Tag: fruits

• Berry Cookie Smoothie Bowl

  

  As you can see, I’ve been on a little bit of a smoothie bowl kick. Well, lately it’s been a yogurt bowl kick, but smoothie bowls are a VERY close second. Thanks to Vegan Street Fair, I retrieved countless vegan protein powder samples to play with! In the reel below, I used Naturade Life’s vegan…

  Cassie Tran

  April 18, 2023

  Breakfast, Diet, Health, Recipes, Smoothies & Drinks, Videos, wellness

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• Six Vegan-Friendly Ice Cream Shops in Los Angeles that are SO Good I Might Cry

  

  People know me as someone who’s an avid Pilates lover. Someone who is Erewhon-obsessed. But just as much as I love greens powders and hot lemon ginger water, I could eat ice cream like it’s my job (wouldn’t that be sort of nice? Getting paid to consume what you love most?), which I probably shouldn’t.…

  Cassie Tran

  April 15, 2023

  Life, Restaurants, Reviews, Travel

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• These Protein Bars Ruined My Life

  

  I’ve written many a love letters to Erewhon (exhibit A), but to write to these protein bars mandates a trilogy. A series longer than Lord of the Rings. With a pending conclusion. I can’t do this anymore. Think of any relationship where the two partners just can’t get their hands off of each other, and…

  Cassie Tran

  April 12, 2023

  Diet, Health, Nutrition, Products, Restaurants, Reviews, Travel, wellness

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• Being Vegan in San Francisco vs. Los Angeles: How Do They Compare?

  

  All my life until mid-September in 2016, I’ve been a SoCal woman. I’m still natively SoCal, but it’s taken over 18 years for me to experience life in a new city (San Luis Obispo) in Central California. One area that is even more popular in California as a state would be the Bay Area. This…

  Cassie Tran

  August 7, 2020

  Diet, Health, Life, Nutrition, Travel

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• In Honor of National Ice Cream Month…

  

  …in general, it is TREMENDOUSLY challenging for me to select one favorite dessert. Coffee cake any day. Mango sticky rice until I die. A whole plate of chocolate chip cookies will win me over more quickly than a diamond ring. Peanut butter chickpea blondies….OOF. Having said that, ice cream holds an incredibly special place in…

  Cassie Tran

  July 26, 2020

  Diet, Health, Reviews, Travel, wellness

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• A High Fiber Vegan Diet: How? Why? When? What About Supplemental Fiber?

  

  Last week, I discussed several conditions and circumstances where integrating more fiber would actually detriment oneself more than benefit, despite fiber’s functionality and role in physiological wellbeing. Some people cannot tolerate as much fiber for a certain period of time due to intestinal disorders that forbid otherwise or if they need to ingest a higher…

  Cassie Tran

  July 1, 2020

  Diet, Health, Nutrition

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• A Low Fiber Vegan Diet: Why? How? When?

  

  Amongst the vegan community, it is an absolute headache to constantly be bombarded with questions about protein, zinc, calcium, vitamin B12, iron, and organoleptic enjoyment of food in a vegan diet. Yes, we can consume plenty of these nutrients AND adore the taste of our meals. What many vegans and non-vegans alike understand is the…

  Cassie Tran

  June 29, 2020

  Diet, Health, Life, Nutrition

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• Blue Tofu (healthy, gluten free, high protein + synthetic dye free)

  

  Here’s a Food Science fact: did you know that there are no naturally occurring blue foods on Earth? Yep, it’s true. According to one of my Food Science professors, due to the fact that blue light reflects poorly on green leaves during photosynthesis, rarely do natural foods exude the color blue. Oh, and before you…

  Cassie Tran

  April 25, 2018

  Diet, Dinner, food science, Health, Lunch, Nutrition, Recipes, wellness

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• Lazy But Gloriously Delicious Meal Ideas

  

  Let me break a stereotype about us foodies. Not all of us like to cook. In fact, a lot of foodies don’t really like it, or alternatively, a lot don’t really know how. Some people are miracle-workers and can put random ingredients in a bowl, mix it up, and it literally belongs in a five-star…

  Cassie Tran

  March 14, 2018

  Diet, Health, Life, Nutrition, Recipes

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• I Walked More Than 20,000 Steps a Day for a Week…Here’s What Happened

  

  Surely enough, you’ve probably seen those videos or articles titled “I Tried XXX’s Diet/Workout Routine For a Week” or “I Tried The XXX Challenge…Here’s What Happened” at least every other time, if not every time, you surf the Internet. These experiments are everywhere, and it’s both a good and bad trend. On one hand, you get…

  Cassie Tran

  March 6, 2018

  Fitness, Health, Life

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