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Spicy Black Bean Hummus & Banana Chips

Elevate your snacking with this spicy black bean hummus paired with sweet baked banana chips! Perfect for a healthy plant-based snack.

My girlfriends and I have a group text chain we use to keep each other moving, healthy, and inspired during the week.

We chat meal prep, scheduled workouts, water consumption, running goals, and a smattering of wildly appropriate gifs.

If my phone starts buzzing at 6 AM, I know who’s on the other side of the frantic beeps.

A few weeks ago, in said text chain, my girlfriend posed the question, “Best afternoon snack ideas- GO.”

Since food is kind of my job, I felt inclined to go all out.

“Chia pudding, celery and peanut butter, yogurt and granola, raw bar, carrots and hummus…”

I typed a stream of consciousness of safe snacks without pausing.

Then I stopped and looked at my list and thought….my snacking could really use some upgrading.

If you’re not a believer in group text chains, this Spicy Black Bean Hummus & Banana Chips will make you one.

It’s a snack combo that you won’t want to miss, complete with a protein packed black bean dip and no-sugar-added chips!

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3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Banana Dog Treats

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3-ingredient homemade dog treats made with old-fashioned rolled oats, natural peanut butter, and banana. Perfect for your pups and human-friendly, too!

Hello!

This post is a little different but if you live with a furry friend or see one on the regular then they’re going to love it so you should stick around.

It’s Harper’s third birthday today so I thought we should celebrate!

For the past three years I’ve been making her these super simple baked dog treats to ring in her big day.

Each year I have to dig it up the recipe to make and share, so I’m finally sharing here so none of us lose it ever again!

It’s hard to forget, because these biscuits are done in under 30 minutes with clean pantry ingredients.

You just need peanut butter, banana, and oatmeal to make these 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Banana Dog Treats for a happy pup.

And if you’re so inclined, they’re absolutely human-friendly too, for a lower sugar cookie snack!

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Paleo Cashew Butter Chocolate Chip Fudge

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Paleo Cashew Butter Chocolate Chip Fudge with cashew butter, melted dark chocolate, and dark chocolate chunks. Perfect for a clean dessert!

Recently, I started turning my phone off at the gas station after realizing it was a safety hazard.

I’m probably the biggest rule follower you’ve ever met, so you bet I abide by all of the safety guidelines.

Anyway, those 60-100 seconds sometimes feel like the longest of my entire day.

Filling my tank tonight, I stood there, feeling a foreign sense of disconnection and unease.

Phone-less, stranded between two locations, completely immobile.

Lately I’ve been leaning into experiences like this that make me feel the discomfort of just BEING, you know?

No where to go, nothing to do, nothing to achieve.

On a more delicious note, I’ve also been leaning into this Paleo Cashew Butter Chocolate Chip Fudge.

You can make it in 10-minutes with only 2-ingredients– interested?

LET IT BE.

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Watermelon Quinoa Kale Salad

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Watermelon Quinoa Kale Salad with watermelon, heirloom tomato, cucumber, quinoa, mint, and roasted sunflower seeds. Perfect for summer lunch!

Guys, I really can’t believe it’s July.

Summer always leaves me scratching my head wondering where all of the sunny days went.

I’m hurrying to get my favorite summer recipes in before we blink and turn into fall pumpkins.

This Watermelon Quinoa Kale Salad might have the power to make summer last forever.

Or at least as long as you like within your kitchen.

You’re going to love this easy summery mix of sweet watermelon, hearty kale, nutty quinoa, bright mint, and toasted sunflower seeds.

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No-Bake Tropical Protein Bars

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No-Bake Tropical Protein Bars with dried fruit, cashews, coconut, and SunButter. Naturally sweetened with orange juice and no-added-sugar.

What’s your preferred form of expression?

I’m much better at expressing my feelings through writing than speaking.

This won’t surprise you, friend, because you’re reading this on a screen somewhere.

When I was a little girl and needed to get something off of my chest, I wrote it all out on a wide rule sheet of paper and placed it under my parents’ pillows for them to find.

It always felt a little less scary to and chaotic to corral words on a page instead of on the tip of my tongue, you know?

These No-Bake Tropical Protein Bars might get you tongue tied, too, but only because they’re so darn good.

You just need 10-ingredients and lots of tropical fruit to create them!

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Vegetable Pasta Salad (Grain-Free!)

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Lightened up pasta salad packed with fresh chopped vegetables, grain-free chickpea pasta, and balsamic dressing. Perfect for summer lunches!

Have you been to the pool yet?

I went for my first time this season on Memorial Day with a girlfriend.

It was late on the holiday and I really just wanted to lay there motionless in the sun until dark, but I recognized with a sigh that the workweek was quickly approaching.

So we shifted out convo to preparation for week, which sifted to food and meal prep and easy things to throw together with the limited time we had.

I confessed that lunches had me particularly perplexed lately.

What do you eat when you don’t want salads for lunch, but also aren’t in the mood for cooking?

(I swear I’m a food blogger, haha.)

“What about a pasta salad?” she asked.

Yes, what about that.

This Vegetable Pasta Salad (Grain-Free!) is packed with protein and raw vegetables for an easy lightened up vegan pasta salad!

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Dark Chocolate Chia Pudding

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Easy dark chocolate chia pudding sweetened with maple syrup and topped with cacao nibs and fresh mint. Perfect for meal prep snacking.

Do any of you have green thumbs?

What I want: A house filled with green plants like the striking minimalist photos I thumb past on Instagram.

The Reality: To be honest I’m really bad about caring for plants.

The few we do have around the house, a healthy money tree, a snake plant my parents gave me when we moved in, and a large Ivy that Dan trained to wrap around the speakers and windows of his “man cave”, are only alive and well thanks to Dan’s diligence.

Dan is good about watering them, pruning them, and positioning them in the right amount of sunlight

….and I’m good at admiring them and that’s about the extent of it.

So when my friend gifted me some home-grown mint this past weekend at book club brunch, I accepted it with excited determination.

I vowed to use the mint in a recipe, and to keep the darn thing alive.

I did one of those things already…

and it’s called Dark Chocolate Chia Pudding.

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2-Minute Lemon, Spinach, & Chickpea Salad

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2-Minute Lemon, Spinach, & Chickpea Salad in a fresh lemon and avocado oil dressing. Perfect for workweek lunches!

Are you team kale or team spinach?

For years I was decidedly team kale, lacinato, or curly.

Maybe that’s because I ate a lot of frozen growing up so kale felt new and exciting.

But lately I’ve been all about that fresh baby spinach life.

I buy a giant tub each week at the store each week and what I don’t eat in salads I freeze and add to my shakes.

I don’t care how much you love kale, you’ve got to admit, you can *always* taste a bit of it in your shake, right?

Anyway, I’m not here with a shake recipe today, friends, I’m here with a fresh salad recipe!

This 2-Minute Lemon, Spinach, & Chickpea Salad is ready in under 5 minutes for a light and breezy summer meal.

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1-Pan Tofu Cacciatore with Zoodles

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1-pan Tofu Cacciatore with Zoodles, bell pepper, onions, tomato, and tofu cubes for protein. Perfect for easy weeknight dinner!

How long have you been digging the plant-based life?

When the doctor asked me recently how long I’d been vegan, I had to stop and do that thing where you mentally count on your fingers.

1…2…3…4…5…

“Six years this fall!” I said, surprising myself.

Wow, that’s a whole lot of plants, friends.

Considering it’s my 6-year “plantiversary”, let’s cozy up to this 1-Pan Tofu Cacciatore with Zoodles.

One pan to rule them all packed with peppers, protein, and simply delicious seasoning over zucchini spirals!

Dan’s been gone on travel the past few days and Harper has been moping around acting like she lost her only friend.

She spent the entirety of the first night downstairs, just waiting on the door to open that never did, only coming upstairs around 5 AM to whine and communicate to me that dad was still gone and that she wasn’t at all happy about it.

By Day 2 she resigned herself to hanging out with dear old mom, ears pricking up whenever there was a promising dad-like noise from outside.

Needless to say, it’s going to be emotional reunion tonight when he walks in the door.

Something about having the house to myself makes me all the more motivated to make a home cooked dinner, so this easy cacciatore has been on repeat.

I spent the past two nights happily spooning bites into my mouth while watching Game of Thrones and trying not to cry into my zoodles.

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Chickpea Patties with Cashew Mayonnaise

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Easy chickpea patties made with garbanzo beans and hearty oats. Perfect for meal prep to add to salads, bowls, and plates.

Happy Friday, friends!

Do you have Mother’s Day plans this weekend?

We’ve got back to back mom days planned; lunch with my mom Saturday and lunch with Dan’s mom Sunday.

Personally, I want to know what Harper has in store for her dog mom (AKA ME), because I feel like I could use some puppy love.

Speaking of moms, I’ve got a recipe to share with you today that is mom-approved.

These Chickpea Patties with Cashew Mayonnaise are easy enough to whip up for 30 minutes for a hearty plant based protein!

Why mom-approved?

Because this easy recipe is based on a salmon- patty recipe my mom used to make on school nights growing up.

We usually ate them with tomatoes and mayonnaise for dipping amongst other sides.

After my parents mentioned having them for dinner on the phone, I knew I had to recreate them for the blog.

My mom texted me the recipe and I set out making substitutions.

I was able to easily make it vegan by swapping in canned chickpeas for canned salmon and a flax egg for the egg.

Everything else follows my mom’s scrolling handwritten instructions, save for the few spoonfuls of tahini, because…tahini.

🙂

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