Recipes

Hummus lovers rejoice. On the Plant-Based Whole30 program, you can enjoy traditional hummus made with chickpeas! A great and healthy way to snack when you need a little something to get you through to the next meal, hummus and plant-based dips with veggies is a win-win. Both Whole30 programs (regular & plant-based) do not encourage constant snacking, however, they are realistic that it does happen and have provided some guidelines to help you through your program. Here are the Whole30 guidelines for snacking: “As we explain in detail in It Starts With Food, eating three meals each day with minimal...

Chickpea Cookie Dough Made with canned chickpeas, peanut butter, pure maple syrup, and chocolate chips, this easy Chickpea Cookie Dough is healthy, adaptable to different diets, and, most importantly, legitimately tastes like actual cookie dough! Pin this recipe on Pinterest to save for later Pin It! You’ll have to trust me when I say this edible chickpea cookie dough does not taste like beans (nor do these Black Bean Brownies and Chickpea Blondies!). Thanks to the natural sweetness of maple syrup, the nuttiness of creamy peanut butter, and a generous sprinkle of cinnamon and chocolate chips, nobody (not even your...

Do you have a Trader Joe’s near you? There’s one about 20 minutes away from me, and while not the most convenient, there’s nothing quite like Trader Joes. It’s somewhere I will travel to, somewhere that has cult following, justifiably so. Today we’re talking about my Trader Joes haul; what I get when I shop there, and I’ve included 7 meal ideas with Trader Joe’s products. We’ve tried other off-brand Everything But The Bagel seasonings, but it’s just not the same. My husband requests this one from Trader Joes above others!! You can add it to a piece of avocado...

Yes, you can eat sweet potatoes on the low FODMAP diet. But only in a small serving. 75 grams or 1/2 cup of sweet potatoes is low FODMAP. At a serving of 100 grams or 2/3 cups, sweet potatoes contain a moderate amount of mannitol. So you have to watch your serving size. Both sweet potatoes with brown-reddish skin and orange flesh and sweet potatoes with purple skin and yellow flesh can be eaten on the low FODMAP diet. Low FODMAP serving size If you want to eat sweet potatoes on the low FODMAP diet, I would advise weighing your...

JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING: Our own Celia Wakefield has always been interested in expanding her culinary horizons - in the times I've had the pleasure of pulling up a chair to her table I've been treated to every variety of cooking style and dishes from every continent except, perhaps, Antarctica. This past week, while my college roommate was visiting, we were both guests to an amazing vegan dinner - inspired, as you will see, by another stalwart Reds reader. The evening began with homemade hoummus with herbs, followed by Tikal Gomen (Ethiopian cabbage and potato stew) and naan, and polished off with...