Healthy Vegan Nachos

Or, How to Trick Your Kids Into Eating Vegetables

It’s not true that all kids hate vegetables, especially if they have been raised vegan. But they can be picky about their choices. When I was a kid I loved cooked spinach and sliced tomatoes, while my sister wanted cucumbers with every meal. But I think all kids, big and little, want a little comfort food in their lives. These nachos are comfort food personified, packed with nutritious vegetables (tomatoes in the refried beans, carrots and potatoes in the cheeze sauce, cauliflower in the taco “beef”) and every bit as tasty as their fast food counterpart.

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Spicy Many Bean Soup

Bean soup is hearty, filling and cheap! With the right spices and vegetables, you can have a delicious, healthy meal in a bowl. Here’s a bean soup recipe that is just the thing for a cold winter day.

I serve this soup with warm crusty bread or cornbread. It’s delicious and very inexpensive to make. You can vary the spices to suit your taste.

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Deep Dish Mexican Pizza

Before I went vegan, Taco Bell’s mexican pizza was a staple of my diet. Lucky for me, there are a million DIY recipes for such pizza on the Web. But I wanted something a little bit different, so instead of using flour tortillas, I decided to use a polenta pie crust and bake it like a pie. The results of my experiment were delicious! I hope you enjoy it too.

This pizza would be good served with a green salad and an ice cold Mexican beer.

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