#77: Making Healthy Food Taste Delicious with IG Famous Food Blogger Danielle Brown
How can you make sure you always have delicious, healthy, plant-based food ready for you to eat when you need it, without spending hours meal prepping every week? Danielle Brown grew 3 million followers on Instagram by sharing her healthy vegan food videos on @HealthyGirlKitchen and today she's here to share her top life-changing healthy eating tips with you!
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Hi friends!
Do you ever see delicious food photos online and get excited about making it, only to discover that the recipe is long, complicated, and has tons of ingredients that you don’t regularly have on hand? It can be super discouraging!
That’s why Danielle Brown is making tasty and healthy plant-based recipes accessible to everyday people through her food popular Instagram videos on @HealthyGirlKicthen, which is 3 million followers strong. She’s on the show today to share her best tips for eating healthy plant-based food whether you’re on the go or not.
Danielle shares how focusing on healthy foods drastically changed her life, starting back in college. You'll learn all about how to make healthy habit changes that last, and we’re given a refreshing perspective on how to build confidence in your diet and lifestyle choices. She also shares her secret for building her famous "life-changing salads" that you’ll crave every day!
This is a fun talk that will leave you feeling inspired to try incorporating at least one healthy habit into your life today!
Enjoy,
♡ Toni & Michelle
SHOW NOTES
- How Danielle became a full-time vegan food blogger
- Danielle’s journey to becoming plant-based
- The amazing benefits Danielle experienced from going plant-based & focusing on healthy food
- Why Danielle decided to become a health coach
- The importance of understanding your WHY for going plant-based
- How having answers to the most common questions about your lifestyle change can help you build confidence
- How to make healthy lifestyle changes that last
- The power of not being too restrictive when trying to make diet and lifestyle changes
- Top recommendations for when you want to make healthy meals quick
- How to be prepared with healthy food without necessarily meal prepping
- Navigating the becoming plant-based when your household isn’t on board
- What a day of healthy girl eating looks like
- Plant-based meal and snack ideas for the on-the-go lifestyle
- How to make healthy swaps for the treats you want
- How to build a salad that you’ll be excited to eat
- Advice for anyone wanting to get started with a healthy plant-based lifestyle
- Thank you to our sponsors Maxine’s Heavenly (use discount code PLANTS25) and Karviva Beverages. Note: most Karviva drinks are fully vegan, but they have a few that aren't. Their Ace sport drink line is not vegan).
RESOURCES
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
We are so grateful to have the support of some of our favorite vegan-friendly brands this season. Many thanks to the sponsors of this episode, Maxine's Heavenly and Natreve.
Maxine's Heavenly homemade-style cookies are a fantastic healthier way to enjoy store-bought cookies! They are sweetened with unrefined coconut sugar and dates. They have soft-baked cookies that you can find in many natural food stores plus they recently launched crispy cookies available on their site. You can get 25% off at mazinesheavenly.com with our special code PLANTS25 at checkout!
Karviva, formally Karuna, is an award-winning innovator in making organic, great tasting juices and smoothies with natural ingredients offering health benefits backed by science. Formulated from the belief that food is medicine, Karviva’s beverages offer benefits ranging from restoration of digestive and immune health to delivering clean protein and providing sustained energy. Check them out on Amazon! Please note: most of their juices are vegan, but not all! Their Ace sport line is not vegan.
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