Food From The Garden

So I, like us all, have a busy life. In this day and age, who doesn't? A misconception I had before I went vegan is that there would be no time to be vegan. That is not true. If there's time to cook, which we all have to do, there's time to be vegan. It is true that being vegan does involve being in the kitchen a lot but so does any lifestyle. There are some life hacks for busy vegans that could easily be incorporated into any lifestyle. 1. Salads don't take much time to prep at all. All you have to do is cut up some veggies and boom, you have a salad. Smoothies are the exact same way. 2. Cook a lot at once. I like to try to yield leftovers when I cook to save me some time later. This works really well for things that won't spoil easily such as pastas and quinoa but it does work for a lot of things if you eat them within a few days. Along those same lines, to save time making school or work lunches, you could also have your dinner leftovers be tomorrow's lu...

You guys want to know something I like doing on weekends that many people do not? I love grocery shopping. I'm not that person who's running to the grocery store every five seconds. If I don't have the exact ingredient I need and it's not absolutely essential, I will make do with what I've got. However, we all need to go to the grocery store every week or so. Good thing I enjoy going grocery shopping. Here is a rundown of what I got this weekend. Bananas Kale Star fruit Dragonfruit Cucumber Spinach Tomatos Oranges Strawberries Green onion Kiwi Grapes Green beans Tofu Daiya cheddar cheese Hummus Seaweed Pineapple Raw cashews Vegetable broth Dr McDougall's vegan ramen (spicy kung pao and pad thai) Whole wheat pasta Garlic and lime salsa Coconut sugar Cacao powder Maca powder Wheatgrass powder Acai powder Vanilla plant protein powder Gardein 7-grain chicken tenders Gardein meatballs Frozen mango Frozen peaches So Delicious soymil...