6 Ways to embrace your inner child (and get happy!)
The older we get, the more we tend to neglect our inner child. Stress, responsibilities and various emotional or physical traumatic experiences thicken our skin and can cause us to become serious, cynical, and just plain tired.In addition to our own grown-up baggage, we live in a society that tends to frown on child-like behavior in adults. Too much play [...]
VerMints honors ALS Knights with annual donation and custom designed tins
ALS Knights is an organization built around helping the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) community spread awareness about the disease. Ultimately, by supporting ALS patients, families and friends emotionally, and funding a strong movement to find a cure. ALS Knights was founded by a dear friend of VerMints, Kevin Gosnell. We are so inspired by Kevin Gosnell’s positive attitude, perseverance and compassion [...]
Indulge in our sinfully delicious Vegan Peppermint Bark Cupcake Recipe
When you’re craving something decadent but want to stay on track with your health and fitness goals, Vermints’ Vegan PepperMint Bark Cupcakes are the answer.With natural ingredients like coconut sugar and almond milk, these sweet treats taste a hell of a lot more sinful than they actually are. They’re fluffy, chocolatey, and oh-so-minty fresh. What more could you [...]
Plant-Based Living with Hot For Food's Lauren Toyota
We’ve been following hot for food for a while. And, finally, when our crush reached mad love proportions, we took a leap and reached out to Lauren Toyota, the creator of and the sweet sunshine behind hot for food, a vegan blog and YouTube channel. This woman makes plant-based eating living look so fun, easy, and enjoyable. (Because it is!)Lauren [...]
Manage tough cravings with mindful eating meditation
You’ve been sticking to your healthy diet all day long. Superfoods, check. Green smoothies, check. Lean protein, check check. But the clock is about to strike 10 p.m. and you know what that means. Your snack cravings are going to kick into high gear and you can already see yourself throwing out an entire day of healthy nutrients, all in the name of Doritos.But [...]
Our favorite top 10 tips for mindful eating
It’s Sunday afternoon and you’re sprawled out on the couch, in the third or fourth hour of your own personal Making a Murder marathon, covered in chip crumbs.Or maybe you’re jogging from zumba to yoga, wiping the sweat from your brow as you wolf down a Vega bar while simultaneously sucking back a Jamba Juice.Chances are your lifestyle falls somewhere between these [...]
Attack the day with these 10 ultimate superfoods
If you're like us, you are BUSY! We're talking every minute of every day jam packed with work and play and wonder and to-do lists and driving and running and walking and playing and picking up the kids and connecting and communicating and buying groceries and handing in reports and texting and talking and planning [...]
Superfood smoothies that kickstart every morning!
When the alarm buzzes, you've got two choices as we see it:Slam your hand down fast and furious on the Snooze button and attempt to enjoy 9 more minutes of sleep. (These 9 minutes, for the record, are NEVER glorious)Get up. Stretch. Open the curtains. And power up the Vitamix, baby! Naturally, we recommend #2. Though admit [...]
Three crucial tips for making your New Year’s resolutions stick
You’re human, which means you’ve broken a New Year’s resolution at least once or twice. Chances are you’ve buried your annual list of goals for self improvement in a deep, confetti-filled grave more times than you'd care to admit. Hey, it happens to the best of us.Ultra-busy reality has a pesky habit of firing back up by [...]