To add to what Greg says in the previous post about feeding children, I wanted to mention that it’s pomegranate season (from now, October, until about January) — and pomegranates are a great way to satiate a kid’s desire for dessert! They take forever to eat, and they aren’t too messy when cut into quarters [...]
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Vegan Oatmeal
Oatmeal is, of course, a vegan food. But in my informal research, I have concluded that a lot of people take a perfect food like oatmeal and muck it up with animal proteins and fats. As I happened upon oatmeal as an adult, already eating plants more than anything, it never occurred to me to [...]
Healthy Lunch for Work
Lunch at work is usually filled with all kinds of temptation. Vending machines, cookies and cake in the staff room, fast food nearby, the midday habits that you’ve designed to take the edge off of your stressful morning. It’s so easy to give in and indulge in these offers. While I might be a vegan [...]
Food Photos
Some plant-based food blogs post images of the food that we really don’t want to eat so as to illustrate the news story or the counter-principles of healthy eating, making kind of startling and unappetizing entries for plant eaters. So my philosophy here at The Casual Vegan has been to only post images of food [...]
3 Ideas for Starting a Better Diet
When Greg and I started to eat better, it took us almost a year before we were ready to stop buying dairy and meat altogether. Over the course of those months, we made small change after small change until they all added up to a completely different way of eating. It felt natural and it [...]
