- What up guys? I'm Kevin, aka Fit Men Cook,
and I am in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona.
Just check out this amazing view.
No filter needed, right?
Well, my friends over at The Player's Tribune and Panera
invited me to come out here to meet up with David
and Meghan Johnson to talk about how food really
influences their fit lifestyle.
So come on, let's go.
O.K., all right. Almost there.
There they are.
Hey guy's, what's up?
- What's up?
- How are you? I'm Meghan.
- Hey, Meghan. Very nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you. - What's up, man?
David, nice to meet you.
Appreciate it, appreciate it.
- Who's this guy?
- This is Emmett. - Emmett, come here, boy.
Hey man. - Say hey.
- You made it up.
Pull me up the rest of the way, all right?
- Exactly, he loves hiking.
- So why don't y'all lead the way, 'cause I'm
out of my element here.
- All right. Let's go, buddy.
- Come on.
- Let's take a seat over here.
- All right.
- So, talk to me about fuel.
I've always been fascinated, especially, how athletes
fuel their bodies.
- So, for me, it's really a big thing of balance -
making sure I get all my nutrients in to get us ready
for those games.
- Meghan, so what about you?
'Cause I heard that you recently just went plant based?
- I did, so....
- Tell me about that journey.
- Like a year, probably a year and half almost....
- Pause. So you too, bro?
- I tried it, I tried it. I lasted about a month, but
it didn't work too long.
- That bacon was just calling me.
- Yeah, it was.
- He did training camp completely vegan,
and people were like, "Uh, you can't do that."
- For me it was tough. I couldn't ... I'm not gonna lie,
it was tough for me.
I lasted a month.
I did feel great, though. But it was very tough for me.
- Well with that being said I have a plant-based,
a power bowl that I think that y'all would love.
Something to fuel you.
It is all vegan, bro. But I think that you would
actually rock with this one.
- All right, I bet I'll like it.
I usually don't turn too much food down, so....
- I love it. Let's get out of here.
- All right. - All right.
- All right, so now this is the fun part.
So what I thought we could do is make a Thai peanut
abundance bowl.
- Oh. - Sounds pretty good, right?
Well, I think that one of the best things about cooking
at home is that you get to know exactly what you're putting
into your body.
- We've tried really hard to stay away from like
the added preservatives and dyes and stuff like that.
- All right, so I think these are just about ready to put
into the oven, so I'm gonna sneak these in here.
David if you wouldn't mind bringing that kale over here
to steam it.
- All right ... perfectly cut kale, here it comes.
- All right, so now let's make the sauce, mix that together.
You can get busy on that. - All right.
- I'm gonna fire up some edamame.
And the cool thing about this sauce is I was eating over
at Panera Bread and had this Thai peanut one, so this is
like a homemade-bootleg version of it.
So, you know, I'm not fully plant based,
I'm not a full vegan, but we can prioritize plants
a lot more.
You don't have to go like one way or the other.
I'm not a big like absolutes when it comes to
diets basically.
I love everything. But incorporating plants,
man, I tell you - it changed my life.
- Yeah, it's changed our lives, too. It's changed ours.
- So I'm gonna give this another good stir,
some saute and then we're gonna put everything together.
- Perfect. - All right, sounds good.
- What I love about this, too, is that people always think
that vegan and plant-based meals are very wimpy.
This is a pretty dense meal, right?
It's pretty nutrient dense. - There's balance.
- This is gonna get you ready for Sunday.
Man, I'm telling you. - I think so.
- O.K., so how is it?
- It's great. - Delicious.
Really good, oh yeah.
- So big question - could you go vegan again for
a little bit longer?
- That'd be tough. That'd be ... that'd be pretty tough.
But I know if they keep making food like this -
Meghan keeps making food like this - I mean,
I'll definitely try it out, yeah.
- The pressure's on.
- All right. y'all. Thank y'all for an amazing day.
First time hiking in Phoenix,
first time making a plant-based meal in Phoenix, too.
- Woo-hoo.
- So, thank y'all so much for the adventure.
All right, y'all. Peace. - Bye.