Vegan Diet Meal Plans

Hi guys,

This post is full of recipes that are vegan and super healthy. My daily diet doesn't contain any meat and only small amounts of diary meaning it's not hard for me to try veganism. The benefits of trying veganism are great because you're getting loads of fruit and veggies! It also is a pretty high carb diet but I don't really mind that!

So-without- further a do here are my vegan example meals, whether you are just trying to incorporate healthier meals to your life or trying full time veganism.... ENJOY.


DAY 1

Breakfast

To start the day off right, I made my daily porridge. It is made with almond milk (recipe here) organic porridge oats, chia seeds, coconut oil, then topped with bananas, strawberries, blueberries and coconut flakes.

This is such a great breakfast as it provides you with tonnes of energy and because of the chia seeds, fills you up. The chia seeds expand in your stomach making you feel fuller.





Lunch

 For lunch i made an apple and tomato raw dip with some pita, cucumber and pepper slices. I have a major obsession over humus and so decided to try some other, homemade, healthier dips. This dip was made from a recipe book called 'The Raw Food Diet'.

Raw means that the food product hasn't been cooked over 40.6 Celsius. Once the food has been cooked over this, all it's living enzymes and nutrients have been killed. Read more about the diet.

Seeing as the dip was only blended together in a processor it is considered 'raw' and very healthy and beneficial for the body.

Dinner

 Finally I had a spinach, avocado salad with peppers, cucumber and walnuts. I personally find salads really boring without a dressing. This dressing can be found (here.) I made this dressing because it is a lot healthier than mayo or caesar dressings plus it's raw!

Salads are super healthy but not that filling so I had some dessert later on.






Dessert

 This is a super delicious but vegan, raw and healthy dessert! What more could I want??

It's a banana and walnut ice cream with strawberries, blueberries and coconut flakes. (pretty similar to my breakfast, opps)

I made the ice cream by blending 2 frozen bananas, some walnuts, agave nectar and a little bit of coconut water together. Then just topped with the fruit.





DAY 2 

Breakfast

(Sorry for the really bad photography making this look horrible) trust me, this breakfast tastes so much better than it looks. It is the 'Rawtarians breakfast bowl' (recipe here)

The Rawtarians blog is full of great raw vegan recipes from making almond milk to healthy pizza. I would really recommend it to anyone trying to eat more raw. http://www.therawtarian.com/ 






Lunch
I recently bought a vegetarian recipe book from 'The Works' which contains some vegan recipes in too. This is one of them. It is rice with green veg; the veggies are asparagus, green beans and courgette. I LOVED it. It contained Thai green curry paste which i fell in love with! I'm a lover of spice and flavour.

Anyway i used many recipes from this book throughout this post.





Dinner

My Dad is such a good curry maker! This is lentil and spinach curry with corriander and lemon. Adding corriander and lemon is the best decision you will ever make in your life! Well at least as far as curry goes. It adds a sharp and fresh taste to the mildly spicy curry.

The curry is also really light and easily digestible. I LOVED IT...






DAY 3

Breakfast

This morning I drank a green smoothie. It contained spinach, cucumber, banana, apple, maca and coconut water. This is my most simple recipe that tastes really nice. I sometimes will also add a date to make it sweeter.

Maca is a like a protein powder. It great for getting protein in this diet. Seeing as most protein comes from animal products it's important to replace the lost protein with greens and powders like Maca.







Lunch

Lunch was a mixture of pita slices, pepper and tomatoes with a spicy avocado dip. The dip came from the veggie book, it had a kick of spice from the chilli powder but the coolness of the avocado cooled it down.

I had made quiet a lot of the dip meaning i can keep it for the next couple of days in the fridge.






Dinner

This is literally the best cous cous ever! For the cous cous I just poured over enough boiling water to cover it. Then added a vegetable stock and crushed garlic. It contained roasted veggies like red onion, cherry tomatoes, butternut squash ect. Then fresh salad like cucumber, tomatoes, mint and parsley. Finally topped with toasted pine nuts and pomegranate.

I love this cous cous because it's so fresh and summery. Also because you can adapt the roasted vegetables to whatever. Sometimes I include red pepper and courgettes.

DAY 4

Breakfast

Banana buckwheat pancakes are one of my favorite breakfast treats. They can be topped with almost anything! Here i used mango, bananas, blueberries, raspberries and coconut flakes.

I got the recipe from another one of my favorite blogs. (Find it here.)

I don't have these too often but when i do, i fall in LOVE. The best thing about them is that they are healthy AND tasty.




Lunch

For lunch I had some left over cous cous, left over avocado dip, pita and crudities.

Another great thing about the cous cous is that it tastes just as great kept in the fridge for the next day.

The dip was just a delicious too!





Dinner

This is pesto pasta and salad. I really like green pesto on my pasta, it's my fave!

It's much better to use brown pasta than white pasta because it's easier for the stomach to digest.

Also try to pair meals with salad as it helps the stomach to start digesting.







DAY 5

Breakfast

Today i just had the same porridge i had earlier on in the week. Even when i'm not doing a vegan challenge i still eat this! I top it with whatever fruit i have in the house and usually adapt it it the seasons. In winter when fresh fruit isn't available i use dates, dried figs and goji berries.








Lunch

For today's lunch i had a wrap with lettuce, pepper and tomato with the last of the spicy avocado dip and Quorn chicken dippers.

This wrap tasted just as great as normal chicken wraps do! I would definitely recommend it as a substitute for them.

The avocado worked great as a sauce. I would usually have mayo, which really isn't healthy. Or vegan for that matter!





Dinner

For dinner I created something from the vegetarian book. This is a lentil bolognese. The lentils replaced the meat and went down a treat.  The spaghetti I used was spelt. Spelt is an ancient grain which is easier for the stomach to digest. Unfortunately I didn't really know whether they classed as vegan but the ingredients listed no animal product so I guessed they were.

I really enjoyed this version of the classic and would definitely eat to again.






DAY 6

Breakfast

BANANA BUCKWHEAT PANCAKE TIME! My guilty pleasure! The fruit i had with it was peaches, raspberries, strawberries and banana. I also added some coconut flakes, walnuts and almonds for a crunch with agave syrup drizzled over the top. Yum central.






Lunch

Today i made some soup. I roasted some cauliflower, aubergines, courgettes, peppers, tomatoes, onion, celery and chilli in the oven with olive oil, salt and pepper. I then blitzed them together in a blender with 1 pint of vegetable stock.

It was a super creamy perfect soup! The roasting makes the veggies sweet but adding the chilli made an all-round brilliant soup!





Dinner

For dinner my dad made a curry. This used green lentils and spinach. It was SO yummy!

I love to try different things, especially when they originate from different countries... like India! 

I love to travel a lot and just can't wait until i can go travelling around the world!  For now though, while i'm stuck in England, eating different countries cuisines makes me feel like i'm there. That's what i love about the power of food. It can instantly transport you to somewhere else.

DAY 7 

Breakfast

My mum made Kate Magic's buckwheat cereal with strawberries and blueberries. It was a raw take on cereal and tasted quite nice.

I absolutely love buckwheat in breakfasts because of the crunch they give. They really masked the 'crunchy nut corn flake' texture. 

Lunch

For this delicious recipe click here as i have already done a post on my blog about how to make it!

Soup is a great way to stay vegan and healthy!











Dinner

For dinner i had another cous cous recipe. This time it had roasted fennel, courgette, pepper, cherry and salad tomatoes and red onion. I added thyme and rosemary to the vegetables for flavour which worked great!










Dessert

I had tonnes of fruit in the house and was also a bit hungry still.  

This is the frozen banana ice cream i spoke about earlier. This time i topped it with banana, peach, strawberries and blueberries.

I hope you liked my examples of vegan meals. I really enjoyed trying this diet and found loads of new recipes and ingredients to try through it.

See you soon,
Jess
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