It may be cold outside… but that doesn’t stop me from wanting to lick the inside of my cold blender to get every last drop of this pumpkin-pie-filling smoothie Pumpkin Pie Smoothie Ingredients: 1/2 cup canned pumpkin 1 medium banana 1 cup almond milk 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice ice optional: extra pumpkin pie spice [...]

Hey guys! I don’t think I need many words to convince you that you should try this recipe… Dense. Gooey. Healthy. Yea, this ish markets itself. It’s vegan bread 2.0. Ingredients 2 cups flour (I used white whole wheat; don’t use bleached or 100% white; if you’re going to use regular whole wheat, use 1/2 [...]

Hey guys! I wanted to create a mock tuna or chicken salad to eat in romaine leaves, so I devised the following recipe for a Vegan Chickpea Salad. It turned out amazingly delicious — the consistency and flavor is very similar to chicken salad. I have to admit this is my new favorite recipe because [...]

Hey guys! First, I’d like to thank Kahlua for her very nice “guest” post. She’ll be thrilled to know she’s now the Blogging for a Change mascot! So, I heard Taco Bell was testing out tacos with shells made from Doritos. Crazy! Though, not gonna lie, if you served me up a taco made with [...]

Winter break has been amazing! It’s been filled with all the things I love – time with my boyfriend, niece and friends, a Disneyland visit, lots of beach runs, lots of awful reality tv (omg how many wedding shows are there?! My favorite, hate to admit, was Four Weddings), and lots of band practice. My vacation demeanor [...]

Hey guys! Since it’s winter break and I’m making a point to truly sit back and reflect on ways to ensure that I can maintain a healthy diet even when times get really tough (as they did last semester and as they will, invariably, next semester), I thought I’d share some of the ways I’ve [...]

Happy 3rd day of the new year! How did everyone celebrate? My boyfriend and I stayed low-key, but I did manage to bake him these amazing vegan sugar pistachio cookies [recipe linked here]. They’re definitely not low-cal — they have over a cup of Earth’s Balance and a cup of sugar! D’oh! But, seriously, they [...]

Hey guys! My boyfriend and I love spring rolls — we get them at Zephyr, The Loving Hut and anywhere else we can get our hands on ‘em. It’s been on our “summer fun list” to try making them ourselves and, since my summer officially ends tomorrow (back to the grad-school grind, oy!), we spent [...]

It’s no secret…I am obsessed with my mini-muffin pan. See here and here as evidence. So one day I sat around dreaming up ways to make my own recipe for a sort-of brownie, sort-of muffin concoction, and then it clicked — brownie mini-muffin bites! If I could make the perfect near 100-calorie brownie bite that [...]

Hey guys! Whenever summer comes around, I am reinvigorated with life and the desire to try out new recipes! I’d been wanting to use up some whole-wheat pie crusts I had sitting in the freezer, but figured making a dessert dish would sabotage my “get fit” summer plans, so I opted for making an eggless [...]