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: a family who once ate all the meats/dairy/processed food & didn’t think a second about single-use items or sustainability; who for a long while were then doing local/organic/free-range/hormone-free animal products with lots of fresh/roasted veg and used zero-waste household items to contain them; to the family who realized the food we were putting in those reusable containers made a significantly bigger impact environmentally/healthfully/compassionately; and is now thriving via Plant-Based (Mostly) Whole-Foods and did a trip from Central New York to Delray Beach, FL with a focus on environmental consideration (ie successes, restaurants helping to make the earth a better place, missteps, and lessons learned).

Live Kindly, Feast Kindly, Grow Forward.

Continue for: snapshots from the crossroad of a global diet that could help humanity prevent climate tipping points and start healing the only planetary home we have while also preventing/reversing the #1 cause of death (<— cardiovascular disease <—What a razzle-dazzle win-win (throw-saving-a-soul-from-suffering in too) WIN!!!); ways this family ate Plant-Based Whole-Food and ways we dabbled in some we-aren’t-pregnant-again junkfood; and our favorite free joy: exploring Central New York nature and appreciating what we have while we have it.

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 the World Health Organization says about healthy/sustainable diets, what doctors say about the same, a Carl Sagan quote, teaching/modeling/harking self-efficacy, a feast of examples of what this plant-based family of-three was eating this week, and ways we got active/purposeful and found joy.

Live Kindly, Feast Kindly, Grow Forward… and let’s leave this Earth in a better state for the souls/species we love.

Continue for: yet another week of interviews (Syracuse.com and SUNY ESF); fresh reports out about how our summers are lengthening due to climate change (fantastic if we want Malarial mosquitoes up North, our crops to falter, and our water to recede) plus some handy infographics explaining animal agriculture’s impacts on the environment and our health; more than 10 examples of what this plant-based (almost entirely) whole-food family was eating this week; what we were working on and what joy was to be found.

Continue for: fresh reading this week (covering cardiovascular disease, environmental policy re animal agriculture, droughts in America and Europe, the microbiome, and Blue Zones again); Ian’s superhuman LDL levels; examples of what this plant-based family-of-three was eating this week (<— the diet that lowers your environmental impact **70-80%**!!); and some Central New York living.

Continue for: some Dr Michael Greger writing regarding how plant-based diets are the most evidence-based for health and how even Insurance Agencies are harking this diet because they know it’ll lower healthcare costs across the land (<— by bettering your health); some examples of the plant-based and PBWF feasting we did this week; Spring Sun with a week of Q Light; an unexpected interview for Women’s History Month and the woozy rush of all the blood going to my cheeks.

Continue for: fresh reports urging humanity to shift as plant-based as possible (important for the future of any kin who will be here in your wake <—and every species affected by us); some examples of what this Plant-Based family was eating this week; Ewen & Quillan + hiking with our pack of loved souls; and love-light sent to Grandparents this week.