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12/21/2025

For dinner tonight. I made this creamy vegetable curry from Angela Liddon’s cookbook: The Oh She Glows Cookbook. It has lots of chopped veggies that you could switch up if you want, and the cashew cream gives you the perfect creaminess without any added butter or cream. I loved this recipe!

Served over brown rice with cilantro and crushed roasted cashews!

12/19/2025

Here are two of my favorite books for helping people with an elevated A1c. Whether you have prediabetes, type two diabetes, or even those with type one and type one and a half diabetes, these books will help improve your insulin sensitivity and making yourselves utilize glucose better, and turn this will lower your insulin needs if you’re on medication and prevent the need for medication if your A1c has been creeping up. Mastering Diabetes and the Diabetes Revolution might just change your life!

12/16/2025

We are so excited to be hosting a weekend event at KRIPALU in February!!

Embrace Food as Medicine

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

12/15/2025

Plant Doc's 2026 Jumpstart Your Health! starts in 3 WEEKS!! Secure your spot in 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!

12/13/2025

Meet my mom, Marion, who is 95 years old and made me this delicious lentil soup for lunch the other day. She combined recipes from both the China Study cookbook and the Forks Over Knives cookbook to make a super delicious lentil soup!

Thriving at 95, she has embraced a plant based lifestyle, a positive attitude, and she’s very busy with her circle of friends. These are the same longevity traits that are common in the Blue Zones across the world.

To learn more about plant based eating, go to PlantDocs.com

12/12/2025

This Sunday!! December 14th at 5 PM is the last Farm-to-Table virtual cooking class for the Plant Docs this year! You don’t want to miss this class featuring two Plant Docs: Steven Stein and Sandra Musial.

We’re going to be making a delicious holiday dinner that features green cabbage, an unassuming yet versatile and nutrient packed cruciferous vegetable! We will be slicing it and making cabbage steaks which will sit on top of a delectable white bean purée. We will top it off with a roasted red pepper, Romesco sauce, and serve with the nutty grain farro.

You will not only learn how to make this delicious dinner, but also be inspired as you learn about all the gifts each ingredient we use offers your body to preserve your health and promote healing and reverse chronic diseases like hypertension and high cholesterol and type-2 diabetes.

Have fun, eat well, get/stay healthy!

To sign up go to plantdocs.com, programs, virtual cooking classes.
$25 per household.

12/10/2025

Wonderful time at 2025 annual fundraiser! Thanks to all of our supporters last night and all year long!

12/09/2025

When I recommend that people have oatmeal for breakfast, I’m not just talking about some boring oats in water. I add a lot of things that makes it a whole meal! I include pumpkin seeds for their magnesium, almonds for their calcium, a full half cup of wild blueberries Witcher packed full of antioxidants. I also add three kinds of ground seeds: 1 tablespoon each of wheat germ and flaxseed and 2 tablespoons of Chia seeds. These boost, the omega-3 fatty acid content of the oatmeal plus adds protein and calcium! I season it with cinnamon, which is full of antioxidants and pure maple syrup.

12/07/2025

Join me in my home-town library (Weaver Library) this Monday at 6:30. If you've ever been curious about plant-based eating, this would be a great chance to learn about all the benefits and how its helped hundreds of Rhode Islanders preserve their health and reverse their chronic diseases!

12/05/2025

Protein protein protein. The current American obsession. Here is how you kick “pasta-night” up a notch. I ordered this Explore edamame bean pasta on Amazon. I love it because it has a great texture, it only has one ingredient, and it’s very high in protein. Not that I’m obsessed with getting an excessive amount of protein, but on a plant-based diet I do want to make sure I’m getting my legume-equivalent serving in at every meal. (See below for more details on protein intake)

I love pasta sauces as long as they don’t have inflammatory oils, added sugar, or too much sodium. This Otamot sauce is the only sauce I have found that contains so many vegetables in addition to tomatoes. It is a little pricey for this small jar, but it is quite thick so I do add a little water to each jar. In addition, Otamot sauce is super delicious. You can order it online directly from their site and I have found it at Trader Joe’s in the past.

You might notice in the video, and I forgot to mention this, but I added Field Roast Italian sausage. These are vegan and super tasty, but they are high in sodium and fat, and I would not recommend them for someone on a strict disease-reversal diet. The upside is that they are very high in protein so might compliment a pasta made from a whole grain instead of a pasta that’s so high in protein already. But together I did get 50 g of protein in this one meal!

As a 125 pound postmenopausal woman with osteoporosis, who is trying to gain 5 to 10 pounds of muscle mass over a couple years to improve my bone density, I am shooting for 1.2 g of protein per kilogram of body weight per day. For me that comes out to 68 g of protein per day, so I shoot for getting between 20 and 25 g of protein per meal. This can easily be obtained on a healthy plant-based diet that includes legumes, tofu, tempeh, seitan. Protein is also found in nuts, seeds, whole grains, nut butters and smaller amounts and fruits and vegetables. Follow my journey as I try to avoid osteoporosis medications but continue to follow a healthy WFPB diet with my Power Girl routine.

12/03/2025

I absolutely love this West African Peanuts stew from budgetbytes.com. It’s delicious, filling and super nutritious!

Heart health: it’s full of fiber and rich with dark leafy greens to help lower cholesterol and improve blood flow.

Cancer: it has a lot of anti cancer ingredients, including the bright orange sweet potatoes for their beta carotene, tomato paste for its lycopene, onions, ginger, and garlic all have anticancer properties, leafy greens, which are full of antioxidants, and the brown rice - literally every ingredient!

Digestive health: this dinner is a meal in a bowl, full of fiber and rich in prebiotics to feed your gut.

Inflammation: the stew is full of anti-inflammatory ingredients like the ginger and garlic and the leafy greens and sweet potatoes all help to decrease inflammation.

Recipe can be found on budgetbytes.com, vegan African peanut stew. I adjusted the recipe according to the ingredients I had, so I added two carrots since I usually use two sweet potatoes and I only had one. I also used kale instead of collards. And I added chipotlepepper flakes for their smoky flavor.

11/29/2025

This mushroom tahini gravy is the tastiest and healthiest gravy ever! You can find the recipe at the end of this video, but note that I added an additional one cup of puréed cashews. At the end, I removed half of the gravy into a blender, added the soaked cashews, blended that all together, and returned it to the pan to thicken everything together. Also note that I usually used low sodium veggie broth in a box, but this time I use Better than Bouillon brand, which I overdid, but was easily remedied with water dilution plus the cashews. Next time I would use box veggie broth but I would still add the cashews as they made it super creamy 🙂 I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I did! For more delicious recipes, go to plantdocs.com.

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Plant Docs: real foods heal

Steve Stein, Suyin Lee and I started this cool Plant Docs business to help others learn and be inspired to eat whole food plant based food to nourish their bodies, preserve their health, and reverse chronic conditions. Our first program is the Jumpstart Your Health!, a one month long program to support you while you transition to healthy eating. Our docs will see you before the program to assess your health and goals, review your baseline blood work, and help you start your journey. Together with our nutrition educators, we have created an inspiring curriculum to teach you how to prepare and eat whole plant based foods during the 2 hour Monday night meetings. During the Plant Docs Fields Trips, we will support each other and answer questions while getting our hearts pumping. The program ends with a celebratory pot luck dinner and post program blood work and physician examination. This program could change your life as healing plants reduce inflammation, chip away at arterial plaque and revitalize your body and mind!!