Continue for: our Crust Bar Recipe (<—tastes like the delicious crust to a cream cake, and also happens to be a raw Plant-Based Whole-Food, Gluten Free, and Sugar Free delight); Plant-Based Omegas and the fibrous/protein-packed benefits of said bars; how we make a super simple sugar-free berry sauce (<—goes great with the Crust Bars); the frustration of doctors who have no nutritional idea what they are doing (and how much they are harming children with their ignorance (<—this isn’t hyperbole, Q had failure-to-thrive and it would have continued if we listened to his terrible gastroenterologist’s advice to keep feeding him dairy despite his Eosinophilic esophagitis diagnosis) plus resources regarding Pediatric Nutrition; continued planetary imperatives for making the switch to Plant-Based Feasting (<—we are running out of time and sprinting toward irreversible climate tipping points! Animal Agriculture is perpetuating this destruction and feeding you preventable diseases! WAKE UP! PLEASE!!); plus three whole days of this family following Lifestyle Medicine guidelines, living by example, and showing how you can live a healthy/energetic/joyful life while loving everything you’re eating.

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: Sunday Song Day (“By My Side”, Weezer, and a send-up of my oldest friend who’s growing forward right alongside me); how a dream discussion with Rich Roll realigned my whole focus and then lead me toward a perfectly kismet podcast; THREE new podcasts you need to hear (featuring a “climate psychologist”, 2 different/amazing/inspiring pediatrician interviews explaining how to feed your children for best health, plus the ever inspiring Chuck Carrol with Dr. James Loomis); plus four whole days of examples of what this plant-based whole-food family is feasting on and how we’re thriving via Lifestyle Medicine Pillars.

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: Sunday Song Day (“For the Beauty of the Earth”); scripture and resources Opa sends me re: Plant-Based diets; the glory of choirs; and four whole days of examples of what this family is eating while we are thriving on a plant-based diet (<—cheapest, kindest, healthiest diet there is).

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: Sunday Song Day (“Mean Green Mother From Outer Space”, “Afternoon Delight”); why verbal shaking is imperative despite the fact that it is not my preferred path + a discussion of the hypocrisy of asking me to be “nicer” when you’re actively ruining the planet, needlessly consuming suffering souls, and filling yourself/your children with preventable disease + links back to all the previous inspiring/strong/healthy athletes, Olympians, doctors, celebrities, leaders who are thriving on Plant-Based Whole-Foods; how plant-based diets can improve your sex life; plus 4 whole days of this family living by example and eating the healthiest/kindest/cheapest 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: Sunday Song Day (more Tom Petty, this time the song Q says is all about me); Words of Wisdom by David Barber and how he helped me find my inner strength, which then lead to this passionate klaxon howl; why this broadcast will NOT be changing, so please stop wasting your time with requests for me to tamper my tone (Spoiler: this frequency wakes more-and-more souls each week and we have no time left for standstill; and AGAIN: my Midwestern sweetness didn’t wake a dang soul and several-decades-of-scientific-urging didn’t make y’all change your ways, so why keep status quo? SOMEONE needs to be hollering and I’ve reluctantly taken up that yoke); more life-bettering information from Dr. Will Bulsiewicz about how that whole “Apple a day” adage is actually quite apt; plus 4 whole days of this family leading-by-example and showing you how to thrive on the healthiest/cheapest/kindest 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: Sunday Song Day (“In Your Eyes”, “Don’t Need Anything”), the vast arc of change in the 15 years of knowing and loving Ian (how we met, how we fell in love, how we are perpetually growing forward together), how your Paleo and Keto diets are killing you and the planet (but hey, you weigh less so that’s all that matters, right?), and three full days of a family thriving on a plant-based diet.

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: Sunday Song Day and “Justice for Elijah McClain” by Andrew Bird; a family trying to live as kindly as possible in a realm of chaos; a family who believes that these delusions of difference are rotting us from the core, and if we all started eating compassionately we’d grow the awareness that we’re all the same species, we’re all connected…and that regardless of your spectrum, we’re all going to be over our heads in famine, water shortages, acidified oceans, and cataclysmic storms if we don’t start focusing on a sustainable diet. Special bonus: a cacophony of studies and doctors have proven that a plant-based whole-food diet is the healthiest diet for humans, the only one proven to reverse our #1 Cause Of Death (<—cardiovascular disease), and it’s the cheapest. We need to start thinking with broader minds and bigger hearts before it’s too late.

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: perpetual planetary imperatives, 2 full days of plant-based whole-food family feasting; Oswego visits; Strawberry Picking; and how Saturated Fats are not only tied to Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes, they are also ruin your microbiome causing dysbiosis via bacterial endotoxins.

Why is this klaxon in perpetual howl? Because y'all are eating the future of every species and soul on this planet purely for taste, and when I try to wake you up you roll over like a petulant teenager and continue snoozing. My son will be in his 30s when this planet is crashing down around him, so you better believe this howl has boundless energy to keep shaking you.

Wake up. Give yourself an hour to have your mind opened to forward movement and better health.

The alternative is food shortages, water shortages, worse storms, dead reefs, and an acidified ocean....but by golly, at least it tasted good, eh?

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: a heart-lifting interview with the powerhouse dynamo Tracye McQuirter (you’ll learn about the history of how plant-based diets intertwine with African Americans, how hard she’s worked on illuminating her community about healthy food choices, how she’s bettering the nutrition of folks living within food deserts, etc); an inspiring interview with Eric Adams (<— Brooklyn Burrough President who had diabetes so bad he had lost feeling in his extremities AND loss of vision, how he reversed his Diabetes with Plant-Based Whole-Foods, and like Tracye is also on a mission to heal/illuminate his community); Sunday Song Day featuring a song that’ll explain through science why you can’t eat dessert all the time, and a song this whole house loves (and explains why I am comfortably secure in cutting caustic souls out of our realm for good —even if we share DNA— and will no longer allow them near me or my son); plus two full days of Plant-Based Whole-Food Family Feasting.