Are you FED UP with other people commenting on your diet?

I bet these sound familiar:

“Plants feel pain too, ya know…”

“Oh, I could NEVER stop eating meat [cheese, eggs, oil, etc]!”

“You’re not fun to hang out with anymore since you stopped eating [insert non-plant based food].”

“Why aren’t you sharing this queso appetizer with us? C’mon just a bite won’t hurt you!”

or, everyone’s “favorite”:

“How do you know you’re getting enough PROTEIN?”

*Sigh.*

Whether the person …

I started to write this post as a helpful guide for parents on feeding their kids…

(A couple of parents shared this ‘hack’ in my private meal planning FB group)

Then realized this applies to adults too!!

If you are uncomfortable with “new” foods or ingredients...

If you lack motivated to try new things…

If the “unknown” or “unfamiliar” makes you doubtful...

If some cuisines or ingredients are foreign to you…

If you self-describe as a “picky” adult…

If you …

I jokingly call hummus the “lifeblood of vegans”

As recipe creator, I appreciate how VERSATILE hummus can be -- lending itself to all kinds of flavors or fun concoctions.

For example, I used it to make a “cheese” in the Malta Melt (from the Shortcut to Slim Blueprint)

I’ve also used hummus to make an instant “cream sauce”, lovingly calling it a “college students” Alfredo ;)

That’s the Creamy Roasted Tomato Pasta in the Meal Mentor App

Hummus is …

Topics in this Post:

• 10 BEST hot sauces, ranked!
• The difference in hot sauce flavors
• Which hot sauce for which recipe
• RANKED: Hottest to Mildest
• How to ‘extinguish’ the heat when you made it too hot!

Frequently Asked Questions (answered!)

• Is hot sauce the same as Sriracha?
• What is it in hot sauce that makes it hot? (the peppers used)
• How to SUBSTITUTE hot sauce?

Catch all this in a show-and-tell video here.

Hot sauce is a terrific low-calorie condiment …

Bean burgers are my bestie.

When I don’t have any other food prepared ahead, I make bean burgers.

When I come home from a long trip, I make bean burgers.

When money is tight, I make bean burgers.

When I haven’t been to the store in over a week because…whatever, I MAKE BEAN BURGERS.

I’m pretty sure I made my 6-ingredient, 15-minute Quick Burgers every week in 2015.

Bean Burgers a year-round “universal” food for us.

DIFFERENT WAYS I …