Free Cooking Class: Digestive Health
TUESDAY | 5.13.2025 | 4:00-5:30 p.m. EDT
Saratoga (NY) Senior Center
Join Deb Czech for a free, hands-on, plant-based cooking class supporting digestive health. Hosted by MVP Health Care; open to the public. Food samples, useful tips, and take-home recipes!
Cooking Class: Food & Mood
SAT. | 5.10.2025 | 11:30am-1:00pm EDT
Southern Saratoga YMCA (NY)
Join Deb Czech for this plant-based, participatory cooking class about the link between food and mood. Food samples, useful tips, and take-home recipes! Hosted by Capital District YMCA.
Plant-Based Sandwiches | Video and Recipes
Fun and filling, these tasty plant-based sandwiches and condiments feature robust flavors and are easy to create. It’s time to trade in sandwiches with meat, cheese, fish, and eggs for flavorful, healthy plants!
Resources on Food, Agriculture, and Climate Change
Did you know that by eating more plant-based meals, you can help to reduce global warming? Animal agriculture is responsible for significant environmental damage around the globe. Check out our recommended films and articles with more details.
Stuffed Peppers
Depending on portion size (whole pepper vs. half), this dish works well as a main entree or a side dish. Any leftovers make an easy lunch or supper the next day.
Delicious Plant-Based Bowls | Recipe Booklet
Learn how to build a flavorful, healthy, plant-based meal in a bowl. Fun and tasty, these colorful creations (sometimes called grain bowls or wellness bowls) draw on global culinary traditions.
Eat More Plants: 5 Tips to Make it Fun and Easy
Do you want to regain the energy you had years ago? Do you have health metrics you’d like to raise or lower? Want to get healthier quickly to reduce your COVID risks? A plant-based diet can help!
Plants & Protein
By far, the most common question a plant-based eater hears is, “Where do you get your protein?” Over and over (and over) again, people are very concerned about protein deficiencies on a plant-based diet. Even when you assure them of your continued survival, and add in...
Rethinking Restaurant Salads for Maximum Appeal
It’s very common these days to review a restaurant menu and notice that every salad has animal protein on it: salad with goat cheese or bacon; salad with chicken, or salmon, or shrimp; salad with grilled steak. We’ve all seen this, right?
Food For Life Classes Teach Tasty Plant-Based Recipes
Food for Life classes feature nutrition information and recipes that can help to prevent diet-related chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Designed by physicians, nurses, and registered dietitians, Food for Life promotes healthful eating based on the latest scientific research.
Family Food Traditions: Helping or Hurting?
Though we sometimes say that our health issues are “hereditary” it is often our family recipes and mealtime patterns that have guided our behavior over many years and brought on malaise and disease.
Top Flavor Ingredients in Plant-based Cooking
What are some of the plant-based kitchen staples that accent whole food ingredients in a healthy, tasty vegan meal? Here are some of Planted Platter’s favorite flavor elements for fabulous plant-based cooking.
“I’m Allergic to Veggies”
Sometimes people say they don’t like vegetables because they have had unpleasant experiences eating them before. If you need coaching and guidance on how to adjust to plant-based eating, Planted Platter can help.