Before I started exclusively vegan baking, I loved making chocolate chocolate chip cookies. The kind I made were small and very chocolatey and came from a healthy cookbook. I have not made them in years, but started thinking about them today when I was in the mood for something chocolate.
Of course I would [...]
Today my littlest baby kitty turns one year old. It would be difficult to believe if she didn’t look like such a full grown cat. When we first found her on the side of the road in Elizabethtown, Illinois, she weighed only three pounds and was afflicted with fleas, ear mites, and roundworm. [...]
Today, in honor of my birthday, I jumped out of an airplane from 14,000 feet above beautiful Illinois farm country, completing #17 on my list of 101 in 1001. We had originally been scheduled to go last night, but storms in the area pushed us until this morning. We got there a little [...]
Today is the final day of the 30 Whole Days Challenge. While I was not perfect and did not eat whole foods 100% of the time (there were two instances with french fries and a couple of whole wheat bagels), I am more than proud of myself for my ability to stick to the [...]
I made it through week one of the 30 Whole Days challenge!* Here are my general thoughts from the first week:
1. Cooking is exhausting and time consuming when you have to prepare everything yourself. I ended up having a lot more spinach salads than I really wanted to this week, just [...]
Rather than posting all of my food on here each day, I thought I would just post every few days of the challenge and give you the highlights.
Sunday: Day 2
I felt really tired during the middle part of the day and ended up laying in the bed with E and the cats and watching TV [...]
I made my first recipe! This is an exciting day for me as I have always wanted to make something up on my own, but never knew how. I decided to start simple – I wanted to recreate my favorite bars, which are just whole ingredients pressed together without anything else added. [...]
Day one of the 30 Whole Days Challenge went well. I started the day by heading to Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s to stock up on food. On the way, I had a Larabar and some water. I spent some extra time at the stores, trying to find some new things and [...]
Photo courtesy of Happy Herbivore
In my quest to find healthy recipes that don’t include meat, eggs, or milk, I stumbled upon Happy Herbivore. I cannot remember exactly how I first found her site, but I am thankful that I have. She has a lot of great recipes on her website and has a [...]
When I made this goal on my 101 in 1001 list, I was thinking about the trips that I took growing up. We would stay in hotels along the highway and stop off at places of interest along the way to our ultimate destination. It is a different kind of trip then just [...]