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Oil-Free Creamy Broccoli Salad

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Make a double batch because this beautiful crunchy, tangy Oil-Free Creamy Broccoli Salad is so delicious that you’ll want to eat the whole bowlful. 

Oil-Free Creamy Broccoli Salad

Did you know that broccoli is packed with nutrients?

One cup of raw, chopped broccoli contains only 31 calories, 6 grams of carbohydrates and more than a third of the carbohydrates found in broccoli come from fiber (2.4 grams), so it will fill you up and do all the wonderful things that fiber does.
Fiber: 2.4g
Protein: 2.5g
Fat: 0.3g
Sodium: 30mg

That’s why our mom always told us to eat our broccoli 😉

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NanaJo’s Oil-Free Italian Dressing

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Zesty and bursting with flavor, NanaJo’s Oil-Free Italian Dressing is perfect for many types of salads and especially good on a pasta salad. 

NanaJo's Oil-Free Italian Dressing

My mom (aka: NanaJo) has been making her own Italian dressing for most of my life. This was our go-to dressing for taco salad and was an often requested recipe by family and friends. The original recipe used olive oil, so when we started on our whole food, plant-based way of eating, we had to come up with a way to replace the oil.

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Vegan Oil-Free Nut-Free Pesto

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There’s something so cheerful about a bright green, lemony pesto sauce. This Vegan Oil-Free, Nut-Free Pesto can be added to pasta, rice, salad dressings…so many delicious options!

Vegan Oil-Free Nut-Free Pesto

 

Many, if not all of us,  have come from eating the Standard American Diet (SAD) and worked towards a way of eating that omits some of the unhealthy ingredients from that type of diet. The SAD pesto included parmesan cheese and olive oil…two things that give it the texture and flavor that we loved.

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