Didn't notice that it was about a week since i (re)started this. I'm still more or less on the plant-based run! To be honest I haven't been paying that much attention to stuff. I've had a lot of pet drama in the last few days.
But I definitely didn't eat meat, or cheese, or eggs. Having said that many of the 'protein sources' I've been eating, like vegetarian sausages, are not strictly vegan, I believe they contain some egg (so I have in fact been eating eggs). Still they are a good stepping stone to getting rid of meat, so i intend to use them for a bit.
I think there is a bit of a difference between plant based and vegan.
Having said that, I have been trying to get my protein from more basic primary food. I made a kidney bean and lentil curry, which was quite nice. I also fried some tempeh, which was really nice, prefer it to tofu. Doesn't really taste of much I guess, slightly bitter, but you can get the taste in with seasoning.
Sesame oil is amazing by the way!
Today I am soaking chickpeas with the plan of making more curry, maybe I will add coconut milk this time, more fattening, but also more delicious.
For grains I've been eating brown rice, and polish buckwheat groats, and oatmeal for breakfast.
I'm surprised to see how few people talk about potatoes as a good source of carbohydrates. I think simply boiled potatoes are pretty good. they do pack quite a bit of starch, but so do grains, I think they have some fibre, and vitamins and minerals. They are actually fairly low in calories, 1kg has about 700, which I take to mean they are not so carbohydrate rich, probably have more water than grains.
Not saying you should eat them every day but a couple of days a week should be quite good.
Because of the cat stress and trouble, I haven't kept up with the green smoothies for the last 3 days, however today I intend to get back on the wagon.
Also I did have a beer session with a friend where I drank a cpl of bottles and ate a bunch of salted roasted peanuts, and lentil crisps, the next day I ate another bag of roasted salted almonds that we didn't quite manage to fit in the night before so that probably didn't do the weightloss any favours.
I blame it on the cats!
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