A healthy body is a happy body. Always show yourself love and kindness so your body can operate how it’s meant! There are a plethora of ways to take care of your body. Personally, I found that living a Vegan lifestyle was an easy way to stay healthy. I have compiled a list of ways to pay attention to your body. Additionally, here are a few of my favorite vegan recipes!
Listen to your body. If you need water, drink water, but if you need a tasty vegan snack, eat one!
Treat your body how you would treat another. Try to be fueled with as much plant based food as possible.
Help the environment. It’s true, the environment can affect humans, but you help by eating vegan!
Vegan Pasta
Ingredients:
Penne Pasta (Preferably Chickpea Pasta)
Tomatoes
Red Bell Peppers
Tomato Sauce
Onions
Seasoning (I use salt, pepper, chili powder, and garlic powder)
Steps:
Prep: Chop the tomatoes, peppers, and onions into medium sized shapes. Boil water them place the pasta in the water. Cook the vegetables all on a seperate skillet over a medium heat.
During: After the pasta is cooked, drain the water. Add the tomato sauce and cooked vegetables to pasta.
Final: Season the dish, let it cool off, then enjoy.
Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients:
Vegan Butter
One rapid rise instant yeast packet
Vanilla almond milk (or plain, your pick)
Sugar
Salt
Flour
Cinnamon
Steps:
Warm together 1 cup of almond milk and 2 tbsp of butter, but do not boil it. Mix it with the packet of yeast and let it activate for 10 minutes. Then add ¼ tsp of salt and 2tbsp of sugar. Lastly add ½ cup of warm flour pouring and stirring slowly. Leave it in plastic to rise for one hour.
Roll the dough into a rectangle on a flat surface. Coat it with sugar, melted butter, and cinnamon. (As much as you deem needed). Lastly, roll the dough together tightly and cut the dough into 1.5 inch circles.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit. Cook the roll for 25-30 minutes. Let it cool and top with ½ cup sugar and 2 tbsp almond milk mixture.
Cookies
Ingredients:
creamy peanut butter
sugar
brown sugar
vanilla
all purpose flour
baking soda
salt
Vanilla (or not) almond milk
Steps:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix together peanut butter, white sugar and brown sugar. Then add vanilla and continue mixing.
Add flour, baking soda, salt and almond milk into bowl and mix. Prepare 2 cookie sheets with nonstick spray. Roll the dough into large balls, and then roll in white sugar to cover. Use a fork to gently press down on each cookie.
Bake for 12 minutes. Once out of the oven, allow to cool for 10 minutes.