The Smoothie Vegetarians

Hi everyone, My name is Trudy and I am so grateful to be here! I am in the processing of writing a novel but this is my first attempt at blogging so I wanted to introduce myself and some of my ideals to you all and I thought there was no better time than the new year. Everyone always has resolutions to ring in the new year that are usually thrown by the wayside before the end of January. The usual ones that we can all relate to are losing weight, getting fit, eating better and having less stress in our lives. While all these thing are possible, they don't happen over night. What I decided to do this year was start out with a brand new outlook. This idea originated on New Year's Eve when my friend brought out a jar and starting pulling out papers and reading them out loud. She recorded all the good things that happened to her over the course of the year. After seeing this I was inspired and decided that this will be the beginning of the many shifts I want to create in ...

Having just joined the Smoothie Vegetarian family, I think I should start off by introducing myself a little bit. My name is Terri, and I live on a little rural Ontario hobby farm with my husband and 13-year old daughter. I crochet for charity, love horror movies, and spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Oh, and we homeschool too. We grow the majority of our produce here and are having a great time exploring more choices for seasonal whole food and plant-based recipes. When you suddenly have 3 bushel baskets of red bell peppers sitting in the kitchen, you have to get creative. So that's what we do. What makes our food journey a little more difficult is that I have Celiac disease, which means we have to avoid gluten at all costs. That means no foods with wheat, rye, barley and anything with malt flavoring. So you'll probably notice that a lot of the recipes that I post will be gluten-free as well as vegan. Not always, but most of the time. And now we come to...