awww you guys are so healthy!
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um i usually have either oatmeal or cereal with almond milk (like soy too, but i eat a lot of soy meats and didnt want to over do the estrogen)
i make a lot of stir fry things with differenct veggies and with tofu or seitan or sometihng...
i like Lightlife vegan hot dogs too, and Lightlife deli slices - ham, etc...
I eat a lot of beans, nuts, fruits, some boca things too (im not a huge cook, i want to be but a lot of my stuff is like already made ha i cook stir frys and thats about it. i want to get kind life and be better at cooking though)
i always have beans, quinoa, soups, fruits and veggies in the kitchen
stuff like that
For breakfast I'll normally have some mix of fruits (most of the time it's the berry family) with ground flax seeds on top. If I'm still hungry after that I'll normally have a piece of whole grain toast.
Lunch is normally mixed veggies/salad and it's sometimes with a soup.
Dinner is a mash up of whatever I'm craving at the time. Most of the time that's soup again. I don't know why I like soup so much. Maybe it's because I live in Indiana and for winter, soup is amazing. I just love soup. Plus it's so filling.
Snacks range from carrots to celery with peanut or almond butter and seeds or dried fruit. Maybe a self made trail mix. It all depends. I'm not a huge fan of nuts, though.
breakfast: herbal teapiece of fruit if I remember, I bought a ton of tart apples & asian pears recently, so i have them on hand.
snack:dried cranberries or 50% less salt roasted almonds from Trader Joe's, I love those.more herbal tea, or caffeinated tea (chai, black)piece of fruit
lunch:souplately, it's been buzzitos vegan burritoslunch in downtown Portland which can vary from tofu bento bowls to thai summer rolls to indian foodwater
dinner:lately I've been into homemade seitan lightly sauteed with veggies over jasmine rice with a little tamari and garlic. This past week has been pasta e faglio from the urban vegan cookbook with baked seitan nuggets, but last night was a maple tempeh sandwich from Blossoming Lotus. I've been trying to dine out less at night!
Thanks, Kelly!!
and Karen, I also get mine at Trader Joe's. I hate walmart but they even sell it and most bigger grocery stores are getting nice vegetarian sections in their produce aisle. I've seen it at Safeway.
SO convenient, Lyndsay, thank you! It is so great that the bigger stores are coming around to offering all these alternatives, n'est pas? :)
Great idea to inspire others, Bonny!
Here's today so far:
Brekkie:
blueberry meusli with chopped apples, strawberries, and almond milk
Lunch:
big bowl of soup with brown jasmine rice, red lentils, carrots, chopped kale, butternut squash base; big chunk of wholegrain artisan bread for dunking.
weekday breakfast- coffee, maybe fruit or almonds of I'm lucky
weekend breakfast- veggies burritos- garlic onions broccoli zucc peppers chipotles with broken up firm tofu (to act as egg) topped with green onion radish salsa hot sauce and guacamole!
lunch- Indian, Thai, veggie sand or hummus platter (no feta, extra olives!)
dinner- Baha tacos (sub breaded tempe for fish), lots of fresh veg, Kung Poa Tofu, Indian, Thai, Past with Red sauce, soup, it's endless
dessert- Dark Chocolate, Coconut Bliss, or homemade Vegan Donuts!
Since becoming a vegan 2 months ago I have probably purchased and consumed almost 10 cans (makes about 3 meals each) of Jyoti Chole, a Potato, Onion and Chickpea curry dish over hot and fresh basmati rice. It is the best ready-made curry I've ever had, and it comes from a bloody can! I buy it at Organza, a NHF store in Winnpeg, MB. I love love love curry, but whenever I make it from scratch it tastes dry and the flavors don't seem to diffuse enough. This stuff is my favorite go-to meal, I eat it for breakfast, dinner and midnight snacks.
I like to eat raw food with every meal, just to get in the good live enzymes, so sometimes I should top this with some of my home-grown lentil sprouts... I just haven't messed with perfection just yet. :P
Just had the soy chorizo from trader joes tonight for dinner. In a wheat wrap with peppers onions squash rice and black beans. It was amazing!
I've only been eating this way for about three weeks, but my breakfast is usually oatmeal with flax seed and fruit. Sometimes I use apple juice to sweeten if i have no berries around.
I love morning star and light life, but I need to watch the estrogen intake too - lunch is usually left overs from the night before - kale steamed in either water or organic vegetable stock, usually one of the lundenberg rice packs with cut up vegetables - squash, onions, carrots, celery - or whatever I have in the refrigerator-, over the rice with either a spicy black bean veggie burger sprinkled over the top, or a hand full of nuts. I like to have lots of color on my plate, I use beets, and sweet potatoes as sides often.
I did have two lapses, late last night there was nothing remotely vegan in the house, and I ate the remnants of the family cheese pizza, and the smoked salmon that I didnt get rid of before I changed my diet. I came into this saying that I was going to be flirting, but those were the only times that I'd had an issue. It is a journey, but I am enjoying it
I always have a raw smoothie in the morning, with raw homemade vanilla almond milk, a frozen banana, maca, cacao, a little stevia leaf or a few dates...
it changes a little each day, but I would die without a big smoothie to start the day off
I "snack" a lot on fruits veggies, brown rice, nuts and seeds, dried fruites, those types of things during the day
and for dinner I make a very good, heartier and very healthy vegan meal, A good example of the types of dishes I make at dinner are, vegan tacos in a whole grain tortilla (I will only buy ones with extremely clean ingredients, usually onnly 4 ingredients or so in the tortilla)
Soups and sandwiches
Stir fry tpe dishes
Sweet potatoes are great
And of coarse, lots of yummy healthy desserts!
I'm not fully vegan but eat mainly vegan food, usually have porridge oats and seeds for breakfast, soup/ vegetable wrap/baked potato with salad/leftovers from last night's dinner for lunch, and a vegetable curry, or sweet potato falafels, soup, etc for dinner.
It's wintertime in Ireland now so it's mainly hot warming food! My snacks are fruit, or dark chocolate and maybe a vegan ginger biscuit or two.
The number one thing people do when they convert to vegetarian/veagn is eat way too much starch/sugar/flours/wheat products. Automatically, we assume we need a meat or protein replacement.
The absolutely best thing you could do for yourself is up your 'green' intake.
Breakfast: GREEN SMOOTHIE. To go Vegan (healthy) you need to invest in a Vitamix blender. I use mine 3 times a day, at least. It's powerful and can breakdown anything. In this smoothie, you could put in 2-3 cups purified water, 2 cups spinach or kale, 1/2 bunch of cilantro, a banana, a lime (quartered and leave peel on!) , an apple, 2 tbsp agave nectar YUM!!! You can be creative and add other things (tomatoes, basil, orange, collard greens, cucumber, fennel, red grapefruits...). The blender will blend them to a fine pulp so you get your very important fibre too.
This will keep you goinguntil lunch. It will also start to alleviate your cravings for meat and meat type products. You energy levels will increase too.
You should stay away from white flours, white rice, processed foods. Salads are awesome and you can get very creative. Avocado, red grapefruit, fennel and squeeze lemon on top....
Chorizo is great cooked with onions, sliced black olives, and jalapeno peppers.
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Amy Nov 5, 2009
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I'm not fully vegan, but eat vegan a lot of the time. This week I've been eating:
Breakfast: cereal with flax and soy milk; smoothie with soy milk, strawberries & bananas
Lunch: leftovers from our dinner the night before, or a salad (we are still getting lettuce & radishes from the garden even though it's November!
Dinner: Morroccan couscous from Alicia's book with pumpkin muffins; leek and potato tart with roasted butternut squash, stir-fry rice and veggies
My husband and I started doing a meal plan each week a couple months ago and it has really helped. On Sundays we sit down, look at our calendars to see what we have going on that week and then plan our dinners (I always plan enough to I have leftovers for lunch the next day!). We have time to look through cookbooks, websites or magazines to see what new recipes we want to try. Then we make a list and go shopping for the week. I think it saves us money too!