- This meat smells weird.
(dramatic music) (meat sizzling)
Today is a dark day.
I just want real food.
(dramatic music)
Today, I have to go vegan.
(intense music)
So last week I lost a bet to my friend Cari.
Is this one of the best vegan meals you've ever had?
- It is. (laughs)
- I lost and I will be vegan for a week and I...
- You'll survive.
- And I will survive.
Cari actually sent me a message.
- I just realized that you have to eat vegan for a week.
(laughs)
Enjoy eating your veggies.
- Okay
Here's the deal, I fully support veganism.
I've heard all the facts about being a vegan,
I just, it's not for me.
I just started doing keto.
I'm all down for eating a plant-based diet
but when I'm doing keto, carbs aren't a part of it
so I can't eat beans, I can't eat quinoa.
I don't know how I'm gonna get protein in this diet.
I don't wanna have to give up eggs
and salmon and bacon?
I refuse to eat tofu.
I really, really don't want to eat tofu.
Now I have to figure out what I'm gonna go eat today.
For the next seven days.
I'm gonna go online and do as much research as possible
to try to find out how to do this.
I did not plan this out too well today.
Day one, I was not able to eat anything
in our free lunch that we got.
I had to suck it up and basically just have some
almond butter and some avocado.
Also went and bought some MCT oil
that I'm gonna put in some coffee to try and fill me up
but I need to go to the store tonight
to make sure I can get some protein.
At the end of the first day,
I was planning on going to the store
but I had to work really late
and I didn't get a chance to go to the store.
So I'm not vegetarian or vegan
but I am doing this thing
where I have to eat vegan/keto right now.
Can I just do the Beyond, I just want the patty,
the Beyond Burger patty?
This is all brand new to me so...
I'm pretty lucky I live in a city like LA,
it makes doing this vegan thing so much easier.
I don't know if I'd be able to do something like this
in another part of the country
so being a vegan is definitely kind of a privilege.
One of the things that I realized early on with this diet
is you really have to plan ahead.
Alright, so I just finished my morning workout
and normally, this is the time where I'm gonna go and try
to have some breakfast, probably eat some eggs,
some avocado, something like that,
something that fits into the keto diet.
I can't have eggs, I need to go to the store.
(funky music)
What about some vegan protein powder?
I'm gonna have to prep every single meal
and cook ahead of time especially since
I'm not trying to eat tofu.
No tofu.
Alright, so we got some of this Beyond Chicken.
Bold statement.
I'm a big texture guy when it comes to food
so this is throwing me off.
I don't know, jury's still out.
Either way, I'm gonna eat it cause I need protein
and this is all I got so.
I hope you're enjoying this Cari.
I didn't have time this morning to make myself something
and I forgot to make a protein shake to bring with me
so I was really, really hungry.
Just had a little bit of almond butter,
forgot to bring an avocado
so this is a thing where I really, really
have to try hard to make sure that
I'm doing it the right way.
So I love Thai food,
I'm meeting a friend here at a vegan Thai place.
We'll see how this goes,
I'm gonna try some of this soy chicken.
I'm not very excited.
I just want real meat, you know what I mean?
This is pretty good. Boom.
I'm having a big craving for a cheeseburger.
I'm gonna try and make myself a vegan bacon cheeseburger.
I'm not very confidant.
This bacon doesn't look, well, it doesn't look like bacon.
Okay vegan bacon, here we go.
(bacon crunches)
It kinda reminds me of turkey bacon.
It's not bad.
It's definitely not bacon but it can kinda
satisfy that craving.
One gram of fat, two grams of protein.
Since I'm doing keto, I would like there
to be more fat in the bacon which
real bacon actually has so kinda missing out on that
which means I have to substitute
something else to get extra fat.
Boom. There it is.
Being keto is so much easier when
you can actually eat real meat, real eggs
and things like that.
This actually tastes pretty damn good I'm not gonna lie.
But the only issue I have with it
is that it has four grams of carbs and zero protein.
If I'm eating real cheese, I'm gonna be getting
more fat, less carbs and more protein.
Overall, this is good.
So the funny thing about vegans
is that as soon as they hear that
you're gonna try being a vegan,
every one of them is really, really helpful
and wants to try to help you so
what are we making?
- It's like a Thai yellow curry.
- We talked about tofu, I don't like tofu.
- It's high protein tofu.
- It's a lot of grams of protein to grams of carbs.
- Let's do this.
(upbeat music)
I dunno, I dunno.
(upbeat music)
(pan sizzling)
(upbeat music)
Y'all heard me at the beginning,
I said no tofu, I said none,
so I've already broken my rule
but here we go.
(drum rolls)
This is really damn good. This is so good!
Do I think it would be better with regular protein?
Maybe? But, right now I can't even tell the difference
honestly, this tofu's really good.
The texture's good. This is fantastic.
This is fantastic. This is good.
That's all I have to say, we're done.
I'm definitely getting the hang
of this whole vegan/keto thing.
Brought the curry to work to eat so lunch is done.
(rock music)
Alright, last day of being a vegan,
I'm not gonna lie, it feels good
but you know what, to be honest,
I haven't actually been missing food too much.
I've been going through a jar
every other day of this almond butter.
(rock music)
Now I'm literally eating my own words
as I said I would not eat tofu.
This is the second dish I've had with tofu in two days.
This is a tofu scramble.
(rock music)
It's pretty good. Alright tofu, I like it.
I may have overreacted with my initial hatred for tofu.
That vegan curry was one of the best things I've ever had.
I still crave it.
And the thing that I really liked about having to do this,
was that it took me out of my comfort zone
and it taught me how to cook new things
and try things I had not tried before.
Moving forward, I doubt that I will ever go fully vegan
but I can see myself gearing more towards
a plant-based diet in the future.
I was a man of my word, I followed through with the bet,
I ate vegan/keto for a week.
It was cool, I feel better, I learned some things,
but I'm not losing the next one.
(rock music)