Affordable & Approachable Food
Crank up those ovens – we’re waking up the family with freshly baked, healthy banana nut bread.
During these trying times, we have been a little more creative with the challenge of using limited ingredients. Today I looked around my pantry and we had lots of flour and ripe bananas that had to be used up.…
Who said you had to follow a recipe for tacos?
Really, just use what you have and throw it in. Top the taco with your favorite taco sauce and there you go – that’s lunch. As much I love following new recipes, sometimes it just makes sense to use what you already have. …
Autumn is here and avocado toast is coming back with a sweet twist.
When I think of healthy fast food breakfast, I automatically sift through the hundreds of toast ideas flipping through my head.
And you know…the occasional peanut butter and jelly toast that I, as an adult, have every right to enjoy, comes up.…
After several days of heavy eating, I just wanted something that’ll keep me light and fresh.
So, of course, I went with warm grapes & walnut oat bran bowl.
When it comes to oat bran, I just use whatever I have hanging around to complete the bowl.…
Although intimidating at first, a delicious tofu scramble is incredibly easy, cheap, and fast to whip up.
I pretty much gathered some of the veggies lying around in my fridge to make this easy loaded tofu scramble with kale and kidney beans. …
You guys. Sometimes I just want whip up toaster oven potato cakes with the least amount of effort required.
So, that means I don’t want to chop, I don’t want to use a bunch of equipment, and I don’t want to have to go to the grocery store to buy extra stuff and go over my grocery budget.…
Chocolate chia seed pudding with 100% plant-based ingredients? Oh yeah, I am all in.
Ingredients we’re using:
That’s it.
With the chia seeds, you’re getting a variety of nutrients in just one serving (2 tablespoons/28 grams).…
I wanted to feel like I was on an island because, to be honest, I am sitting in a very hot apartment with sticky clothes.
This refreshing pineapple orange smoothie has helped bring back the vacation feels, sans sweat.
This smoothie recipe is as simple as it gets and it’s totally plant-based, healthy, and vegan.…
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.…