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Protein is protein

This was a great article with a lot of information I wasn’t actually familiar with.  The idea that we need to eat “complete” proteins needs to be debunked.  As well as the idea that people on a plant-based diet don’t get enough protein. Vegetarian Protein Is Just As…

Windfall blueberry experiments

  We made our first attempts at creating something interesting from yesterday’s blueberry bounty. The first is a sort of blueberry oat bar. It started out as an attempt at blueberry hummus. I find myself dubious of sweet hummus concoctions but gave it a try with equal amounts…

About Ediflora

Around February of last year, we’d decided that we’d had it with our aging, ballooning, deteriorating selves and resolved to do something about it. What started out as a just wanting to lose some extra weight though has morphed into something bigger, longer lasting, and healthier than a…

Product Labeling – rant

So … this is a huge bugaboo of mine and it makes me livid.  Stop putting sugar in things!!! Why in the world is this anything other than tomatoes? Why can’t I count on it just being tomatoes? Why is there salt and sugar in this? It doesn’t…

Summertime

Another nice effect of having lost weight through WFPB eating is that this summer seems a lot more tolerable without the 50 pound fat suit.

Traveling while WFPB

Have had the fortune to do some traveling recently. Due to having a dog, the incomparable Col. Cuddlesworth III, we drove recently from Chicago to South Florida and Chicago to Connecticut. The first is a 20 hour drive, the second a more modest 14. Both times, I prepped…

Stock Up

We had guests over the weekend, and while we cooked plant-based for them, and they seemed to enjoy eating it, which was cool, making them some awesome black bean burgers and the Barley, White Beans, Corn, and Sweet Pepper Salad and the black bean brownies out of the…

Lentils!

Bag of lentils were on sale for a measly $1 last week so I bought three bags. I love lentils. I like to make a bag up and keep them in the fridge as a quick addition to a bowl/salady thing or just to have good choices on…