(lighthearted music)
- Hey, I'm Hannah, and I'm The World's OK-est Mom.
And I'm here today to talk to you
about the 7-Day Vegan Challenge.
Now you guys have seen this all over the internet
because you've been asking me nonstop to try it.
And this is a series where you ask and we deliver.
So, we're gonna give it a shot.
It's gonna be seven days, family of four,
one painfully picky eater,
and I'll let you guess who that is.
Wish us luck, guys.
So, what is the 7-Day Vegan Challenge?
Well, it's exactly how it sounds.
It's seven days of eating vegan,
no animal products, simple enough.
Our family's eating habits don't really
rely much on animal products to begin with.
Each person has very different taste in food.
I'm kind of like a plant lover.
I'm a salad ho, so LA.
So, Matt likes to eat a lot of food.
He likes to feel full, but it's not like he overeats.
He has a fast metabolism,
and so, he just likes to be full.
Jackson is my dream eater.
He just came out of me hungry,
and has never stopped eating since.
He's like a garage disposal.
Then, there's Wyatt. (Wyatt whines)
He's pretty much on the white diet,
where white foods are good.
If there's a speck of green in his food,
he will find it, and he will remove it.
You excited to be vegan? - Yeah!
- I don't know if you really are, but okay.
This is my vegan grocery haul.
I know that fruit is always safe to get,
and then, fresh veggies, so I got a lot of that.
I don't think this is enough food for the week,
but it ended up costing about $50
more than my average grocery trip.
And then, while I was at the grocery store,
I had to say goodbye to one of
the most important things in my life.
Goodbye, cheese.
I will miss you.
So, day one, I was feeling pretty
prepared for breakfast and lunch.
I had prepped overnight oats the night before for the boys.
And then, for Matt and I, I made freezer smoothie packs
with all this good stuff in them.
Let's see how this tastes. (fun music)
This is really good.
- Mm, really healthy.
- Everything was going smoothly
until it was time for me to make my coffee.
I have a very specific shade of coffee that I need,
and it's a very specific ratio
of coffee, the strength of the coffee,
and the Half and Half that's going in it.
So, I bought soy creamer and coconut creamer.
Throughout the week, I tried various mixtures of both.
I just don't like it.
I have a very open minded palate and this is the one thing,
like the one food I can't budge on.
So, for Matt's lunch, I got him
what's called a Rainbow wrap.
It's exactly how you'd imagine.
Like a tree wrapped up in a tortilla.
If I started him off with like
the most intensely vegan lunch,
then the rest would be a nice surprise.
- I'm feeling it. - Healthy manipulation.
I do it all the time (laughs).
- This week shouldn't be that bad.
I think it's gonna be good.
- So, for lunches, I did eventually find some vegan bread.
I decided to make a SunButter and jelly sandwich,
despite the fact that that vegan bread
straight up tasted like fresh hay.
Night one, the dinner was just,
you know, my dream meal, a big old salad.
I was so excited for this dinner,
but I was very worried about
how the kids would react to it.
- I only love black beans and rice.
- [Hannah] That's not true, you like white beans.
- I don't want the beans on it.
- Wyatt ate his salad and I was shook.
I mean, to the core.
When he took the bite of broccoli, I pinched myself.
It's almost like he ate more vegetables
in this one meal than he's eaten in the last six months.
Whose plate is that?
- [Wyatt] Mine!
- [Hannah] Your plate!
(boys cheer)
So, day two, woke up feeling great, feeling healthy,
made a really nice breakfast.
I bought this vegan cream cheese
because I figured the toast needed a little oomph.
- [Wyatt] I wanna pick.
This one. - I'm serious,
this vegan cream cheese rocked my world.
How is it?
(laughs) You have a mustache.
It was so good.
Hey, Jackson, are you enjoying your breakfast?
- Yeah.
- You're wearing it a little bit.
Good breakfast, everyone's happy.
And then, I made my coffee,
and that was the start of the worst day of the week.
(fun music) No.
That day, in particular, was a very big day for me at work.
I had a huge video to shoot.
I was making all of this glorious food.
And I did not realize that I could not
eat a single bite of any of it.
This is the thing, I work for Tasty.
This is what I look forward to in my job.
I get to snack on just the best food you could imagine.
I was so devastated that I couldn't eat it.
It was a frustrating day.
- So, here we here, enjoying our Tika Misala.
I actually do like it, and I would eat it again.
- I am the first one home tonight,
so I'm going to make dinner.
And I am absolutely starving from my shoot,
so I'm gonna make a vegan pizza.
And I think the boys will actually like it.
I think they'll be excited for a pizza tonight.
The first few bites, I was like,
"Oh, my God, this is delicious, yes, bread, carbs."
But then, as I started going in on my slice--
The cheese is a little gluey.
It's sticking to my teeth.
I honestly would've preferred it
as more of a flat bread without the cheese.
But you know, we're all very hungry, so we all ate it.
- That's good.
- [Hannah] You like it?
- Mm-hmm. - And then,
it came time for Wyatt to try it.
- Where's the crust?
- [Matt] The crust is right there.
Do you want me to cut it for you?
- Yeah, cut it.
- [Matt] Okay.
- [Hannah] What do you think?
(fun music) You like the pizza?
- [Matt] Mommy made it from scratch.
- Wyatt, do you like the pizza?
He didn't eat it.
He opted to eat salad instead of his pizza,
which you know means that pizza was not good (chuckles).
So, we started the morning off trying some coconut yogurt
that's made from coconut milk
with some vegan cereal and raspberries.
You like it?
Wyatt, do you like it?
So far, I'm batting 1,000 on breakfast.
Like, win, win, win, win, win, it is going great.
Day three of this coffee. (fun music)
Better, I guess.
Lunches, I feel like I'm picking a lot of chips this week.
But other than that, pretty easy.
Does this lunch look good? - Yeah.
- [Hannah] Did you like your lunch yesterday?
- Yep, that was amazing. - Really?
Now, I thought that pizza would the safe bet for dinner,
but it just didn't turn out the way I planned at all.
So, for tonight's dinner, I decided to make pasta.
I know I make a really good pasta sauce.
So, I was feeling really excited about this lentil pasta
that I found that has protein it it.
So, I made that, roasted some broccoli,
and that was our dinner. - Yeah, it's good.
- Okay, that's all that matters.
Wyatt gets into these weird moods sometimes
at dinnertime where he won't feed himself
because he's just a diva. - Yucky.
- He'll sit there and be like, "You can offer me a bite
"if you'd like and I might eat it."
But he went straight for the broccoli on his plate,
which was very confusing, but very awesome.
He eventually did eat the pasta,
but not without letting us all know
that we're very lucky to have him
eating the pasta at our table.
Do you like it?
Good, thank you, Wyatt, your presence is appreciated.
You know, we're not worthy.
Very rushed breakfast this morning
because I have to get ready and be on set today.
- [Matt] What do you think, Wyatt?
Thumbs down, but he's eating it all.
- What I was shooting at work was a food competition show.
And it was me versus my coworker, Matthew.
We had to make this crazy dish,
and so, some things happened.
I completely forgot about this vegan challenge,
and my food was ice cream and cake,
and it had eggs, dairy, all that stuff.
So, I ended up having to taste it.
(gasps) Don't tell them.
(energetic music) (laughs)
They're okay.
Oh, I just ruined everything today.
I gotta go like double vegan tonight to make up for it.
I'm gonna eat some grass.
Here's the thing, like I can't put food in front of someone
for a cooking competition without tasting it.
My family doesn't even know that this happened.
So, I'm sorry, I failed you, I didn't mean to,
and I was a little bit deceitful.
Tonight's dinner is gonna be like burrito bowls.
You know, with these new foods that we're trying,
I don't know how spicy something is going to be.
Might be a little spicy.
It ended up being very spicy,
and a little too spicy for the kids,
and they were not happy.
- Spicy. - A little spicy?
I hate wasting food so I ended up eating three
or four times more chorizo than I normally would,
and I forced Matt to do the same.
- The flavor's good, what is it?
- I think you're gonna get the poops.
(fun music)
Day five, Matt and I decided to do a date night.
We decided to put our vegan selves out into the world,
which was something I was really dreading
because I didn't wanna be that person
who's ordering at a restaurant
and asking a million questions about the ingredients.
We went to the little wine bar by our house.
What we ended up being able to order at the wine bar
was a plate of olives, a little veggie salad.
From there, we were still so hungry.
So, we decided to stop at this little British pub.
Someone was looking down on us.
We opened the menu, and they have vegan burger.
So, this burger was so delicious.
It had vegan mayo, lettuce, tomato
on a vegan bun that didn't taste
like the wheat had just been pulled from the earth.
It was so good, and then we ate curly fries with it.
It was so good.
So, on day six, I decided to take it to the next level
and I went to Taco Bell.
And could I also get no sour cream
or nacho cheese on those?
It was a length order, it was kind of annoying.
But I was so excited to try it.
The thing that I love the most about Crunch Wraps
is the nacho cheese sauce, so I miss it.
I should've added some guacamole to this.
I feel like guacamole would be really good.
For dinner, Asian food is something
that we've been lacking this week
because I could not quite grasp how to cook it vegan.
I was struggling with that.
So, we decided to look for a vegan Asian restaurant.
Like, I went crazy on this menu, and I over ordered.
I was like, ready to shovel all of it into my face.
Are you just going for it?
So, end of day six, I'm feeling great.
I haven't cooked in a whole day.
I was really optimistic, and then,
it all fell apart.
But they're not vegan, babe. - I want one.
- So, we have to make something else.
(Wyatt cries) It's okay.
(Wyatt cries)
Croissants are extremely difficult to make.
Vegan croissants, I don't even know.
I gave you your toast
with peanut butter and jelly right there.
(Wyatt cries)
Why are you crying?
Okay, Wyatt, do you want them?
(gentle music)
Do you like it? - Yeah.
- All right, I'll get you some.
Were you hangry?
After the meltdown at breakfast,
I decided that for dinner,
I would make something that I knew they would like.
We were going to my parents' house for dinner,
so I knew I had to bring food for us to make.
And I decided on vegan mac and cheese.
Not as easy as it looks.
While I was making my vegan dinner,
my mom was making delicious teriyaki salmon.
- [Matt] (groans) I want that so bad.
- I never thought I would be like,
"Wow, that salmon is so tempting."
But (chuckles) on that day,
on the final day of our vegan challenge,
that salmon was looking really good.
So, made it through all seven days.
I didn't think we'd make it through that easily,
and I didn't the kids would
be so receptive to the challenge.
So, the next day, after it was over,
I decided to surprise them with a little something special.
Chocolate croissants, they're gonna be so happy.
Oh, la la. (gentle music)
Surprise (laughs), it's very hot, be careful.
Good breakfast, Jackson? (gentle music)
My kids got their chocolate croissants, okay, guys?
They got the chocolate croissants.
So, what did I learn on this 7-Day Vegan Challenge?
Well, I learned, first, that it's actually
not that difficult to be vegan.
If you're cooking a lot of your own meals,
it's not that much more expensive.
It's not that difficult to get your protein either.
Next, I learned how to get Wyatt to eat vegetables.
I don't think you guys realize how huge this is for me.
And how much of a struggle it's been for all of us.
I mean, even since he could eat solids.
This is like the peak of motherhood for me right now.
And last, I learned that I really wanna
continue doing as much of a vegan challenge
as we possibly can going forward.
But that said, I know that I will never be a full vegan
because I cannot deal with vegan creamer in my coffee.
I'm sorry, I have to have my Half and Half, I can't do it.
So, that's all I got for today, I'm Hannah.
And if you've tried the 7-Day Vegan Challenge,
let me know in the comments, tell me how it went,
or if you have any ideas for future
food challenges for us to try,
leave that in the comments, too, or you can always text me.
This is real number.
And I don't always answer every single text
'cause I get a lot, but I do read every single one.
Now, if you'll please excuse me,
I have some decent coffee to make
because it's been so long since I've had it.
Till next time.
(lighthearted music)
- Anything with curry or masala,
I'm just like on cloud nine.
So, this is really good, I'm stoked.