The story: went to vegan wedding. Good food, healthy people, great attitude!
The statement: I LOVE my meat. Especially the really bad stuff like bacon and sausages. I want to give up meat for 7 days and try a vego diet. Will still eat eggs and cheese though.
The question: Can you please give me a breakdown of what you eat in one day, or even better one week.
Breakfast: Banana, Gluten-free english muffin w/almond butter, coconut milk (B12 fortified), or gluten-free cereal w/ almond milk
Breakfast #2: Hemp protein shake (Almond milk, fruit, hemp protein)
Lunch: Other half of that english muffin, usually half an avocado, fruit, salad
Snacks: Fruit, Lara Bars, almonds, pistachios, avocados, second glass of that coconut milk, etc…
Dinner: Cook from scratch, be it spinach salad with beans/yams/nuts, baked BBQ tofu, quinoa, stuff like that.
I hope to add Vega products soon, as I’m now convinced they are worth the extra money. I’ve been vegan for 4 years and this is what works for me from both a well-being and time/prep perspective. Gluten makes me gassy/belchy so I don’t eat it. Same with peanut products, hence the almond butter. I try to limit my soy intake to 1 lb of tofu per week.
breakfast: Protein shake with pea and brown rice protein.
breakfast2: oatmeal with stawberries and almonds
lunch: ultimate meal shake with apple,blueberries, banana and 20 grams extra added to the mix.
snack: raw vegetables (carrots and radishes)
dinner: big salad with lots of vegetables, and cous cous and lintels or rice and beans
Mad props to you for giving it a try. There are lots of ways of doing it. I would be considered more on the monkish side of vegan because I tend to eat rather bland and pretty much the same thing everyday. I would encourage you to try vegan restaurants during your 7 days. You will get a good idea of the possibilities. One of the whole foods in Austin has a raw vegan counter where you can go and eat. The desserts alone are incredible. I ate dinner there last night, I always leave feeling great after eating raw. Just make sure you are eating enough.
Breakfast: Steel cut oats w/raisins, applesauce, and some cinnamon. 2 slices whole wheat bread toasted with cottage cheese
Lunch: Spinach salad with sunflower seeds, light dressing, croutons, 2 carrots sliced, celery stick sliced, and maybe a pear or something added as well.
Afternoon: Bowl of cereal
Dinner: Usually pretty creative- stuffed egg plant, pasta dishes, sauteed zucchini, … there are lots of good recipes out there.
breakfast: Protein shake - Vega, frozen blueberries and strawberries, ground flax seeds, oranges, kale.
snacks: raisins and nuts
lunch: almond butter sandwich with fruit
snack: veggies and hummus
dinner: big salad or lentils/salsa/veggie burger or tofu/veggies or cous cous, etc.
after workout: almond milk, coconut water, bananas, cocoa powder, frozen blueberries
IMO there are a few good meat replacements - for sausage, I like “Original Field Roast” brand (USA-Whole Foods)
I’m not vegan but vegetarian for 15 years.
Some kind of liquid breakfast, usually a combination of Orange Juice with soy protein and a soy latte because I’m always running late and I can drink those in the car. I will also bring Fage with me sometimes.
Eat lunch early, usually half an egg salad sandwich, whole grain bread with veggies of various varieties crammed in there, fruit and soup or potato chips. Or, big spinach salad with tofu, beans, various protiens.
Mid-afternoon. Depends on mood. Sometimes something sinful and chocolate, like a warm chocolate chip cookie, or a protein bar if I haven’t been good about protein for the day.
Dinner, I’m really bad about dinner. Cereal and Fage when I get home after 7. Sometimes a Boca Burger and veggies if I can eat between 6-7. I also make a big pot of soup once fall starts and will have that during the week. Pasta is easy if I’m feeling ambitious.
Nightime snack, rarely, but if I do it will be a piece of dark chocolate or something along those lines.
Thanks very much for all the detailed responses. Much appreciated. Have to find somewhere that sells all this stuff now. Am hoping it might reduce the cost of our shopping bill
Breakfast Tacos:
Soyrizo, hashbrowns, Vegan refried beans, Jalapenos and onions, cook off the HB ad then add the rest. Then put in warmed corn tortilla
Lunch,
Tofu drunken Thai Chicken. Secret recipe: look it up on the web
Check out Engine2diet.org for the rest. The guy who started it was a pro triathlete