For Full What I ate during this day Video >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Nf1W6gj4E
Have you been feeling like you have been eating the same foods EVERY SINGLE DAY! I know I have and man, has it been tough and kind of boring. So I decided to shake things up this week and do a meatless/Vegan day. Basically, I decided to eat a vegan meal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and all my snacks.
The benefits of practicing veganism or being vegan are that it can lower your cholesterol and even your blood pressure. Which is very important in supporting and promoting happy and healthy lifestyles.
While I still will continue to consume meat after this challenge/quick diet change I think it’s important to immerse yourself into different diets and to gain a different perspective.
Breakfast: Savory Tofu Scramble
Ingredients:
1. tofu
2. curry powder
3. Sweet potato
4. mushrooms
5. mixed greens
Simple Instructions: Cut off some tofu – I did about 1/8 of the block. Then in a bowl use a fork to smash it until it looks like crumbles. After that, you add in Curry powder and some of your favorite seasonings. Then cook that in a well-oiled pan for 5 minutes. I just constantly stirred them around. the recipe I followed for this exactly is linked here.
For the sweet potato – Cut it in half and then in half horizontally again. Then cube it. After you cube, it put it in a pan with a little bit of water. I steamed them for about 8-10 minutes while I was cooking and preparing the tofu.
Greens: Mixed greens were added into the mix of the potatoes once they were done steaming and cooked them down with my favorite seasoning.
Once everything was cooked I placed my bowl and started to munch! So yummy and so filling.
Snack: Kiwi
The kiwi that I ate lasted so long because I wasn’t really hungry nor was I craving anything sweet so I had half of a kiwi here and Davan ate the other half maybe an 1.5 after I cooked this. Lol in my video it was supposed to be with my breakfast but I only took 2 spoon fulls and then set it down for later.
Lunch: Black Bean Salad with Rice
Ingredients:
1. Black Beans
2. Carrots
3. Rice
4. Bell peppers
6. your preferred seasons
For this one, I am just going to link the recipe that I followed for it. The ingredients that I listed are the modified version of the recipe because I did not feel like going to the grocery store again for any new items. I have found that modifying the recipes were a lot more fun than I had expected. It also helped with making the taste something familiar instead of foreign.
Dinner: Tofu and Broccoli with Quinoa
Ingredients
1. Broccoli
2. Tofu
3. Teryaki sauce
4. Rice
I did not follow any particular recipe for this one since it was super straight forward.
– I used frozen broccoli and defrosted it in the microwave. about 1 cup since I was the only one eating this.
– Then while the broccoli was defrosting. I cut out about 1/8 or a little bit more of the tofu block that I had and cubed it. while also putting rice in on the rice cooker.
– Then press the tofu dry with a paper towel for firmer blocks and to get rid of the water.
– then in a saucepan that has been the well-oiled place the cubes in the pan and cooks each side for 1-2 minutes each until slightly brown.
– While you are waiting for the tofu to cook. Take another pan, oil it and throw your broccoli into it and add your teriyaki sauce. and let them warm up and marinate. they should be ready in about 4-5 minutes.
– once you are done with the broccoli and your tofu is all cooked you can throw the tofu into the other pan with the sauce and broccoli. Coat it all nicely let it cook in that sauce for a minute or two. and BAM your tofu and broccoli are DONZO!
Just like that, a full vegan meal day is complete! I truly enjoyed this experience and I feel like you will as well! Please let me know if you gave a veganism a try and how it went for you! Like always you guys are awesome and I appreciate you guys tremendously.
signing off,
Domonique
