hello hello
today i want to do something a little
bit different food is an incredibly big
part of my happiness and well-being and
sometimes i feel like i cut corners a
little bit and don't put as much care
into what i consume
as i should so i want to share with you
a little 24-hour experiment underwent
where i tried to elevate what i normally
eat in a day
in simple ways and i did this while in
the lovely country of the netherlands
with the help of my lovely friend
sadia who runs the channel pickup limes
if you enjoy this video
you're gonna have to check out her
channel it's amazing so without further
ado
here we go i would love to go through a
day
and have that as an opportunity to learn
about nutrition
a balanced way of eating and also feel
good about that too you know okay yeah
cool man this much really gets me
excited yeah right
so to start before i even knew what we
were going to make sadia took me to a
local market to get our ingredients
and then i kind of like the look of the
stuff on the other side more also it's
less than plastic which is nice
okay less plastic yes more or less
plastic i feel really good
when i feel good about what i'm
consuming i'd love to get the
the warthole yeah yeah
yeah and there's a really powerful
connection between
the fuel that you give yourself
absolutely and
what you can do in life and what you can
create and what you can it's like
one of the few things you put into your
body physically from the outside world
multiple times a day it's the air you
breathe the water you drink and the food
you eat i mean that's kind of it right
thank you very much have a nice day you
too thank you val
thank you something incredibly
interesting surfaced when i first spoke
with sadia about this idea
she asked me what i normally eat so that
she could look for ways to improve what
i consume i would definitely describe
myself as
maybe on the lazy side in the kitchen
there's no judgment here
i just wanna i need the truth right like
i need i need to know exactly what it is
yeah
if i'm like man i really don't have a
lot of time to prepare stuff it might be
like
raviolis like pre-packaged ravioli you
just yeah
yeah stop doing this there's so much
judgment you don't want that to be the
basis of any kind of type of dietary
change you told me some things about
language yeah
right like it needs to come from this
place within and i think that it can
come from a place within but if it's
already
in in the form of self-criticism and
judgment and and guilt and shame
that's not the place to begin yeah and i
think it's only going to feed and fuel
kind of more behaviors that that are
like that
yeah totally no you're you're absolutely
right about that i'm kind of surprised
by how much self-judgment
i'm highly excited to start using these
materials
to create a high quality final result
and prove to robin that i can make good
food
he didn't he never doubted you
today is the special important day where
i
do all the cooking satya has selected
everything that i'm going to be
preparing
today and i don't actually
know what i'll be doing i've seen some
of the ingredients i've helped
in the gathering process of the
ingredients but now it's sort of time to
dive in
and uh i'm excited
wow so you said that you already have
oatmeal for breakfast anyway i know but
that looks so much better than what i
usually prepare for
but i told you that i don't want to
change too much so we're going to still
do oatmeal that you usually do kind of
with the ingredients you mentioned but
we're going to modify one or two things
just to boost its nutrition a little bit
two bananas sliced i'm gonna just chop
them up
is there a significant nutritional value
to bananas i know there's potassium now
is potassium like
like really important i feel like the
reason i like to add bananas to my
oatmeals one is it makes it naturally
really sweet so that kind of means that
you don't necessarily need that added
sweetener that a lot of people add
afterwards
i'm not against adding the sweeteners
but i'm always like add fruit
first if you can yeah like a natural
source of definitely
i think add the rest of the banana a
little bit later
what it does is like the first half
dissolves and it gets super creamy
and then you add the second half later
and then it kind of gives it some
texture
this is already about like ten times
better than
what i do in the morning yum really get
them in there that's the important thing
you know i mean that's the nathaniel
drew touch you gotta really
mix that second banana in there okay i
don't know what i'm
saying do you recognize how many of your
subscribers
would probably kill somebody to be able
to be in my position
cooking with you right now not actually
because your audience is highly
vegan and plant-based and respects
living lives that's right
i'm speaking in a figurative sense
berries are just loaded in antioxidants
i feel like everyone knows that now
loads of vitamins in short there's these
things in our body sometimes that build
up called free radicals
and they go around and they damage cells
any any cells that they come into
contact with like toxins
sure i mean i don't love to use that but
like but
it just goes around and it damages stuff
so that's called oxidative stress
so over time that can cause a lot of
issues in the body it helps like
clean out it it grabs those free
radicals and it neutralizes them okay
so that's what that's what berries are
really really amazing at
okay seeds are notorious for being
really rich in minerals
if you can even add like a little
sprinkle to anything it can boost the
nutrition so much plus they're really
high in fiber
combining fats because these are these
are fat containing foods whole food fat
sources which i think are great
they help to slow the absorption of the
natural sugars that are in your oatmeal
that are in your fruits
meals like oatmeal usually tend to keep
you full for a while but this is going
to make it even more
so it's going to really carry you
through let's say to lunch nice
wow awesome this is like making sense
i'm excited
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lekker i'm hoping this is lacquer
i'm excited to be hungry again and to
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to make to make the next meal
all right wow first of all let me just
say it is an honor
to be cooking in this space so what are
we preparing here
okay so you said that sometimes for
lunch you'll have like a sandwich
just like an avocado toast yeah simple
so i didn't want to take it like
this is let's say an avocado toast
elevated so
in essence i just got you avocados you
can put on it too but it's really simple
it's like 10 minutes to put together you
just add everything to a bowl you mix it
and then you top it onto your
sandwich nice that's going to be your
protein source for today is just these
chickpeas
always rinse it right because there's
usually salt in it so you get to wash
some of that off okay and then also the
water that it's in is what kind of
can cause the the bloating that some
people have interesting i'm seeing all
my gastrointestinal problems going right
out
down the drain oh my god there you go
do you see that technique just right up
in there the concentration levels are at
a nine out of ten i'd say
all right one thing that's really
important in this recipe
is the pickles the flavor that's added
really just it brings a pop you know
what i mean and you want to be enjoying
what you're eating right so you
you got to put ingredients that have
flavors that you enjoy
you know so that's that's something
people kind of overlook sometimes
okay
it's kind of like a super food right
most dietitians don't love the term
super food oh
and what was the reason for that in
today's world superfoods have been
uh it's just a marketing term really so
you see certain things
spirulina maca powder not that those
aren't lovely things to use if you like
them
but it's really being used as like a
selling point and it's got all these
benefits i mean don't have it just for
that reason like i think you really also
want to enjoy it
so i know some people who have super
foods and they hate the taste of it they
don't enjoy having it but they're doing
it because it's super and i'm like well
all of these are super
i really believe in like really enjoying
your food and not worrying about those
kinds of labels like does it is it rich
in these vitamins minerals and fiber
does it come from the earth
it's gonna be so good for you it's gonna
taste so good
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that was honestly not bad at all i could
totally see myself doing this this is
not very time consuming whatsoever
it's so satisfying looking i haven't
tasted it yet but i have a strong
feeling i'm gonna feel
really good about eating this we're
gonna have to get robin's opinion on
this
he has tried it before i know but you
know it's the
application you know of the the
nathaniel
element element this is the ultimate
food test
oh my goodness yeah
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tastes really good amazing that was
probably the most mind-blowing sandwich
you've ever
eaten here we go
is there enough bread for a second one
yeah
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back at it again now for round three
we're doing dinner this time i did ask
nathaniel if you wanted us to make a
snack because i did intend to make one
and you're like
i'm full oh plenty of food yeah one of
the things that i take away from your
channel and your work
is the importance of being just
extremely compassionate
not just with animals and other people
but also with yourself and so what this
is showing me is that there are ways to
turn
what you're doing in in a sort of
dietary sense
into something that's a little bit
healthier without being radical about it
in any way
yeah yeah oh
wait so like a soup yeah oh like a
noodle
oh yes order noodle soup and we didn't
get around to it so yeah we'll make it
this is like one of our favorite recipes
and this is genuinely a recipe we keep
making over and over
again so i think you'll like it cool
you know there's such a deluge of
information out there
on like what supplements you need what
vitamins you're lacking
the foods you know yeah and so it
stresses me out i'm kind of like okay
diet culture is common and and culture i
don't mean it's for people who just diet
diet culture is really the mentality
around this is good
this is bad this kind of type of food or
this behavior is right this one's wrong
it's really the polarities of these kind
of extremes you know what i mean and
the guilt that kind of many people feel
with food
yeah and and i think that's it's huge in
our culture
everywhere all right here we go sauteing
all right and
there you go there you go there you go
did you guys see that that was me doing
that the sauteing
saute in french okay there you go for
jump
i'm going to be adding the bok choy now
to the soup
per saudi as instructions so we try to
get one servings of greens in
at least every day we've already done
more than that right because we did uh
just a little piece of lettuce yeah it's
not a lot that's not a lot yeah okay so
definitely think about greens yeah there
you go
oh this smells absolutely amazing that
coconut milk
in there we have these multiple
different kinds of receptors on our
tongues right we have like
bitter sweet sour and it kind of
activates more of it like there's so
many different cuisines where they add a
little touch of acid and it just
elevates something oh so many different
things are
going on in here that i that i think is
just
exciting is this more time than you
would spend on dinner normally
not buy a lot honestly not buy a lot
this doesn't represent a massive
increase especially if i prepare
properly this doesn't seem like an
excessively it looks
elaborate but really it isn't an
excessively elaborate dish to create i
feel like
especially once i think you get into the
rhythm of doing something that works
really well and it covers your bases
it can go like clockwork i think and now
it's time for the taste test
oh my god
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oh super good good you did well with
tofu did you see that half nod that was
like
a nine out of ten i would say if you are
curious
about making these dishes for yourself
or dishes like these
you can check out pickuplimes.com they
have hundreds of recipes
all of them are plant-based they offer a
variety of options if you have different
allergies and whatnot it's an amazing
website that they've been working on for
a long time so
consider checking it out
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something about this just makes me
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