Meet our Herbies of the Week: Derrick & Katie!

This hubby and wife team stumbled upon a plant-based lifestyle after paying more attention to what they were putting into their body -- and realized what they thought was "healthy" was the exact opposite.

Derrick and Katie started to eat more plant-based foods and noticed they felt a lot better. Fast forward four months later: Derrick and Katie lost a combined total of 140lbs and lowered their cholesterol and blood pressure! …

Start the month off right with this week's meal plan!

Both the individual and brand new dinner only family meal plan are exploding with delicious and exciting new recipes like the "Beef" with Broccoli Bowl (NEW!), Southwest Pasta Salad (NEW!), Grilled Vegetable & Chickpea Salad (NEW!), and the BBQ Black Bean Wrap (NEW!).

Happy & healthy eating everyone!

Southwest Pasta Salad

Individual Highlights

• Easy Mango & Strawberry Smoothie (NEW!)
• "Beef" with Broccoli Bowl (NEW!)
• Banana …

I'm SO excited to unveil the new dinner only family meal plan that debuts tomorrow!

Based on last month's survey, I think everyone will be very happy with the new features and format!

The new dinner only family meal plan starts June 4th (that's tomorrow!). If you subscribe to the monthly family meal plan, you'll receive it instantly via email the moment it's released. The individual meal plan will remain the same, with a slight improvement on the prep …

Back in January I stumbled across an article about vegetables and herbs that can easily be regrown. As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to share it when the weather was better suited for gardening.

Rather than going out and buying seeds, bulbs, etc, you can actually grow plenty of vegetables and herbs with everyday items that you probably already have in your kitchen! In fact, some things don't even require soil! Just a mason jar, water …

I think my crowning achievement on this blog has been the Herbies of the Week series, which I look forward to every Thursday!

This series started three years ago (back in 2011) and I'm always in awe, inspired, and touched, when I think about all the different people and their amazing stories, that have been shared here every week.

I've decided to start reaching out to our past Herbies of the Week to see where they are today, a year …