Monthly Archives: December 2011

Fitness Talk: Motivation

So I’ve started a new channel on Youtube called AfroniqueWellness to add videos to some of my blog posts. Today’s topic is motivation. We all need something to encourage us to go workout and to keep us exercising. What are

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What’s for Dessert? Carrot Cake Cupcakes

My daughter turned 2 yesterday so we celebrated with cupcakes from The Happy Herbivore. I only had one cup of applesauce but they still turned out good. I used organic powdered sugar/evaporated cane juice for the frosting.

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Learning how to workout

Time for a fitness update. Sorry I haven’t been able to keep you all up to date on what I’m learning/doing concerning my fitness. I am trying to learn how to balance doing everything I’m doing with writing about it.

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What’s for Dinner? No Huevos Rancheros

Since I don’t have a lot of time to prepare breakfast I decided to have breakfast for dinner, an idea I got from Cherish My Daughter. Recipe from The Happy Herbivore. I used 1 cup of mushrooms/red chard for the

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What’s for Dinner? Isreali Cous Cous

Recipe is modified from an episode of Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin. To make the recipe vegan, I used vegetable broth, replaced the Parmesan cheese with nutritional yeast and didn’t use butter. What did you have for dinner?

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What’s for Dinner? Fried Rice

Fried rice from Eating Appalachia. I modified the recipe by doing the following: using 4 and 1/3 cup of rice (just because that’s what I had), 1/4 cup of Braggs liquid aminos, 1 cup of bean sprouts, 10 oz of

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What’s for Lunch? Really Stuffed Pitas

This recipe came from me. I’m trying to work on throwing things together without a recipe and also include a wide variety of colors in my meals.  The pita is 7 grain Food for Life Pocket Bread, I spread hummus

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What’s for Breakfast? Banana Nut Waffles

Recipe from Veganomicon Topped with mixed berries. What did you have for breakfast?

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What’s for Lunch? Roasted fennel salad

Recipe from Veganomicon. I couldn’t find the chicory and I didn’t realize until later when I found the picture of it in the book, that its the green part of the salad so I skipped it and didn’t replace it

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What’s for Breakfast? Lemon chia seed muffins

Recipe from Laural of Leaves. I modified the recipe to make it vegan by using Earths Balance for the butter, used agave instead of honey, 1/2 cup of applesauce in place of the eggs (which I got from The Complete

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