Continue for: recipes for the 4 dishes we made. They are: kiddo-approved, some of our most-beloved nutritious/delicious meals, relatively swift to whip up, and their leftovers make for handy weekly meal-prep.

Continue for our easy-breezy vegan Cheesecake Truffle recipe

Continue for: our pancake recipe, some process pics, + a slew of resources about the benefits of whole grains and the short-chain-fatty-acids they produce in your gut… that gut that is going to be singing merrily to itself after a plate of these kind/tasty beauties.

Continue for: a link to J on a sustainability podcast, the full script Q used to use (and still does) to push me past the discomfort of illuminating folks on the imperatives of moving forward, more helpful info from a Pediatrician and two Pediatric Dietitians, plus some nature scenes & meals eaten this week.

Continue for: some photos of a non-traditional Thanksgiving, the visual glory & peace of Sodus Point, campfire feasting, perpetual planetary imperatives (and resources), and souls I’m dearly grateful for.

Continue for a bounty of Thanksgiving Dinner Options: Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Lentil Loaf, Cranberry Sauce, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, Multiple Desserts, etc; cardiovascular and environmental imperatives of plant-based/vegan feasting; some Turkey Facts drawn/written by Q last year; even my favorite Carl Sagan quote. :-)

Live Kindly, Feast Kindly, Grow Forward, and Enjoy. :-)

We like things saucy over here, so if you’re a gravy fan we salute you and recognize you as one of our own. For many years I made gravy out of the drippings of an animal, but then I fully absorbed the compassionate lack in that decision, the health harms, and the environmental impacts and we pivoted away from the cruel stuff and started making mushroom gravy.

This is SUCH an easy transition: it’s tastier, it’s kinder, it’s healthier, and it’s sustainable. It’s a win-win-win-win all around. Enjoy. :-)

Continue for our zesty, spicy, super easy Lemon Ginger Cake.

Continue for our super simple cranberry sauce recipe, some nutritional info on these tasty/tart berries, & a reminder of how our microbiome thrives on fiber. Why would we want our microbiome to thrive? It powers everything from our immune system to our mental health. :-)

Continue for: our super simple Cashew Queso Recipe; environmental data comparing dairy & plant milks; plus examples of what this 100% plant-based (but once meat/dairy loving) family is eating.

Continue for: simple/easy blueberry oatmeal recipe, “breakfast cereal” cashew cream sauce recipe.

Continue for: what I’ve been working on and what we’ll be serving up through the coming months.

Continue for: the one & only Richard Zakin; medical information about Alzheimer’s and 4 world-renowned doctors working hard to relay the research that could prevent you (and your loved ones) from succumbing to this disease (<— even if you have a heightened genetic line-up of ApoE <— if I could go back in time I would have been sharing all of these books with Zakin, and he was the sort of open-minded soul who would have gladly received them); examples of foods we ate this week that fit within the “Azheimer’s Solution” (and also fits within the parameters of pediatric nutrition class I’m taking… and also fits with the United Nations/World Health Organization/etc guidelines for environmental sustainability… and also saves fellow species from suffering/extinction… what a win-win why-isn’t-everyone-doing-this?!?! win, eh?); and joy & action through our week.

Continue for: what your cardiovascular system looks like with a Keto diet; childhood atherosclerosis and how to prevent it; pediatric resources again; “How Deep Is Your Love” and how Q snapped it into an environmental lens that simultaneously clenched and cracked my heart; and a family living by plant-based (almost entirely) whole-food example in hope it sparks you to start working toward sustainability because you have the ability to help all while betting your own health.

Continue for (Plant-Based, Almost Entirely Whole-Food): Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, & More; cardiovascular and environmental imperatives; plus other examples of what this active plant-based family feasted on through a busy beginning of the week.

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.