Chickpea Sweet Potato Stew
This vegan chickpea sweet potato stew is a quick, low fat and nutrient dense meal that is a great go to meal during the colder months. Here in New England, the colder months coincide with the big...
View ArticleVegan Indian Dal with Spinach
Dal is a staple in Indian households. This recipe for vegan indian dal is certain to be a hit with you and your family! Since becoming a vegan household, we have discovered and become enamored with...
View ArticleFat Free Vegan Baked Beans
These vegan baked beans take me back to Saturday night suppers when I was a little kid. We often had hot dogs and beans and brown bread for supper. The kitchen would have the rich smell of the beans...
View ArticleVegan Cornbread is The Best Cornbread Ever!
This vegan cornbread, so rich in texture and taste, is a great compliment to almost any meal. Long before I became a vegan, I was a bit of a cornbread snob. I would only eat it if it was moist,...
View ArticleAntioxidant Blueberry Smoothie
Smoothies are all the rage, of course. You can find them (at a premium price) at all sorts of places, now. But they are really easy to make on your own, and they can be customized to be exactly how you...
View ArticleDo YOU Get Enough Protein?
How much protein do we really need? “Do you get enough protein”? This is a question every vegan, and many vegetarians, hear so often that it has become the ultimate joke – it’s even a tee shirt. I have...
View ArticleCurried Vegan Chicken Salad
Curried Vegan Chicken Salad – It’s What’s For Lunch Our Vegan Chicken Salad, we like to call it Better Than Curried Chicken Salad, made with cannellini beans, will take your sandwich, or your salad, to...
View ArticleVegan Cookout Food – What to Bring Roundup!
No matter what stage of vegan life you are in, it will happen: you’re going to a cookout. What are you going to do when you are the vegan at the cookout? What do you eat? That’s when you think: “what...
View ArticleNoodle Revolution Westerly Rhode Island
Greg and I don’t go out to eat very often. The commitment of paying college tuition for our kids sort of got us out of the habit and we really do love to cook. This weekend, however, we stopped for a...
View ArticleVegan Gluten-free Quiche + Adapting Recipes
This vegan gluten-free quiche is adapted from the wonderful recipe by Angela Liddon at Oh She Glows. I love quiche. I love it’s presence at a brunch or casual meal. I love that it is portable and...
View ArticleSun Tea – Summer in a Jar
I adore the rituals of tea, good tea. I like the comfort and cozy of a good pot of tea in the colder months. However, when the warm weather arrives I love my sun tea. It’s a simple and delicious way to...
View ArticleGluten-free vegan Double Chocolate Chip Cookies: Review
HEY. It’s Elena! Those two crazy kids, Greg and Georgia, are finally letting me do a little guest spot on Full of Beans. And it’s on my almost favorite subject: vegan and gluten-free baked goods that...
View ArticleFollow Your Heart Vegan Egg – Review
You don’t need to miss eggs anymore. Like us, you may have heard about Follow Your Heart Vegan Egg, and have been interested in trying it. We have been using various egg replacements ( Chia, flax, DIY...
View ArticleFive Vegan Travel Tips to Help You Survive
Traveling can be challenging for anyone, but even more so for vegans. When it can take all day to get to a destination, you don’t have your usual resources, or wonder about available food you need some...
View ArticleDaiya Frozen Pizza – Fast and Cheap
It was one of those nights: errands, shopping, hungry, no plan for dinner, and there we were: at the super market. On the edge of hangry, the stack of Daiya Frozen Pizza in the freezer called to us. We...
View ArticleVegan Beef Stew – Hearty Comfort Food, Cruelty-free!
This vegan beef stew delivers the all flavors of this classic dish. Whether you are having meatless Mondays or looking for family-friendly vegan meals, this is a satisfying and easy dish to pull...
View ArticleSpicy Sesame Noodles – Creamy, Fast, Asian-inspired
If you enjoy creamy peanut butter and the kick of garlic and ginger, then these spicy sesame noodles are for you! Bonus: you can have this all made in almost the same time it takes to read this post!...
View Article5 Veganism Arguments Every Vegan Faces
In every vegan’s life, there comes a moment where a skeptical meat and dairy eater challenges your choice. Often, people who eat animal products feel that by us choosing not to, it is somehow a...
View ArticleFull of Beans New Year’s Greetings!
Here we are at the beginning of another year. We approach the coming year as fresh and new and full of potential. Appropriately, that means we have plans for the coming months that we want to share...
View ArticleFiesta Salad
Okay, first things first. Vegans don’t eat just salads for every meal. Or just lettuce, for that matter. If you are already a vegan, you’ve probably been on the receiving end of that joke at least...
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