A lot of people don't  like to use protein powders because they are processed and have chemical ingredients. I was able to find all three special types in their pure, one-ingredient form. I have been using the Vega Sport vanilla and chocolate recovery powders for a few years and think they taste okay in smoothies, don't have too many ingredients, and fit my need for basic vanilla/chocolate vegan protein powders.


She gives 4 basic template bowls, and for each she provides about 4 variations. This one is the peanut butter and strawberry bowl. It has frozen bananas and strawberries with almond milk, protein powder, vanilla and peanut butter. The bowls without avocado aren't as pudding-like, but more smoothie-like. Still fun to eat, though.



A great variation on the chocolate avocado bowl is to simply add greens. For this one I added kale and some spirulina powder. Other days I added just spirulina and it tasted mostly the same.



This one is the Matcha Latte Bowl, with Matcha (obv), protein powder, frozen bananas, almond milk, and vanilla. I topped with granola, blueberries, bee-free honey, white chia seeds, and sprinkled some more matcha powder on top.



I finally tried making acai bowls! This one has an acai frozen smoothie pack, frozen avocado, frozen banana protein powder and almond milk. You would be surprised how much it tastes like chocolate! It definitely has that pudding-texture which can't be beat in smoothie bowls.



I loaded this bowl with so many toppings that you can barely even see it! It's the Chai Latte Bowl with frozen bananas, protein powder, chai spices, and almond milk. It was the best with some bee-free honey. I don't think I ever put it in a chai latte before, but when have you ever been able to order a chai latte sweetened with bee-free honey? Someone should get on that.



When my stash of granola was wearing thin, I made a new batch, this time the Chocolate Hazelnut Hemp Granola. It is so good and I still have so much left. I think I made it two weeks ago. I also switched out blueberries for strawberries because I can't wait until June to eat strawberries. I was particularly stoked to eat my chocolate avocado smoothie bowl that morning not only because I got to top it with my new fresh granola, but also because I had replenished my stash of chocolate-covered chia seeds.



Okay, okay last smoothie bowl. This one is one of the best though! It's the Pumpkin Pie Smoothie Bowl, and it's got frozen bananas, almond milk, protein powder, vanilla, pumpkin and pumpkin pie spices. I ate it with unseasonal strawberries in the zombie spring.



Flipping through the book, the thing I was second-most stoked to try were the burger bowls. I remember crumbling many a beast burger over some salad this summer during my salad-reign-of-terror, and with some mustard and avocado, it was surprisingly awesome. So I began with the Black Bean Hemp Burger Bowls. The burgers have a variety of nuts and seeds, as well as the black beans and hemp protein, but are rolled in a corn-chip coating before being baked. The rest of the bowl has "refried corn quinoa" and a mango-onion salsa. This whole thing was a little dry for me, and I mostly just ate all the mango and then picked at the rest. B- on the Burger, itself.


Burger Bowl, in concept, sounds great. But the burgers are enough work on their own, and making the fixings for the sides was a ton of work too, and since it didn't really come together for me, I just made burgers with the rest. My burgers always go like this: Toasted Bun, chipotle vegenaise, spinach, tomato, guac and Chao cheese. I enjoyed the burgers much better this way.



Much more success with the BBQ Pinto Seitan Burgers. These were great. I kept worrying that they weren't cooking through enough but once you got it on the bun it was perfect. These are more like the burgers I'm into. Sorry all my burger pictures look the same.



There are still a lot of recipes I want to try. I definitely want to make some scones, muffins and brownies! There's a huge section with more breakfast food like this, with protein pancakes, protein waffles, more biscuits, more bacon, more sausage, more good stuff! There's also a huge section of toasts! Basically there's a ton of savory toasts with all sorts of things, spreads that are packed with protein, but also sweet toasts with interesting spreads too. I think so far 75% of the recipes I've tried have been really good, so I'm giving it a big thumbs up. Hopefully I'll be able to flex something soon.