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Tasty Tuesday: Recipe - Vegan Tomato Soup


It's "Tasty Tuesday", where every week we bring you new, fresh, local, healthy recipes and food tips. Find out what is in season, and what will keep you fuelled during and after your work outs!

It's so cold. I stepped in a river during a downpour up to my ankles the other day. I needed tomato soup.

While bumming a Thanksgiving meal last week, I met Alex Clark, the Farm Leader at Field House Brewing, and it just so happened that she brought a tonne of produce from the farm. I went home with a whole bunch of tomatoes, and beets (HUGE beets, the size of my head). These tomatoes are pictured below!

Make Your Meal Even Healthier Tip:

Fresh. Local. Simple. This soup doesn't need too much to it. Blend it up, maybe add some nutritional yeast, and you're set.

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Tasty Tuesday: Recipe - Tomato & Cashew Soup w/ Vegan Grilled Cheese


It's "Tasty Tuesday", where every week we bring you new, fresh, local, healthy recipes and food tips. Find out what is in season, and what will keep you fuelled during and after your work outs!

UGH, Winter is coming! And so is cold and flu season, which has already arrived for me. All I wanted was warm comfort food. A pureed soup that I could eat, and maybe a grilled cheese to dunk into it.

So I set about making the healthiest version of the Tomato Soup & Grilled Cheese that I possibly could, and boy did it turn out delicious. And dairy-free. And vegan. I recommend making a big batch of the soup and freezing some for the next time you're feeling down and out, or cold and lazy. Or, share some with your friends and neighbours. I did both!

Make Your Meal Even Healthier Tip:

The soup is about as healthy as you can get, the sandwich is what needs your attention. Be sure to pick a good healthy bread...a vegan whole wheat, or multi-grain, but get a good loaf that you can get some thick slices out of! You can add more greens to the sandwich too with spinach or kale. I just loaded it up with avocado.

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Tasty Tuesday: Recipe - [Vegan] Tomato Soup


It's "Tasty Tuesday", where every week we bring you new, fresh, local, healthy recipes and food tips. Find out what is in season, and what will keep you fuelled during and after your work outs!

I had a hankering for some tomato soup last week when the weather was downright awful. So I decided to try and pull together an easy vegan version, esp after finding a head of cauliflower for only $4!


Make Your Meal Even Healthier Tip:

Add some nutritional yeast into the soup for an added health hit, and to make it even creamier. Skip the noodles to make it gluten free (unless you can find gluten free ones you'd like to add)!


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