WIAW: Plant-based edition

Hi friends! Thank you so much for the lovely birthday wishes (and get well wishes for P) yesterday! Iโ€™ll share more pics in Friday Faves, but we had an awesome dinner here at the house with family. We ordered Indian food from Saffron, enjoyed a cake from Lovinโ€™ Spoonfuls, and I made a giant cheese board. It was nice to celebrate a bit together, especially since the funeral is tomorrow. <3

Making a wish with my best girls:

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For todayโ€™s post, I thought Iโ€™d share a WIAW post featuring a full day of plant-based eats. My eating style has reverted back to a more produce focus since I started with the gallbladder polyp thing, and while I still eat chicken and fish, there are days that go by when I realized I havenโ€™t had any animal-based products at all.

Hereโ€™s what a full day of plant-based eats looked like recently:

6:45 I wake up and have a a full glass of water and a little snack while I wait for the coffee maker to heat up. Usually this little bite is 1/2 a protein bar, a couple of Enjoy Life protein bites, an amazeball, or some dark chocolate. It wakes me up instantly. ๐Ÿ˜‰

I have an amazeball and make my usual decaf coffee. I usually froth it up with some collagen powder, but today I just have it with some monk fruit and almond milk.

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(This is my milk frother! It was about $15 and I use it every day.)  

9:00am Iโ€™m back home from drop-off and make โ€œrealโ€ breakfast. At the beginning of each week, I sautรฉ a ton of veggies to add to wraps, salads, and scrambles. This week, itโ€™s bell pepper, broccoli, zucchini, sweet potato, kale, and carrots, seasoned with garlic powder, turmeric, and miso. I serve the chickpea scramble with a dollop of vegan Buffalo sauce from Sunbasket. (I add a fun sauce to our delivery each week and theyโ€™re always good on wraps, in scrambles, or as veggie dips.)

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+ a few squares of dark chocolate

I take all of my supplements (DIM, adaptogen blend, MitoQ, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and selenium) and head upstairs to get started on my first block of work for the day.

1:00pm One of my go-to lunches: Trader Joeโ€™s cauliflower gnocchi, a Beyond Meat sausage, arugula, spinach, and a little Primal Kitchen Ranch drizzled on top. For the gnocchi, I add it to a skillet with avocado oil and let it cook, flipping occasionally for about 10 minutes. It gets nice and crispy this way! Then Iโ€™ll crumble in the sausage to brown it, and wilt in the greens. Serve and top with dressing. 

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After lunch, I drink some herbal tea while I blast through work stuff.  

6:30pm The Pilot is out of town, so I take the girls on a dinner date to Charro Vida. We share some chips with salsa and my entree is the hemp tamales: 

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(I eat about half and take the rest home for lunch the next day)

9:30pm Organifi golden milk latte with almond milk while catching up on This Is Us. Iโ€™ll usually have Four Sigmatic hot cacao (<โ€” order from Thrive Market) or the Organifi gold before bed and itโ€™s one of my favorite nighttime rituals. The Organifi has reishi, turmeric, and magnesium, and is so comforting and delicious. The pumpkin flavor is awesome! (I donโ€™t have a referral code but I use Shaun Stevensonโ€™s – enter MODEL for 20% off)

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So there ya go! Iโ€™m definitely a creature of habit and once I find something I like, Iโ€™ll have it repeatedly before Iโ€™m sick of it and switch onto the next thing. I find that anything I can do out of habit uses less brain power, so Iโ€™d rather use the decision making for more important things than what I want to eat for breakfast. I have a handful of staples and tend to rotate between these.

Are you a creature of habit when it comes to food? What are some of your go-tos?

Plant-based friends: any awesome lunch or breakfast combos youโ€™ve loving?

xo

Gina

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9 Comments

  1. Katie on November 13, 2019 at 7:38 pm

    Total creature of habit here. I have probably eaten slight variations of the same lunch for a solid 90% of my adult working life, so like 12 years. Every Sunday I pack up cups layered with frozen fruit, chia seeds, and yogurt so by the time I take it to work the fruit is thawed and the chia seeds have gelled. There’s also usually some cereal to stir in, almonds, and a banana. When I have extra time to get freaky, I treat myself to a sandwich: Dave’s Killer Bread with peanut butter on both the upper and lower slice and sprinkled with cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, and a dash of cayenne. The critical next step is that, instead of jelly, I pile up about 1/3 of a very thinly sliced apple. It’s the kind of sandwich that you don’t wanna leave in the office fridge, because I’m a pacifist but I would totally do a murder if someone stole that lunch from me.

    • Fitnessista on November 13, 2019 at 11:48 pm

      that sounds amazinggggggggg

  2. Anne on November 13, 2019 at 10:34 pm

    I came to the comments to get more veg meal ideas- so Iโ€™ll have to check back again later! I like your idea of big veggie fry early in the week, but oooh the chopping! ๐Ÿ™
    Anyway, I found this recipe and have been making it almost every week. So good with the tahini on a slice of bread. https://simple-veganista.com/cranberry-walnut-chickpea-salad-sandwic/

    • Fitnessista on November 13, 2019 at 11:47 pm

      haha i was like where is everyone today???
      i’ll check out that salad- thank you!

  3. Jodie on November 14, 2019 at 7:43 am

    Which brand miso do you use? I like roasted curried chickpeas, with roasted broccoli, Brussel sprouts and cabbage with miso and balsamic glazed roasted sweet potatoes.

  4. Molly on November 14, 2019 at 1:45 pm

    What decaf do you recommend? I’m looking for an organic strong decaf coffee.

  5. Tess on November 14, 2019 at 9:54 pm

    Can you do a post on all the supplements and vitamins you recommend? So interested in this nighttime turmeric drink as well!

  6. Sana on November 15, 2019 at 5:06 pm

    I love when you share these WIAW posts! Gives me a lot of great ideas for my meals. I recently heard about the TJ cauliflower gnocchi from some co workers and itโ€™s gluten free so I think Iโ€™ll try it this weekend.

  7. adrianna on November 18, 2019 at 9:42 pm

    maje creature of habit here! i have the same breakfast, lunch, and dinner (i vary the veg but thats about it) nearly every day. i don’t really get sick of my meals, they’re easy, mostly healthy, and quick. i only have to cook for me so its easy. and grocery shopping is a breeze, ha!
    side note: HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY!!! you are so fantastic, gorgeous, amazing, great mama and wife and virtual friend. hope you had an absolutely great day ๐Ÿ™‚

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