- Hi friends, it's Sam and I'm gonna show you
what I eat in a day as a vegan.
Yes, I totally wake up with a cat eye.
I just wake up looking this good.
I often get a lot of questions about what I eat.
I think people think vegans live off of
beans and carrots and kale and that's it.
A vegan diet is very varied, I probably eat
more varied now than I even did as a meat eater.
What I eat kind of changes a lot day to day
depending on what I have in the fridge,
what I feel like eating.
I try to eat pretty healthy for the majority.
I don't count calories or restrict my diet in any way.
I eat as much as I want.
I haven't planned anything for today
but I do kind of have like
a very specific morning routine
that has developed over the years
and I'm kind of a snot about it.
Every morning I juice half of a lemon
and put that into water and drink that
while my coffee machine is heating up.
Lemon is super alkaline and really good for your body.
So it's my one kind of thing that
I always do that's good for me
and then I always follow that up
with a foamy latte.
I know, I'm such a snob.
Pretty much every morning I'll have a latte.
I use soy milk, I use almond milk,
whatever I'm kinda feeling.
You can use other milks, but those are the two
that I find that foam the best.
So now I'm hungry for breakfast.
So I think today I'm gonna make some oatmeal.
I just have some quick oats here.
I actually like whole oats better,
but this is what I have right now,
so I'm just trying to use them up.
Some dates, this is the tail end of my dates.
Sounds super grandma of me to
put dates in oatmeal, I realize,
but it makes it really good.
They kind of cook up and get caramelizy
and then it's like these little caramel bits in your oatmeal
which tastes so good.
A banana.
I know that a lot of you might be thinking
this banana is really gross and brown
but this is when bananas are actually
the sweetest and healthiest.
And it is perfect in oatmeal.
Mmm.
Ohh, oatmeal.
I'm gonna sprinkle some coconut flakes on top
and I'm gonna put in a lot of almond milk,
'cause I like it soupy, apparently.
It's 12:30 now and I'm just gonna make some tea.
I like it, it's warm and comforting.
Do I have to explain why you like tea?
I think people just like tea.
So I'm gonna make some tea now.
Oh hello, kettle that's super dirty.
Hi.
Making some tea.
So, while my tea's boiling,
as far as eating vegan goes,
people think to ask me if it's really difficult
and I always say to them it's no difficult
than it is to eat meat, that's what's in my kitchen.
It's not like I go to my fridge and I'm like
oh I'm hungry what am I gonna eat
and then there's like nothing but chicken wings
and ham and cheese on the shelves.
I don't have any of that in my kitchen.
My whole kitchen is vegan so everything in here I can eat
it's not like I have to think about it
every second of every day.
So it's almost 1:30 now and I'm hungry for some lunch
so I just pulled out kind of everything in my fridge
and I'm just gonna make a big wrap.
Vegetarian refried beans, red onion,
cilantro, orange pepper slices, diced jalapeno,
a homemade cashew sour cream, cucumber slices,
some lettuce, Daiya cheese, and just some salsa.
And then I'm just gonna wrap it all up,
and it's gonna be delicious.
Nom.
So that wrap was really good and I'm still hungry
so I'm actually just gonna make another one.
Do it all over again.
What do you know, I made it.
Mmm.
I'm also having another cup of tea.
Pomegranate ru-e-bus, roy-bus, Rue-eye-bus?
I have no idea how to say that.
Acai berry, A-sah-ee?
I don't even know.
I can't say any of these words, but it tastes delicious.
It's almost 6 o'clock and I'm gonna have a little snack.
I tend to eat dinner later in the day.
If you notice, I tend to eat everything later in the day.
I ate breakfast late, I eat lunch late, I eat dinner late,
so that's just kind of how I roll.
This is what I lamely call a munchie bowl.
Woo.
Just different kinds of nuts.
I have pecans, peanuts, almonds, and some dried cherries.
This might, whoa.
It's just really easy to grab when I'm busy
I can just have this and some tea and I really like it.
Nuts.
I'm losing light here so I'm gonna
tell you what I'm gonna have for dinner
because I know and then I'll do some photography of that
and I'll have my voice talk over it right now.
And you'll see gorgeous pictures of my dinner.
Ooo, doesn't that look delicious?
It looks so yummy.
They smell good just like this.
So many spices, I just want to eat it.
When it comes to veggie burgers,
cooking them low and slow is the way to go
cause you want it to get nice and crispy on the outside
and then cook all the way so that it doesn't get mushy.
Check it out.
Lettuce on there, red onion, cilantro, ketchup, mustard
and then I put some more of the cashew sour cream on it.
The veggie burger itself, which is super ingredients
because it's for my cookbook, looking good.
If you don't know, I am writing a cookbook.
It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken, the cookbook,
vegan recipes that are gonna make you drool.
They're gonna be so good.
So that's everything I ate today.
I've gotta go on a date now,
so I'll probably have a cocktail
but I think it would be pretty rude to bring out
my camera on the date, especially 'cause
I've never met this person before,
so wish me luck with that.
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If you have any questions about me
or about veganism, let me know, I'm happy to answer them.
And I'll see you next time, bon appet-egan.