last night’s reading about how the food you eat affects your hormones (there’s a whole paragraph on endometriosis and PCOS, and I’ve added some links), and a full day of Plant-Based Whole-Food Feasting and a family living-by-example on how to be kind to the earth and kind to your body.

Continue for: our super easy Lentil Loaf recipe (plus added info on the nutritional bounds lentils have over cow carcass, budget comparisons, and environmental imperatives), how an animal-product-dense diet leads to Diabetes and how Diabetes increases cancer risk, and a full day of Plant-Based Whole-Food family feasting and thriving via Lifestyle Medicine pillars.

Continue for: how to meal-prep a whole bunch of sweet potatoes to fuel you through a week, a full day of Plant-Based Whole-Food Family feasting, and a family living by example so we can show our son how to nutritionally thrive while leaving the kindest footprint on this earth.

Continue for: how we make Plant-Based Whole-Food Pesto, pages from gastroenterologist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz’s book describing how our immune system is affected by what we eat (<—another world-renowned/award-winning doctor who promotes PBWFs), and a full day of PBWF Family feasting.

If you’re looking for a healthy, cheap, super-easy, delicious option to throw into your plant-based whole-food lineup, continue for: our balsamic tomato recipe; plus continued current-events & racial discussions with a Pre-K Cub, and a family leading-by-example and thriving via Lifestyle Medicine pillars & Plant-Based Whole-Foods (earth-kind, body-kind, and cheapest of all the diets.)

Who here thinks you need the breastmilk of a cow to give you calcium? I sure did; and I loved cheese and ice cream so much I ate my weight in them several times over.

There are a feast of plant-based calcium sources that are as kind as they are healthy (cashews are one of those sources); and here are the simple directions to make a cashew cream.