Recipe Collection

Chipotle Sweet Potato Chili
Perk: No fancy ingredients or culinary skills needed.
Nutrition Perk: Sweet potatoes are nutritional superstars loaded with carotenoids, vitamin C, potassium, and fiber.

Coco-Nutty Garlic-Kissed Plantain Patties
Perk: There’s a short, no-cook version you can whip up in minutes.
Nutrition Perk: Your heart is longing for healthy protein, not hamburgers, and this recipe is packed with it in the form of delicious cashews.

Instead-of-Salad Salad
Perk: Ingredients stay fresh longer than lettuce leaves.
Nutrition Perk: Under-appreciated chickpeas are rich in protein and fiber, have B vitamins to fight colon cancer, and are even high in calcium and iron.

Beyond Easy Brussels Sprouts
Perk: Guaranteed conversion to sprout appreciation.
Nutrition Perk: Super high in vitamin C, good for everything from fighting colds to plumping up collagen. Rarrrrr.

Green Beans in Hi-Def
Perk: Delicious cold or hot.
Nutrition Perk: One word—garlic. Used medicinally for thousands of year, garlic’s 100 biologically useful chemicals help lower cholesterol, prevent blood clots, lower BP, prevent cancer, and protect against infections.

Chili Con Kindness
Perk: The cow gets to live, and your karma gets a boost.
Nutritional Perk: Twice as powerful as beta carotene at neutralizing free radicals, the lycopene found in tomatoes—and other red fruits—reduces the risk of prostate, lung, and digestive cancers.

Tasty Tuscan Soup
Perk: Leftovers.
Nutritional Perk: Underrated celery is an excellent source of vitamin C, which fights off everything from asthma and arthritis to heart attacks, strokes, and cancer.

Eggplant Playing Manicotti
Perk: It’s nothing like the fatty Italian version.
Nutritional Perk: The amazing blend of carotenoids and phytochemicals—especially lycopene—in tomatoes makes your body a much less hospitable place for cancer.

Pan-Seared Portobello Mushrooms
Perk: [Insert The Soup narrator voice]: Mmmm, so meaty.
Nutritional Perk: Selenium superstar and riboflavin royalty, portobellos have shown great strength in lowering prostate cancer incidence. And one cap has more potassium than a banana.

One-of-a-Kind Carrot Side Dish
Perk: Slightly exotic. So very easy.
Nutritional Perk: After beta-carotene turns into vitamin A in the body, it travels to the retina where it is transformed into rhodopsin, a purple pigment necessary for night vision. See what I’m sayin’?

Easy Breezy Barley Soup
Perk: Easy on the budget, easy on your chopping arm.
Nutritional Perk: Just a cup of barley provides half the daily requirement for selenium, a vital trace mineral that regulates thyroid hormones and boosts immunity against cancer and other illnesses.

Pinto Beans with Punch
Perk: Exceptionally filling, seriously low-fat.
Nutritional Perk: Iron and protein in cute a little bundle. Take that, flank steak.

Hint-of-India Breakfast Burrito
Perk: No chickens were incarcerated to make this Sunday morning treat.
Nutritional Perk: Studies suggest that curry protects against Alzheimer’s, as rates are four times lower in India than in the U.S. Try to remember that when you’re wondering what to have for breakfast.

Pantone Penne with Peppers and Walnuts
Perk: It’s crunchy, colorful, quick, and tasty.
Nutritional Perk: Another way to add walnuts—and a significant dose of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids—to your week. Without the mercury brought to you by fish.

Quinoa Bean-Wah
Perk: You’ll impress all the hotties at Whole Foods, now that you know how to pronounce it.
Nutritional Perk: South American quinoa (keen-wah) is not only a complete protein featuring all nine amino acids, it contains lysine, essential for tissue growth and repair. And its manganese, iron, copper, and phosphorus combo fights migraines, diabetes, and atherosclerosis.

Raw Revolution
Perk: You’ll see raw vegetables in a whole new light.
Nutrition Perk: Just about every kick-ass disease-fighting vegetable under the sun is in this one. What disease won’t this drive away?

Asian-Almond Dipping Sauce
Perk: You’ll find more uses for this than duct tape.
Nutrition Perk: Almonds provide an array of heart health benefits, powerful flavonoids, and loads of vitamin E. Mistakenly feared as fattening, studies show that people who eat nuts regularly are much less likely to gain weight than those who never do!

Mental Lentil Salad
Perk: Unlike other legumes, lentils do not require a pre-soak. Perfect for people who don’t plan ahead.
Nutrition Perk: A native of the Mediterranean, a little known fact about rosemary is that it increases blood flow to the head and brain, improving concentration.

Olé Lasagna
Perk: Another chance to impress upon your company how delicious vegan can be.
Nutrition Perk: A carcinogen in second-hand smoke, benzo(a)pyrene, causes vitamin A deficiency. The vitamin A and C combo in bell peppers significantly counters this unfortunate hazard of sharing the air.