It is never too late for Gingerbread Cookies. It is our family tradition to bake them every winter. All the species are incredibly healthy as they keep us warm, healthy and balanced on cold winter days.

It's this time of a year that soups are on my family's daily menu. I can say, soup for me is a portion of comfort food when it's cold outside. It's a quick meal that warms you up; according to nutritionists, hot soup can increase our body temperature. Soup can be an extremely healthy and highly nutritious meal, and it is so easy to prepare—an excellent choice for a light dinner.

When I switched to a plant-based diet, I struggled a bit with varieties of my favourite meal; breakfasts. I learned to be creative and trying to create a nutritionally dense meal, not just searching for a substitute for my old recipes. I love this easy to prepare sandwich with pea shoots.

It looks like I rarely buy the right amount of bananas for my family. We often run out of them, but there are days they end up nicely spotted and ripe. So banana bread is an excellent solution not to throw them away and turn them into a delicious afternoon snack.

A Sunny bowl of fruits has a special place in my family. This is how to story goes… Years ago my son developed an unusual cough. After unsuccessfully treating him with all kinds of allopathic ways of medicine the energetic testing showed he has overgrown yeast in his throat and he was allergic to it. One of the procedures to fight the yeast infection was a cut on the daily intake of refined sugars to 25 g.

As a vegan athlete, I have to be very careful to satisfy my daily body needs of protein consumption. At the beginning of my plant-based diet journey, it was very challenging for me to achieve enough protein intake. Soon I realized I have to become more open-minded and started to think out of the box.

I love the taste of it, especially the taste of the peanut butter, not mentioning the crunchiness of the raw peanuts in it. It was years ago that I started to read the nutritional labels on the food packages and became very strict avoiding all highly processed food.

Believe it or not, my shopping list became much shorter, also more simple as I gave myself the promise to start preparing all my meals at home, from scratch.