Vegan tastes tropical at Vegan Lovlie!
When we stumbled on Veganlovlie, a tropical-inspired vegan cooking blog, we licked our lips and danced in the kitchen. Then we promptly made these Vegetable Pancakes for breakfast and connected with Teenuja and Kevin, the blog’s righteously creative founders, whom we believe are living the essence of what we call the #MintyFreshLife – Clean, happy, healthy living with whole foods, great [...]
A Jamie Oliver vegan inspired Mother's Day Celebration
Our two favorite gifts for a perfect Mama's Day include a whole day of delicious, homemade vegan food and a pack of Café Express mints, for an after dinner freshener, of course! When it comes to healthy cooking, who better to draw inspiration from than our favorite do-gooder chef, Jamie Oliver. Not only has Jamie been a driving force in educating the [...]
Make natural paint with leftover fruits and veggies
Homemade fruit and vegetable paint is recycling at its finest. When you just can’t finish that bag of wilting spinach (hey, it happens to the best of us), DIY paint is a great way to make the most out of a droopy, potentially smelly, situation. Plus it’ll buy you time between trips to the compost bin and save you a [...]
How to make vegan peanut butter chocolate chip cookies
April is here and the last minute tax deadline crunch demands vegan chocolate treats. Peanut butter and chocolate go together like numbers and spreadsheets — minus the headache. Give your accounting skills (or lack thereof) a little break to munch on a few of these vegan peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.Healthy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are a sweet [...]
Is chocolate vegan?
If you’re thinking about switching to an animal-free diet, there’s one question in particular that stands out: is chocolate vegan? Because while some people can’t imagine life without gouda or breakfast sans bacon, we know there are more than a few of you who wouldn’t dare commit to anything that stood in between you and your chocolate fix. So if [...]
VerMints are gluten free, yes. But did you know this?
OUR MINTS ARE THE REAL DEAL The latin word ver means “truth” or “true”, so VerMints literally translates as true mints. And this is no coincidence. Our healthy mints are made only of natural, organic ingredients. Not only that, VerMints are free of soy and nuts and they’re entirely vegan, gluten free, non-GMO, and kosher. To top it off, our fresh [...]
5 Easy Gluten Free Cinnamon Roll Recipes
Cinnamon rolls are one of those sweet n’ spicy treats that everybody loves — even those who live a gluten free lifestyle. And because we don’t subscribe to the idea of living without your favorite things, we’ve put together a short list of easy-to-make gluten free cinnamon roll recipes. We’ve even included a vegan recipe, because when it comes [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]