The Lunchbox Bunch

By now you've read my Vegan Thanksgiving 101 post, and you're ready to start some serious menu planing. First up in my Vegan Thanksgiving Series is Appetizers, aka pre-meal munchies. Don't let the "apps" portion of the day get ignored...

Seasonal fall produce. That phrase evokes visions of persimmons, tangerines, butternut squash, pears, pomegranates and mandarins. All foods that give me the warm fall fuzzies inside. Seasonal: In Style for Foodies. The word seasonal, is quite the trendy buzz word nowadays...

If you're like most people, you probably only eat roasted European chestnuts during the fall and winter seasons. You consider them seasonal. But snackable? Year-round? Yes! The nutritional facts (and taste) say it all: Chestnuts are full of flavor, yet much lower in fat that other nuts...

6am. Half-awake. In bed. Under the Covers. My drowsy mind was brain-storming for my chestnut post. Nutrition facts, snack ideas - an easy, informative post. But a little boring for a Friday. Two post day, I decide. Chestnuts. Chestnuts. Chestnuts...

Bring on my Vegan Thanksgiving! I'm so ready. Wait, you're not? Ah, I've been there. You're up half the night with nightmares of maple-glazed Tofurkys, drowning in a sea of vegan gravy. You have wild dreams of sliding down fluffy rice-whip-clouds into cinnamon pools of perfect pumpkin pie...

I can see the British tabloid headlines now: "The Royals Have Gone Vegan!" "Royal Castle Gets Veganized!" Then in small print it will say, "...for one day." Find out more, read the menu (and my one annoyance with it) and wait, what's a cobnut?...I love reading menus...

I know, you're still dusting the Halloween glitter out of your hair, and the last thing you want to do is start thinking about planning for the holidays. Especially the always work-intensive Thanksgiving Dinner feast...

It's always nice to be recognized. And today when I found out that I won 2nd place in the Whole Grains Council, "I Love My Whole Grains" recipe contest, I was grinning ear to ear...

"You can eat it with a spoon." She said."Eat what with a spoon?" I asked."Vegenaise. OMG, it's so good." She replied."Yuck. I'm not a big creamy-condiment fan." I scrunched my face."Just try it." She answered. I tried it...

Happy Halloween from Healthy. Happy. Life. and The Lunchbox Bunch! I hope your Halloween weekend is filled with fright, festivities, fun and flavor (of the vegan kind of course.) Here are my top ten favorite frightful (and festive) Happy Halloween delights...

Give me a big bowl of warm pasta on a chilly fall night, and I'm a happy girl. Especially if that bowl contains some big yummy chunks of my Roasted Butternut Squash. This is a great pasta recipe for when 'red sauce' just won't satisfy. I call this dish simply, Kathy's Fall Pasta...

Fact: Every 15 seconds, pneumonia kills another child. That’s 5,500 child deaths every day, and a staggering 2 million child deaths every year from a preventable, treatable disease.November 2nd is the first ever World Pneumonia Day. ...

UPDATE: Darn, so the chefs only had to cook vegetarian! Too easy! Natalie was vegetarian when the show taped...she supposedly went vegan a few months ago after reading Jonathan Safran Foer's book "Eating Animals". But still, glad to see a vegetarian show. It's better than nothing...

You've read the interviews, now read the "Best of VGP" wrap-up post. If you still need to catch up, you can find all 8 of the "Veggie Girl Power" interviews here. Ahead, I've compiled my Top 35 Fave Quotes from the interviews, as well as a few trends and VGP faves...