Michele Poff

It’s the usual conundrum. You want a salty snack but don’t want to eat junk. Or maybe you’re not in the mood for a meal at dinnertime; you really just want crackers. Here, that means basically saltines. Even back home, it’s tough to find crackers that you feel good about

We humans have an ancient love affair with bread. Sources vary in terms of how long bread has comprised an essential part of our diet – some say 15,000 years. It’s a food that does not require hunting or foraging, and with the spread of agriculture thousands of years ago,

Breakfast foods are actually rather limited. If you remove, bacon, sausage, corned-beef hash, eggs, and cheese from the equation, breakfast suddenly seems to have limited options. Oatmeal is always great, and potatoes, but is it something you want to eat every single day? Fruit Meals/Breakfast Smoothie Meals A lot of

“Mmmmmm.” Delicious foods hit our tongues with a burst of delight. They trigger dopamine releases and allow us to truly enjoy the entirety of our life existence in this fleeting moment. They make us smile from within, let escape an unintended moan, and transport us almost to transcendence. Ahhh. One

What do plant-based people eat? All of the edible plants! Plant-based eating has five major food groups: Legumes (e.g., beans, lentils, garbanzos, tofu; soy milk) Grains (e.g., wheat, oat, barley, buckwheat, quinoa, rice; rice milk, oat milk) Nuts & Seeds (e.g., almond, cashew; pumpkin seed, flax seed, hemp seed; coconut

The plant-based lifestyle continues to gain converts as more and more people open to the immense health benefits of this way of eating. There are tons of excellent reasons to go plant-based, but that’s a different conversation. Today, let’s talk about making the transition to plant-based eating. First, a note