Yours truly on TV this week, plus 3 easy ways to plantify your plate

Published: Sun, 09/13/15

Hi !

Here's a snapshot of the trial run of Country Comfort Cornbread biscuits that I've promised to bring for show-and-tell on Good Morning Sacramento (CBS) in Sacramento this Thursday!

The producer heard about The Plant-Based Journey and asked me to come by the show to demonstrate some of my tips for fast ways to plantify your plate (pg. 74 - 81 in Journey).

Um, yes, I can do that! We only have 3 minutes or so for the segment, so this is not a big cooking demo (thank goonness!) so I'm coming with prepared items and ingredients for a quick show-tell about how to quickly up the plant content on your plate.

And as Country Comfort Cornbread (pg. 194) is so popular, I figured I'd embellish what is already in the recipe - whole kernels of corn - with even more plant color. Chop red and green bell peppers and add to the batter with the corn and you have instant Fiesta Muffins!

Though I usually cook cornbread in a pan, I thought 'muffins style' might be easier to handle on the set. What do you think?

Special Extra Newsflash and Recipe from Journey from My Publisher!

If you are getting the Bites newsletter from my publisher, BenBella, then this newsflash hit your inbox yesterday. If not, here's the link to a Q and A with me, some pictures of food from Journey recipes, and the Pumpkin Muffin Recipe from the Crowd Pleasers and Can't Misses Chapter (pg. 189).

PBJ Release Newsflash Interview with BenBella

More Tips About Getting More Plants on Your Plate

I was recently contacted by Azumio™ - a leader in health and fitness apps on mobile devices with more than 70 million downloads to date - to write for their Nutrition column. This week my first article was published -

3 Ways to Get More Plants on Your Plate

If you pop over to read the article I hpe you'll click on 'like' heart. Let's show 'em how popular plant-based topics are! My next article for them is "Are Beans the Ultimate Skinny Food"? I'll let you know when she's up and meanwhile you can download their app (Argus) for free and use their fitness app as well as get daily food and fitness articles on your phone.

More Plant-Based Journey Media from this week

With countdown to official launch of Journey, it's been an absolute delight to connect with a full lineup of radio hosts, podcasters, and other media all this week - which continues on into September. In case you missed it, here is the conversation I had earlier this week with Victoria Moran on Unity Radio.

If you are a member over at Engine2 Extra, then we met up in the LIVE chat over at E2X earlier this week. All week Journey (and several of her recipes) was featured on the Cooking Channel at Vegan Mainstream - so great to meet up with many there! Tuesday I'll be on Juice Guru Radio at 3:00.

And - as a special treat - this week Howard Jacobson invited me to be a guest on his famous Plant Yourself Podcast, which we recorded earlier this week to premier tomorrow, Monday September 14, to celebrate the official launch of Journey on the 15th. The podcast goes live tomorrow, so I'll send you a quick newsflash with the link when it goes up, OK?

The Blog Tour Continues!

Every weekday this month a different blogger is featuring a review, recipe from and/or giveaway of The Plant-Based Journey. Each day as the article goes live, it is linked to this page:

Click here to see the #pbjblogtour schedule and links

Hope to see you - in many places!

So happy to be on this journey with you,

Lani

P.S Remember, I'll send you a newsflash tomorrow when the exclusive podcast just recorded with me this week by Howard Jacobson - co author with T. Colin Campbell of Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition - goes live!

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More Cheers for The Plant-Based Journey....

Early Reviews and Have You Heard About the Templates?

Speaking of easy ways to get in more plants, the response to the Recipe Templates in Journey has been very exciting! Here's an example of how the Templates are going over from a review sent to my by Chrysta that I'd like to share with you:

"Lani, The Plant Based Journey is incredible. No other words for it. I was actually raised a vegan and have read a ton of books and information on it.

This book is so unique as it encompasses almost all aspects of what most people struggle with. I've had a lot of friends and family curious about switching over to a more plant based diet and have not been able to successfully do it because of common reasons pertaining to hunger, traveling, dealing with family, overly complicated recipes...etc...etc.

It's almost like you hit every topic and gave easy and simple changes to overcome them.

I absolutely love that you give recipe templates!! I learned to cook watching my mom and therefore no recipes..it was just adding this and that and appreciating food. You give such a wonderful guide on how to start people getting back to that style of cooking and making it as simple as possible. I absolutely adore it.

Sorry to ramble but I am just so excited about this book. I finally feel like I have a resource I can refer to in order to help people on their own journeys to living a healthier lifestyle. It's not only for newbies I learned a lot from the book and so enjoyed reading it. Thank you so much! This book is just awesome."