Oh, yeah, this salad is going to be just another level texture wise
All right, What I Eat in a Day
It has been a minute since I made one of these videos
I was just looking through everything
and I think the last time I did one was
in 2016, when I was living in Tokyo, Japan
And so much has changed since then
Both diet-wise and just life in general
Back then I was eating plant-based
This went on for, I don't remember the exact timeline
but I think I want to say one, two or three months, around that
It wasn't that long (after looking back at my videos, it was about 1 year)
Although I never identified as vegan,
I was trying to be plant-based
and I wanted to be plant-based
But it didn't work for my body
And I never really came out and made a video on that specifically
I feel like I've touched on it throughout videos here and there
or comments, but I'm still getting comments to this day
every time I post something with animal products
which is almost every Sunday for my SunTay Brunch
I usually include eggs
So I felt like I should title this accordingly
And just address it for those who are wondering
Um, so yeah, I was trying to be plant-based
It didn't work so good for my body
Although I tried to be really balanced and plan
and try to get all the nutrients that I needed
I lost a lot of weight and my hormones went crazy
A very big sign of this was my skin
My skin became the worst it's ever been in my life
with really deep cystic hormonal acne
And then I saw several doctors
I did all these different hormone tests
My doctor told me that some people's bodies just don't thrive on the vegan diet
Some people don't absorb plant-based fat as well as
Animal-based fat and that was what was happening to my body
My hormones were just a mess and I needed to
Eat some meat if I wanted to be healthy
and especially if I wanted to get pregnant
So I listened to my doctor's advice
I started incorporating a little bit of meat
But I didn't want to make a video on it
because I truly believe that diet is a really personal thing
What works for my specific body
According to my genetics and environment
There's many different factors in it
It may not work for someone else's body
and I didn't want to potentially persuade people to change their diet
according to what is working for me and my doctor's advice for me
I mean and I love the vegan diet...
I love everything it stands for
I love all the positive effects it has on people's bodies
On the world, on the environment
Some people just really thrive on it and do well
Unfortunately it just it didn't work out for me
I guess my conclusion is just to really listen to your body
If you change up your diet or change something
Just make sure that it's working for you
If you notice changes in your body
Maybe go see your doctor
Consult them, do some blood tests
Just make sure everything is okay
and keep up with your checkups
because the long-term effects could be quite damaging...
I'm not saying that veganism is... why my hormones are so bad
I have some other issues like PCOS and other things
but it could have been a factor
and my doctor just thinks that my body is overall healthier
when I eat meat, if I want to get all the nutrients that it needs
But with all that being said I do still really like plant-based meals
and I try to eat them as frequently as possible
So today's food is gonna be plant-based
Sort of lunch is gonna be plant-based
Dinner, I might add a little bit of chicken
but if you just omitted that then it would be plant-based
So this is going to work for many people's diets, hopefully
so all the food is going to be homemade and healthy and nutritious
And I can't wait to show you my recipes
But first let's start this morning
I usually wake up at 7AM every morning
I have a big glass of water and then I have a coffee with oat milk
Um, if I do work out I'll usually grab a banana
If not, I'll skip breakfast
so I sort of do intermittent fasting
but not really because I have a little bit of oatmeal in my coffee
I don't know if that counts or not
I'm, not trying to do it, but I should still tell you
I stop eating around 8 or 9PM after dinner
and then I often don't eat besides a little bit of oat milk
until lunch the next day
unless I'm having a workout then I'll grab a banana
I don't know. I don't know what that is
or what that means but just putting it out there
My lunch choices are usually pasta with pesto or marinara sauce
or leftovers from the night before which is usually soup or a rice bowl
Or some sort of salad
For lunch, we're gonna be making a vegan caesar salad
The dressing is made out of almonds
And on top of that I'm going to be putting the best crispy tofu ever
and some crispy spiced chickpeas
So the first thing you want to do is soak
1/3 cups of slivered almonds
In some hot water for about 15 minutes just to soften it
that's a little hack actually because
I think most people don't know what they want to eat the night before or even four hours in advance
So you don't have much time to soak whole almonds
So if you want to make a dressing
or something where you need the soaked almonds
if you use slivered almonds
You can get them soaked a lot faster
just 15 minutes in hot water
One tablespoon of tamari
one tablespoon of olive oil
one teaspoon of lemon juice
One teaspoon of maple syrup
and one teaspoon of tomato paste
so i'm just gonna mix these all together
One tablespoon of corn starch
one teaspoon of garlic powder
And one teaspoon of smoked paprika
for that deep smoky flavor
I'm just gonna mix these well together, too
I love the smell of the smoked paprika
Just makes everything taste so sophisticated
and like you worked really hard on the flavor
So we are going to bake these for 25 to 30 minutes
and we're going to flip them over halfway
A hack to easily peel garlic is to just place the garlic down and then
Push on it with your knife
and then it comes off super easy
And then you simply want to just
slice the garlic
in half
This will allow it to lay down flatly
and then you can easily and safely
Just chop the garlic
And you can use one to two cloves of garlic
depending on how much garlic you like
I like my caesar salad very garlicky
so I'm going for two
Creamy
garlicky
Fresh from the lemon
It's so good this dressing
It really tastes exactly like regular homemade caesar dressing
Oh these look so good
So basically you want to dry them
but also sort of rough them up
so that the skins come off
The secret trick to making
super crispy chickpeas is removing that top layer of skin
Okay, perfect
All right, so over medium high heat
I'm just gonna pour enough vegetable oil to coat the bottom of the pan
Chili powder
pinch of salt, pinch of pepper
Just gonna mix them up
I'm gonna try
These are good
Perfect. Okay, so we've got crispy chickpeas
We've got our crispy tofu
I'm gonna give this one a go, too
Oh, it is perfect
It's almost like a tangy, smoky
buffalo wing sauce on a tofu
and then you've got the very soft inside and the crispy outside
So the texture is just amazing
This salad is going to be
Just
on another level texture-wise
add some washed and chopped romaine lettuce to a bowl
And then in's gonna go our salad dressing
Just going to top it off with some cracked black pepper
And then if you like you can just add a little lemon wedge to the side
For a little squeeze of freshness on the top
just right before you eat it
All right. Lunch is ready
All right
So good
the flavors complement each other so nicely because
The tofu is like deep and smoky
And then the salad dressing is very zesty
and creamy and everything's very crisp
So it's to me this is just
The perfect summer lunch
full of texture and taste
Delicious and the crispy tofu is so good
You don't need to add it to a salad
You can make it and add it to anything
a wrap, stir fry, whatever you want
If you have tofu and you're not sure what to do with it
try this
Dinner time now
For dinner, I usually like to eat
either steamed fish or chicken
with either steamed or roasted vegetables and rice
Or I do a lot of soups or stews or curries
Those are like my go-to things in rotation
so tonight I'm gonna be doing a
thai green curry
Feel free to use whatever vegetables you like
or whatever you have lying around
and you can add meat or not add meat
or shrimp or fish or beef, whatever you want, really
I'm going to be making a chicken, vegetable one
I've got a lot of veggies prepared here
So the first thing you want to do is wash and chop all of your vegetables
I'm putting a little bit of chilies
This is called kaffir lime leaf
And this is thai eggplant
If you can't find these
I don't think they're that necessary
I mean it tastes good, but I know it's not available everywhere
and then i've got some green curry paste
This particular one does have shrimp paste inside
So just be aware of that when you're purchasing yours, if you are vegan
And then some coconut cream
and some fresh cilantro for the top
And you want to go ahead and steam your rice first
whether you're cooking it in a rice cooker or on the stove
However you like
and I'm going to go ahead and make the curry now
Over medium high heat, you want to heat up your pan
and then add about a tablespoon of vegetable oil
So you want to wait till your oil is nice and hot
and then we're going to throw in our onions
and this is when you want to cook any meat you're going to do
so whether it's chicken or beef or pork
or Fish or shrimp
If you don't have meat then you can just skip this step
I'm going to add the curry paste
200 milliliters of vegetable stock or chicken stock
Oops
And I'm just going to add one of these little chopped red chilis
If you don't like a lot of spice then you don't need to add that
And then you can add in your eggplant
And your peppers
So I just like a lot of color in my curries
because I feel like the more color
the more nutrients inside and vitamins
400 milliliters of coconut cream
And then just add the lid back on again
But make sure you leave a little bit of space for some air to escape
and we're gonna cook it for another five minutes
And we're gonna cover for another five minutes or so
until all of your vegetables are cooked
All right
And there we go
A quick, easy healthy recipe
that is great, even better the next day in my opinion
So it's great for leftovers for the next day and the day after that
7 14 p.m
After dinner, I usually will eat fruit
but every now and then I want something more
Something more dessert-like
Or I could go for like a bag of chips or something salty
So tonight I'm gonna go for dessert
and I feel like most women watching me will understand
What I mean when I say
When you crave chocolate you just need to get it
in some form whether it's bar, smoothie
cookies, cake, whatever
This is the perfect cake for when those cravings are hitting
but you just want to make something super easy, not too complicated
Not too many ingredients
There is about nine ingredients
It cooks in just 60 seconds and it's using all whole ingredients
So it's a little bit healthier
You can make a keto you can make it paleo
I'm going to give some vegan options
And it is very delicious
It really hits the spot and it's in a mug
Everything is... actually I'm going to put it in a
Tea cup saucer to be fancy
but anything in a cup, cereal, soup
anything just feels a little bit more warm and comforting
We're gonna go two tablespoons of almond flour
One tablespoon of cacao powder
One tablespoon of sugar
I'm using brown coconut sugar because that's just what I have in my cupboard
But if you are making this keto
Make sure you go for a low carb sugar
1/4 teaspoon of baking powder
pinch of salt
[It's good]
[The texture is like...]
[The texture is like... cake, really]
Oh, finished?
[Yep!]
[It's good]
Success