Healthy Eating

Learn More About the Everyday Vegan From Dreena Burton

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Whether it’s because it’s humanely animal-free or simply because it’s healthful, eating vegan is a popular solution for many. The vegan lifestyle has steadily grown more common over the years and vegans are always on the lookout for delicious and truly healthy recipes. Some are looking for dishes to make for their kids, while others need recipes that are gluten- or wheat-free.

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Eat Like a Dinosaur by Stacy Toth and Matthew McCarry

If you’ve decided that the paleo diet is the way to go, that’s one thing; if you have children, you may be hesitant to put only paleo on their plates. While paleo involves foods common to the modern diet—grass-fed pasture raised meats, fish, fruits, vegetables, roots and nuts—it excludes palate-pleasers like dairy, salt, refined sugar, processed oils and even grains and legumes.

How Gluten-Free Diets Can Change Your Life

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The Healthy Gluten-Free Life by Tammy Credicott

Seems like people everywhere are going gluten-free. Those who have made the transition to a gluten-free diet will tell you they never felt better. For the uninitiated, the biggest obstacles to a successful switch are often fear of boredom, complicated recipes, and expensive ingredients.

Friday, 11 May 2012 - 8:58am | Written by: Best of You Today

Spaghetti squash, or vegetable spaghetti, brings out the kid in all of us. A spectacular stand-in for pasta, the grilled spaghetti squash here is topped with a seasoned combo that will really cinch its claim to flame.

Italian Herb Burgers on Focaccia

Thursday, 3 May 2012 - 2:54pm | Written by: Best of You Today

Life doesn’t get much sweeter than a grill surrounded by good friends and laughter, and topped with these Italian inspired focaccia burgers. Here, fresh mushrooms, red onion, bell pepper, garlic, basil, oregano, parsley, sundried tomatoes, and other ingredients belt out an opera of flavors we can all sink our teeth into.

Being Vegan, An Easy Guide With Brian Patton

Friday, 23 March 2012 - 1:38pm | Written by: Best of You Today

Eating right is serious business. Nothing funny about vegan, right? Unless you’ve discovered quirky vegan chef and Brian Patton, you probably really do think eating vegan is not funny. Patton puts a decidedly fresh twist on cooking vegan.

Thursday, 15 March 2012 - 9:25am | Written by: Best of You Today

Dreena Burton, Let them eat vegan, blueberry coffee cake, vegan desserts

This cake almost melts in your mouth, with a soft, tender batter laced with blueberries and topped off with a crunchy, buttery-tasting cinnamon-walnut topping.

Black Bean Burgers, Kristine-Style

Monday, 5 March 2012 - 12:32pm | Written by: Best of You Today

susan obrien, gluten free comfort food, the gluten free vegan, vegan, black bean

I love black beans, so I developed this recipe and sent it off to one of my recipe testers. Kristine and her husband played around with my original recipe and made it even better, so I decided to name it after her. You can serve them with fresh guacamole, salsa, and hummus, with or without a bun, or you can create a lettuce wrap and add all of the trimmings of a burger. Try the Avocado Mayo found on page 197. You can add a squeeze of lime juice and serve with a Tex-Mex rice. Get creative with this—the possibilities are vast! If you prefer not to fry these burgers, you can also throw them on the grill or bake them.