the vegan challenge

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5 vegan sandwiches for your next lunch!

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End of the challenge, but the beginning of a new lifestyle

The Vegan Challenge has been just that…a “challenge”.  Outside of the diet, the challenge allowed me to evaluate other areas in my life.  I can truly say that this vegan challenge was more than just diet adjustment, but also a spiritual adjustment as well.  It taught me that if I can WILLINGLY die to certain foods that I eat that it shouldn’t be no problem dying to God and His Will that he has for my life and how I carry myself as individual.  The challenge allowed me to broaden my selections of food and opened my minds and my taste buds to foods (ex. Tofu) that I would normally bypass in the grocery store.  The vegan challenge has also presented great opportunities for conversation with my fellow Indian brothers and sister on my job.  They been given great Indian veggie dish ideas to try throughout the past 30 days.

I have become more aware of what I’m putting into my body.  I would recommend everyone who was trying the vegan diet for the first time to look at the documentary “Food, Inc.” before you make an attempt to good back to eating meat. 

I commend everyone who were a part of this challenge!!  Coop, I appreciate you for inviting me to be a part of this life changing event!

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Chopped mixed veggie salad topped with carrot & yellow squash noodles, marinated artichoke hearts, string beans and chipotle smokey roasted pepitas. Dressed in a maple dijon vinaigrette. 

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Thursday, September 25, 2014 A new you If you’re stuck, you don’t have to be. If you’re weary, disappointed or unmotivated, you don’t have to be. You can change, and you can make that change for the better. You can transform your thoughts, your perspective, your direction, your possibilities and your life. Every moment, a new you is being born. You can simply let the new you be just like the old you, or you can choose to make improvements. If your past has not lived up to your highest expectations and best possibilities, now is your opportunity to break with that past. A new you is being born, and you can fill that new you with new, positive energy, assumptions, expectations and actions. Everything you’re disappointed about has already happened. This is the new you, with the opportunity to make much better things happen. Right now there’s a new you, more knowledgeable, experienced, capable and inspired than ever before. Let the new you step forward and make life the best you can imagine. — Ralph Marston

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Hump day yum bowl: brown rice, tomato/capsicum/cucumber salsa, sweet potato trio salad (purple, white, orange), baby spinach, avo 😋

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So you just made a fresh batch of almond milk and have all this leftover nut pulp lying around. What to do? Well you could always throw it away, or try out some of these ideas. You can freeze the pulp or use right away. It can be used in desserts, dips, crackers, granola, veggie burgers, smoothies and homemade beauty products. My favorite use for leftover pulp is to make a coconut oil and almond face mask. Almonds are great for the skin and I don’t have to go out and spend a bunch of money on a mask. Before you throw out your next batch of nut pulp, try to stretch your dollar out and use some of these ideas. 

Shower Scrub- almond coconut sugar scrub cubes

Crust- sweet potato, apple & chestnut savory tart

Cereal- crunchy oaty cereal

Nut Cheese- trio of almond vegan cheese

Truffles- chocolate hemp almond energy bites

Granola- buckwheat almond granola

Dip- almond pumpkin seed pate

Crackers- almond herb crackers

Sugar Scrub- brown sugar almond scrub

Cookies- chocolate coconut

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Super cool!

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Peanut Butter Pear Toast

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Kohlrabi Slaw

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Soup Veggies Prep

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Breakfast this morning: tofu scramble w mizuna arugula tatsoi and mustard green mix, sprouted Ezekial bread toasted on the stove in coconut oil and slathered with my homemade strawberry guava jam, homemade passion fruit kombucha 😋🌞

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Einstein estimated humanity would survive 4 years after the extinction of bees. Bees are essential for life and the pesticides that big agriculture farms use are killing them off in record numbers. Let’s spread the word, and save the bees!

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fresh coconut mylk, 8 cups yaaas 🌈💚

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But what if tho ??????

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Parfait game 👌. Layering organic soy yogurt, passion fruit, banana, raw granola of oats sunflower seeds cinnamon coconut chips chia and raisins, smoothie of guava banana ginger lime and pineapple, and smoothie of banana papaya tangelo and pineapple

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107 Everyday Uses for Coconut Oil (via Everyday Roots)