These homemade Apple Pie Dog Treats are easy to make, with just 5 simple ingredients. They are SO much cheaper than store-bought treats, and are full of good-for-your-dog ingredients. Dogs love them! And, bonus points: when you bake these treats it makes your whole house smell like a fresh apple pie! 🍎 🥧 These homemade...

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Make your own Easy Homemade Body Butter! This DIY body butter recipe is just 5 ingredients to make and it's incredibly thick and moisturizing. Pamper yourself and your skin with this natural luxurious treat that will leave you feeling soft, nourished, and revitalized. Your skin will thank you! This recipe also makes a wonderful homemade...

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This Homemade Dog Treats Recipe is quick and easy to make! With just 3 ingredients: peanut butter, carrot, and oats. They are so cheap to make and are healthy for your dogs too. And most important of all, dogs LOVE them!! I've shared several homemade dog treat recipes because my dog Chickpea loves them! When...

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  Christmas is just around the corner! And though most people love the holiday season, sometimes coming up with that perfect gift idea can be a little stressful. Especially when that "gift idea" is a "vegan gift idea"! Well, have no fear because I'm here to share the list of my 21 Best Vegan Gift...

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A free 7-day easy vegan meal plan including recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and dessert! All of the recipes use ingredients you can easily find at your local grocery store and are quick to prepare. Enjoy this plant-based menu as is, or feel free to select just a few recipes to try. HOW MEAL...

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It's here, it's here, it's here!!! Over the last nine months, my team and I have been working on making a vegan meal planning site to make eating plant-based easy peasy and fun! My baby is finally born. Introducing The Easy Vegan Meal Plan! Here is what is included in The Easy Vegan Meal Plan:...

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I'm married! On June 19th, 2021, Adam and I tied the knot. Woo-hoo! I literally couldn't be happier or feel luckier. It was such a special day so I wanted to share a little of it with you. ❤️ Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our original guest list of 120 was whittled down to just...

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It's here!!! My brand shiny new cookbook Fast Easy Cheap Vegan is finally here! Woot! I've been working on this book for almost two years now, and it feels so surreal (and great!!) to see it out in the world. I can't begin to tell you how proud I am of these recipes and I...

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I have a confession. I've been keeping a secret from you. Over the last year, I've had a project on the go that I haven't spoken about at all. I wanted to tell you about it, I really did. I wanted to share every little detail of the process, but I was instructed not to...

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I LOVE going to the movies! Like, I really love it. I get giddy as if I was going on a roller coaster... but I actually hate roller coasters as I feel like I am strapped to a death chair, so maybe that's why I love the movies so much. Just safe, cushy, entertainment and...

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Looking for instructions on how to make the ultimate at home salad bar? You've come to the right place! This post for How to Make an at Home Salad Bar is sponsored by Grocery Gateway by Longo's who I love for their amazingly quick and easy to use grocery delivery! Here was my grocery list.  Vegans...

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In Japan, it can take as long as 20 years to become a sushi chef (called an itamae). You first start on cleaning duty and very slowly work your way up the ladder. It takes 5 years or so of training before you are promoted to the level where you being to make sushi rice....

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Recently a reader asked me how to properly press tofu and why to even bother in the first place. So naturally, I decided that it was time for The Ultimate Guide to Pressing Tofu!!!!!!! (I get WAY too excited by these types of things). There is the DIY tofu pressing method and there are store-bought...

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This post is sponsored by RIU Hotels & Resorts who I love for their amazing all-inclusive hotel! Seriously, had the most fun ever. Almost didn't come home. I'm baaaaaaaaaaackkkkk!!!! I'm now officially home, and back to work, cooking, recipe testing, blogging, social media-ing, and all things that make up my life as a food blogger....

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This one goes out to the new vegans in the hood. Welcome, my friends! Back when I was working my vegan wooing powers (the powers are strong!) on my cousin Gretty who was considering going vegan, she would ask me a million questions about what I ate (once she started to get over the whole...

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Cheese board shmeeze board. Out with the old, and in with the new! Right now, I'm all about a gorgeous Vegan Snack Board. So many colours! So much variety! So many scrumptious looking treats to pick at, I want them all! If you are hosting or attending a party, bring the appetiser table up a...

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I'm DONE! I'm DONE! For the first time ever, I have completed all of my Christmas shopping before December even started! I used to very much be one of those December 24th struggling to get it together stressed out people, but this year I refused to do that. I wanted to get my shopping done, not...

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Surprise! Last week I adopted the sweetest little pooch there ever was and I decided to name her Chickpea. I've always been a dog person. I grew up with 3 dogs that I adored. However, these dogs were always living at my parents farm, which is pretty easy and happy way for a dog to grow...

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Do you have asparagus fever? If you grow asparagus in your garden like my parents do, you probably are trying to think of every possible way to use it up. My parents just dropped off a big bunch for me and as I don't grow it in my garden, I was excited to devour it all...

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Can you believe I have been full-time blogging for a whole entire year!?!?!?! Well, maybe you can, but I have a hard time believing it. A year ago in a pretty spontaneous decision I quit my job as the Art Director for an art publishing company (much fancier sounding than it was), and decided to take It...

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I have been holding out on you guys. For months, (yes months!) I've had a secret that I could not share. A REALLY big secret. Kind of the best secret ever. I have been dying to share it with you, and I am so relieved that I finally can. Are you ready? Take a deep...

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When I first became vegan it was the beginning of December, so it was less than a month before I was faced with two family Christmas dinners. My family wasn't used to vegans. Foodies, chefs, butchers, and hunters sit around our table. So to say that this didn't go over smoothly at first is putting it...

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When I tell people I'm vegan, they often say "that must be so challenging to eat vegan!" Well, no, I think it's really easy actually. At home being vegan is as easy as eating any other kind of diet. I only buy vegan groceries, so therefore I only have vegan food in my house. When I go to grab a snack...

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It's the time of year where we get to spoil and celebrate our dads, yay! I was hunting around the internet (which I spend way too much time doing), looking for some super manly things, and decided, hey, why not put all my good finds together in a gift guide and share it with you. Surprise,...

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If you are reading this and thinking "heeeyyyyy, this isn't a delicious or scrumptious vegan recipe!", then never fear, more recipes are coming right after this. If, however, you are thinking "I wonder how easy it would be to start my own blog?", then this is the post for you! Every now and then I get a...

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I've heard from a lot of you that in this beautiful new year of 2014, many plan to go vegan, or part vegan, or just give more veggies a whirl. I want to help. Having gone straight from rare steak eater, to vegan in one night, I assure you, I made many mistakes right off...

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