Easy Healthy Homemade Raw Vegan Gluten Free Snacks
The Blender Girl's Raw Vegan Creamy Cashew Dip
Need a quick healthy homemade snack that you don’t have to bake?
Here are some of my favourite super easy raw, vegan, gluten free snack ideas that taste fantastic; are loaded with live enzymes and nutrients; and can be thrown together very quickly with simple ingredients in a blender or a food processor. These ideas can also be adapted and expanded for all kinds of flavourful variations.
DIPS AND SPREADS
The Blender Girl's Raw Vegan Spinach Edamame Dip
You can make nutritious raw dips in minutes in the blender or food processor by combining a variety of fresh or frozen vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs and spices. Favourite ingredients I like to use are raw cashews, macadamias or almonds, and process them with things like edamame, sundried tomatoes, green peas, carrots, beetroot, broccoli stalks, cucumber, zucchini, basil, cilantro, parsley, garlic, ginger, chillis, lemon juice, lime juice, salt and pepper for great flavour. Pair these dips up with veggie sticks, chips, crispbread; or slather on pita bread, toast, tortillas for filling savoury snacks.
My favourite 5 minute raw dip recipes:
Raw Vegan Sun Dried Tomato and Red Pepper No Bean Hummus
Raw Vegan Green Pea and Almond Chutney
Creamy Raw Vegan Spicy Cashew Dip
Snacks to Fuel Your Springtime Fun
Springtime brings sunshine and outdoor play and a desire to linger over fun activities.
I live in the Midwest, and it’s cold in the winter. (Not quite so cold this year, but still …)
Now that spring is here, warmer weather brings a kind of giddiness to all the folks in my neighborhood.
We linger to chat in front of our houses. We stay at the playground for hours longer than we intend. We go on fun outings to parks and on picnics.
This kind of spring activity calls for one thing … SNACKS.
Keep reading for more snack ideas from The Balanced Platter…
Healthy Snacking: Tips for Homemade Bean Dips
This guest post is written by Valerie from City|Life|Eats.
Hummus has long been among my favorite healthy snacks, even before I discovered I had to switch to a gluten-free, dairy-free, and egg-free diet.
Removing gluten, dairy and eggs from my diet required me to replace many of my go-to healthy snacks. Fortunately I got to keep hummus and other bean dips.
These legume-based dips have many advantages: they are easily portable, requiring just a container of crackers or cut veggies. They can add fiber and density to a gluten-free wrap or sandwich, serve as a salad topping or an appetizer.
Keep reading for more tips and recipes from The Balanced Platter…
Simple Spice-Roasted Chickpeas
If you’ve never eaten a roasted chickpea, my oh my. You’re missing out!
I tried my first roasted chickpea last month on vacation in Hawaii. At a local natural food store, I picked up a package of roasted chickpeas out of sheer curiosity, wondering what on earth they would taste like and if I would need to find a dentist to repair my cracked teeth after trying them.
To my surprise, the roasted chickpeas reminded me of salted nuts. Although super crunchy, they shattered effortlessly (and painlessly) in my mouth. No dentist needed! My family and I could not stop eating them.
Keep reading for Hallie’s recipe for Simple Spice Roasted Chickpeas
Recent Comments