Category: Nut-free

Sunflower Seed Butter

Sunflower Seed Butter

Saving money on groceries is the name of my eating healthy game. I’ll make my own dairy-free ranch salad dressing, paleo cheese sauce, or sandwich wraps if it means saving a buck. I’ll replace expensive ingredients for less expensive ones in recipes like my lemon pudding, or my roasted vegetable cabbage rolls if I know…

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Nut-free Vegan Cheese Sauce

Nut-free Vegan Cheese Sauce

My #1 tip for staying healthy while traveling… Hostel it. It has to be said before you start thinking I’m crazy for making the suggestion – there are actually some really great hostels out there. Clean kitchens, great beds, awesome people, and many of them are family friendly, too. You’ll have access to a kitchen…

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4 New Recipes and Dairy-free Alternatives

4 New Recipes and Dairy-free Alternatives

Some of you eat dairy, some of you do not. That’s cool. I like to make sure that we have a little bit of everything here on Healthful Pursuit, for everyone. The definition of health is different for each and every one of us. Paleo, vegan, grain-free, dairy-free, candida, sugar-free… Every month, I create 4…

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How to Juice

How to Juice

Our community has grown into something quite fabulous. There is so much creativity, love and bombastic brilliance in each and every one of you! So, every other Friday, I’ll be inviting Healthful Pursuit readers; readers just like you, to share their stories, health tips and recipes here on the blog. From how to juice, to…

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5 Ingredient Grain-free Pancakes (with NO sugar or sweeteners)

5 Ingredient Grain-free Pancakes (with NO sugar or sweeteners)

I managed to attract many a sleaze bucket back in the day. But Kevin? He was a gentleman from the very beginning with a charming swagger and hunger for life that I just couldn’t not fall in love with. We courted. Like, really courted. For months. I got flowers, real dates – tickets to shows,…

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Roasted Cauliflower Salad with Spicy Dressing

Roasted Cauliflower Salad with Spicy Dressing

Long weekends are great, aren’t they? I gave myself permission to disconnect from the world for 2.75 days to meditate, sleep in, go outside, and cook. On Friday, I walked to the discount grocery store in search of a new ingredient that I could experiment with over the weekend, something I’d never heard of before….

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Dairy-free Ranch Dressing

Dairy-free Ranch Dressing

Ranch Dressing! Dairy-free ranch dressing. Vegan, dairy-free ranch dressing. Nut-free, vegan, dairy-free ranch dressing. Are you as jazzed about this recipe as I am? To print, email or text this recipe, click here. 4.5 from 6 reviews Print Dairy-free Ranch Dressing Author: Leanne Vogel Recipe type: Vegan, Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Sugar-free, Yeast-free, Corn-free, Grain-free, Nut-free, Egg-free Prep time: …

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Ultra Creamy Vegan Strawberry Milk

Ultra Creamy Vegan Strawberry Milk

Spring has sprung. It’s finally here! The markets are bustling with activity, new produce is livening up the market carts, and I know I’m not the only one that’s ready to get in on the apricot, strawberry, cherry and asparagus action around here.

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Easy Chicken Curry

Easy Chicken Curry

The familiar warm tones of ginger, garlic and cumin filled every nook and cranny of our home this week. I made batches of the stuff. Eggplant curry and lentil curry, sweet potato curry and this easy chicken curry. We had a healthy Indian food feast. And it was good.

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Lentil and Spinach Curry

Lentil and Spinach Curry

I love Indian food in a head over heels, madly, deeply, crazy, crushin’, love bug sorta way. I’m smitten. And there is no sign of it dissipating. But man, good luck finding Indian recipes that are ghee-free, dairy-free and oil-reduced. It’s like searching for a needle in a haystack!

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