Unlock the Potential of a Healthy 2024
January/February 2024 Events at a Glance
January 13 – 8:30 am – Gardening at Blackshear Elementary School – Saturday
January 14 – Weekly Sourdough Recipe Series through February 25
January 20 – 9 am – Meditation – Saturday
January 20 – 9:45 am – Pilates – Saturday – Saturday
January 20 – 11 am – Cooking Class – Saturday
January 20 – 6 PM – Presentation & Vegan Potluck, Chili Cook Off – Saturday
January 27 – 12 Noon – Cooking Demo & Vegan Potluck – Saturday
January 28 – 12 Noon – Vegan Sushi Experience at Chef Kenny’s – Sunday
January 28 – 1 pm – Presentation & WFPB Potluck – Sunday
February 3 – 9 am – Meditation – Saturday
February 3 – 9:45 am – Walk With a Doc at Evelyn’s Park – Saturday
February 3 – 5 pm – Dinner Out at Moveable Feast – Saturday
February 11 – 2 pm CST – Your Heart is Gonna Love Ya, Virtual Cooking Class – Sunday
April 13 – Yearly Retreat – Neal Barnard and Micheal Greger!
Unlock the Potential of a Healthy 2024!
Welcome to our journey into 2024!
We are wishing you a happy, healthy New Year and hope to support you on your journey in health. Here are the January into February events to inspire you to connect with others and energize yourself through new ideas and opportunities.
Potlucks
🍽️ First UU starts into 2024 with the annual Chili Cook Off and Potluck. Please RSVP – this event is filling up!
Date and Time: Saturday, January 20 at 6 pm
Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church
5200 Fannin St, Houston, 77004
🍽️ Vegan Potluck and Cooking Demo
The newly formed Woodlands POD – Plant Based Woodlands – A Plant Pure POD will host a potluck with a cooking demo.
Connect with the Woodlands Pod on Facebook.
Date and Time: Saturday, January 27, 2024, 12:00 – 2:00 PM
Location: South Regional Library, 2101 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, TX
Large Meeting Room on the First Floor
Plenty of parking in the library parking lot or at the community center
For more information email to PlantbasedWoodlands@gmail.com
🍽️ Bayou City Beet continues the regular Potluck Series at Lifestyle Docs. Our January speaker will be Dr. Robin Weill, PhD. clinical psychologist. Show off your best whole foods plant-based creation.
Date and Time: January 28 at 1 pm
Location: Lifestyle Docs Clinic 4500 Bissonnet, Suite 355, 77041
Dining Out
🧑🏼🍳 PlantEd in Fort Bend starts the year with a fabulous vegan sushi experience at Chef Kenny’s Vegan Asian Cuisine.
Date and Time: January 28 at 12 noon
Location: Chef Kenny’s, 6128 Wilcrest Drive, Houston, 77072
Please RSVP to LisaArnold4U@yahoo.com so that we will have a seat for you.
🧑🏼🍳 Harmony ‘N Houston invites you to dinner out in a locally popular restaurant offering a separate vegan menu.
Date and Time: February 3 at 5 pm
Location: A Moveable Feast, 9341 Katy Fwy, 77024
Please RSVP to SusanInTheHeights@gmail.com.
Cooking Classes
🥘 Your heart is gonna love ya’❣️
PLANTifull Fare Pod is hosting a Food For Life Foods for a Healthy Heart Cooking Demo on February 11th at 2:00 pm CST. Learn how to make delicious whole food plant-based dishes for the health of your heart! This 90-minute online class features a video, a discussion, and a cooking demonstration. It provides an excellent overview of plant-based foods for a healthy heart.
Register today!
Dates: February 11 at 2 pm CST
Location: Online
For questions, please contact Donna@PlantiFullFare.com
🥘 Lifestyle Docs welcome Nathalie Morton, Pod Co-Leader of PlantEd in Fort Bend, to the clinic for the January plant based cooking class! Nathalie will demonstrate how to create a potato corn chowder and more. Please register using the link below.
https://embeelifestyledocs.com/cooking-class/
Date and Time: Saturday, January 20 at 11 am
Location: Lifestyle Docs, 4500 Bissonnet St. Suite #355, Bellaire, 77401
More Pod Events
There is still time to join The Twelve Weeks of WFPB Sourdough!
The PLANTifull Fare Pod is sponsoring a series titled: The Twelve Weeks of WFPB Sourdough. Each week, Donna Spencer (Pod Lead) will send a recipe that uses a sourdough starter. It could be a bread, muffin, pancake/waffle, cookie, or another baked good item made the whole food plant-based way. The posts will begin on December 10th with the last recipe sent on February 25th. To have the recipes delivered to your mailbox, sign-up here. They also will be posted on the PLANTifull Fare website, PlantPure Houston website, and PLANTifull Fare Facebook group.
Dates: Weekly through Sunday, Feb 25th
For questions, please contact Donna@PlantiFullFare.com
DIY Plant-Based Snacks
The PLANTifull Fare Pod has a fun challenge coming up over the weekend of January 20.
To expand our snacking options, let’s share a pic or link via the Facebook Group of your favorite Plant-Based snack. Share what WFPB snack you enjoy and don’t feel guilty about throughout the weekend (post as many times as you like). For example Roasted chickpeas, a favorite smoothie or popcorn with a special seasoning blend.
Dates: Weekend of January 20th and 21st.
Lifestyle Docs Events
🧘🧘🏽♂️ Mindfulness Meditation with Dr. Munish Chawla, MD
🏫 Learn how to grow vegetables and help out a School Garden. Peaceful Planet Foundation collaborates with Urban Harvest supporting the Blackshear Elementary Community Garden on the second Saturday every month.
- Date and Time: January 13 at 8:30 am
- Location: Blackshear Elementary School, 2900 Holman St, 77004
- Enter parking lot from Ennis across from the Third Ward Multi-Service Community Center
🚶♀️🚶🏽♂️Walk With A Doc with Drs. Bandana and Munish Chawla, has returned. Enjoy a stroll around Evelyn’s Park while discussing lifestyle topics with the doctors and participants.
- Date and Time: February 3 at 9:45 am
- Location: Evelyn’s Park, 4400 Bellaire Blvd, Bellaire, 77401
The Big Event!
The 6th Annual Yearly Retreat of the Peaceful Planet Foundation is coming – Saturday, April 13th from 9am-4pm.
Registration is now open for Peaceful Planet Foundation‘s 6th Annual One Day Retreat! Held in Houston, TX, on Saturday, April 13th from 9am-4pm, it is a wonderful event! Dr. Neal Barnard from PCRM will be the keynote speaker this year, so get excited.
This year’s retreat will feature health and nutrition lectures, cooking demos, workshops, a variety of vendors, yoga and mindfulness sessions, and more. Plant-based lunch is included. Breakfast, snacks, and beverages will be available for purchase. Suggested donation for in-person registration. Please 1. fill in the boxes, 2. sign the waiver near the end of the form at the link below. For early bird, the suggested donation is $35. The suggested donation will increase $45 on 2/1/24.
Scroll to the bottom of this link to https://peacefulplanetfoundation.org/yearly-retreat-2024/ to complete the registration. Enjoy highlights from the 2023 retreat here.
Until next month our friends, we wish you good health, lots of laughter, and peace!
In Peace and Health,
PlantPure Houston Pod Leaders
Pod Leader contacts
Contact Karoline (aka Karlina)
Bayou City Beet POD
Ettental@yahoo.com
(832) 647-2220
Contact Lisa
PlantEd Fort Bend POD
LisaArnold4U@yahoo.com
(713) 560-7849
Contact Susan
Harmony N Houston POD
susanintheheights@att.net
(713) 724-1880
Contact Donna:
PLANTifull Fare POD
donna@plantifullfare.com
Contact Sangeeta
Plant-Based Woodlands
sangeeta_wahi@yahoo.com
