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As the end of the year draws nigh, we figured it would be an apt time to take a look back at 2019 and its quite monumental impact on the awareness of the environmental destruction going on around us. Greta Thunberg was named Time’s Person of the Year for having …

Photo courtesy of Gokul Barman from Pexels Christmas is on the horizon, and, as always, HurryTheFoodUp will be promoting a veggie and vegan Christmas dinner. But we’ll sometimes be promoting it quietly. More on that in a minute. Christmas, in many parts of the Western world, is a time of …

High-protein Vegetarian Recipes Hi everybody, we vegetarians often run into the trap of turning into a “carbatarian” – someone who mostly eats foods high in (refined) carbohydrates. This often happens when we replace meat with the “wrong” stuff. Simply put: too much white bread, pasta, rice and heavily processed foods …

Nowadays the average American spends 27 minutes daily cooking. In many other western societies it’s pretty similar. Wowwww, that’s very little time to prepare a healthy and tasty breakfast, lunch and dinner – for one person. I can’t imagine how that should work for an entire family. Plus, I’m not …

Photo by mali maeder from Pexels Hi Food Rebels, It’s Black Friday and things are indeed looking blacker than ever – for the oceans. Way back when we made this Vegan Tuna Salad recipe, we first started to look at how the mass fishing industry was impacting the ocean and …

Hi Food Rebels, Thanksgiving is around the corner and that means loads of Turkeys are gonna roast in the oven. And thinking about it, I don’t want to take it away from you. If there is an occasion where I’d say “I’m ok with meat on the table”, then it’s …

Vegetarian Weight Loss Recipes Whether you’re looking at the vegetarian diet to lose weight in a month or a year, we’ve got recipes for everyone. Vegetarians are in a good place when it comes to weight loss – the veggie diet can be surprisingly effective. Weight loss isn’t just about …

Photo by Free-Photos from Pixabay Happy Friday, Food Rebels! Just a quickie this Friday, and I’d like to talk about something that’s been on my mind for a couple of weeks. I’m talking about Fault and Responsibility. After recently reading ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ (amazon link), …

Photo by D123x from Pexels Happy Friday, Food Rebels! It turns out The League of Gentlemen might have been right all along. Yep, Tubbs and Edward, the friendly, local store-keepers were very peculiar about serving locals. Alright fine, they were inbred and nuts, but they got one thing right – …

Oh wow, we’re already on the sixth installment of our Recipes For Future series. In the second post I claimed we are exposed to a broken food system that makes us sick and promotes obesity. That’s a very vague statement – I get that. Who are exactly the players of …

Happy Friday, Food Rebels! Today we’re talking about being perfect – and none of us are. No matter how good our intentions, every action we make has an environmental impact somewhere. Every item that we eat, drink or generally consume must have had an impact somewhere along the line.These impacts …

Hello Food Rebels, Today I wanted to speak about take-outs before I move on to our three vegan recipes for Fridays. A few weeks ago I went for a Kumpir – it’s a massive baked potato with lots of different toppings. It’s popular here in Berlin and thousands upon thousands …

Hi Food Rebels, Here’s an interesting statistic: in Europe, more chickens now live in factory farms than there are wild birds. In numbers, there are 1.6 billion wild birds and there are 3 billion chicken industrially farmed in Europe (video here, in German though). In other countries you’ll have similar …

Hi Food Rebels! I wanted to thank all of you for your emails and comments to our first Recipes For Future post! It’s such a motivation boost, you wouldn’t believe. In the past week I wondered why Fridays For Future triggered me so much. Do you know the food author Micheal Pollan?  In his book ‘Cooked‘ he …

Hi veggie tribe, Climate justice. It’s on! Slowly but surely camps crystallize: one is fed up with all this climate hysteria and want to send Greta on a plane home to Sweden. The other think ‘FINALLY!!‘. Dave, Kat and I are in the second camp. We are happy that the climate …

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But yet so many of us just press the snooze button waaaaayy too often and then hurry to work without having breakfast. Hands up if you’ve ever done that… If your hand just went up then these six overnight oats recipes …