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If you love recipes like these vegan hot chicken biscuits, make sure to order my new cookbook SWEET POTATO SOUL. On my cross country road trip with my boo last summer, we ate at Nashville’s The Southern V, a hugely popular black-owned vegan restaurant that serves the most delicious and authentic vegan soul food. We ordered their vegan hot chicken biscuits, and I was immediately transported back to the biscuits of my childhood, only these had an amazing spicy kick! And lastly, if you don’t like your hot “chick’n” so darn hot, use the batter from this recipe for vegan chicken & waffles.

To make these Coco Date balls I blended caramelly dates with toasted pecans, raw cacao powder, and uplifting MegaFood® Daily Energy Nutrient Booster Powder™, then rolled them in chunky shreds of coconut. The MegaFood® Daily Energy Nutrient Booster Powder™ is an unsweetened blend of FoodState® B12, Chromium, beet root, eleuthero root, ashwaganda, bacopa, and green tea. * My favorite way to use the Nutrient Booster Powder is in date balls like these. Check out my other recipes using my other favorite MegaFood® Nutrient Booster Powders:

You don’t have to shop at a health food store or fancy grocer to buy staple products like legumes, grains, or veggies. Depending on where you live and the time of year, conventionally grown local produce may be more nutritious (especially if the organic produce had to travel long distances to reach your supermarket), and it’ll certainly be less expensive. Shop at stores like Costco, Aldi, ethnic grocery stores, and Trader Joes for fantastic prices on produce and other vegan staples. For example: Costco has great prices on bulk size packaged goods like Gardein, Asian grocery stores have the least expensive and widest selection of great mushrooms, and Indian markets have the freshest spices at amazing prices.

I’d be lying if I said that I don’t like plant-based alternatives to meat. As you’ll see in my recipes below, Gardein is a better-for-you (and better-for-animals-&-the-environment) plant protein that can be used in place of meat for all sorts of recipes. Take Out Style Kung-Pao Chicken | Vegan Recipes for Meat Lovers This is definitely one of my favorite vegan recipes for meat lovers.