Reality Bites

The Beet’s 21-Day Plant-Based Challenge is somehow reading my mind and feeling all my cravings! First, on Day 11, a Chickpea “Tuna” Salad recipe landed in my inbox, which I used to re-imagine the Tuna Melt Deluxe of my diner-going Jersey shore adolescence.  Then, on Day 16...

I’m writing this on Day 11 of The Beet’s 21-Day Plant-Based Challenge.  Three things recently got me here, on what’s probably the 797th of such diet challenges I’ve tried over the decades—but somehow this one really does feel different (Disclosure:  I’ve said that about Keto, Atkins, Paleo, Weight Watchers, the Cabbage Soup Diet, and probably a dozen others). First, my friend Lucy Danziger launche

Welcome to Reality Bites, our new series that reports on how each recipe really turns out when normal readers who love to cook and eat plant-based try out the recipes. We ask: How did it go, and would you make it again? As well as whether you'd feed it to non-vegan or plant-based eaters, and how you might suggest modifying the recipe for others or what changes you made to it (we all do it... Read

Welcome to Reality Bites, our series of reporting back on readers who make the recipes we feature here at The Beet. This is where they test the recipe, let us know what it took to make it and whether it was worth making again. Please send your Reality Bites stories to info@thebeet...

Welcome to Reality Bites, our series of reporting back on readers who make the recipes we feature here at The Beet. This is where they test the recipe, let us know what it took to make it and whether it was worth making again. Please send your Reality Bites stories to info@thebeet...

Welcome to "Reality Bites," a new column for The Beet. A reader cooks a recipe. We asked our friend and healthy eating enthusiast Claudia Leopold to write her experiences when making the recipes from The Beet. She had fun cooking her first recipe and served it for a table full of Merriers during the Holiday season. And ...