Recipe Round-Up: The Abundance Diet

The Abundance Diet is a big favourite of mine. I credit it with helping me get back on track with eating sensibly and my mindset about food after a rough time I had last year. It is full of delicious and filling smoothies, salads, soups, mains, snacks and some sweet treats. I blogged about it during MoFo last year, and let us see what else I have been making.

Apple Pie Green Smoothie: I like the flavour of this smoothie, but I just don't think that I am the biggest fan of the texture of apple in smoothies. Still, it was nice! I like my smoothies super cold, so I froze the banana first. I also used a date rather than date paste or apple butter, and I left out the stevia (I don't like stevia, but I never add sweeteners to my smoothies anyway).
Rating: :)



Blueberry Vanilla Green Smoothie: While the recipe compares it to a blueberry muffin, I got mostly blueberry and not much muffin. I used a frozen banana, as well as all all spinach rather than a mix of spinach and kale. I added the option maca, which gave it a bit of an earthy taste. I find blueberry smoothies tend to get lumpy quickly, so drink up fast!
Rating: :|



ChocoNana Green Smoothie: This was yum - rich, but not too sweet. I used 2/3 frozen banana and one non-frozen banana. It was a pretty classic combination!
Rating: :)



Chocolate Covered Blues Green Smoothie: This is a very rich and satisfying smoothie, with no lumpy blueberry issues.
Rating: :)



Veggie Patch Sunday Morning Omelets: I made 3/4 of the recipe to get three serves, though following instructions using a scant 3/4 cup batter per omelet I ended up with a larger final omelet. I loved filling this with all the veggies listed, and I added in some mushrooms as well. The moxarella heated up a bit with the heat of the veggies and went a but warm and melty.
Rating: :)



Broccoli, Grape and Spinach Salad: This is from the Lighter Salads section, and I made it to serve with some sandwiches. I'm not a huge fan of raw broccoli, so I lightly steamed it first. This was a big hit! The Creamy Raspberry Poppy Seed dressing was more citrusy than I expected, but was nice and fresh. I couldn't find seedless raspberry jam that wasn't full of sugar, so I sieved some fruit-sweetened raspberry jam to make it smooth instead.
Rating: Salad :), Dressing :)



Abe's Hearty Lentil Stew: I like lentil stew a lot, and this is now my new favourite! It is so good. I got three big sized servings from it. As well as lentils it has celery, onion, carrots, tomato and nooch (very important). I added the optional herb seasoning, using the 1-=Spice Blend from the Oh She Glows cookbook.
Rating: :D



Lightened-Up Laksa: This was a lovely version of laksa. I used a blend of light coconut milk and oat milk to make it creamy, and two heads of bok choy instead of cabbage.
Rating: :)



Creamy White Bean, Potato, and Kale Soup with Mushroom Sausage: I was really excited about this soup, and it was nice and creamy, I just felt it needed a bit more flavour overall. I did like the mushroom sausage a lot!
Rating: :|



Lightened-Up African Peanut Stew: I didn't have defatted PB flour, so I added some peanut butter instead. I used about 2 TBS, but I should have used more to make it more peanutty. I also left out the capsicum and added in peas.
Rating: :)



Cute Kitty Photo of the Post



Flashback to this cute photo I took of my friend's cat Pandora.