My plant-based eating adventure

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Apple muesli muffins. 🍏 12 breakfasts for time poor people, ready to go. Plant based, kind to nature. Easy to make. Super healthy! In a very large bowl mix 1/2 cup flax meal, 1/3 cup almond flour, 1 cup of walnuts or pecans, 3/4 cup pepitas, 1/4 cup chia seeds, 1 cup self raising flour, 3 tsp of cinnamon, 1 tsp clove powder, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1 tsp salt. In another large bowl, add two grated apples, 1 tsp vanilla, 3/4 cup honey, 300g silken tofu (mix all these), 1/2 cup plant milk 1/4 cup olive oil. Now add all the wet ingredients into the dry ones and spoon the mix evenly in 12 paper lined muffin tins. Bake at 170C fan forced for about 30-35 minutes or until golden brown on top. Remove from muffin tray and cool on a baking rack. You now have a super quick and super easy planet-friendly breakfast for 12 days. Freeze half straight away after they’ve fully cooled on a rack. Put the rest in the fridge and microwave for 20 seconds just before eating. Enjoy! 💚 #sustainableliving

I’ve found that people are eating more plant based foods for one or more of the following reasons.

💃🏼 health
🌳 environment
🐖 compassion for animals
💰 budget

In the end, what we put in our mouths is a very personal choice, so let’s not judge who eats what or why. Let’s just live and let live and respect each others’ choices.

The funny thing is, I’ve never judged anyone for eating meat and yet a few people (not many) have judged me for eating plants. It’s like they think I’m going to judge them for eating meat so they make a preemptive strike or something. It’s just weird.

If you’re committed to being healthy, get annual blood tests and monitor for things like cholesterol, B12, iron etc and adjust accordingly to find your optimal health. Only trust reputable scientific sources of information on health (eg your doctor or specialist) as there are so many fake “experts” out there. Check their qualifications and make sure they aren’t pushing a product they want to sell you. Exercise daily, stay connected socially and do what feels right to you.

Judge not. You do you. Love and let live! 💗

Fatty streaks—the first stage of atherosclerosis—can be found in American children by age ten. Once we reach our 20s and 30s, these fatty streaks can turn into full-blown plaques. And, by the time we’re 40 or 50, these plaques can lead to heart attacks.

Fatty streaks may start to develop even before birth. Arteries of fetuses whose mothers had high LDL cholesterol levels are more likely to contain arterial lesions. This finding suggests that atherosclerosis may not just start as a nutritional disease of childhood, but during pregnancy.

It’s become commonplace for pregnant women to avoid smoking and drinking alcohol. It’s also never too early to start eating more healthfully for the next generation.

To drastically reduce LDL cholesterol levels, we need to drastically reduce our intake of three things: trans fat, which comes from processed foods and naturally from meat and dairy; saturated fat, found mainly in animal products and junk foods; and, to a lesser extent, dietary cholesterol, found exclusively in animal-derived foods, especially eggs.

Plant-based diets have been shown to lower cholesterol just as effectively as first-generation statin drugs, but without the risks. In fact, the “side effects” of healthy eating tend to be good—less cancer and diabetes risk and protection of the liver and brain. We explore this and more throughout How Not to Die.

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Loving my daily healthy mocha:

Hot version:

1/2 to 1 cup of plant based milk heated in microwave for about one minute
1 shot of espresso coffee
1 heaped teaspoon of cocoa powder
1 teaspoon of any kind of honey

Iced version:

Same as hot but use Manuka honey afyer adding the milk and before adding the ice (when the drink is room temperature so you don’t destroy the Manuka benefits with heat).

A super healthy breakfast:

1/4 cup rolled oats
Soy milk
2 teaspoons ground flax meal
Chopped Brazil nuts
Walnuts
Cinnamon
Chia seeds
Manuka honey
Diced apple

If you’re new to plant based baking and you aren’t a complete health nut like I am at times (ie you do eat sugar, margarine etc), I cannot recommend this lovely French baker who lives in NZ with her vegan hubby more highly. She keeps the recipes realistic for us non-chef types with limited time and they’re delicious. Try her lemon pound cake for example. I’ve also baked the peach streusel cake using the tin peaches and loved it. Another fav of mine is her blueberry muffins.

1 Million of you! 🎂❤️We officially hit 1 million bakers! 🥂and honestly, I’m speechless.
When I started posting my plant-based baking recipes, I never imagined there would be a million of you here joining in. Thank you for making this community what it is—for the questions, the feedback, and all the photos of your own delicious kitchen experiments. This journey has been wild, and I genuinely couldn’t have done it without you. 🥰✨XOXO Carine