Posts by Molly Patrick
How a Plant Based Diet Helped Decrease My Dad’s PSA (Prostate-Specific Antigen) Level
Last year, my dad’s PSA number was on the rise. PSA, in this context, means prostate-specific antigen. Doctors use PSA numbers primarily to screen for prostate cancer. High levels of PSA might indicate prostate cancer, but not always. My dad’s PSA climbed incrementally for a year until it reached 7 back in July of 2021…
Read MoreTry Clean Food Dirty Girl Free for 10 days!
Picture it. You’re in line at the grocery store, and the person in front of you starts putting their groceries onto the conveyor belt. They pile up fresh produce, bursting with all the colors of the rainbow—fruit and veggies galore. They add bags of whole grains, beans, nuts, seeds, and spices. As you scope out…
Read MoreThe choices we make
You don’t have to eat 100% plant based if you don’t want to.You could eat plant based sometimes and bacon other times.You could eat whole-food plant-based no oil at home and vegan when you eat out.You could eat plant based Monday through Friday and whatever you want on the weekends.You could eat plant based dinners…
Read MoreFeeding My Meat and Cheese Loving 20-year-old Nephew
My nephew, Finn, visits me every summer. I always love making him yummy, healthy food when he’s here. He’s 20, so self-care isn’t top priority at the moment, and he lives on pizza, eggs, burgers, and kebabs. Funny enough, the kid does love a long hot bath! I can’t say he’s thrilled with all the…
Read MoreWould you rather have it suck now or suck later?
Is it a struggle for you to eat healthy food on a consistent basis? If your answer is, “Duh, this is my life,” read on, friend. When it comes to batch cooking delicious plants, sometimes you wake up energized and ready to get in your kitchen, slap on some tunes, and shake that ass in…
Read MoreTraveling While Plant Based and Gluten-Free in Botswana and Zimbabwe
This is not a sponsored post. We did not get paid or compensated for anything mentioned, photographed, included, or linked. We started this journey by flying from Maui, Hawaii (home) to Seattle, Washington, then to Doha, Qatar, and from there to Johannesburg, South Africa, and finally to Windhoek, Namibia. After a full day of flying,…
Read MoreWhole-Food Plant-Based Nutrition
One of the reasons why whole-food plant-based eating is so loved is because it helps people step away from the diet mindset. When you eat a whole-food plant-based diet, it’s all about the quality of calories you’re eating instead of the quantity. When we talk about quality, we mean nutrient density, which is the ratio…
Read MoreTraveling While Plant Based and Gluten-Free in Namibia: Part Two
This is not a sponsored post. We did not get paid or compensated for anything mentioned, photographed, included, or linked. If you haven’t read part one of Traveling While Plant Based and Gluten-Free in Namibia, check that out and then come back. In this post, we continue our trip through Namibia, eating plant based and…
Read MoreTraveling While Plant Based and Gluten-Free in Namibia
This is not a sponsored post. We did not get paid or compensated for anything mentioned, photographed, included or linked. It was the morning of our departure to Windhoek, the capital of Namibia in southern Africa. Luanne and I were waiting outside in the wet, cold February Seattle morning for our Lyft to go get…
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