Eating a Plant-Based Lifestyle-Diet

Am I vegetarian or vegan? Well...I'm neither I'm actually doing a plant-based lifestyle diet that is basically like being vegan but for different reasons. So it means you cut out anything animal based (meat, eggs, dairy) and focus on plant based (things that grow like fruits and veggies). You also avoid processed foods.

The reason why is because it is much more healthy, prevents and can even reverse cancer and heart disease and other diseases, you'll have more energy (I was never a morning person, but now I can actually wake up and get going and am pretty happy!), and you quality of life is just so much better...you feel like you are really living!

Watch the documentary on Netflix, "Forks over Knives" and you'll get the gist of the science behind it. Watching that is kind of life changing!

We are not strict on the diet, so if we feel like having a BBQ once in a while we will, if we go to someone else's home we are happy to eat what they prepare, we just focus on plant based whenever we can and avoid putting things in our home that don't fit that lifestyle except on special occasions.

I find that we eat less food (because the energy content is so high in fresh that your body discovers after a couple of weeks that it doesn't need as much food) so that kind of balances out the costs of fresh priced foods by eating less.

The challenges I've faced so far are that you have to meal plan more because certain aspects require preparation, but there are fast options...like there are always salads, fruit, wraps, canned beans and veggies, most tofu aspects cook in 10-30 minutes, and I like to make two or three meals worth when I cook and eat them later that week or freeze them for when I need something fast or don't want to cook.

The funny thing is...I've never been a very good cook, but I'm finding I'm much better at cooking plant-based recipes and am more daring to try creating new dishes! My hummus wraps are a huge hit! And some of the meals I used to make work just fine if I am willing to replace the cheese and sour cream with avocado and cheese substitutes

We really like snacking on fruits and nuts so snack time is easy too! I really like soy nuts and puffed corn (it's like corn nuts) especially.

Happy Living!

P.S. Find some plant-based recipes HERE! :)