Be Prepared! Meal Prep Is King
There are several keys to making a successful transition to what I call a plant-forward way of eating. Meal Prep is key! It’s not fun for most of us, but cutting up, chopping, washing, drying, and portioning our fruit, veg, herbs, and spices, and putting […]
SLAVE FOOD = SOUL FOOD
So this is a hard conversation to have. The origins of what we in the African-American community know as Soul Food began as the food that was eaten by slaves. For the most part according to sources slaves were given: cornmeal and other grains, dried […]
Change Is Scary Right?
So you’d think that after the really bad things that happened to me in 2018, I would have immediately made serious changes. I sure didn’t want to see reoccurances of my illnesses! But, I’m human. In spite of my knowing I needed to do better, […]
CHICKPEA SALAD
When my friends are entertaining and they ask me to bring something I think, what is vegan friendly that everyone can enjoy? I immediately think about chickpea salad. It’s versitile and can substitute for tuna or egg salad by varying two ingredients. You can eat […]
Why Here, Why Now?
So why am I writing here? It’s because I have made some life changing choices that began in 2020. When I was ill, a nutritionist came to see and made some suggestions that I considered but didn’t follow through with. The first suggestion was to […]
I Wasn’t Sure I’d Make It!
This journey began for me in 2018. In the spring of that year I began to have a variety of symptoms that led to the first of what would turn out to be many hospitalizations. The short version is that I experienced kidney failure, developed […]
