Welcome to Eat Drink Better: Sustainable Food for a Healthy Lifestyle
If you’re a regular reader here, chances are you know the importance of eating well and of trying to eat local and organic foods. However, if you’re washing those healthy foods down with unhealthy or unsustainable beverages, does it cancel out your sustainable food choices?
This recipe from the new cookbook, Farmstead Chef, was inspired by a big plastic bag filled with various candy canes and peppermint candies left over from holiday festivities.
Now we all know the wonders of flax, but chia is nutritionally superior to flax, soy and the like because it is the richest vegan source of Omega-3 fatty acids and dietary fiber.
Individual Provencal Vegetable Tarts recipe for your forthcoming Christmas Party. The recipe is taken from the vegan cookbook Big Vegan.
Spencer’s Market is giving away one sample box of vegan goodies similar to the one pictured at the top of this post. My box included some of my favorite treats, like Terra Chips, Primal Strips, and a box of Luna Bars. There’s still time to enter!
Growing up on a small farm taught me a thing or two about meat. The cattle, pigs and chickens on my family’s farm really did enjoy lives close to the ones featured in today’s slick advertising. Right up until my dad’s axe came down on the chicken’s scrawny necks or the butcher drove up and put a bullet between Bessie’s eyes.
Check out this week’s vegan recipes, and cook along with The Healthy Voyager!
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Hi there! I'm Becky Striepe, a green crafter and vegan foodie living in Atlanta, Georgia with my husband and two cats. My mission is to make eco-friendly crafts and vegan food accessible to anyone who wants to give them a go.
Jennifer Kaplan is the founder of VineCrowd.com and the author of Greening Your Small Business (November 2009, Penguin Group (USA)). She is adjunct faculty in marketing at Goldengate University and is also totally stoked have been named one of The 16 Women You Must Follow on Twitter for Green Business.
Jessi Stafford is a 20-something attempting to be a vegan on a recent graduate's budget. She currently writes for Vegan Mainstream and The Next Great Generation and graduated in 2009 from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Tanya Sitton is an ecovegavore, messy chef, green girl, food revolutionary, and general free-thinkin' rabble-rouser. M.S. in a health profession, with strong interests in biology, health, and nutrition.
Who is Urban Artichoke? I'm Patricia Larenas, a writer and dedicated gardener living in Silicon Valley, doing my part to heal the planet one garden at a time. I recently left my career in the tech sector to dig in the dirt full time- and write about it. My personal blog is urbanartichoke.com.
