Yesterday was a super busy day. I woke up at 5:30 am and didn’t stop until 11:00 pm. Last night was my first Healthy Cravings group. I had a little over a dozen people show up. I had more than enough food and will not need to cook all weekend. 🙂 I made several recipes from the Happy Herbivore Cookbooks, the new Forks Over Knives Cookbook, and some of my own. I started the evening my sharing my story of switching to a plant-based diet which you can read here. Then we ate, then watched a clip from Forks Over Knives, followed by a little Q&A.
I’m not sure what everyone thought but I know several ladies are really interested in a plant-based diet. I’m already looking forward to October’s Healthy Cravings group. For yesterday’s group I mostly stuck to my meal plan but I made a few changes. All in all I made:
- Taco Salad with Cilantro-Lime Dressing FOK Cookbook pg 74
- An adaptation of FOK Cookbook Kale Salad with Maple-Mustard Dressing pg 79
- A typical garden salad
- Happy Herbivore’s Chocolate Cupcakes HHC pg 215
- An adaptation of FOK Cookbook Fudgy Chocolate Frosting pg 286
- Happy Herbivore’s Carrot Cake Cupcakes HHC pg 213 I meant to make the Maple Icing but I never got around to it
- I had two of the ladies help make a parfait by layering vanilla soy yogurt, diced apples, and homemade granola
- Almond butter granola bars, some had carob chips
- Brown Rice and Broccoli Bake
- “Cheesy” Broccoli Baked Potato Bake
- Lentil Ragu from the FOK Cookbook pg 158 made by my friend Steffi
- Creamy Basil Pasta FOK Cookbook pg 141 made by Steffi also
That is all I can remember. It was a whirlwind day. My refrigerator is so full, we will be eating salad and pasta all weekend. I’m really looking forward to not having to cook. I loved hearing people say, “this is so good, what is it” or “what’s in it.” Some of the ladies who came were already eating plant-based, other’s had tried it a bit, and some may have never heard of it.
In other bloggy adventures you may be wondering where my “Food Waste Friday” post is. I’ve been slowly phasing it out. I also haven’t been post every day. I’ve been trying to spend more time with my boys and keep my time better spent on my top priorities. With that being said blogging and helping other’s learn about a plant-based diet is still high on my priority list but it isn’t above time with my family. I still plan to post several times a week but I don’t stress about it. There are so many great blogs out there if I go a few days without a post I don’t think we will miss out too much. But if you do, I post regularly to My Plant-Based Family on Facebook. I also post random pictures of what we are eating, comments my kids make about food, and links to other fabulous blogs or sites.
Thanks to Annie for taking pictures and sending them to me. I was too busy but really wanted some. She just started taking them and I’m so thankful!
I hope you all have a great weekend!
Sounds like an inspiring (and delicious) evening – great job!! Love that you are spreading the word.
It was a fun night too! I’m super excited about next months group!
Sounds like a fun night! I love the Happy Herbivore cookbook.
I had about a dozen books out for everyone to look at. Someone asked me which one I would pick if I could only have one, definitely Happy Herbivore. 🙂
Wow, what a fabulous idea! Keep it up! Sounds like you had some pretty fantastic vegan eats too!
It was tasty! I still have way too many leftovers though. I sent home food with several ladies. Menu for tomorrow: more salad and more pasta! No cooking! Woo hoo!
WOW, you are an inspiration! That sounds like an amazing spread of kindness and deliciousness. 🙂
Awww, thanks! It was fun. I’m looking forward to the next one to see who all comes back. I hope I didn’t scare too many people off.