This creamy Meyer lemon filling paired with lemon cashew coconut crust is gluten-free, raw, and vegan. If you love lemony desserts, this will bring the California sunshine to your smile.

Raw vegan lasagna with sun-dried tomato pesto, zucchini, and homemade macadamia ricotta. A raw vegan spin on this classic Italian comfort food.

this creamy soup is a fall favorite family pleaser | vegan + gluten-free

Thai Bliss Curry Soup, a raw vegan take on the flavors of Thailand.

Watermelon is a refreshing summery change up for this poke bowl recipe. It's surprisingly good with savory flavors like sesame oil, tamari, and rice vinegar. The bright red color of cubed watermelon looks so appetizing, even your sashimi loving friends will be enticed to try.

Radicchio is my new kale. I wasn't sure how I was going to use this beautiful head of radicchio at first, because originally I bought it as fancy garnish for a garden party we were having in our backyard. But the radicchio beckoned for a more purposeful meaning in its shelf life, hiding among the greens in my produce bin.

Raw vegan lasagna with sun-dried tomato pesto, zucchini, and homemade macadamia ricotta. A raw vegan spin on this classic Italian comfort food.

Make your morning green with my Matcha Tahini Green Smoothie. If you're a smoothie lover with a taste for the greens, you'll love boosting up your mornings and post-workout with this luscious green smoothie. 

Purple Carrot is a plant-based meal kit delivery service that I love. When you order, a box of 100% plant-based recipe ingredients arrives upon your doorstep with enough to cook three meals per week. Just choose from the weekly recipes online, and an insulated box full of ingredients complete with recipes arrives.

Healthy cooking at home can be therapeutic and gives your food some soul. It’s always better to cook and eat at home rather than dine out, for many reasons. I have been breaking my habit of giving into buying meals out when I’m “too tired to cook” and forcing myself to go straight to the grocery store instead. What I would have spent on a meal out could buy a bag of groceries!

Self care. These are two little yet powerful buzz words everyone is talking about lately. So what's the story with everyone being all about self care? Well, it isn't all about having a spa day once a week, although that would be ideal. It could just be a morning hike, a yoga class, a massage. It could also be not answering your phone or texts after 6pm. Whatever self care is to you, it's time you started doing it.

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