Plant-Based Eating
Plant-Based eating is becoming a more popular option in many homes! This way of eating has benefits to our health and to the environment. Let's discuss ways we can bring plant-based meals into our diet and how they can help us live a heart-healthy lifestyle.
Important Education Takeaways
This topic has been updated. Please read our April 2024 post for the latest information.
Eat more plants! This doesn't necessarily mean you have to go vegetarian or even vegan. Simply try to incorporate more plant-based foods into your daily eating plan.
Focus on color and variety. Strive to "eat the rainbow," of colorful produced and include a variety of whole grains, beans lentils, nuts, and seeds for best nutrition benefits.
Fiber is your friend. Eating more plants will help you meet your fiber intake goals as it is founds in all fruits, veggies, whole grains, beans, lentils, nuts and seeds.
Keep it real. Choose mostly whole and minimally processed plant foods.
Recipes
Recipe of the month: Black Bean Burgers, Brussels Sprout Salad (Slaw), Chipotle Spread
As always, this recipe is the showcase of our live taught, virtual cooking class. Our chef and registered dietitian bring the recipe to life as they walk you through food prep, swaps to meet dietary or taste preferences, plus tips and tools to support you being your own healthy chef at home.
Bonus recipe: Warm Roasted Kale and Sweet Potato Salad
From Jamie’s kitchen to yours, our monthly bonus recipes are published on our website and social media the 4th Wednesday of each month. We invite you to browse our recipe collection and come back often to find more flavorful and heart-healthy recipes.
We invite you to join us for the live taught, virtual nutrition classes each month to gather more information on our nutrition topics. This is also an opportunity to ask topic-related questions of our experts as well as connect socially with attendees for idea sharing. As a registered participant for our In the Kitchen program, you receive a few reminders ahead of each scheduled monthly classes, but here’s an easy to remember schedule: Nutrition Education (30-minutes, 2nd Wednesday, 12pm), Cooking Class (up to 60-minutes, 3rd Monday, 12pm).
Contributing authors: Kayla Guillory, MS, RD, CDCES, diabetes educator, Providence Community Teaching Kitchen; Jamie Libera, RD, LD, CCTD, registered dietitian, Providence.