Being vegan is in! Ellen DeGeneres recently announced her new and improved vegan diet. Try this exciting recipe she just learned how to prepare: delicious vegan nacho cheese! It’s great on nachos… simply spoon the warm melted cheese over corn tortillas and top with black beans, salsa, guacamole, green onions, and whatever else you enjoy on your nachos.
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups raw cashews
1/2 cup nutritional yeast
2 tsp. onion powder
2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. garlic powder
1/8 tsp. ground white pepper
3 1/2 cups unsweetened soymilk
1 cup agar flakes (about 2 oz.)
1/2 cup canola oil
1/4 cup yellow miso
2 Tbs. freshly squeezed lemon juice
Directions:
- Finely grind cashews in a food processor, but don't allow the cashews to turn into a paste; add nutritional yeast, onion powder, salt, garlic powder, and white pepper; pulse three more times to blend in the spices and then set aside.
- Combine the soymilk, agar, and oil in a heavy saucepan; bring to a simmer over high heat.
- Decrease the heat to medium-high, cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes, or until the agar is dissolved.
- With the food processor running, gradually pour soymilk mixture through the feed tube and into the cashew mixture; blend for 2 minutes or until very smooth and creamy, and then blend in the miso and lemon juice.
This recipe can be found in Real Food Daily cookbook. Click here to buy the book!
If time is an issue, and taste a bigger one, you’ve got to try Roads End Organics’ Nacho Chreese Dip. This dairy-free alternative is full of flavor and has no cholesterol. It’s healthy, organic, vegan, gluten-free and comes in mild and spicy flavors!!! Dip your favorite chips, rice crackers, vegetables and more to your heart's content.
Since 1998 Road's End Organics has been providing healthy, organic, plant-based alternatives to many favorite comfort foods. They also created the amazing Mac & Chreese, gravy mixes, and Chreese packets, all in packaging that contains only 100% recycled materials.
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Vegetarians save 20% on grocery bills and have sixfold lower greenhouse gas emissions than carnivores, a new study shows. Research comparing diets heavy, light and free of meat has found that a plant-based diet is cheaper, healthier and easier on the environment. The findings show it costs $508 a week to feed four adults on a traditional meat diet. A reduced meat diet costs $418 a week, while a vegetarian diet costs $394. A massive 20% reduction in costs can be achieved by maintaining the vegetarian diet. The analysis also showed the plant-based diet used 50% less water, led to 12 times less land being cleared and had six times lower greenhouse gas emissions than a meat-heavy diet. It also contained almost 50% lower saturated fat and 25% more fiber & folic acid.
Dr. Manny Noakes, a weight-loss scientist, warned about eating too many plant-based junk foods, like doughnuts. A healthful lifestyle (such as exercising, not smoking, and limiting alcohol) increase the overall benefits of a veg diet.
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Along with Oprah and millions of people across the country, Ellen read all about a healthy, compassionate diet in the popular book, Skinny Bitch. She then began inviting vegan chefs, featuring vegan menus, and interviewing vegan writers and activists on her daytime talk show. Then she had a full vegan wedding! Now, after hosting a benefit party for Proposition 2 in California to eliminate caging animals raised for food, Ellen announced her conversion to veganism!
With big celebrities like Oprah and Ellen being more food conscious, more and more people are learning about the treatment of farmed animals and delicious vegan alternatives. One by one, compassionate individuals are becoming inspired to make changes for the better. Congratulations to all of you for making a difference in this world!
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