It’s a Gluten-Free Vegan Pizza Party and Recipe!

Remember in grade school (or heck, high school and college) when your teacher or a friend would throw a pizza party and it was, like, the best day ever? Complete with copious amounts of Dr Pepper and the Spice Girls? Yep, us, too. Which is why we’re thrilled to feature today’s recipe by Laura Knapp, founder [...]

Shakeology Review: Tropical Strawberry

Oooooh, oooh! Shakeology. That’s what I hear in my head—set to the tune of this song, of course—every time I hear anything about Shakeology. It’s a quirk, I guess. And one that I honestly kind of enjoy. A gal can never have enough Prince in her life in my opinion. But let’s go ahead and [...]

Roasted Veggies on Crusty Bread: Now THIS Is the Way to Get Your Veggies

I’m often asked about meals my husband and I can share, since he eats meat and I do not. Truthfully, we have tons of meals we both enjoy, but many of them come with modifications—cooking some chicken on the side, for example, or sautéing my tofu in a separate pan from his ground beef. This Roasted [...]

Sneak Peek at “The Lean,” Available Today!

Making huge changes to your diet and lifestyle can be exciting, but, more often than not, it’s daunting and, unfortunately, unsustainable. Of course it seems like a great idea to announce you’re cutting all sugar (and dairy! and caffeine! and also alcohol!) out of your life entirely, but making so many huge changes at once [...]

Sports Nutrition for Vegans: Vega Sport Review

Being an athlete and a vegetarian or vegan used to be really, really hard, and nobody knew that better than professional Ironman triathlete (and vegan) Brendan Brazier. Before creating a plant-based, whole-food diet that truly gave him the nourishment he needed, he suffered from reduced energy levels and chronic hunger despite eating almost constantly. But [...]

Vegucated: A Documentary and Experiment in Going Vegan

A year ago, I went vegetarian for a month-long experiment. And during that time, I came perhaps a touch close to going vegan—in that I didn’t feel totally okay with eating eggs and I avoided cheese. But I certainly didn’t try to not eat animal products in everything—heck, sometimes I had a hard enough time [...]

Why I Don’t Eat Meat

As a high school senior, I interviewed the teachers who had taught kindergarten to the kids in my class, and when I spoke to my old teacher, Mrs. Lake, she actually remembered a story about me. We were singing all the verses of She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain, and, when it got to the [...]

The Vegatini: Blended, Not Stirred

Today’s Vegatini recipe is part of FBG’s Back to Basics Week that features the best beginner fitness and beginner nutrition posts that help you to be a little healthier and—in theme with the week—a little smarter. Read on for a healthy smoothie-cocktail that is sure to power any workout! Who would’ve ever thought that going “back to [...]

Putting the Fun Back in Flexitarian: Becoming a Part-Time Vegan

Yesterday I mentioned that a cookbook inspired me to take a look at my healthy lifestyle—both where I’ve been and where I’m going. And today, as promised, I want to tell ya’ll about the read that got my noggin’ (and my belly) excited: The Part-Time Vegan: 201 Yummy Recipes That Put the Fun in Flexitarian. [...]

FitLit: Skinny Bitch in the Kitch

Much to Chef Jenn’s dismay, I don’t love to cook. I don’t even really like to cook. But I do it because a girl’s gotta eat, and I can follow a recipe like nobody’s business. Because of those recipe-following skills, I somehow got suckered into reviewing a cookbook. A vegan cookbook. Now, I didn’t read [...]