Affordable & Approachable Food
I am a bit picky about my snacks, but hands down, roasted chickpeas tossed in cinnamon and honey is one of my favorites – especially when the winter chill rolls in.
No matter the season, my kitchen pantry is always stocked with both dry and canned legumes, including chickpeas – which comes in handy for this sweet treat, or for a stew, sandwich, or lunch wrap.…
Chocolate chia seed pudding is smooth, rich, and convenient. No cooking with this recipe and we can pack them into cute mason jars for on-the-go breakfast.
The best perk: no need to have these little breakfast deserts to chill overnight – an hour is fine enough.…
Sometimes in the morning I just want to literally roll out of bed and shoot out my arm to grab a frosty glass of chocolate peanut butter smoothie.
As you can imagine, I still have to make the effort of whipping up the smoothie together, but it’s much easier than chopping, cooking, steaming, and watching a pan of breakfast items trying to come together, while incoherently rambling on about how mornings suck (sometimes).…
I took a look into my fridge and I have enough stuff to make a smoothie: frozen ripe bananas, peaches, spinach. That’s it. And some water. And thus…the simple green smoothie was born.
It’s starting to get hot again outside and I have a feeling that cooking in a hot kitchen is going to get miserable FAST.…
So. You have a pot of leftover rice from last night’s dinner just cooling off in the fridge. Well, aren’t you going to do something with it?
I’m thinking cinnamon-spiced breakfast rice pudding, also known as “arroz dulce.”
I bet when you think of breakfast, you’re definitely not thinking about leftover rice.…
Oatmeal is cool and all, but sometimes I want to switch it up for breakfast. And let’s be honest, I ran out of oat bran and for the life of me I cannot find it at my usual local grocery store, so I settled for breakfast red split lentils instead.…
It’s finally warm outside and I am treating myself a drink. Well, a virgin drink.
Hardly an effort to make, this easy, alcohol-free piña colada smoothie will make you feel like you’re sitting on a sandy island, with your toes flirting with the warm, white sand.…
Who says you can’t have chocolate for breakfast?
We’re breaking all of the rules this morning, because well, we’re adults. Okay, so we’re not breaking all of the rules. This plant-based chocolate raspberry smoothie is actually pretty healthy.
The smoothie is loaded with fiber, protein, healthy fats, and it’s under 500 calories, making this breakfast smoothie nutritionally powerful and filling.…
Strawberries are back in season and we gotta use them up!
Made a plant-based, oil-free strawberry banana bread with very ripe, sweet strawberries that we picked up from the market. We had a good deal, so we loaded up on the fruit – but now it’s time to use them any way we can.…
When the sun rises, it’s time for a bowl of oats to hold me over until lunchtime. When I want a subtle sweetness to start my day, a bowl of dark chocolate and peanut butter oat bran scratches that itch.
Oat bran is a little different from rolled oats, but with much more fiber and goodness.…
