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MakePeasNotWar
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I thought it might be helpful to have a thread where anyone who chooses to can share their daily food intake, so we can get ideas from each other, and new people can get an idea of what ETL looks like in the real world.
I know from the monthly threads that there are different ways of making the program fit individual lifestyles, from simple 1 or 2 ingredient meals to beautiful gourmet style cooking (complete with drool-worthy photos) and everything in between. I know when I started late last year I loved the idea of it, but had no idea how to turn the guidelines into a workable day to day eating plan. Maybe this can help someone who is trying to get started, or just stuck in a rut.
Today's menu for me is:
Breakfast: steel cut oats with ground flaxseeds and 2 pluots
Lunch: leftover "homemade-ish" bean and grain stew (dried bean and whole grain mix + chopped veggie mix + garlic + water)
Leftover cucumber and tomato salad over butter lettuce
Watermelon
Dinner: stir-fried tofu and broccoli with tamari and ground peanuts
Salad with 50/50 mix, carrots, and purple wax beans, with Dr F walnut vinaigrette
Raspberries
I know from the monthly threads that there are different ways of making the program fit individual lifestyles, from simple 1 or 2 ingredient meals to beautiful gourmet style cooking (complete with drool-worthy photos) and everything in between. I know when I started late last year I loved the idea of it, but had no idea how to turn the guidelines into a workable day to day eating plan. Maybe this can help someone who is trying to get started, or just stuck in a rut.
Today's menu for me is:
Breakfast: steel cut oats with ground flaxseeds and 2 pluots
Lunch: leftover "homemade-ish" bean and grain stew (dried bean and whole grain mix + chopped veggie mix + garlic + water)
Leftover cucumber and tomato salad over butter lettuce
Watermelon
Dinner: stir-fried tofu and broccoli with tamari and ground peanuts
Salad with 50/50 mix, carrots, and purple wax beans, with Dr F walnut vinaigrette
Raspberries
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Good idea Peas.
Breakfast: 1/2 a cantaloupe
Lunch: BIG salad (romaine, hemp hearts, nooch, pumpkin seeds, a big tomato from the neighbor's garden, grapes, balsamic, fresh ground pepper)
Dinner: Steamed collard greens tossed with a mix of Bragg's and dijon and a bowl of soup from the freezer stash. It was the Oh She Glows 10 spice veggie soup. Sooooo good.
I usually use low sodium soy sauce not Bragg's, and I didn't like the Bragg's in the mixture. Waaay too salty.0 -
Oops, forgot I also had chickpeas in my lunch salad.0
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Breakfast: chopped mango and plums with walnuts
Coffee
Lunch: 50/50 salad with cucumbers, tomato, carrot and walnuts
Homemade-ish bean and grain soup
Aprium (apricot plum hybrid -more apricot than a pluot)
Dinner: Cabbage salad with carrots and mandarin oranges and purple wax beans
Tofu, carrots and broccoli with curry sauce
Brown rice
Raspberries and almonds0 -
Light day, not a good day at the office.
B: half a cantaloupe
L: BIG salad, same as yesterday
D water sauteed yellow squash, zucchini, carrots and onion, haven't cooked the veggies yet not sure if I will use a little soy sauce or just spices0 -
The iPhone app is driving me bonkers! Let's try one more time:
Breakfast: plums and coffee
Lunch: "southwest" salad with lettuce, spinach, peppers, black beans, corn and avocado
aprium
Dinner: scrambled tofu with black beans, quinoa, and enchilada sauce
baby spinach salad with mangoes and almonds
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I forgot this yesterday. My days don't change up too much when I'm doing the 6 week plan, but here's yesterday.
B - lentil soup from the freezer stash
L - leftover water sauteed veggies, Boston lettuce, lentil soup
D - the last of the sauteed veggies sprinkled with a tablespoon of flaxseed meal, peach, 1/2 oz. walnuts, 2 slices of sprouted grain toast
Been avoiding starchy carbs while I'm on the 6 week plan but my calories were really low (under 800) for several days in a row so I ate the toast to bump 'em up a bit
Today's plan, since I'm here...
B - half a honeydew melon
L - BIG salad (spring mix, chickpeas, roasted broccoli and mushrooms, grape tomatoes, nooch, hemp hearts, pumpkin seeds, balsamic)
D - split pea soup from the freezer stash, fresh peach and walnuts, might throw in another slice of sprouted grain toast
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Not 100% ETL, but here is today's plan:
Breakfast: smoothie with soy protein powder (not ETL), flax seeds, frozen cherries and water
Lunch: big salad with 50/50 mix, carrots, celery, cucumber, chickpeas, raw sunflower seeds and Dr F walnut vinaigrette
Bean and whole grain stew
Steamed broccoli
Plums
Dinner:
Raw carrots, celery, cucumber and red pepper strips with southwest ranch dressing (eat for health recipe)
Veggie chili with black beans and puréed spinach
Mango slices0 -
Hey Peas, I forgot this yesterday. Here's today:
B - couple cups of cantaloupe
L - BIG salad, same as usual but I swapped beans... black beans today
D - the rest of the leftover roasted broccoli and mushrooms, OSG 10 spice veggie soup from the freezer stash, a peach and some more melon for dessert
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B - cantaloupe
L - same salad as yesterday and some organic kale chips (I don't like kale chips, I really don't, but I keep trying them thinking it will change lol)
D - lentil soup from the freezer stash, big ol' homegrown tomato sprinkled with some nooch and ground pepper, cantaloupe
Also had a snack today, first time since I started the 6 week plan, had 2 Lundberg brown rice cakes.0 -
Today's menu is:
Breakfast - Smoothie with soy protein, ground flax, and frozen strawberries
1/2 whole grain pita with 1 tbsp raw peanut butter
mango slices
Lunch - butter lettuce salad with carrots, tomato, cucumber and green beans and Dr F walnut vinaigrette
Bean and grain stew (hopefully the last of this batch, lol; ready for something different)
Steamed broccoli
Dinner - Lentil soup with carrots and celery and onion
spinach salad with strawberries and sunflower seeds
Banana "nice" cream (frozen banana plus frozen raspberries and soaked raw cashews processed until smooth.0 -
Breakfast:
2 bananas and an ounce of raw almonds
Lunch:
chopped vegetable salad in a dijon vinaigrette, with green beans
cooked potato
Dinner:
shredded vegetable salad marinated in juice from an orange & a lemon
sauteed garlic mushrooms and onion - yum!!0 -
MakePeasNotWar wrote: »Today's menu is:
Banana "nice" cream (frozen banana plus frozen raspberries and soaked raw cashews processed until smooth.
mmm! I haven't tried soaked cashews yet - that sounds great! I tried coconut milk last time, and I wasn't really a big fan of that... This is a great idea!!0 -
MakePeasNotWar wrote: »Today's menu is:
Breakfast - Smoothie with soy protein, ground flax, and frozen strawberries
1/2 whole grain pita with 1 tbsp raw peanut butter
mango slices
Lunch - butter lettuce salad with carrots, tomato, cucumber and green beans and Dr F walnut vinaigrette
Bean and grain stew (hopefully the last of this batch, lol; ready for something different)
Steamed broccoli
Dinner - Lentil soup with carrots and celery and onion
spinach salad with strawberries and sunflower seeds
Banana "nice" cream (frozen banana plus frozen raspberries and soaked raw cashews processed until smooth.
Aaaaand, I burned the stew. I had the lentil soup for lunch (amy's bc I had no time to make from scratch), and I'm going to do pita pockets with black beans and tofu for dinner instead.whats_her_name wrote: »MakePeasNotWar wrote: »Today's menu is:
Banana "nice" cream (frozen banana plus frozen raspberries and soaked raw cashews processed until smooth.
mmm! I haven't tried soaked cashews yet - that sounds great! I tried coconut milk last time, and I wasn't really a big fan of that... This is a great idea!!
I actually haven't tried it yet either, tonight will be the first time. I saw online that adding some fat from pureed nuts will make it creamier and you can freeze the leftovers without them turning rock hard. I usually don't use anything but bananas and whatever flavours I want to add. I have a ninja blender that has blades all the way up the centre so there is no need to add extra liquid, which is awesome
I'll let you know how it turns out0 -
B - cantaloupe
L - same salad as usual with chickpeas this time
D - lentil soup, chopped garden fresh tomatoes sprinkled with nooch and ground pepper, the most delightful peach I've had yet this summer and not quite an ounce of walnuts0 -
I didn't post yesterday...
B - cantaloupe
L - Oh She Glows Red Lentil Kale Soup, couple pieces of cantaloupe
D - BIG salad (spring mix, chickpeas, garden tomatoes, sunflower seeds, hemp hearts, nooch, red onion, made a dressing of balsamic, dijon mustard, onion powder, garlic powder and a tiny bit of water... the dressing was really good. I was getting tired of plain balsamic so I'm going to make a batch of it for the coming week.
Today:
B - skipped
L - southwestern tofu scramble (tofu, red pepper, onion, kale, spices), 2 slices ezekiel bread with less than 1/2 tsp of earth balance, couple bites of cantaloupe
D - I created my own GBOMBS stew... I'll post the recipe in the monthly thread. Turned out very tasty. Dessert is going to be a bowl of blackberries, strawberries, cantaloupe and a peach.
Today's menu wasn't quite 100% ETL with the 2nd slice of bread and the earth balance, plus no raw veggies, but I'm okay with it. Back to 100% tomorrow and to finish out my 6 week plan.0 -
So I skipped the weekend, because it probably would not have set a very good example, lol. Yesterday I had
B: Strawberry mango smoothie with soy protein and ground flaxseed
L: low sodium organic lentil vegetable soup with carrot puree and seitan
watermelon
D : Oh She Glows Crowd Pleasing Tex Mex Casserole (delicious! I omitted the oil and the vegan cheese but I did add some cashew sauce with nutritional yeast instead)
raspberries
cashew milk
Today's plan:
B: blackberry mango smoothie with soy protein and ground flaxseed
banana
raw almonds
L: tofu and broccoli stir-fry with tamari and cashew cream
Butter lettuce salad with carrots, cucumber, celery and Dr F walnut vinaigrette
D : Leftover Tex-mex casserole
poached pear with 1 tsp maple syrup and walnuts
Edited because if you put a colon right after a capital D you get a frowny face emoji, lol. My dinners are actually pretty good.0 -
lol Peas, I did the same thing with the D :
I forgot yesterday. It was the same breakfast and lunch as usual, and dinner was the lentil stew with mushrooms onion and kale that I made. That stuff is soooo good. I am pretty proud of my creation. I had a big bowl of a sliced peach, blackberries and strawberries sprinkled with chia seeds, cinnamon and cardamom with a few walnuts for dessert.
Today was the same, except dessert was just a peach and a few walnuts. I'm not varying my food a lot, but it's making it easier for me to stick with the 6 week plan to just keep it simple. I don't get tired of salads for lunch so I'm good there.0 -
B - cantaloupe
L - spring mix topped with a big scoop of the lentil stew. This was a mistake. It might have worked with a crisper lettuce but with the spring mix by lunchtime it was just a soggy sad mess. It was edible but not enjoyable.
D - lentil stew, steamed kale tossed with a little soy sauce and dijon, peach and walnuts
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B- smoothie with soy protein, flaxseed, and frozen cherries, with 1/4tsp vanilla extract
Watermelon
L-cabbage salad with romaine, carrots and radish in chili-lime-hummus dressing
Grilled tempeh and toasted cashews
Plums
D- organic whole wheat pizza with soy cheese, spinach, tomatoes and basil
Spinach salad with carrots, celery, almonds, cucumber and balsamic vinegar
Raspberries
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Mmmmm... pizza! Nice day Peas.
B - cantaloupe
L - big salad (baby romaine, grape tomatoes, hemp hearts, sunflower seeds, nooch, balsamic, 1/2 cup chickpeas)
D - steamed collard greens, steamed broccoli, sliced garden tomato, 1/4 cup chickpeas, grapefruit, walnuts0
