Vegan Avocado Soba Noodles

I absolutely LOVE avocado. Hands down one of my favorite foods that you can eat with pretty much anything (salads, pasta, pizza, sandwhiches, etc). Avocado is also super healthy for you because it contians vitamins A, B, C, E, & K. It contains both fiber AND protein, and phytochemicals (which help prevent disease and illnesses). It's also great for heart health, improves skin and eye sight, and protects against cancer. In other words, it's quite the super food.

I absolutely LOVE cheese as well. Except for I realized that cheese is very high and fat and I basically ate tons of it in every meal. One day over the summer, my boyfriend and I were eating lunch with my dad and I asked for cheese. He brought out a cheese "substitute" called Bragg's Nutritional Yeast Seasoning.

At first I was like what the hell? This is NOT cheese...but i tried it and it was decent. It definitely has a cheesy flavor, almost like that of Cheez-Its. It has 0g of fat and 1g of Dietary Fiber and 3g of protein per serving. After my realization of my eating too much cheese, the nutritional facts of the yeast seasoning sounded a lot better than my usual overload of real cheese. So I started incorporating it into pasta in place of parmesan cheese. So far it has tasted pretty good while getting the benefits of it being super healthy! I particularly like the recipe shown above. It consists of:

• Buckwheat Soba Noodles
• Half an Avocado, sliced
• Olive Oil
• Bragg's Nutritional Yeast Seasoning
• A dash of salt

Cook the buckwheat noodles in boiling water as you would any pasta (follow directions on package). Then drizzle some olive oil, sliced half of an avocado, and Bragg's Nutritional Yeast Seasoning. Add some salt to taste and voila, you have a super healthy, fiber rich, low fat pasta meal :)