Zucchini Take Over
If you have a garden, or friends that do, and zucchini was planted, you know how you can suddenly be overrun with ready to eat, garden-fresh veggies. So, if you feel like your life just got a zucchini take over…
Beans 101: Cooking Beans
Cooking Beans People are uncertain when it comes to cooking beans. Many people, for as much as we might joke or sometimes get annoyed by being questioned about it, really worry about getting enough protein on a vegan diet. We…
Reflections on a Farm and a Farmhand
Yesterday I woke to sounds in my kitchen and I felt the sudden pang of loss, realizing it was my son, making a last, big smoothie to drink before heading off to his senior year at college. While I smiled…
Delicious Vegan Mango Smoothie
A Favorite Vegan Mango Smoothie: "Mango Sunshine" Mornings are vegan smoothie time for the FOB household. Containers of spinach, bags of frozen fruit, banana peels, and more cover the kitchen island. My favorite is the vivid green one I call the…
Vegan On The Road: Vegan Pizza, zpizza, Minneapolis
zpizza: creative, vegan-friendly, California-style pizza joint that serves up tasty food that will be sure to satisfy. If you are out with friends and want to give them a taste of vegan pizza without scaring them - this is an…
Banana Crisis!
So, we were low on bananas! Running out to stock up again I discovered a tip that helps afford the WFPB diet. Watch the video below:
Green Machine Spinach Smoothie
OK, Breakfast. When I talk to people about being vegan, and we discuss a whole food plant-based diet, one of the questions I get a lot (after "what about protein" and "I could never quit cheese" - questions that we…
Reuben Remade
Ah, the Reuben: a classic of bars, pubs, and grills everywhere. It makes a direct connection to those three tastes that can get us into so much trouble: sweet, salt, and fat. If you are anything like me, you have…
This Beatle Still Rocks!
“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is stop eating meat. It just takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, and cruelty. I think globally and act locally.” Paul McCartney, Origin…
The Beginning
Welcome to Full of Beans It is our passion to raise awareness of the wellness benefits that result from a lifestyle based on a whole food, plant-based diet. That one dramatic change in people's lives has a way of changing…