From time to time, people I know will bring up my blog and say things like, "All of your recipes look great, but I think they're too complicated for me." While the word "complicated" when referring to cooking is very subjective, and I feel like most of my recipes are not all that difficult or time consuming, I do understand that some people don't enjoy preparing a meal or care to be savvy in the kitchen, and simply want to be able to eat something they can feel good about that took 15 minutes or less to make. Guess what? Healthy eating does not have to be time consuming. Sure, it may take more work than, say, pulling through a drive-thru, but it doesn't need to be a huge, intricate task to make a nutritious dinner. In fact, a lot of my dinners are thrown together really easily. I have a ... [Read More]
salad combos
My New Favorite Salad Combo
Hello, hello! I realized that I haven't posted my day's eats in awhile, so to answer the question, ''What the hell does this vegetarian eat all day?" here goes my rundown from yesterday's meals & snacks: Wednesday is a bit of a different day for me food-wise than any other day. I volunteer at The Humane Society in the evenings, so I eat a quick early dinner and eat 1 snack instead of 2 for the day. Because of this, I usually make my breakfast or lunch heavier than usual. For breakfast, I ate some oatmeal with sliced banana, a pack of Justin's honey peanut butter, and sprinkled cinnamon: For lunch, I ate my new favorite salad. I've eaten it 3 times in the past week and am really diggin' it. It's a chickpea feta salad with sliced almonds: To make the ... [Read More]