- So what do I actually eat every day?
And does it really take 10 minutes to make?
Yes. Yes it does.
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So some of you asked, okay,
you're a part-time vegetarian now, what do you eat?
I tell people it is easy actually
and I spend 10 minutes a meal, maybe,
but they don't believe me.
So what's the key?
I keep it simple.
I don't make crazy recipes for lunch on a Tuesday.
Today I'm going to show you around 10 of those meals,
but really it's like, I don't know so many more
because you'll see, there are components
that I just change around a little bit to keep it versatile.
Now, these recipes are kind of outlined
in the email for today.
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Okay so the first meal that I eat so frequently,
many times a week.
I'd say like five days a week is some form of avocado toast
or variations on that.
So it's essentially toast with avocado and eggs
and those eggs could be scrambled,
they could be fried, they could be poached
and based on that preparation,
it will taste like a completely different meal.
I mean, a scrambled egg versus a yolkie egg.
You know, it's a completely different experience.
Also, you can swap out the base.
So sometimes I'll use an English muffin.
Sometimes I'll use sweet potato toast.
There are so many permutations to keep this interesting.
And of course, I've got to top it off
with the everything but the bagel seasoning
and some Sriracha.
Although I personally prefer Cholula.
The next thing I will eat,
probably I eat this almost every single day is an omelet
with either fruit, a side salad,
toast, avocado on the side.
It depends really the way I decide
if I wanna have a salad is like gauging
when I last ate vegetables.
I will say, as I've healed my relationship with food,
I craved vegetables more.
Like we talked earlier in the series about how,
you know once the resistance is gone, I enjoy it more.
In my omelets, I add many cheeses, no vegetables needed.
I usually, I used to try to put vegetables in my omelet,
thinking like, oh here's an opportunity to get veggies in
but I love just an omelet with a bunch of cheese.
For a side salad, now I will add a side salad
to almost any meal that I make now
because that's an easy way to get vegetables in.
And I actually enjoy it.
The dressing is crucial to a side salad,
but my most basic easiest side salad
that takes five seconds to put together.
It's just some kind of greens.
So either mixed greens,
maybe some romaine or spinach, kale, whatever
with some cabbage for color and crunch,
carrots that I buy pre-shredded and sunflower seeds.
Now the dressing, my favorite dressing
is a white cheddar one and I have made it myself
and I've showed that in a video.
The organic girl, white cheddar dressing is legit.
It's so freaking good, but it's
like a million dollars a bottle, unfortunately.
None of this is sponsored.
I just love this dressing.
It's so freaking good, but too expensive.
So I've made my own, but sometimes
I don't have time to make my own.
So, you know, I'll use that one.
I keep it in the fridge when I can find it.
Anyway, sometimes for my side salads,
I'll add tomatoes, cucumbers, beets, pistachios.
I'll swap in whatever I have kind of
for the week or leftover.
I try to be really flexible and just the goal is like
get some vegetables and make 'em taste good.
But dressings is what makes it really tastes good.
I will also link the dressing episode I've done before.
The what is it?
The tahini, the tahini lime or tahini lemon dressing.
That's another one of my favorites
that I'll use all the time.
Okay so next is a veggie scramble with fruit.
It could be also served with toast, avocado,
avocado toast or a side salad.
I used leftover roasted broccoli and sweet potato here.
It's a great way to use up your leftover vegetables
from cooking the night before.
And I don't only eat eggs, but I do eat a lot of eggs
and I love them in every single form.
If you are trying to transition to be a vegetarian
and you don't like eggs, I will say it's gonna be hard.
Okay so oatmeal is another food I eat that is not
that does not involve eggs.
And peanut butter jelly, PBJ oatmeal is my go-to.
I showed it earlier in the series, but pretty much,
it's cinnamon and salt with some peanut butter and jelly,
date syrup and slivered almonds for crunch.
And that is probably the
I make that like a couple of times a week
but my other favorite lately is banana Walnut.
So to my cooked oatmeal, I add some cinnamon,
banana, maple syrup and walnuts for crunch and that's it.
Oh my gosh.
It's so delicious.
So I think oatmeal is a great comforting,
delicious satisfying meal and it's a little bit
on the sweeter side when I'm not craving something
so savory like eggs.
Okay another meal, that's not eggs.
I know some of you are like stop with the eggs.
A chickpea Curry rice with side salad.
And I throw this together in less than 10 minutes.
It's just some onions sauteed.
Then I add in some chickpeas, which are canned.
So they don't even really need to be cooked.
I'm just pretty much heating them up.
And some spinach that I wilt down.
Then I added some rice, which is already cooked.
Usually I'll either meal prep the rice
or I'll use the frozen rice.
And I season it with coconut aminos, turmeric,
curry powder, garlic powder, and salt, of course
and that's it.
And this meal, I mean, literally it takes less
than 10 minutes to throw together and there will be leftover
so I can have it later and it actually
tastes good as leftovers.
I also love to put an egg on this meal.
I'm sorry.
I just love eggs so much. (laughs)
I also love chickpeas pastas with side salads
or it could be a Mac and cheese.
So pasta is of any kind, I mean, I love pasta,
but I've talked about this in a previous,
in an episode last year, I can't remember which one.
I like pasta but I'm not a connoisseur
like I think the chickpea and the lentil pasta varieties
are good substitutes.
Like they taste good to me.
So maybe I just don't know enough about real pasta.
I also the different shapes and the other legumes as well.
So I would just switch out which kind of sauce I use,
which kind of pasta I use.
You know, what kind of legume it is?
What's the flavor?
What do I serve it with?
Now, I will disclaimer, some of you are gonna get mad
because Parmesan I know is not technically vegetarian,
because it has rennet in it.
So, you know, if this is a concern to you
I'm not a real vegetarian, I'm a part-time vegetarian.
But if this is a concern to you,
you can buy the real vegetarian Parmesan.
This Mac and cheese, this is Banza's Mac and Cheese,
not sponsored but oh my gosh,
it is so good as a substitute to like Craft.
It tastes legit and it's nice that it gets the protein.
This is another thing about the reason I like to switch
from the regular pasta is if I'm eating more vegetarian
and you're worried about the protein,
then the chickpea pasta, the lentil pasta
could be a great way to get some protein in.
Okay another meal is grilled halloumi.
So halloumi is a grillable cheese and it's delicious.
And I serve that with either a side salad or fruit.
It's super salty and it's a great way
to get your protein in.
I literally just cut the cheese and throw it on the grill
with a little bit of oil there but just let it grill
for a couple of minutes on each side
and it's done and ready to serve.
It's like a five minute meal.
The next meal I will make that takes no time.
It takes a couple of minutes just to chop some of the things
but literally less than 10 minutes is a huge salad.
So I've talked to you guys know by now I used to hate salad
and I actually really like salad now.
The dressing is key, but I really like it.
I enjoy a good hearty salad as a meal.
So greens of all kinds along with some romaine.
I know romaine is like kind of a fake lettuce
or a fake green, but I really like the crunch.
I also like, and to add cabbage, carrots, chickpeas
boiled egg, that's a great way,
chickpeas and boiled eggs are a great way
to get some some protein into your salad
if you don't want to add meat.
Tomatoes and cucumber, avocado, goat cheese
or whatever cheese you prefer,
sunflower seeds or pistachios and then the dressing.
I also usually add some coconut aminos to my salad
and I find it kind of enhances whatever dressing
I'm already using.
Another meal that I will eat, probably
at least once or twice a week is a bagel with a side salad.
Now this will either be a bagel with cream cheese
or sometimes they'll do mashed avocado
with like cherry tomatoes and salt or,
you know of course everything, but the bagel seasoning.
But I love, I have found that a bagel
is really satiating to me and sometimes
I don't even need the whole thing
like the pre healing relationship with food me,
if I ate a bagel, it was like,
actually Christian and I used to order bagels.
And like the two of us would order
like four bagels because it was the all or nothing.
It was like, well, if I'm going to eat a bagel
I might as well eat all the bagels.
And now when I give myself permission to eat it,
I find sometimes I only actually need half a bagel
or I'm satisfied with half a bagel.
And I would actually have fruit instead
of the other half of the bagel.
And it really depends on how hungry I am and you know
what will satisfy me in the moment.
And the only way I know that is
by tuning in to my inner wisdom, right then.
One last meal that's really, really fast
to throw together that's also satisfying is a smoothie
with like a cheese and cracker
kind of hodgepodge plate.
So maybe some berries, some veggies with dip like hummus.
The smoothie I'll make is just banana,
spinach, yogurt, peanut butter, and milk,
almond milk, whatever kind you have.
And you blend that up and it's so satisfying.
This was not a frozen banana,
but usually I'll have frozen bananas.
And then cheese and crackers,
I love Triscuit Thin Crisps.
In the video I shared last year,
I think it was like clean, processed snacks
or something like that.
I shared you processed snacks that have surprisingly
few amounts of ingredients and Triscuit Thin Crisps
are literally like wheat and salt, I think.
I can't remember what else, but it's very short
ingredients list and they're really tasty
and you know, anything with cheese is delicious to me.
All right so there's some ideas and you know,
that shows you what I that's the kind of stuff
I actually eat all the time.
It's very simple.
It's not extravagant.
I'm not really going recipe crazy during the week.
I do really like to cook.
Sometimes I will get adventurous
and I like to have fun in the kitchen,
but for our regular Tuesday night, I'm not gonna go crazy.
I will include some of these ideas in the PDF
that's attached to the course materials
and the email for today.
Share in the comments, what is your most regular meal?
Like what do you eat every single day?
Do you go and try new recipes all the time?
Or do you have a couple of meals
that you make variations of?
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All right that's it for today
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