Meal Prep Monday: Ep. 3! 🫐🥬🥕 Say goodbye 👋 to soggy produce languishing in plastic bags in the back of your fridge. It’s time to show our fruit and veggies the TLC they deserve, and to transform your fridge from a produce graveyard 🪦 to a flourishing garden! 🪴 The most life-changing tip is to actually WASH your produce to get off any bacteria and mold spores, which will help it stay fresh so much longer. As soon as you get home from the grocery store, unpack your produce and give it a bath 🍓🛁. I’m using @ForceofNatureClean (ad), which is a multi-purpose cleaner that starts with just salt, water and vinegar. It’s family-friendly, contains zero toxic chemicals and kills 99.9% of viruses and bacteria. You can use it to clean your kitchen, bathroom, any surfaces in your home...the sky ☀️☁️ is the limit. Tap the link in my Stories to check them out and use code VEGAN40 to save 40% on bundles, plus free shipping! And here’s how to store... CELERY: Wash, chop, and store submerged in water 💦 in the fridge. CILANTRO + PARSLEY 🌿 Wash, trim the ends and remove any loose lower leaves, and place a glass of water like a bouquet of flowers 💐. Keep them in the fridge. For extra lasting-power, cover with a plastic bag. Change water daily. BASIL 🪴 Trim the ends, place in a glass of water like a bouquet of flowers, and keep on the counter at room temperature. Change water daily. STRAWBERRIES 🍓 Wash, dry completely, and store in a towel-lined container in the fridge. Try these tips and I GUARANTEE it will save you money on lost produce that goes bad in your fridge. xo

Meal Prep Monday: Ep. 6 🫐🥬🥕 ad | Say goodbye 👋 to soggy produce languishing in plastic bags in the back of your fridge. Here’s how to show asparagus, blueberries, dill, and rosemary the TLC they deserve. Ready to transform your fridge from a produce graveyard 🪦 to a flourishing garden? 🪴 The most life-changing tip is to actually WASH 🚿 your produce to get off any bacteria and mold spores, which will help it stay fresh so much longer. As soon as you get home from the grocery store, unpack your produce and give it a bath 🍓🛁. I’m using @ForceofNatureClean, which is a multi-purpose cleaner that starts with just salt, water and vinegar. It’s family-friendly, contains zero toxic chemicals and kills 99.9% of viruses and bacteria. You can use it to clean your kitchen, bathroom, any surfaces in your home...the sky ☀️☁️ is the limit. Tap the link in my Stories to check them out and use code VEGAN40 to save 40% on bundles, plus free shipping! And here’s how to store... ASPARAGUS: Wash, chop 1/2 inch off the ends, store upright in a jar with a little bit of water 💦 and covered with a plastic bag in the fridge. Refresh water regularly. BLUEBERRIES 🫐 Wash blueberries in a bowl of water with a splash of @ForceofNatureClean to kill any bacteria. Dry completely, and store in a towel-lined container without a lid in the fridge. DILL AND ROSEMARY 🪴 Liberate from containers, trim the ends, pull off scrappy pieces at the bottom, place in a glass with a little water water like a bouquet of flowers 💐, and store in the fridge. Refresh water regularly. Follow these guidelines and I GUARANTEE it will save you money on lost produce that goes bad in your fridge. Stay tuned for the upcoming episodes, where I’ll be covering tomatoes, radishes, pineapple, ginger, garlic, nuts, tofu, and more! xo, @MichelleCehn 👩🏼‍🌾

Meal Prep Monday: Ep. 2! 🍽️ Today were making the easiest ever “Meal Prep Pasta Salad” in celebration of the new Plant-Based on a Budget Quick & Easy cookbook 📚 that comes out tomorrow! This colorful veggie-filled make-ahead lunch can be prepped in a hour and you’ll have lunch for the week. The chickpeas give an extra protein punch 💪🏽 and you can swap in Kalamata olives for even more pizzaz! I N G R E D I E N T S ◽️ 1 lb package of pasta, cooked and drained ◽️ 1 (15 oz) can of garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed ◽️ 1 small cucumber 🥒 ◽️ 1 1/2 cups halved cherry tomatoes 🍅 ◽️ 1/2 small red onion ◽️ 1/2 cup minced fresh curly parsley ◽️ 1 (2.25 oz) can sliced olives ◽️ 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar ◽️ 1/4 cup lemon juice ◽️ 2 tbsp olive oil ◽️Salt and pepper, to taste Just mix everything together in a large bowl or later in mason jars as shown in this video, and store in the fridge until you’re ready to enjoy. Cheers, and be sure to grab a copy of the new @plantbasedonabudget cookbook, available anywhere books are sold! Happy book launch week, Toni! 🫶🏽 xo, @MichelleCehn 👩🏼‍🌾

As Climate Week comes to a close, we're eager to shine a spotlight on something truly extraordinary: Regenerative Agriculture! 🌱  Our planet-hugging partner @WhatIFFoods is dedicated to making regenerative agriculture more mainstream, and they’re doing it with one of the easiest swaps we can make: Milk that Heals the Planet! 🥛🌿  This delicious, healthy, and protein-packed BAMnut Milk is made from the bambara groundnut and is a game-changer for our environment. Here’s why! 🥛 BAMnut milk requires significantly less land use, water, and carbon emissions than any other type of milk.  🌿 Regenerative Agriculture: Think of it as a climate superhero 🦸‍♀️. This form of farming prioritizes restoring and enhancing the health of the soil by building organic matter, increasing biodiversity, and minimizing chemical inputs. Less pollution, more planet love - it's a win-win!  🌍 Healthy Soil, Happy Planet: Healthy soil is a natural carbon locker, capturing CO2 from the atmosphere and stabilizing our climate. 🌱 The more lush and green our environment, the more carbon it can absorb! 🌲 Carbon Sequestration: It's like a sponge, soaking up carbon from the air and locking it away, which helps to reduce the concentration of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. This, in turn, contributes to mitigating climate change by lowering the overall greenhouse effect. So, here's to milk that doesn't just do our bodies good, but also saves the planet. Let's keep supporting regenerative practices and making a positive impact, one eco-swap at a time! ✌️  #ClimateWeek #ClimateWeekNYC #RegenerativeAgriculture #SaveOurPlanet #WhatIFFoods #SustainableSwaps

Trumpet Mushroom Scallops 🍄🔥 by @vegscratchkitchen. I cannot believe how incredibly realistic and delicious these are! 🤯😍 I N G R E D I E N T S ◻️2 king trump mushrooms, cut into scallops (yields about 3-4) ◻️1 small package seaweed (8 small sheets) ◻️1 clove garlic, peeled ◻️1/2 cup soy sauce ◻️3 cups water Sun-dried Tomato Aioli: ◻️5-6 sun-dried tomatoes ◻️1/2 lemon, juiced ◻️1/2 cup vegan mayo ◻️1 tbsp smoked paprika ◻️1/2 tbsp garlic powder ◻️1/2 tbsp onion powder ◻️1 tbsp maple syrup ◻️1/2 tsp salt Assemble: ◻️1/4 fennel bulb, diced and splashed with 1 tsp white vinegar ◻️1 fresno chili, finely diced ◻️1 scallion, thinly sliced ◻️1/4 cup corn D I R E C T I O N S 1. Use a sewing needle to poke 6-8 holes in the top and bottom of the scallops. Use a knife to score it (1/2-inch depth) at two angles on the bottom and top. 2. Blend remaining mushroom ingredients, strain the brine out, then pour over mushrooms in a small container. Marinate 2 hours. 3. Blend sun-dried tomato ingredients until creamy. 4. Dry scallops. Add 1 tbsp olive oil on top. Add 3-4 tbsp olive oil to a cast iron pan over medium-high heat. Once oil is slightly smoking, add scallops and sear for 4-5 mins on each side, adding 1 tbsp vegan butter halfway through. 5. Top with fennel, chili, scallion, corn, and sun-dried tomato aioli. 🎥: @vegscratchkitchen #veganrecipes #veganfood #mushroomscallops #kingtrumpetmushroom

It’s #ClimateWeek! 🌎🌸🐋 Here are a few ways you can celebrate: ✨ Plant a tree or a garden in your backyard or in a community garden. ✨ Participate in a local beach, river, or park clean-up with friends or family. ✨ Share this Climate Week artwork on social media. ✨ Reduce your carbon footprint by biking or walking instead of driving, even for short distances. ✨ Have a fully meatless day and cook a delicious plant-based meal with friends—or support a local plant-based restaurant! ✨ Make a DIY bird feeder using recycled materials and place it in your yard or balcony. ✨ Try solid shampoo bars to reduce single use plastic waste, or implement one of these eco-friendly swaps. ✨ Make a pledge to reduce your energy consumption by turning off lights and unplugging appliances when not in use. Comment below any other #ecotips that you use to help protect our earth!👇 🌎🐋🌵🪴🥕🫐☀️🐝

Ep. 20 MEAL PREP MONDAYS | Today we’re prepping Modernized Lunchables with @snackbacktonature (ad) ✨ I grew up on lunchables in the 90s, so putting together little cheese 🧀 and cracker sandwiches lights up nostalgia in my soul! But making our own snack kits gives us the power to keep it KIND (everything I used here is plant-based) and keep it WAY healthier than the mystery meats and hyper-processed ingredients used in traditional lunchables.   Plus you’ll save money and reduce single-use plastic waste. 🌱 It’s a win-win-win! You can pack this for lunch as a “mature” version of lunchables, bring it with you on a picnic🧺, take it wine tasting 🍷, or send it off to school with your kiddos 🚌. It is #BacktoSchool season after all! The crackers and cookies 🍪 are both from @snackbacktonature, so keep an eye out for them next time you’re at the grocery store! They’re my go-to brand for crackers, cookies, and granola, and I don’t even have to check the ingredients because they’re always plant-based.  Since 1960 Back to Nature has been creating delicious and flavorful products inspired by nature. They’ve achieved non-GMO Project Verification on over 50 products and are a proud partner of The Nature Conservancy. They’ve already helped plant more than 300,000 trees! 🌲 Cheers to that, and happy meal prepping!

🧀 Homemade Vegan Ricotta Cheese by @addictedtodates. My mind is completely blown!! 😍 “You only need a handful of common ingredients to make this delicious creamy dairy-free ricotta. It’s so good for both sweet and savory dishes, just like traditional ricotta! My fave is on crusty bread with a drizzle of maple or agave, what’s yours?” The full recipe is linked in @addictedtodates’s bio or you can google “addicted to dates ricotta” 🎥: @addictedtodates #veganrecipes #vegancheese #dairyfreerecipes #dairyfreecheese #ricotta

Every. Single. Year. 😭😂 Make your own Vegan Pumpkin Spice Latte at home with our perfected recipe at www.worldofvegan.com/pumpkin-spice-latte (link in stories) 🎃☕️ 🎥: @vegnews

GIVEAWAY 🌸 LOMI BLOOM 🌸  We’re celebrating the launch of the next generation kitchen composter model from our partner @GetLomi (ad) by giving one away! It not only transforms your food scraps into a nutrient rich fertilizer you can use in your garden🌿, but also connects to your phone with an app that tracks your environmental impact—and you’ll earn points you can redeem for free products with every cycle you run! If you don’t have access to an outdoor compost, this small-but-mighty composter that fits on your countertop finally makes recycling ♻️ your food waste possible at the press of a button. To ENTER: simply heart 🤍 this post + drop a plant emoji below👇, and make sure you’re following @GetLomi + @Vegan. That’s it, you’re in! For BONUS entries: tag 🏷️ up to 3 friends who inspire you, in separate comments. ✨You can also get $50 off the Lomi with the code WORLDOFVEGAN.  Throwing plant scraps in the garbage hurts my soul, so I’m beyond grateful to now have a simple system for recycling my food scraps back into my home ecosystem, where they feed my other plants and help my garden flourish. You can toss in your fruit and veggie scraps, soft peels 🥑🍌🍉 , coffee ☕️ grounds, cardboard, plant clippings, crunchy leaves, and more! And the “Lomi Earth” that comes out can simply be mixed with dirt at a 1:10 ratio and added to your garden or houseplants. It’s genius. Here’s to diverting our #foodwaste from the landfill 🙅‍♀️🗑️ and taking better care of our planet. xo, @MichelleCehn 👩🏼‍🌾 P.S. Giveaway is open to US + Canada! Giveaway closes on September 30th and winner will be announced in this caption and notified via DM (from @vegan).

Do you store your fresh herbs 🌿 in a glass of water 💧 like a bouquet of flowers? 💐 If not, you’ve gotta try it! They last SO MUCH LONGER this way. 🏷️Tag a friend who needs to hear this! Pro-tip: give the stem bottoms a fresh snip ✂️ before putting them in water so they can easily suck up all the H2O! You can also loosely cover with a plastic bag to further preserve freshness. Find more #vegan living tips, guides, and recipes at WorldofVegan.com

ONIGIRAZU 🍣🥑 Welcome back to Tofu Adventures (Ep. 3) with our partner @HodoFoods (ad) where I share creative ways to use one of my favorite ingredients: TOFU! Onigirazu is essentially a sushi sandwich wrapped in nori, filled with sushi rice sandwiching various other fillings, and wrapped tightly into a rectangular patty. This is a fantastic meal to prep for lunches or sushi nights, or you can set up a sushi bar and invite your family or friends over to make their own! I filled mine with Organic Miso Tofu 😍 from @HodoFoods which comes already seasoned and pressed so you can add it directly—and the Miso flavor works beautifully in Onigirazu! You can find their Miso tofu at @Safeway in Northern California and @MomsOrganicMarket on the East Coast :) And you can find Hodo tofu widely across the US! 
I N G R E D I E N T S ◻️ Nori seaweed sheets (sushi size) ◻️ Sushi rice 🍣 ◻️ Your favorite add-ins My favorite add-ins: ◻️ Organic Miso tofu from @HodoFoods ◻️ Spicy mayo sauce (I mixed sriracha with vegan mayo) 🌶️ ◻️ Shredded purple cabbage ◻️ Chickpea tuna ◻️ Avocado 🥑 This is very versatile, so use whatever ingredients you love! #WorldofVegan #HodoFoods #Onigirazu #Tofu #MisoTofu