Tag Archive: vegan

Sweet-Tooth Friday: Vegan Lemon Bars

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Hey everyone, it’s Matt.  I’ll hand it off to Christine in just a second, by I believe I owe you some shirt winners! Ready?  The five winners of the No Meat Athlete t-shirts are: Bridget (from Pounding Pavement and Plants), sals, Larissa, Kelsey, and Shannon (from Tri 2 Cook).  Congratulations, and thank you again for…

Spicy Cacao-Banana Raw Energy Bars

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What do you know, another Monday. But this Monday is special, for lots of reasons, not the least of which are that I’m on spring break and my second-ever 50K is on Saturday.  It’s also the start of the last full week of my first year of blogging, seeing as I started this blog on…

Sweet-Tooth Friday: Superfood Energy Bars

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Happy Sweet-Tooth Friday!  This is Christine and instead of my normal frilly-healthy-dessert post, today we are getting down and dirty with homemade vegan superfood energy bars. An energy bar fit for fueling workouts There has been a lot of talk about natural running fuel here lately.  Matt’s series of posts on pre, during, and post…

Ever make your own BBQ sauce?

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Ok, ready for this?  It’s a fun one, because it involves: (a) rolling things up into little southern-goodness-bombs and (b) making your own barbecue sauce, something I’d never done before. Today’s recipe is from Veganomicon, my featured cookbook of the month.  Which, by the way, is really starting to grow on me: Many of the…

Sweet-Tooth Friday: Elizabeth Gordon interview

Hello dear healthy foodies!  It’s Christine here with a one-of-a-kind Sweet-Tooth Friday: my first interview!  Last week my world was rocked when I made gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, soy-free and nut-free Pineapple Upside Down cake from Elizabeth Gordon’s new book, Allergy-Free Desserts.  This week you get to listen in on my chat with Elizabeth herself!  How…

Lentil soup with…pineapple?

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Happy Thursday, everybody.  It’s the springiest day we’ve had all year, which means only one thing—lots of melting.  If this keeps up, I might even be able to do some trail running this weekend (if I can remember how).  My next 50K is two weeks away, and I got in 20 miles on the roads…

Black beans, yellow rice

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Beans and rice.  Health gurus tell us it’s a match made in nutritional heaven, since each provides the essential amino acids the other lacks.  If beans and rice could talk, they might in a moment of unguarded honesty simultaneously declare, “You complete me.”  Or, perhaps more ethnically accurate, “Me completas.” I’ve heard that’s a load…

Best Thrive ‘pizza’ yet!

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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…