Plant-Based Diet for Athletes

Thrive Foods Direct Review

By: Matt Frazier

On the heels of last week’s post about eating vegetarian while traveling, it seems an opportune time to publish a review of a service that makes it easy to do that very thing.

During Brendan Brazier’s podcast appearance earlier this year, we talked briefly about Thrive Foods Direct, his new service that delivers healthy vegan meals (like those in Brendan’s book Thrive Foods) to your door, fully prepared and ready to heat and serve.

I had the chance to try Thrive Foods Direct several weeks ago. My four sample meals could not have arrived at a better time — just a few hours prior, Erin and our son had left on an overnight trip, and I was foodless. The arrival of TFD at my door at that time meant:

(a) I wouldn’t have to cook for myself; and

(b) I wouldn’t have to share any of it with the little table monster that steals food from people’s plates in our house. Or with my son, either.

Win win win. Here’s how it went down. (more…)

25+ Tips for Eating Vegetarian While Traveling (from the People Who Know Best)

By: Matt Frazier

How do you eat vegetarian or vegan while you’re traveling? And how do you do it healthily, especially if you’re an athlete? These are almost as common as the protein question, only they’re usually asked by newish vegetarians and vegans, rather than the veg-curious. And so I set out to write a post to answer […]

Veg-Curious? Don’t Be Fooled by These 7 Myths About a Vegetarian Diet

By: Matt Frazier

A lot of the emails that I get from readers begin this way: Hi Matt! Love your site. First I should tell you that I’m not a vegetarian… I can’t figure out why people need to get this off their chest right away … in the future, you can skip it! I actually think many, […]

50 Fantastic Resources for New Vegetarians

By: Matt Frazier

You are not alone. But it sure can feel like it when you first go vegetarian — especially if you live in a place where, when you tell people you don’t eat meat, they ask, “But you still eat chicken and fish, right?” Look around, though, and you’ll find all kinds of resources out there […]

Can’t Keep Up? 7 Ways to Simplify Your Meal Planning

By: Matt Frazier

Staying on top of your diet is a lot like going to the gym. Once you’ve developed the habit, it’s easy — fun, even — to keep it up. You’re in control, you feel great, and you wonder why it ever took so long to start. But when you’re on the outside looking in, knowing […]

30 Days, 900 Very Ripe Bananas

By: guest

You might remember a guest post about fruitarianism on No Meat Athlete last year that drew a lot of negative comments, mostly dismissing the diet as a fad. But Ben Benulis wanted to see if there was something more to it. Here he is with a post about his experiment. As vegetarians and vegans, most […]

A Review of Brendan Brazier’s New Book, Thrive Foods

By: Matt Frazier

If you’re the type that reads blogs about vegetarian and vegan fitness, then you already know who Brendan Brazier is. He’s been a friend of this site since the very beginning, so of course you’ve already checked out our first interview, our second interview, and our third interview, right? Okay, so if by chance you […]

The Ultimate Energy Bar Formula

By: Matt Frazier

Recipes are great. But formulas are where it’s at. Recipes allow even brand new cooks to produce something that’s really good, or at least something that doesn’t entirely suck. You can take a recipe that an expert chef created and reproduce in your home exactly the same dish, without the years of training. Score. The […]

Perfect Snacks for Kids Who Play Sports (and How to Convince Them to Eat the Healthy Stuff)

By: guest

Note: This is a guest post from Danielle Elliot, who writes the blog That Normal Vegan. When I hang out with my younger cousins, I cringe as Isabella, 11, tells me she ate PopTarts before her soccer game. Or when Frankie, 10, says he had a burger in the middle of his little league doubleheader. […]

The Only Healthy Eating Guide You’ll Ever Need

By: Matt Frazier

My friend Brian came to me recently with a problem: “Matt,” he said, “the other day I decided I was going to start eating healthy and get myself in shape. But then when I got to the grocery store, I realized I had no idea where to even start!” This post is for Brian and […]