Cooking with Mostly Plants

In January of 2016 my husband and I set out to eat a plant based diet to the best of our ability. He was nearing 60, and I not far behind, so our quest was to improve our health and feel better about our impact on the environment.  I knew that the only way we would succeed was to make it easy, delicious and affordable.  We tried many times to adopt a vegan diet, but gave up for those reasons (I did the 21 day vegan kick-start three times), so we gradually added more plants, found delicious meat substitutes and tried to make it fun.  
We are far from having a perfect diet, and on occasion still enjoy some fish, chicken or Parmesan cheese (and half and half in my coffee😉), and when eating at someone's home we enjoy whatever they are serving us, which is part of being happy and healthy too.
We do try to keep it affordable by using whole ingredients and making most things from scratch.  We find we get the most for our money by buying in season when we can.  We do try to keep it simple, and are not constantly soaking beans and nuts. We prefer to not spend hours in the kitchen because we would rather be out having fun. This blog is a collection of things that work for our family.


Easy meals = more time for hiking


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