Don’t Forget About Your Greens!

Dark, leafy greens ought to be your become your friend if they aren’t already. Including greens in your smoothies, sandwiches, wraps, and salads is a great way to incorporate micronutrients such as folate, iron, and vitamins A, C, & K into your diet. It’s also a nice source of fiber which promote healthy digestion.

So I Bought My Groceries, Now What?

So after you’ve come back from a grocery haul and most likely muscled all three of your bags into the house in one trip (is there any other way?), you need to think about how you’ll get the most out of your food throughout the week.

Let’s Talk Groceries

My intentions behind this post are twofold: 1) to organize and quantify my own shopping habits and 2) to share an affordable, plant based lifestyle with other (hypothetical) readers. It is so important to fuel your body properly and take care of yourself. So without further ado, here’s a run through of my grocery list:

Skyline Divide Hiking Trail

If you’re local to the pacific northwest and make the occasional appearance on the mountain, then you may have already hiked the Skyline Divide trail. If not, put it on your to-do list. The trailhead is 12 miles down a long, unpaved, pothole filled road. The hike starts out on the more challenging side and […]

Coconut Oil

My favorite things are those that have many purposes. I find myself cooking with “beauty products” and bathing in “food items” because often they are one in the same for me. Here are 12 reasons why coconut oil should find its way into your pantry, bathroom cabinet, and bedside table: Face moisturizer: used lightly, it can […]

When life gives you lemons, throw them overboard and buy a new wardrobe.

I just returned from a two week trip through Europe with my family. We started in Venice, Italy where we walked 8 miles a day out of neither exercise nor pleasure but simply being lost in the maze that the city is. I ate my weight in croissants and pizza and then rolled myself up […]

Hello, internet world.

I am a 21-year old college student studying chemistry and english. My life could be compared to the plot of a romantic comedy that lasted a mere week in theaters before it was hurried off to the shelves of a dying Blockbusters (or have those dissipated entirely?). Despite the negativity, I truly wouldn’t choose it any […]