Tag: plant based nutrition

1. Quinoa Salad 1 cup cooked quinoa Add in any veggies or fruits you have on hand (cucumbers, sun-dried tomatoes, artichokes, MCT oil and rock salt) Handful of nuts or other proteins (almond butter, cinnamon, pecans, maple syrup, hemp seeds) Drizzled with MCT...

My Luscious Zucchini and Spinach Soup is a cold soup, but you can warm it up, if you prefer. This soup pairs well with any season. Oh Yeah!  2 cups (500 mL) zucchini, chopped 1 ½ cups (375 mL) fresh spinach ¼...

Eat your spinach.  We have all heard before and we all know that spinach is really good for us.  Do we know why? Spinach is food that falls into the dark leafy green category.  This category of food carries...

  Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin (technically a hormone) that is generally produced by special cells in our skin, in conjunction with cholesterol. When the sun hits your skin, it sets off a series of chemical reactions that...

When you ask someone why they eat a lot of raw foods, one of the things they may say is that they eat raw foods to obtain the benefits of live enzymes. But is this really accurate or an...

As a holistic nutritionist who also happens to enjoy a plant-based lifestyle, I’m always more than happy to point a person who is frantic because of their newly diagnosed dairy allergy toward other sources of calcium. There are so...

Alligator Pear?! Did you know that the avocado is considered by many nutritional experts to be a perfect food? It's considered a superfood by many. And surprise, it's not really a vegetable, it's a fruit. In areas south of the...