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Vegan Lifestyle Guide To Meal Planning
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Work With What You Have MEAL PLANNING IS EASY, IT JUST REQUIRES A LITTLE BIT OF TIME EACH WEEK.
Keep Breakfast Simple BREAKFAST MAY BE THE EASIEST MEAL OF THE DAY TO PLAN.
Make Lunch Exciting YOU WILL WANT YOUR LUNCH OPTIONS TO BE SIMPLE, BUT
Know How to Plan
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VEGAN LIFESTYLE GUIDE TO MEAL PLANNING Maintaining a vegan lifestyle means cutting several foods from your diet. Foods such as meat, fish, dairy, eggs and honey all to be avoided. Even food like gelatin, which is derived from animal products, are off-limits. Cutting out these traditional foods can be challenging. It can seem some particularly daunting to a beginning, particularly the idea that a Vegan diet requires expensive meat and dairy substitutes. With a little bit of time and effort though, it is possible to maintain a vegan lifestyle on a tight budget.
Know how to plan When it comes to eating on a budget, meal-planning is an easy way to make your dollar stretch as far as possible. When you are working with diet restrictions, this becomes even more essential. By sitting down and planning out your meals in advance, you cut back down on last-minute grocery store trips or take-out meals, both of which can get expensive fast.
Work With What You Have Meal planning is easy, it just requires a little bit of time each week. Start by checking your fridge, freezer and cupboards and seeing what ingredients you have on hand. Once you’ve done that it’s time to sit down and come up with a week’s worth of meal ideas, trying to use as many of the ingredients you have on hand as possible.
Make Lunch Exciting You will want your lunch options to be simple, but tasty. It’s tempting to just give in and buy your lunch, so you want to come up with exciting and easy ideas to help avoid that temptation. Like with breakfast, one meal saving idea is to make a week worth’s of meals in advance, but that can get boring fast and tempt you to buy your lunch. Instead, it is worth it to spend a little bit more and come up with a week’s worth of different and equally tasty meal ideas.
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springcouscous March 2016 veganlivingmagazine.com
VEGAN LIFESTYLE GUIDE TO MEAL PLANNING Maintaining a vegan lifestyle means cutting several foods from your diet. Foods such as meat, fish, dairy, eggs and honey all to be avoided. Even food like gelatin, which is derived from animal products, are off-limits. Cutting out these traditional foods can be challenging. It can seem some particularly daunting to a beginning, particularly the idea that a Vegan diet requires expensive meat and dairy substitutes. With a little bit of time and effort though, it is possible to maintain a vegan lifestyle on a tight budget.
Work With What You Have Meal planning is easy, it just requires a little bit of time each week. Start by checking your fridge, freezer and cupboards and seeing what ingredients you have on hand. Once you’ve done that it’s time to sit down and come up with a week’s worth of meal ideas, trying to use as many of the ingredients you have on hand as possible. veganlivingmagazine.com | 1
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EXCITING
You will want your lunch options to be simple, but tasty. It’s tempting to just give in and buy your lunch, so you want to come up with exciting and easy ideas to help avoid that temptation. Like with breakfast,
Fun, Inexpensive Dinner Ideas For dinner we tend to want more variety and excitement. One good vegan dinner suggestion are red beans and rice. For a healthy, filling meal, add chopped onions and peppers to the beans, along with some tomato paste and some garlic and oregano for seasoning. Tacos and fajitas are also good options for healthy, inexpensive vegan meals. Salads and brown rice make for good inexpensive sides, as do many vegetables. With a little planning and creativity, you should be able to maintain a vegan lifestyle without spending a fortune. Check out our Organic Health Magazine and find the perfect vegan recipes for you.
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one meal saving idea is to make a week worth’s of meals in advance, but that can get boring fast and tempt you to buy your lunch. Instead, it is worth it to spend a little bit more and come up with a week’s
worth of different and equally tasty meal ideas. One tasty and simple vegan meal idea is to bake a sweet potato and top it with black beans, cilantro, diced tomato and a pinch
Live Well Fun, Inexpensive Dinner Ideas For dinner we tend to want more variety and excitement. One good vegan dinner suggestion are red beans and rice. For a healthy, filling meal, add chopped onions and peppers to the beans, along with some tomato paste and some garlic and oregano for seasoning. Tacos and fajitas are also good options for healthy, inexpensive vegan meals. Salads and brown rice make for good inexpensive sides, as do many vegetables. With a little planning and creativity, you should be able to maintain a vegan lifestyle without spending a fortune. Check out our Organic Health Magazine and find the perfect vegan recipes for you.
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