Eating Vegan at Chipotle

Today on Tidbit Tuesday, I want to share my favorite place to go eat at: Chipotle! 

Did you know that they are vegan friendly?

They have sofritas which is made of Tofu and spices!

Yes, it’s just as YUM as it looks!

To eat a healthy and deliciously Vegan dish, order a burrito bowl with:

• Sofritas
• Brown rice
• Black beans
• Mild salad
• Corn salsa
• Lettuce
• Guacamole 
• And cilantro!

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Look at that yummy, healthy, vegan goodness!

Until next time, eat healthy and have your Chipotle too!

Foodie Friday: Nooch Coated Tofu

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My favorite lunch/dinner: Nooch Crusted Tofu.

(Nooch is Nutritional Yeast, it naturally has a cheesy and buttery flavor.)

Spray Braggs amino acids on extra firm Tofu. 

Coat the Tofu with nooch.

Pan fry with vegan butter. 

Put on a whole wheat bun. I like to add veganaise to mine! 

And that’s it! 

Until next time, remember: Have your veggies and eat your cookies🍪 too!

A Natural Anxiety Remedy You Haven’t Thought Of!

Feeling anxious, depressed, angry, or any other negative feeling?

First: click here for my 4 Natural Anxiety Remedies.

Next: try grounding!

It’s like meditating, but easier.

I try to do this once a day, in addition to meditating once a day.

NOTE: Grounding and meditation don’t have to be religious–they are simply helpful tools for a happy life!

So, how do you ground yourself?

Just go outside and stand, sit, or lay down on the ground.

You can also lean against a tree🌲 or sit at the base of the tree.

When it gets too cold❄️, you can still ground yourself indoors.🏡

There is no wrong way to ground yourself.

You can imagine roots coming out of your body and into the earth.

You can pray or say a mantra.

Or, just enjoy nature.

Look at the trees…🌳

Flowers…🌷

Grass…🌾

and the sky.🌈 

Appreciate the beauty of nature around you.🌄

Most importantly “ground” yourself to nature. Feel a connection to the earth and the nature around you.

I know it sounds weird, crazy, and a little out there, but trust me! You should feel more calm and positive.

🌌Also, ground yourself to the earth via the lunar cycle.🌒🌓🌕🌓🌘

🌚Ground yourself while the moon is new, and when it’s full. Sometimes seeing the beauty of the moon is calming in itself.🌝

To find out when the next new moon🌑 and full moon🌕 will be, click here.

Just try grounding once, I dare you! Let me know how it goes!

Have any questions about grounding? Comment below or e-mail me at happyhealthynoms@gmail.com

2 Ingredient Healthy Vegan Cookies (Quick and Easy!)

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Yes, you read that correctly: TWO ingredient cookies!

The recipe can be found here at Power Hungry.

The two ingredients are:

• Oats
• Bananas

They are SO yummy, and so deliciously healthy!  

I have added Enjoy Life Vegan Mini Chocolate Chips to some and they were SO GOOD!

I also made some with raisins and cinnamon.

You can add whatever you want, or eat them plain! 

You really can’t find a healthier or easier vegan cookie recipe than this!

I dare you to find one that is!💁

⭐️👉Have a product, recipe, or cookbook that you want me to review? Comment below with the link, or e-mail me at: happyhealthynoms@gmail.com!

Until next time, remember: Have your veggies and eat your cookies too!

How To Make Smoothies Faster and Save Time In The Morning!

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Not enough time, or too sleepy to make your smoothie in the morning? 

Here’s your solution!  

The night before, fill your blender with all your favorite smoothie ingredients.*

*Double your usual amount of frozen fruit, since it will thaw by morning!

Try some of my smoothie recipes like these green drinks or my new favorite smoothie, which my dad made up!

Then put all the ingredients in a jar… and then put in your fridge overnight!  The next day put it in your blender…   

Blend it…

 And enjoy!

Now, you saved some time, and you have a healthy smoothie!

Read about how to make the perfect smoothie here.

Until next time, remember: Have your veggies and eat your cookies🍪 too!

Super Simple Vegan Smoothie Bowls

Hey there! Thanks✨ for visiting Happy Healthy Noms for this week’s Smoothie Sunday!

This week I have 2 yummy and super healthy Smoothie Bowl recipes!

 😸Kitchen Sink Smoothie Bowl👍

🌟I made this veggie🍅-packed, vegan, smoothie bowl for dinner🍴 recently, but I was pressed for time and running late~🕔So I made this in literally 5⃣ minutes!

This was super yummy👌, super simple, and best of all: super fast🏃 to make.💙

⭐️What’s in it?💛

🍵Smoothie: spinach, kale, mixed greens, frozen broccoli, spirulina, ginger👌, and avocado.

🍃Toppings: cucumber, black olives, broccoli sprouts, cilantro, sugar snap peas, baby carrots, almonds, pumpkin seeds, lime juice, and hemp hearts.

👍And I wouldn’t change a thing! It had a nice assortment of veggies and enough protein and fiber to make me satisfied and full!✨

 🍎Newbie Fruitie Smoothie Bowl🍏

Take a trip back in time…

⏪This was the 1⃣st smoothie bowl that I ever made! It wasn’t the prettiest, but it tasted really yummy.👏

🍍What’s in it?🍊

🍅Smoothie: spinach, tomato, blueberries, avocado, apple, and vegan vanilla flavored protein powder.

🍓Toppings: strawberries, blackberries, kiwi, pineapple, chia seeds, and flax seed meal.

✔️The only thing I would change is presentation~✨

Until next time, remember: have your veggies🍅 and eat your cookies🍪 too!

Foodie Friday: Easy Healthy Vegan Nachos + How To Make Homemade Tortilla Chips

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One of my favorite snack, lunch or dinner? Nachos! 

Today I’m sharing with you some fun vegan nacho ideas that I adore, I also have a great recipe for Oil-Free Happy Healthy Homemade Tortilla Chips! 
The Tortilla Chips:

• Garden of Eatin’ Blue Chips
• Homemade Tortilla Chips (recipe below)

The Cheese:

• Daiya Cheddar Shreds (Or as I like to call it, the best vegan cheese ever! Seriously. It tastes AMAZING, and even melts and stretches like real cheese!)

 
Choose your Toppings:

Veggies:

• Tomatoes
• Avocado
• White, Red, or Green Onions

Beans:

• Kidney Beans
• Black Beans
• Chili Beans
• Vegan Refried Beans

Grains:

• Quinoa

Other:

• Salsa
• Hot Sauce
• Nutritional Yeast
• Cilantro
• Black Olives
• Squeeze of Lime

 ⭐️Homemade Corn Tortilla Chips⭐️ 

• Cut 1-4 tortillas (depending how many chips you want) into strips. 
• I love💛Food for Life’s Sprouted Corn Tortillas! 
• Place the strips on a parchment paper lined pan in the oven on 425. 
• Keep checking on them, and take them out when they feel crispy! 
• No oil necessary, and completely guilt-free!

 Nachos with my Homemade Tortilla Chips!   Sometimes you just want to keep it simple for a snack.

 Other times you want to load those nachos up for lunch or dinner!

   

Until next time, remember: Have your veggies and eat your cookies🍪 too!

How to Make Homemade Almond Milk Quick and Easy

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Would you believe me if I said that you can quickly make your own Almond Milk?

Well, believe it!

It’s super easy, but super tasty~✨👌

Homemade Almond Milk

• Servings: Several
• Time: 5 Min.
• Difficulty: SUPER Easy
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What you need:

• A Vitamix or a High-powered Blender
• 1 Cup Raw Almonds (soaked in Water overnight)
• A Nut Milk Bag
• Optional: Vanilla Extract
• Optional: 1-2 Dates

How to make it:

1. Drain the Almonds. Pour the Almonds and 3 1/2 Cups Water to your blender. 
2. Optional: add 1 tsp Vanilla Extract. 
3. Optional: add 1-2 Dates.
4. Blend until it looks milky.
5. After blending, pour and squeeze through a Nut Milk Bag over a bowl.
6. Pour the milk into a bottle, and enjoy!

  

THIS turns into…

 THIS!

(Yum! All that Almond Milk goodness!)

Add your Homemade Almond Milk into your Homemade Cold Brew Coffee, Chia Pudding, and Overnight Oats!   Homemade Cold Brew Coffee  Chia Pudding  Overnight Oats

Until next time, remember: Have your veggies and eat your Almond Milk and cookies🍪 too!

Fruitie Smoothie Sunday + Full moon news!

Hey there! Thanks✨ for visiting Happy Healthy Noms for this week’s Smoothie Sunday!🍵

I have a new favorite Smoothie recipe, and it’s actually my Dad’s Recipe!  

Click here to see another of my Dad’s Recipes: Oatmeal Raisin Overnight Oats. 

 Dad’s Famous Smoothie

• A little bit of Water 
• 2 Oranges
• A big handful of: Frozen Strawberries and Frozen Mangoes
• A few chunks of Frozen Bananas

Also, remember: tonight‘s Full Moon is a Super Moon and a Lunar Eclipse, which won’t happen again for thirty years! 

For more about tonight’s moon look at Monday’s post, MOONday!

Until next time, remember: Have your veggies and eat your cookies🍪 too!

Vegan Baking Cheat Sheet + Celebrating The Autumnal Equinox: The First Day of Fall!

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Fall is approaching, in fact Wednesday is the Autumnal Equinox, AKA: the official First Day of Fall! I don’t know about you, but I LOVE Fall!  (Image by: Heather Dawn)

With cooler weather and leaves changing colors, we’ll all be baking bread, muffins, cookies, and all kinds of goodness! 

But, chances are not all these recipes are vegan! Maybe you have baked goods that are a tradition for you and your family, or you find great recipes that aren’t vegan.

I know that’s been happening to me lately!

So, here’s a guide to vegan-izing your baked goods!
  (Image by: Rebecca Siegal)

NOTE: Unless specified, use the same measurements from the recipe for the replacements!

Eggs can be replaced with:

• A Flax Egg (1 Tablespoon Flax Meal + 3 Tablespoons Water)
• A Chia Egg (1 Tablespoon Chia Seeds + 3 Tablespoons Water)
• 1 Banana
• 1/4 Cup Applesauce
• 1/4 Cup Canned Pumpkin
• Or Ener-g Egg Replacer

Click here to check out PETA‘s other egg replacement suggestions!

Butter can be replaced with:

• Coconut Oil 
• Earth Balance Buttery Sticks

Unhealthy Oils should be replaced with:

• Coconut Oil 
• Applesauce 
• 1 Banana

Click here to check out PETA‘s Ultimate Vegan Baking Cheat Sheet!

Speaking of the Autumnal Equinox, did you know that besides being the First Day of Fall, it is also the Pagan Holiday of Mabon?

I know, I said Pagan, but don’t run away! Anyone can celebrate the First Day of Fall!

Afterall, the way I see it is that Mabon is simply celebrating Fall’s arrival and acknowledging that Winter is coming (Yeah, had to put in that Game of Thrones reference.)  

Here’s an article on the Huffington Post about the Autumnal Equinox and Mabon.

Below are some ways that you can celebrate Fall’s arrival!

  (Image by: Ian Sane)

How To Celebrate the Autumnal Equinox or Fall’s Arrival:

1. Bake something festive for fall. 

• Examples: Vegan breads (apple, banana, pumpkin,) cookies, scones, cakes, or a pie.

3. Drink something festive for fall.

• Apple cider, vegan hot cococa, or hot tea.

4. Eat something festive for fall.

• Get your soup amd stew recipes out!
• Cook with squashes and pumpkins!

4. Take a walk outside and look at the leave’s changing colors, and the fallen acorns.

• Maybe collect a few leaves or acorns to decorate your house, or to craft with.

5. Acknowledge the bountiful harvest we have, and give some of the bounty to a Food Drive!

6. Do Fall-inspired crafts involving apples, corn, acorns, fall leaves, and other fall finds!  (Image by: Kim)

Above is a creative apple🍎 craft! Cut the top of the apple, core the inside out, and put a tea light in it.

• Speaking of Apples🍎. Did you know if you cut an apple in half it looks like a star⭐️? It’s true! Go try it!

Until next time, remember: Have your veggies and eat your fall favorites too!