Ideas For Planning Your Thanksgiving Day

Need some yummy healthy recipes for thanksgiving? Well here ya go, there is more than enough ideas in these links to make your day delicious!

From my blog I will be making my favorite "cheese" sauce with some broccoli mixed in, cranberry fluff, and I won't be forgetting my favorite pumpkin pie with this oatmeal cookie crust or this crust.

I hope everyone has a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

For more recipe's and ideas-

-Mary Mcdougall Recipes and Prep

-Happy Herbivore Recipes

-Fun Treats and Platters

-Pinterest list of recipes etc.

Easter Is Coming...

And it's coming up pretty quick, you know what that means...a gazillion eggs will be bought to eat and color. Well if your looking for an alternative I came across this site with some great ideas. I really like the felt ones, however I would use a non-animal material :) Also remember kids like other things besides a bunch of candy in their baskets, try making some homemade sidewalk chalk, or add things like bubbles, coloring books and crayons. Healthier treats would be good too like fruit leather, or freeze dried fruits, nuts, or even homemade goodies that don't contain artificial ingredients, or food coloring.

Although they are not a health food, here are some recipe's I would like to try:

Homemade Rolo Knock-offs

Homemade Twix Bars

Peanut Butter & Peppermint Cups

By not buying eggs you show that you do not support the egg laying industry which causes hens to suffer and have a shorter lifespan, yes even "cage free" hens still suffer, please Click Here to learn more. When I learned about the horrible way animals are treated and realized they don't need to die I stopped consuming them. They are no different then a pet dog or other loved animal in your life. It just breaks my heart to see what they go through and knowing this isn't necessary.


*Eggs are also very high in cholesterol, and other things that are not healthy, for more information on why it's a good idea to eliminate them from your diet Click Here and Here

*Click Here for ways to substitute eggs in baking.

Merry Christmas & Cranberry Fluff

 Hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas with a house full of family, friends, and love, enjoy the holiday's!

There is nothing like Grandma's famous cranberry fluff that my aunt makes every year, however I don't eat the usual ingredients of cool whip or marshmallows, so what's a girl to do? Veganize it! So I did, it was delicious and tastes almost just like her yummy recipe I grew up eating :) Hope you enjoy it too!

Makes about 4-5 cups

1/2lb package whole cranberries, or 1 can organic jellied cranberries with cranberry pieces
1 1/2 cups pineapple, or 1 can pineapple chunks, drained (slice if you want them smaller)
1 15oz can organic coconut milk *
1/2 cup vegan powdered sugar, or to taste *
1oz chopped walnuts
2 cups vegan marshmallows (optional)

-First put your can of coconut milk into the fridge overnight, no need to shake or anything else.

-Carefully open your can of coconut milk and scoop out the thick white part into a 1 quart size mixing bowl, it ends up being about 1/2-3/4 of the can, try not to get too much of the more liquid part.

-Use a hand mixer to mix the powdered sugar into the coconut milk until you get stiff peaks like thick cool whip.

- For your cranberries you can grind the whole cranberries into small pieces using a food processor, blender, or if you happened to have a meat grinder :/ that works well.

-Fold all the ingredients together and chill until served.

*UPDATE: since posting this recipe they have come out with vegan "Cool Whip" and other non-dairy alternatives, so if you want you could just substitute the coconut milk and powdered sugar with one of these. My favorite that is pretty easy to find is Coco Whip.

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone had an awesome scary day!

I started my day with delicious Happy Herbivore Pancakes and I boiled a sliced apple with 1 tsp of cinnamon and a splash of water, added in 1 tsp of arrowroot powder (like cornstarch) with 1/4 cup water and made a delicious sauce for the top, Yum! My sister said the pic looked like it was smiling lol :)



We originally planned on raking some leaves today since it needed it badly but instead we decided to hit up a thrift store and the used book store for fun. I tried on a million pairs of jeans and didn't find any that fit well enough to buy, oh well that's how it goes!

This evening we made Sweet (Split) Pea Soup which is delicious with some garlic toast, then set out a basket of candy for the kiddos, next year I will get back to making my little gift bags that don't contain sugary candy, I feel bad contributing to unhealthy things. Anyway now were going to go watch a Halloween movie :)

I hope it's this one!

Oh I almost forgot, check out this awesome pumpkin art- Click Here