How to hide kale in almost everything

KALE. Great for vitamin A & C, helps lower your cholesterol and your risk of developing cancers and has good protein. But...


I hate kale alone. I think most people do. It's bitter and gross and I have found a way to hide it so you can get the POWERFUL nutrients without the bitterness.

Dehydration. 
200*F in an oven for 30-45 minutes.

Crush up your kale chips. It should crush in an instant because kale is SO tender. 

Throw them in a anything your heart desires. A smoothie, a veggie soup, rice, a monomeal. Anything. It doesn't taste like anything and only adds nutrition. 

I discovered this when i was interested in replacing chips for something more healthy. I wasn't into the dissolving factor so I crushed it up. 

SUCH EASY NUTRITION.

Veganna

Homemade Vegan GF Chocolate Chip Cookies

When I went vegan, I thought there were no original options for me and I'd be eating plants and pastas and starches forever. Fear not, for it is holiday season and vegan treats exist. Vegan treats are not unicorns. Oh, wait. Unicorns are real according to my shirt.

Cranberry face mask by Lush <3

Anyway, here's some delicious chocochip delicious deliciousness.

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Makes about 24 cookies

What you'll need:

• 2/3rds cup vegetable shortening
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup organic white sugar
• 2 and 1/4th cups oat flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
• 1 tablespoon coconut oil
• 1/3rd cup water
• 1and1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 10 ounces semisweet chocolate chips (make sure they don't have milk fat in them, tricky bastards) 

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 375F or 190C
2. Cream shortening, coconut oil, brown and white sugars in mixing bowl
3. Add vanilla and water and mix until combined
4. In another bowl, combine the dry ingredients
5. Add to shortening mixture until smooth, 1/4 cup at a time
6. Add chips on low speed
7. Place small scoops onto a nonstick baking sheet 
8. Bake for 10 minutes, cool and enjoy!

Hope you love these traditional chocochip cookies! I'm gonna go eat like, 20 of them. 

VegAnna

PS, If you eat the dough, it will not give you salmonella. The wonder of veganism.  

Mango Smoothie Bowl with toppings

If I could eat one thing for the rest of my life, it would be smoothie bowls. Or nice cream. Or rice and beans. Or mangos. Good thing this combines one of the many. 

First thing you need to know about this is that it's really easy. As with many other vegan dishes, it's beauty is in it's simplicity and versatility. It could be breakfast, it could be dessert. It could be anything you want it to be really. Today, I chose it to be both. Let's get on with it. 

Mango Pineapple Smoothie Bowl

Serves: technically 2 but... I eat both the servings. For the love of fruit.

What you'll need:

• 1.5 cups frozen mango 
• 1 cup frozen pineapple
• 12 ounces fresh squeezed orange juice 
• 1 tbsp chia seeds (optional)
• 1/4 cup pomegranate 
• 1 tbsp toasted coconut flakes 
• (toppings are optional, but delicious)
• 1 blender

Instructions:

1. Plop the mango, pineapple, chia and orange juice into your blender and blend until smooth, like sorbet. It'll take a minute. You might need to use the tamper tool to stir it around a bit while processing.
2. Plate (or bowl) your masterpiece, place toppings on however you like 
3. Tag me in your Instagram pictures

Easy right? It takes about 1 minute and it's SUPER nutritious and delicious. 

Mangos are rich in vitamin C, B, A, and magnesium. 

Pineapples are rich in iron and calcium.

Chia is the best. Hail chia. 

VegAnna 

The Reason

Past struggles

I have always had digestive issues, since I was little. I hated cows milk and scrambled eggs as a child. Go figure. But this story begins in my early teens and ends at 20, so we'll start there. 

TMI: 2 weeks without a bowel movement, hell. Writhing in pain and unable to concentrate on school work. 

Along with digestive issues I had a number of different ailments: Chronic UTIs, high anxiety, ADD, depression, very frequent panic attacks, insomnia, acne, chronic migraines, exhaustion, anorexia, slow brain function, just utter bitchiness. 

UTI: painful, no matter how much water you consume you never feel like you again, frequently. Started to appreciate the times when I didn't hurt, although short.

High anxiety: coupled with terrible abusive relationships. Paranoia's a bitch when you're in a a small room with a guy that gets pouty and distant whenever I say the word, "No."

ADD: Diagnosed at 14, meds helped a lot in the beginning. But they started to affect my heart rate and made me depressed and anxious. 

Panic attacks: I'm in a tiny box and I need to escape. But I can't. How do I get out. I can't. I'll hyperventilate until my body calms down. Eventually I can hide the symptoms from my classmates so I can panic in front of everyone and no one would know. 

Insomnia: Went from sleeping like a baby to not at all. I have a test in 5 hours how am I gonna do if I can't get my brain to rest. But also sleeping until 2 pm on my days off because I didn't sleep on my days on. 

Acne: embarrassing clusters that you can't quite cover up with makeup. Also great for high anxiety. Is everyone looking at it?

Migraines: School nurse tells me to lay down for 10 minutes. Nope, not working. Gives me pain meds, not working. Nothing worked. 

Exhaustion: see: anorexia: insomnia.

Anorexia: Tired all the time, not eating anything for a long while until I either had to because someone would find out that I wasn't eating or I would almost pass out. Too skinny: editing pictures of my face to make them thinner because they were "fat." NO. Just mentally. not physically. Malnutrition to the max. 

Slow brain function: see anorexia: calorie restriction and sugar restriction = bad for the brain. 

Utter bitchiness: See everything else.

In a nutshell, not a healthy body. 

Until I found the Holy Grail. 

VEGANISM

Unlimited calories, carbs (aka, the way to my heart) whatever I want and staying small and lean. 

Happy, healthy, GREAT digestion, no urinary problems, memory is creepy good (ADD not an issue), sleeping at night and waking in the morning, no migraines, very seldom acne, no panic attacks, low anxiety, depression: gone. 

The sky is brighter, birds chirp louder, new relationship: strong. 

Before veganism I could explain all my ailments in complete and utter detail and complain about them all day. But I don't have much to say about how I feel after turning vegan because I just feel happy. Just happy.

How I started

Jenna Marbles turns vegan again. Oh yeah, reminds me that Freelee is a (yet controversial) vegan Youtuber. Lets search her up. 

An old video about the animal agriculture industry? Sure. 

Holy shit. The industry grinds male baby chicks alive because they deem them nothing. 

Boom, out pops a vegan Anna. 

That's it. I became vegan right as I saw that and never turned back. 

I watched Earthlings one week into starting my vegan journey and it only fortified my bond with animal rights.  Then Forks Over Knives, then Cowspiracy. 

Then the World Health Organization says meat causes cancer. I'm glad I'm vegan.

That's my vegan story.

More to come: my thoughts about where we are today and how you can change that by going vegan, also, foodporn. Get ready for smoothie bowls. 

Welcome to my vegan journey ❤️

Hi all!

This will, in time, be a vegan food blog where I'll post vegan recipes and the inner workings of this vegan brain! I am a 20 year old, so far 4 month old vegan, that loves carbs and lives to eat and eats to live. 

Soon to come!:

  

 

Happy cooking! ❤️