Plant-Based Diet for Athletes

Meal Planning Tips for the Busy Athlete, with YumUniverse's Heather Crosby

By: Matt Frazier

Heather Crosby, creator of YumUniverse and author of the upcoming book by the same name, knows a thing or two about creating a healthy lifestyle.

At first glance, YumUniverse is beautiful and artsy and obviously focused on healthy, plant-based, gluten-free, whole food. But dig a little deeper, and you’ll discover that Heather has the same fascination with habit-change that I do, and she incorporates those critical concepts into her recommendations for meal planning or getting started with a plant-based diet.

Heather was our guest expert in the No Meat Athlete Academy last month, and today I’ve got a 20-minute clip from our seminar to share with you. It’s packed with Heather’s brilliant tips for simplifying your entire process around food — from planning to shopping to getting it on the table — without ever sacrificing health for convenience (down to the soaking of the nuts and seeds and cooking beans from scratch). (more…)

Two New Energy Bar Recipes (with Tart Cherries!)

By: Matt Frazier

It’s been a full month that I’ve been drinking tart cherry concentrate, twice a day, and today I’ve got the promised third and final post in this series, including two new recipes and answers to some FAQ’s from my previous posts. Once again, to be absolutely clear: this series was sponsored by the Cherry Marketing […]

The Surprising Results of My Tart Cherry Juice Challenge

By: Matt Frazier

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been experimenting with tart cherries as a workout recovery aid, as part of 7-Day Tart Cherry Juice Challenge and series of posts sponsored by the Cherry Marketing Institute. Well, the results are in. When I wrote “surprising” in the title, I meant it. But not for the reason you […]

How to Fuel Your Workouts, Naturally — with Elite Ultrarunner and Fruitarian Michael Arnstein

By: Matt Frazier

One hundred miles. In under 13 hours. That’s seven minutes and 46 seconds per mile, for 100 of them. My mind is blown every time I think about that. What makes it all the more incredible — or, in Mike Arnstein’s eyes, what made it possible — is that he reached this elite level of […]

Cream of Tomato Soup from the Oh She Glows Cookbook

By: Matt Frazier

The day the long-awaited Oh She Glows Cookbook showed up on our doorstep was an exciting one indeed. My wife and I do a lot of cooking at home, and time permitting, we make as much as we can from scratch — staples like almond butter, hummus, almond milk, and vegetable stock. Foods that of course […]

Kill Your Microwave — How and Why I Got Rid of Mine

By: Matt Frazier

Admission: I really wanted to call this post Kill Your Microwave … Before It Kills You! But I didn’t. Because that’s not why I killed my microwave. I don’t think microwaves are dangerous, nor do really believe that microwaving your food necessarily destroys the nutrition therein. Living without a microwave is weird, yes. Inconvenient, sure. But […]

S’nuts! A Healthy, Smoky, Vegan Snack from Asheville’s Plant Restaurant

By: Matt Frazier

When it comes to healthy, plant-based food options, we’ve come a long way in the past few years. But one area that’s apparently still lacking bigtime: snacks. I sent out a survey to the NMA newsletter list a few weeks ago — mainly to get some feedback about what features you’re looking for in the […]

Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Penne with Broccoli, from Isa Chandra Moskowitz

By: Matt Frazier

Get ready to party like it’s 2009. One of my main reasons for starting this blog, back in that ancient day, was to share plant-based recipes that I found fit for athletes. And for several years I did just that, but soon I started to enjoy writing other types of posts. Recipes, I figured, were […]

How to Go Plant-Based (When Your Partner Won’t)

By: Matt Frazier

One of the most common questions I get in Q&A sessions following talks: What if you want to go vegan or vegetarian, but your partner is not on board? And I never have a good answer. I was very fortunate that from the minute I came home and said, “Honey, I want to try being […]

My ‘Eat to Live’ Challenge

By: Matt Frazier

Five years ago, a 10-day challenge led to my eventual decision to go vegetarian (and to start this blog). A few years later a 30-day vegan challenge, which I completed successfully, actually taught me that I wasn’t ready to go vegan yet. But when I was ready six months later, that month-long experiment was probably to thank. Why […]