Baby Bok Choy with Garlic rice

This looks pretty plain, but is probably one of my favorite meals I have had. Loving the baby Bok Choy!! I steamed it and drizzled a little bit of olive oil and red wine vinegar on top with some black pepper. The rice is brown rice with garlic and a little bit of soy sauce.

PIZZA!!!

I was craving pizza badly, really badly. It was the first real craving I have had since starting to eat like this. I made my own dough, which was pretty thick, I should have spread it out more to make it thinner. It is made with whole wheat flour, water, yeast and some olive oil, pretty simple. Then I put Peppers, mushrooms, kale, onion, and zucchini on top with a little bit of soy cheese. It definitely hit the spot!

Kids love fried Eggplant!

Well, Cole loves it anyway. I got the idea on line. Cut the eggplant into .5" thick stripes and run under water then coat with a pancake batter (without sugar, milk or eggs) and put in frying pan with some olive oil. After they were nice and crispy I let them sit on paper towel to soak up excess oil and then fed them to Cole. They were really tasty. I imagine you could do the same thing with Zucchini.

Stuffed peppers and pasta dinner

This is a big meal! It was a hit with my Dad and Joanne, but not with Chad and Cole, lol.... It is Peppers stuffed with Zucchini, tomatoes, onions and buckwheat. The pasta is brown rice pasta with sundried tomatoes, asparagus and mushrooms in a creamy soy based sauce..... SOOOO GOOD.

Avocado Salad and Burrito

Avocado Salad, with tomatoes, cucumber, red onion and cilantro and a little bit of lemon juice for dressing. It looks pretty small, but it was just a really large plate.

The burrito was SOOO good. It was a spicy refried beans and brown rice with some fajita seasoning. I put a little bit of Salsa in it as well but it would have been just as good with out the salsa. Cole didn't enjoy the refried beans, they were a little to spicy for his liking, I didn't realize the were that spicy.

Rice pasta with Sundried tomatoes, mushrooms and asparagus

I had some left over pasta so wanted to do something with it for lunch. I have a recipe that I was planning to make that required sun-dried tomatoes, so I threw this together. I just used a little of the oil from the sun-dried tomatoes to saute them and the mushrooms and asparagus then just mixed it with the pasta. It was delicious.

Sushi

I LOVE sushi, so I was a little worried that when I ate it I would be disappointed and want the dynamite roll and spicy tuna roll that I used to love. However, I was extremely happy with what I got. I got a Cucumber Roll, Spicy Veggie roll, and a unbelievably good avocado roll. I liked it so much when I went last week, I got an order to go last night for supper.

The soy sauce I used to have had tons of preservatives in it, so I got some from the health food store, that is the same price, but doesn't have the crap in it.

Chocolate Soy Milk

So in my quest to help my family get eating healthier I decided to get some chocolate soy milk for Cole. It was a hit!! It has the exact same look and consistency, a little bit different taste, but Cole liked it. I am pretty excited about this :)

This morning I compared the ingredients in the soy and rice milk to the cow milk. Soy and Milk is lower and fat, and has no cholesterol. Since soy and rice are fortified they have the same amount of calcium and the soy had higher iron and vitamin B12 amounts. The soy milk has less protein, but that was really the only thing I noticed that was lower.

Snack

Here is a snack that I had the other day. Yummy organic strawberries, and 2 maple cookies. The cookies have Maple syrup, flour, vanilla, egg replacer and vegan margarine. Cole LOVES these cookies :)

2 bean chili

This is a great meal to have handy if you are short on time. I make a bunch then have it in serving sizes in the freezer, so if I don't know what to do for lunch I just grab it and it thaws by lunch. There are black beans, kidney beans, tomato sauce, stewed tomatoes, mushrooms, green and red peppers, jalapeno peppers, corn and onion in it. Very yummy and high in protein! Sorry about the quality of the pic, it doesn't look nearly as appetizing as it is.

Avocado sandwich and Edamame

For supper today I had a Avocado sandwich with Tomato, red onion and lettuce on a vegan multigrain bread. I also had a side of edamame, This is quite a big supper but I was going for a big hike in the evening and wanted to make sure I had the energy.

Yummy lunch

Today I made a salad for lunch. Lettuce, broccoli, kale, cucumber, red onion, tomato, strawberries, pumpkin seeds and vinegar and olive oil dressing. I also have a vegan oatmeal bar for dessert. There is oatmeal, flax seed meal, walnuts, agave nectar, raisins, egg replacer and cinnamon in these bars. YUMMY!!!

New Goal to purchase locally

After learning the hormones and crap that is injected into animals and produce to make them bigger my goal is to try and purchase local meat and produce. I will let you know how this goes since Cranbrook isn't exactly a city full of options.

Have you ever noticed the size difference between a head of lettuce and an organice head of lettuce??? Not just lettuce, everything even the cucumbers are half the size. Kinda makes you wonder.

Hello!

After reading "Skinny Bitch" on March 28/10 I was thoroughly disgusted with what I read. The antibiotics, steroids, growth hormones that are in our food is awful. What I read in that book made sense to me. Why would we drink milk? We are the only species that drinks milk after being weaned, nevermind another species milk. I also read about how to live healthy with out meat and dairy, and how it is not necessary to be healthy. There are lots of other ways to get the calcium, protein and iron.

So that was the day I decided I was going to try and eat Vegan. I say eat Vegan, because I am not a 100% Vegan. I decided to not eat sugar, dairy, or meat products including fish and eggs. Since then, I have never felt so great in my life. I have tons of energy and have lost 17lbs. I have the energy to wake early every morning and walk, I never had this type of energy before. For the past 12 years I have had eczema on my shins and on my right hand. Since I eliminated these foods, it is gone.

I don't want to preach, I don't want to push people to eat this way, I just want to be the healthiest I possibly can. I know a lot of people that think I am being absolutely ridiculous, some people I haven't really told because of this reason. So the people that are interested in what I eat, where I find these foods ect, can visit this blog to find out. I will try and post photos, so people can actually see what the foods look like.