Stephanie Dreyer is a plant-based meal planning expert and the founder of StephanieDreyer.com where she helps busy parents bring more ease to their meal prep and meal times. Her children's books, Not A Nugget and Not A Purse, are both available on Amazon. Join her community to receive tips and recipes for easy family meal planning!
Meal planning for kids can be challenging…to say the least! With a more limited palate and less willingness to try new foods than adults, how do you please the kids and still satiate the adults at the dinner table? With lots of options for everyone! Kids vegan meals for the win! I’m not talking about…
Has the most important meal of the day got you dragging instead of zipping out of bed? It’s easy to get stuck in the same breakfast routine morning after morning. But as this list of vegan breakfast ideas shows, there’s more than one way to break out of your breakfast rut of cereal and almond…
I love to entertain. And Spring is one of my favorite seasons! In January, when everyone else is making resolutions and plans for the year, I’m often feeling foggy and still in hibernation mode from the Winter holidays. I’m never quite ready to forge into the new year when January 1st hits. By Spring, however,…
When I went vegan almost 10 years ago, it was going to either make or break my relationship with my non-vegan husband. But with a decade of vegan living now under my belt, I’m happy to say that “Steph and Dave” are stronger than ever! And Team Dreyer (the name I coined for my family)?…
As the solo vegan in my household, sharing vegan food with family and friends is one of my greatest joys. With nine years behind me, while raising three kids (now between 9 and 15 years old), I’ve found my vegan mama groove. I know a thing or two about introducing your family to a plant-based…
Congrats! You’ve made the decision to go cruelty-free and plant-based. Now what? First things first, be aware of some common vegan mistakes. When I went vegan almost 10 years ago, I went all in. It was an overnight decision after being a vegetarian for 5 years. After reading The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone cover…
Every vegan has their reason for going plant-based. For me, it was Mama Cow. I had just weaned my third child and I had never felt so personally connected to other nursing mamas—human and animal! I went vegan overnight and never looked back. The immediate changes to my lifestyle were dietary, but soon thereafter, I…
Fall is here and we’re deep into school lunch season! I’m doing my best not to fall into a lunch box rut. My weekly meal plan includes a lunch box menu that’s as fun for the kids to eat as it is for me to make (not to mention healthy and delicious!). These pizza roll-ups…
The after-school carpools are in full swing, homework battles have begun, and I’m back to packing lunches. It’s official—school is back in session! As a vegan mom who cooks just about every meal for her family, things get kicked up a notch during the school year. I take my weekly meal planning seriously and during…
When I went vegan, my family didn’t join me, but as the primary meal planner, grocery shopper, and cook in the family, we all eat vegan at home. At first, it was tricky to find family-friendly vegan recipes that my kids and husband would love. My kids are not big fans of faux meats and…