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01/12/2026

Here’s a quick breakfast that repurpose beans from last night’s dinner and elevates my avocado toast.

Check it out!

01/10/2026

Some great things, some things that science contradicts, and a not surprising group of biased authors.

What I love? Unprocessed whole foods. Vegetables and fruits in their whole state. Grains that are whole and not refined. A real push to discourage processed foods and sugars.

What contradicts science? Decades of research showing that intake of foods, rich and saturated fats like butter, beef, and whole fat dairy products are linked to increases in LDL cholesterol. Excess LDL cholesterol is responsible for the development of plaque in our arteries which leads to coronary artery disease and heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease, erectile dysfunction, and decreased blood flow throughout our body. Since we know this, why would we recommend more beef and butter to Americans?

Well if you watch till the end, you’ll see that the authors of this have financial ties to the national cattlemen‘s association, the national dairy council, and some pork council. I think it should be illegal for anyone with financial ties to these industries to have a seat at any board making national nutrition guideline recommendations. These recommendations should be made by scientists that are unbiased and have the interest of human health at the top of their minds, not financial industries. This is not surprising, but hugely disappointing to me.

01/10/2026

Yes, this was a dinner for one! But this is the beauty of batch cooking! I cooked an entire butternut squash, a huge zucchini, a can of beans, and a cup of dry grains. I made a beautiful bowl that I absolutely loved, but now I have all these leftovers to make the bowl again, but also to create other dinners that will mostly be based on the butternut squash because it was so huge.

I’m gonna put butternut squash in wraps, butternut squash in my salads, and I’ll probably make a butternut squash soup :-)

01/09/2026

Big news! Our 2026 Virtual Cooking Together classes are now FREE... quick, easy, plant-based meals for every kitchen! Check it out!

We’re excited to share some great news for 2026!Plant Docs’ Virtual Cooking Together Classes are back and they’re FREE to join.

01/08/2026

"Plant-Based Nutrition to Optimize Your Well-Being" : February 6,7,8. Join us for this transformational weekend!

Need help with your New Year’s resolutions? This weekend retreat might just be the reboot you need! Take charge of your health with your fork, rather than a pill, with the transformative power of delicious plant-based nutrition.

This weekend will be led by Plant Docs founder, Sandra Musial MD, a Lifestyle Medicine Physician, and Laura Klein, a Culinary Medicine Chef who will motivate and inspire you to embrace Food as Medicine. 

The numerous benefits this approach to eating offers include reducing inflammation, improving type-2 diabetes and heart disease, lowering bad cholesterol and A1c, and losing weight. You'll be amazed at how great you'll feel!

In this retreat, you will experience:

🥦Practical tips on plant-based nutrition to help prevent, improve, and reverse chronic disease
🥦Demonstrations and samplings of easy-to-follow, delicious, plant-centered recipes
🥦Workshops on nutrition label reading, menu planning, and smart shopping
🥦Demystifying leafy greens, whole grains, and healthy fats
🥦Learning about your gut microbiome and how to boost your metabolism
🥦Tips for success when dining out and at dinner parties
🥦Coaching on creating lasting healthy habits

You'll leave with new culinary skills, tasty recipes, and nutrition tools to continue your success when you return home.

In addition you'll get to stay at Kripalu and benefit from all they have to offer including the yoga classes, gorgeous grounds, and delicious plant-based buffet!

To learn more go to PlantDocs.com > Programs > Jumpstart or go directly to the Kripalu website:

https://kripalu.org/experiences/jumpstart-your-health-plant-based-nutrition-optimize-your-wellbeing?sku=18435181

01/07/2026

I’m away from home for one month so I need to find some simple go-to dinners with minimal ingredients. This is what I made my first night: premade gnocchi with a premade marinara sauce, and I bought some fresh broccoli.

I brought along some cooking essentials for me, which included nutritional yeast, sesame seeds, tahini, tamari, chipotle flakes, my favorite seeded crackers, chia seeds, ground flax seeds, high protein oats, maple syrup for a sweetener, Jammu spice mix, a variety of grains.

My first trip to the market I bought a few cans of beans, some fresh vegetables, fresh fruit, salad greens, frozen blueberries.

So with these essentials, I can make a healthy breakfast, my favorite smoothie, Anybean Anygreen Anygrain dinners.

I realize this dinner is gnocchi heavy, but I felt like I needed it after 4 days of travel. The broccoli was super delicious sautéed in tahini!

Follow along to hear about more simple delicious dinners.

01/06/2026

Getting enough dietary calcium without dairy or supplements can be a challenge. Tahini has been one of my go-to calcium strong foods. I use it in all my salad dressings and sauces and I absolutely love the taste.

When I learned that unhulled tahini has 10 times more calcium than the variety I had been buying at the supermarket. I ordered it from Amazon thinking I was getting 400 mg and every 2 tablespoons. However, I was sad to learn that most of the calcium in the hulls of the sesame seeds is in the form of calcium oxalate, which is much less well absorbed. So I tried to break it down in this video. It’s a little confusing because only 20 to 30% of the calcium is absorbed in the regular tahini and about the same is absorbed from supplements. So it’s not as bad as it sounds. In the end, you actually get more calcium from the unhulled variety which supports my go-to advice of eating everything and it’s whole state - better than processed. Since roasting and sprouting increases calcium bioavailability, maybe someone could make a sprouted roasted unhulled tahini?

01/05/2026

Would you rather pay $350 to learn how to eat for the rest of your life or $350 to take a drug every month for the rest of your life?

This is literally the difference between taking the Plant Docs jumpstart your health program, a one month educational program where you’ll learn how to eat more unprocessed foods that are plant-based - hands-on cooking lessons included! OR taking a crazy expensive drug like Wegovy or Ozempic.

These drugs do not give you the lifelong benefits that changing your diet does, like a healthy gut biome, decreased inflammation, getting to the root cause of type 2 diabetes, decreased cancer risk, reduction in cardiovascular plaque…

if you’re interested in real sustainable change, go to plantdocs.com, programs, jumpstart your health.

Our next jumpstart begins January 7 and there are a few slots left!

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01/03/2026

Plant-Based Nutrition to Optimize Your Well-Being @ KRIPALU: February 6,7,8.

Need help with your New Year’s resolutions? This weekend retreat might just be the reboot you need! Take charge of your health with your fork, rather than a pill, with the transformative power of delicious plant-based nutrition.

This weekend will be led by Plant Docs founder, Sandra Musial MD, a Lifestyle Medicine Physician, and Laura Klein, a Culinary Medicine Chef who will motivate and inspire you to embrace Food as Medicine. 

The numerous benefits this approach to eating offers include reducing inflammation, improving type-2 diabetes and heart disease, lowering bad cholesterol and A1c, and losing weight. You'll be amazed at how great you'll feel!

In this retreat, you will experience:

🥦Practical tips on plant-based nutrition to help prevent, improve, and reverse chronic disease
🥦Demonstrations and samplings of easy-to-follow, delicious, plant-centered recipes
🥦Workshops on nutrition label reading, menu planning, and smart shopping
🥦Demystifying leafy greens, whole grains, and healthy fats
🥦Learning about your gut microbiome and how to boost your metabolism
🥦Tips for success when dining out and at dinner parties
🥦Coaching on creating lasting healthy habits

You'll leave with new culinary skills, tasty recipes, and nutrition tools to continue your success when you return home.

In addition you'll get to stay at Kripalu and benefit from all they have to offer including the yoga classes, gorgeous grounds, and delicious plant-based buffet!

To learn more go to PlantDocs.com > Programs > Jumpstart or go directly to the Kripalu website:

https://kripalu.org/experiences/jumpstart-your-health-plant-based-nutrition-optimize-your-wellbeing?sku=18435181

01/02/2026

One of the biggest impacts of switching to more plant-based eating is a significant decrease in inflammation! 32% less in 1-month, according to a study published by Plant Docs in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.

Plant Doc's 2026 Jumpstart Your Health! program starts in 5 days! Sign-up today to join this popular program to reboot your health with more plant-forward nutrition! The program will be fully remote.

This Jumpstart immersion runs for 5 consecutive Wednesdays starting January 7th. Three sessions are educational, including meal planning and a 'Shop With A Doc' video to find healthy options and read labels…. You will truly understanding why what you choose to eat matters so much to your health.

Two sessions are devoted to cooking a delicious plant-based breakfast, lunch and dinner, making tasty sauces (from your own kitchen). EVERY ingredient offers gifts for your body - nothing detracts from your health. So every delicious bite is guilt-free. You will think of food in a whole new way!

We will assess your labs BEFORE and AFTER the program so you can see the impact that changing your food choices will have on your health: lowering LDL cholesterol and A1c, lowering inflammatory markers, lowering your BP and YES, even lowering your weight! Your risk for heart disease and cancer (the number 1 & 2 killers in the US) will go down, you will have more energy, sleep better, have less pain, have improved sexual function, clearer skin, and a feeling that YOU have more control over your health. How's that for a list of "side effects" of eating a plant-based diet?

SPACES ARE FILLING UP, SO SIGN UP NOW!

Learn more and sign-up on plant docs.com > Programs > Jumpstart Your Health! Only $350 to take control of your health with food!

01/01/2026

Our Fully Remote Jumpstart Your Health! program starts next week! Want to learn more? Check out our latest newsletter.

Our 2026 Fully Remote Jumpstart Your Health program is a supportive, science-backed program designed to help you lose weight, lower cholesterol, and reduce your risk for type 2 diabetes - naturally, using the power of whole, plant-based food.

01/01/2026

Sorry, Best Western breakfast, but I was really disappointed at the lack of healthy options at the free breakfast, but it was really the waffle station that really got me. The waffles themselves are made of all refined products with a corn syrup topping and a completely 100% chemical spray that everyone douses on the waffle iron. The biscuits and gravy is such a southern thing and I didn’t even take a picture of the corned beef hash that looked like hotdog vomit.

If this is how most Americans start their day, and then they wonder why they’re on medications at 40 or 50 for high blood pressure and high cholesterol and most people don’t even know the amount of plaque they have already built up in their coronary arteries, literally a heart attack, waiting to happen, a cancer diagnosis right around the corner…

Sorry to be so blunt and negative, but I’m really pretty frustrated that it’s a simple choice of what to put on the end of your fork. OK maybe not simple but here we are willing to help you if you’re interested in learning how to eat more whole plant foods that are unprocessed that literally feed your cells and your organs the nutrients that they need to thrive and be well. Your body wants to heal itself, get rid of the pre-cancer cells and not build up plaque, but if you keep feeding your body, a best western diet, then yes, heart, disease and cancer and inflammatory diseases are inevitable.

It’s a choice. Plant Doc is here to help you if you’re interested in eating a more whole food plant-based diet. Check us out at plantdocs.com. Our next jumpstart, our monthlong immersion program to help you get started, begins January 7. I hope you can join us :-)