06 Oct MY HUGE 1 YEAR BLOG ANNIVERSARY GIVEAWAY SERIES!!
GIVEAWAY SCHEDULE CAN BE FOUND HERE!
Thank you all for your love and support here on Sweet Simple Vegan and on Instagram this past year. I started my Instagram in April 2013 and my blog in October 2014 without ever having intended to go this far with it, but here I am today! I am inspired by each and every one of you everyday, and I love being able to influence others to take charge of their health and live a happier and healthier life! In honor of this past year, and most especially all of my beautiful followers and readers, I have teamed up with 13 amazing companies to give you some of my FAVORITES! So I present to you my MY HUGE 1 YEAR BLOG ANNIVERSARY GIVEAWAY! All of the companies participating will be included below. You will be able to submit entries EVERYDAY, depending on the type of entry. This way you can increase your chances each week until the close of each giveaway, which I suggest you do, because you DON'T want to let any of these prizes go! SEVEN WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN! Each week, 1 winner will receive a prize from TWO companies! Be sure to stay on the lookout for the weekly announcements! Subscribe on my sidebar to keep up to date.HOW TO ENTER?
EACH WEEK, there will be a new post that is giving away 2 prizes.
10/6-10/14 The Coco Jack Deluxe Pack, Sweet Simple Vegan Merchandise + Vegan Recipe Ebook. CLOSED
10/14-10/21 Better Body Foods & Glass Dharma CLOSED
10/21-10/28 Live Love Pop & Beaming CLOSED
10/28-11/4 Simple and Crisp & Melissa's Produce
11/4-11/11 Square Bars & Twinkle Twinkle Lil' Jar
11/11-11/18 Dang Foods & The Chia Co.
11/18-11/25 Sambazon & Arctic Power Berries
This is the Best Raw Vegan Vanilla Ice Cream I have ever tasted.
A bold statement, yes. The truth? ABSOLUTELY.
This is the ice cream that I used as a base for my 
Feast your eyes on this beautiful pre-oven cobbler! Be sure that after you place all of the stone fruit into the batter, pour the remaining juices and sugar over it, that way you get all of the sweet fruity goodness. 
I have been slacking on my greens lately, not going to lie! School has started, and adding this on top of my internship has caused me to have long days, away from the beloved kitchen. It has been lots of bananas, dates and dried figs for me, as these are most convenient for both calories and transportation. I finally had some time yesterday after work to whip up a salad, and this is what I came up with.
The star of this salad is the Tomato Jalapeño vinaigrette I used! It is raw, vegan, oil-free and salt-free! I sweetened it with a medjool date, used water instead of oil, and made sure I used a 
I had a little too many plantains at once, so I decided I needed to somehow put them to use. If you can use extra ripe bananas up and make banana bread, why couldn't you do the same with plantains and make some plantain bread? Well, I got to it, and succeeded! I was able to create this delicious gluten-free plantain chai nut bread that I am sharing with you today.
More often than not, the guests who I have over when I am ripening plantains freak out over the "rotten bananas" I have on my counter."Oh my goodness, why are you bananas so rotten!?" Plantains ripen in a whole different way than bananas. Instead of waiting for brown spots and a yellow color as in regular conventional bananas, plantains come green, have a thick skin, and reach their ripest when fully black.