![[black bean croquettes photo 1]](http://www.nomeatathlete.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/black-bean-croquettes-photo-1-150x150.jpg "[black bean croquettes photo 1]")
Well, sadly, it's time to close the book on 1,000 Vegan Recipes — on this blog, that is. (Not in my kitchen, where it has officially secured a spot on my list of go-to cookbooks for quick, healthy, interesting meals.) As much as I wish I could do it, Robin Robertson and Wiley might not…
What to eat before you work out has long been an area of uncertainty for runners and athletes. Should we just eat the same stuff we consume during a workout or race? What about a simple protein drink or meal-replacement shake? Far too often, the result of my confusion has been a few swigs of Gatorade,…
![[sprouted adzuki beans photo]](http://www.nomeatathlete.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/sprouted-adzuki-beans-photo-150x150.jpg "[sprouted adzuki beans photo]")
I've stayed away from fake meat products for a while now, so it's been a long time since I've had any food in quotes. The "pizzas" in Thrive, however, are a different kind of quoted food, since they're not masquerading as real pizzas. "Pizza" just happens to be the most convenient way to describe a food…
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Happy Sweet-Tooth Friday! This is Christine here with an extra special recipe for Valentine's day. Forget the roses this Sunday and whip up a box of my homemade vegan chocolates instead! Don't worry, there are no candy thermometers or boiling hot sugar—just simple stir-together ingredients. I came up with four yummy fillings for a really…
![[wineglass certificate photo]](http://www.nomeatathlete.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/wineglass-certificate-photo-150x150.jpg "[wineglass certificate photo]")
As I was doing some cleaning today, I came across this "finisher's certificate" from the Wineglass Marathon that had been sitting in my stack of mail, waiting to be filed or trashed: It's just a junky postcard; kind of a cheap excuse for a real certificate. You can even see the ink smears on it!…
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Chia seeds are all over the health blogosphere these days, so much so that I was beginning to think they were a fad superfood. But then Brendan Brazier included them in Thrive Fitness, and with all the research he does for his books and career, I tend to trust ol' B-squared when it comes to…
![[matt on yoga balls]](http://www.nomeatathlete.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/matt-on-yoga-balls-150x150.jpg "[matt on yoga balls]")
Greetings from a snowed-in household! We're buried in two feet of it today, so there's been a lot of movie-watching going on in the NMA household. Having concluded the evening last night with the important Balls of Fury, I was very tempted to make a "balls" joke in the title of this post, my review…
Hey everybody! This is Christine, checking in for Sweet-Tooth Friday. Instead of a new dessert recipe this week, I felt a need to respond to my brother's recent post on his running songs for 2010. You see, I took one look at his list and thought, "That is such a boy's list!" I can definitely…
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Week 1 coffee report Image by Refracted Moments™ via Flickr This past Tuesday marked one week on my new, randomized plan to quit coffee. In case you missed that post, the plan-in-a-nutshell is this: I supply my wife Erin with the coffee beans I will use for the week, starting with 60% regular, 40% decaf,…
Before I get to what Brendan Brazier's Thrive Fitness is, let me start with what it isn't. It's not a diet plan: Thrive, Brendan's first book, already went there. And while I consider Thrive to be somewhat revolutionary in its comprehensive treatment of the vegan diet for athletes, Thrive Fitness isn't going to change the…
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