Three Healthy (and delicious!) New Year’s Eve Party Recipes, starring Cauliflower
Are you sick of rich, heavy, succulent holiday food yet? Hopefully your leftovers are almost gone, you’ve been reaping the benefits of peppermint tea this week (if you haven’t, read this blog post immediately), and you’re feeling ready to get back in the kitchen and whip up some delicious New Year’s Eve party food! After all [...]
Love, folks. It’s the very best gift!
At our core, we’re a family company. We like rugrats running around, bumping into walls, crawling under tables, and wiping chocolate faces on white couches. We like moms and dads, loud uncles, oddball cousins, and grandmas who pinch cheeks and knead dough with wrinkly hands. We love dinner table insanity, everyone talking over everyone else, laughing, yelling, smiling, while passing [...]
Five Paper Christmas Craft Ideas to Distract the Kids From Snooping Under the Tree
It’s Christmas Eve, aka tree snooping day!To keep the kiddies distracted from the holiday treasures that await, we’ve put together a list of super fun Christmas craft ideas. These DIYers aren’t just pleasantly festive, they’re also very simple to execute. That means you’re free to sip on mulled berry wine while you supervise. Win!Embarrassingly Easy [...]
The Anything Goes Vegan Dark Chocolate Bark Recipe
Making chocolate bark is one of our favorite holiday rituals. Not only is it insanely simple, the flavor combinations are virtually endless. We’re talking nuts, sea salt, candy, dried fruit, herbs, spices, granola, popcorn, you name it, baby!Chocolate bark is great because you can mix and match chocolate and toppings based on mood, diet or [...]
$10 Stocking Stuffers That Don't Stink!
The VerMints elves have extra busy this season, making some seriously cute, incredibly tasty, and utterly enviable stocking stuffers!In the spirit of kissing, we’re offering holiday trio packs of VerMints. That’s 3 tins of fresh n’ FABULOUS organic mints for just $10 (plus free shipping!).* We’ve even wrapped them up in some festive ribbon and attached [...]
Berry Mulled Wine: The Perfect Vegan Holiday Cocktail
The decorations are up, the shopping is done and the cookies are fresh out of the oven. Okay, maybe you haven’t gotten that far yet. No judgement here (we’ve been known to procrastinate on the baking part, too). Either way, you deserve to relax with a super delicious, extra special vegan holiday cocktail.Normally we’d suggest [...]
Three Unexpected Ways to Use Maple Syrup
Reserving maple syrup for breakfast is like only eating pie on holidays. What a waste! While we all know about the magical emotional healing powers of a good pie (at any time of year!), many people still aren’t aware of maple syrup’s superfood status or of how versatile an ingredient it is. So let’s shed a little light, shall we?Beware [...]
Six Eco-Friendly Stocking Stuffers You Can Buy While Drinking Holiday Cocktails
Holiday shopping can be hard. Long lines, short tempers, and sweaty, crowded malls are enough to make you want to just pick up a bunch of Target gift cards and move on to the rum n’ nog. But when push comes to shove, we know you’re going to hunt down the perfect gifts for everyone on your list, and we want [...]
Ring in the holidays with this VerMints Peppermint Mocha recipe
It’s the most wonderful time of the year — Peppermint Mocha season (see ya next year, Pumpkin Spice Latté)! You’re probably well-acquainted with Starbucks' version of this holiday classic. But hold the phone — have you checked out the nutritional facts of this decadent bevvy? Even without the whipped cream on your grandé cup of mint chocolate heaven, you’re looking at [...]
Wintergreen essential oil: Nature’s cold remedy
Flu season is officially upon us (boo!). And it seems no amount of aspirin or cough syrup can cure the headaches, sore muscles and sinus pain that plague us in these cold winter months. Lots of studies are popping up that argue common cold medicines are actually making things worse. So this season we’re skipping the pharmacy and letting nature [...]