Hello, I'm Mary Waldeck. I made the personal decision to stop eating all meat, dairy, and eggs in early 2014. This ended up being the best thing I have done for myself in a long time. I thought I would try it for 6 weeks, but I never looked back.
I researched health, nutrition, and disease prevention for several months trying to find a proven way to help lower my risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other ailments that have afflicted many of my family and friends. After only a couple of weeks of eating a plant based diet, I felt so much better, had more energy, a better overall attitude, a positive outlook, and I dropped some extra weight. In fact, I have lost 42 lbs since I started. Bottom line, I'm now a whole lot healthier! I like to grow some of my own food in my little garden, especially kale, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, squash and herbs. If you have recently made the decision to start eating a plant based diet, Congratulations! I have always enjoyed cooking, (and eating!) but I find a clean, healthy all plant diet to be absolutely delicious. It is also important to note that for many people like myself, calories do count. Just because we choose to eat healthy plant based meals, it is still possible to overindulge. Plant based calories are not magical. If you struggle with weight loss or maintenance like many, I highly recommend signing up on www.myfitnesspal.com and start tracking your caloric intake as well as proteins, fats etc. It's good to be held accountable, even if only to yourself. Understanding the caloric density of your food is very important to maintain a healthy weight. For myself, I found calorie tracking along with healthy plant based choices was the answer I had been searching for.
I researched health, nutrition, and disease prevention for several months trying to find a proven way to help lower my risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other ailments that have afflicted many of my family and friends. After only a couple of weeks of eating a plant based diet, I felt so much better, had more energy, a better overall attitude, a positive outlook, and I dropped some extra weight. In fact, I have lost 42 lbs since I started. Bottom line, I'm now a whole lot healthier! I like to grow some of my own food in my little garden, especially kale, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, squash and herbs. If you have recently made the decision to start eating a plant based diet, Congratulations! I have always enjoyed cooking, (and eating!) but I find a clean, healthy all plant diet to be absolutely delicious. It is also important to note that for many people like myself, calories do count. Just because we choose to eat healthy plant based meals, it is still possible to overindulge. Plant based calories are not magical. If you struggle with weight loss or maintenance like many, I highly recommend signing up on www.myfitnesspal.com and start tracking your caloric intake as well as proteins, fats etc. It's good to be held accountable, even if only to yourself. Understanding the caloric density of your food is very important to maintain a healthy weight. For myself, I found calorie tracking along with healthy plant based choices was the answer I had been searching for.
I have provided links to many of my recipes, as well as products that I know and love. Some of them are very important to the recipe, and if you cannot find them in your local market, you can find them by clicking on the link and ordering them online. If you are new at this, I hope these recipes will make your transition just a little bit easier. Some of my favorite plant based doctors whose expert advice I like to follow include Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, and Dr. Michael Greger. If you go to the Education page, you will find links to their books. Eat Healthy, Live Long, Be Happy!
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A few of my favorite recipes...
Search above for any particular recipe you are looking for... example, chili, burger, or soup. You will see a few paid advertisements at the top, then recipes of mine are just below it. Of course you can still just hover your cursor over the Recipie categories and you will see what is there if you are just browsing. Happy Cooking!