As a passionate environmentalist, I often feel hypocritical or discouraged having a passion for travel. Travel means transportation, which means the burning of fossil fuels, leading to a growing market for fossil fuels, and, consequently, more greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Travel also encourages more single use plastics as people are constantly on the go. …
Plastic is a mess of a phenomenon. In a consumerist society that loves plastic, we are faced with the problem of living in a plastic-run world. Plastic takes place in every inch of our lives: in our homes, our clothes, our cosmetics, our mechanics, and in our food production. Unfortunately, plastic has not only invaded …
Hi, I’m Shannon, and I’m an almond-holic. When other people are sneakily shoveling spoonfuls out of a pint of ice cream, I’m doing the same thing but with a jar of almond butter. I LOVE almond butter. Therefore, I thought it was appropriate that I make an almond butter banana bread. I found that the …
When I first heard of forest bathing, I imagined someone finding a mossy pond in a quiet forest and taking a bath in it. Turns out forest bathing doesn’t literally mean bathing in a forest. Rather, it is bathing in the essence of nature. In other words, forest bathing is simply walking in a forest, …
The holidays are filled with Christmas joy, Christmas trees, Christmas presents…and heavy, rich Christmas sweets. But why not mix the treat of Christmas with wellness too? I decided to give it a shot with my vegan date cheesecake. It turned out to be fairly simple, and satisfyingly sweet, without putting you in a sugar coma. …
My married friends were having a potluck birthday party (their birthday was a day apart, how cute), so I decided to take the opportunity to make something creative. I thought nachos were the perfect party food, and decided to make my own healthy vegan twist to it. To be honest, I first attempted at making …
Having a cold is the worst. Luckily I was home with my mom, rather than living on my own in the city of Hanoi, or laying uselessly in a hostel in India. So as I dragged myself out of bed to figure out breakfast, my mom suggested that I have a smoothie with only greens …
You’ve probably become more aware of the ‘no-poo’ movement – my inner child laughs at this name – which means training your hair to not rely on regular shampooing. People have realized that the array of nice-smelling beauty products that claim to do wonders for your hair are actually full of harmful chemicals, and train …
What a mouthful that name is, right? And trust me, you’ll want a mouthful of this. I originally tried my mango cheesecake recipe without the raspberry sauce, and that was already delicious. I ended up making this a second time for my family’s Labor Day Weekend BBQ. We had a lot of raspberries in the …
I love smoothies. And I love any food that I can eat out of a bowl (I know, I’m weird). So I often like to have something that puts the two together: smoothie bowls. You’ve probably heard of countless smoothie bowl recipes (or maybe you haven’t! You’re in for a treat…), but this one in …