Eat Me: Eat Pastry!

I realize that cookies don’t really fall into a vegetable category, but I love cookies. I love them way, way more than I love vegetables. As I’ve come to adopt a healthier, plant-based diet cookies have appeared, unfortunately, less and less.  I know all about maintaining a diet of nutrient-dense foods, plants and the like. Everything in moderation though, right? And hey, lets face it; if it’s a cookie free from all the crap then it’s a cookie worth eating! 

 

Usually when the cookie cravings head to town I make my own. There’s something oh-so-good about cookies fresh from the oven, baked with love. They do take time though, and this week I’ve got little to spare. Luckily I found Eat Pastry’s chocolate chip cookie dough over the weekend. Jackpot. I’d heard about it, read about it, and I was ready to eat it. It was gluten-free and on sale, so, obviously, mine. 

  

 

So, how were they? Freakin’ delicious. I wish I could say that this ready-to-bake dough didn’t even come close to the real thing, but that would be a complete lie. These cookies baked up perfectly and in exactly twelve minutes.  When gluten-free, vegan cookies taste this good, all is right with the world.

Please, go eat some now. Right now!

Pass the Beets, Please!

Welcome!

Believe me, our time here will extend way beyond beets. But first, beets deserve their time in the spotlight. These pretty little veggies pack major vitamins and nutrients not only in their roots but in their leafy green tops as well.  Beets boast impressive numbers in folate, potassium, fiber and vitamin A, putting them at the top of the “good-for-you” chart. Plus, like all of our vegetable friends, they are low in calories. Which means you can eat them till the cows come home!

Now, as great as I think beets are there is something I should clarify: my appreciation for the marvelous beet and my ability to tolerate it's taste do not come with the same enthusiasm. If you’re anything like me you grew up with slimy, canned, jell-o beets that had a smell that haunts me now, even in memory.  I swore beets out of my life for many, many years after that.

Eventually I came to realize that vegetables were going to save my life, and no matter my past experience they deserved a second chance. When it came time to reintroduce myself to the beet I was in the middle of a juice cleanse. I knew I could hide the taste of one little beet in a bunch of other fruits and vegetables. And I did. And it was some freakin’ good juice! It’s still the only way that I can take the little guys. Even if it’s well hidden I know my brain food is in there, and that’s all that matters!

In this world we all have to do things we don’t like to get ahead, to be better, stronger, faster. So eat some beets, even though they taste a little gross.