I almost forgot to mention that through this Thursday, you can get a free 21 day Easy Veggie Meal Plans Detox Diet when you purchase the Easy Veggie Meal Plans System here ==> Easy Veggie Meal Plans
I am considering giving it a try. I don't normally go for "detox" diets because I like to think I can just eat healthy. But too many of those candy-coated-chocolate-peanut candies have been sneaking their way into my diet. LOL So we'll see. Maybe I'll just try to stop eating the candy. ;)
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Showing posts with label Veggie Meal Plans. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Recipe Wednesday - Oatmeal Carrot Raisin Cookies
It's 9:09 on 09/09/09! How cool is that?
This recipe is adapted from the 101 Vegan Recipes as part of the Easy Veggie Meal Plans package. I've made it 3 times, and each time was a little bit different. This batch was the best by far. I double dog dare you to eat just one!
Oatmeal Carrot Raisin Cookies
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup oatmeal
1/4 cup wheat germ
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp sea salt
2 large carrots
1/2 cup sugar free pancake syrup (or real maple syrup)
1 tsp fresh minced ginger
1/4 cup extra virgin coconut oil, slightly melted
1/4 cup pumpkin puree
6 fun size boxes of raisins (1/2 cup at most)
1/4 cup walnut pieces
1/4 cup Ezekiel cereal (I like Golden Flax)
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly spray a cookie sheet with nonstick spray.
2. Cook the carrots by either steaming or microwaving.
3. While the carrots are cooking, grind the oatmeal in either a food processor or a coffee grinder. I use a coffee grinder and grind it in 4 quick batches.
4. Place the ground oatmeal in a bowl and mix with the flour, baking powder, salt, wheat germ, cinnamon, raisins, walnuts and Ezekiel cereal.
5. In another bowl, puree the carrots with an immersion blender, or use a food processor.
6. To the carrots, blend in the pancake syrup, coconut oil, ginger and pumpkin puree.
7. Pour the carrot mixture into the dry mixture and mix until just blended.
8. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto the prepared cookie sheet. I use a little scoop so they are all the same size. Press down on the cookies with a fork to flatten them a bit. They don't spread like cookies that use butter, so they will come out of the oven looking pretty much like they went into the oven.
9. Bake for 12 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack or place on a brown paper bag to cool.
I made 29 cookies (using sugar free pancake syrup), each with approximately:
68 calories
1.5g protein
3.0g fat
9.3g carbs
1.6g fiber
This recipe is adapted from the 101 Vegan Recipes as part of the Easy Veggie Meal Plans package. I've made it 3 times, and each time was a little bit different. This batch was the best by far. I double dog dare you to eat just one!
Oatmeal Carrot Raisin Cookies
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup oatmeal
1/4 cup wheat germ
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp sea salt
2 large carrots
1/2 cup sugar free pancake syrup (or real maple syrup)
1 tsp fresh minced ginger
1/4 cup extra virgin coconut oil, slightly melted
1/4 cup pumpkin puree
6 fun size boxes of raisins (1/2 cup at most)
1/4 cup walnut pieces
1/4 cup Ezekiel cereal (I like Golden Flax)
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly spray a cookie sheet with nonstick spray.
2. Cook the carrots by either steaming or microwaving.
3. While the carrots are cooking, grind the oatmeal in either a food processor or a coffee grinder. I use a coffee grinder and grind it in 4 quick batches.
4. Place the ground oatmeal in a bowl and mix with the flour, baking powder, salt, wheat germ, cinnamon, raisins, walnuts and Ezekiel cereal.
5. In another bowl, puree the carrots with an immersion blender, or use a food processor.
6. To the carrots, blend in the pancake syrup, coconut oil, ginger and pumpkin puree.
7. Pour the carrot mixture into the dry mixture and mix until just blended.
8. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto the prepared cookie sheet. I use a little scoop so they are all the same size. Press down on the cookies with a fork to flatten them a bit. They don't spread like cookies that use butter, so they will come out of the oven looking pretty much like they went into the oven.
9. Bake for 12 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack or place on a brown paper bag to cool.
I made 29 cookies (using sugar free pancake syrup), each with approximately:
68 calories
1.5g protein
3.0g fat
9.3g carbs
1.6g fiber
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
New Veggie Meal Plans, Part II
Ha, ha! I knew I wouldn't make it long before I had to buy them! Ooh, shiny new recipes!
I bought the Deluxe Easy Veggie Meal Plans this morning. ;) I am having a total information overload! There is so much to read, I wasn't sure where to begin. I finally decided on The Lazy Man's Guide to Vegetarian Eating. I actually do like to cook, but that doesn't mean I'm not looking for "Easy Button" every now and then. :) Craig Ballantyne goes through everything he ate and what he thought about it for about the last 2 months (he's been eating nearly vegan). It's kinda cool to see what he's been eating and it gave me a few ideas for variety.
Next I read through the "Quick Start Guide Call" transcript. (There's an audio file too, but with 2 kids I couldn't possibly hear the audio file. I got interrupted enough trying to read it!) Kardena Pauza talks about her background and why she has chosen the diet path that she did. It also talks about steps to take if you are trying to ease into the vegetarian lifestyle. I'll be honest, my goal is not to be fully vegetarian. I'm just trying to eat healthfully and am looking for more variety. But to be fair, I may go meatless for a week and see what I think!
Next I looked through the Easy Veggie Lifestyle Guide. In the first chapter, Kardena talks about how it is important to eat the right kinds of foods, and how just being vegetarian does not automatically make you healthy. She also touches on how a vegetarian diet could give you more energy, how it's environmentally-friendly, budget friendly, and how it can be just as convenient as any other weight loss meal plan.
The second chapter goes through the different types of vegetarian. (I would be "Semi-Vegetarian - Eats less meat than the average person.") Chapters 3 and 4 talk about how to make your vegetarian diet healthy and foods to avoid. Chapters 5, 6 and 7 deal with vegetarian proteins, carbohydrates and fats respectively, and how much you need (and good sources of each). The last chapter is about soaking your own beans, nuts and seeds to make them sprout. Kardena says this makes them easier to digest and absorb the nutrients. Quite a lot of information!
There's also 101 Delicious Vegan Recipes, a 90 day meal plan for men and another 90 day meal plan for women. I only printed the 101 Delicious Vegan Recipes and the 90 day plan for women for now (that one is 175 pages long!) and I saw lots of yummy looking recipes. I've only paged through, but I got a lot of ideas. (A few I want to make immediately: carrot ginger oatmeal cookies, garden patch gazpacho, and the breakfast quinoa.) I'm pretty set on variety for quite a while! Although I probably won't use the meal plans exactly as they are written. I'll jump around and just use the recipes for ideas.
There is a short smoothie guide, with a couple of yummy-looking smoothies. I don't make smoothies very often, but the strawberry one looked pretty good (it has dates in it!)
Lastly, there is a guide on defending the vegetarian lifestyle. Kardena offers tips on how to answer people who may criticize or ask questions. I just skimmed through this transcript. It's also an audio file if you have the time to listen to it, maybe at the gym or something. :)
So that's the Easy Veggie Meal Plans package in a nutshell. It gave me a lot to think about and a lot of good ideas for meals!
I bought the Deluxe Easy Veggie Meal Plans this morning. ;) I am having a total information overload! There is so much to read, I wasn't sure where to begin. I finally decided on The Lazy Man's Guide to Vegetarian Eating. I actually do like to cook, but that doesn't mean I'm not looking for "Easy Button" every now and then. :) Craig Ballantyne goes through everything he ate and what he thought about it for about the last 2 months (he's been eating nearly vegan). It's kinda cool to see what he's been eating and it gave me a few ideas for variety.
Next I read through the "Quick Start Guide Call" transcript. (There's an audio file too, but with 2 kids I couldn't possibly hear the audio file. I got interrupted enough trying to read it!) Kardena Pauza talks about her background and why she has chosen the diet path that she did. It also talks about steps to take if you are trying to ease into the vegetarian lifestyle. I'll be honest, my goal is not to be fully vegetarian. I'm just trying to eat healthfully and am looking for more variety. But to be fair, I may go meatless for a week and see what I think!
Next I looked through the Easy Veggie Lifestyle Guide. In the first chapter, Kardena talks about how it is important to eat the right kinds of foods, and how just being vegetarian does not automatically make you healthy. She also touches on how a vegetarian diet could give you more energy, how it's environmentally-friendly, budget friendly, and how it can be just as convenient as any other weight loss meal plan.
The second chapter goes through the different types of vegetarian. (I would be "Semi-Vegetarian - Eats less meat than the average person.") Chapters 3 and 4 talk about how to make your vegetarian diet healthy and foods to avoid. Chapters 5, 6 and 7 deal with vegetarian proteins, carbohydrates and fats respectively, and how much you need (and good sources of each). The last chapter is about soaking your own beans, nuts and seeds to make them sprout. Kardena says this makes them easier to digest and absorb the nutrients. Quite a lot of information!
There's also 101 Delicious Vegan Recipes, a 90 day meal plan for men and another 90 day meal plan for women. I only printed the 101 Delicious Vegan Recipes and the 90 day plan for women for now (that one is 175 pages long!) and I saw lots of yummy looking recipes. I've only paged through, but I got a lot of ideas. (A few I want to make immediately: carrot ginger oatmeal cookies, garden patch gazpacho, and the breakfast quinoa.) I'm pretty set on variety for quite a while! Although I probably won't use the meal plans exactly as they are written. I'll jump around and just use the recipes for ideas.
There is a short smoothie guide, with a couple of yummy-looking smoothies. I don't make smoothies very often, but the strawberry one looked pretty good (it has dates in it!)
Lastly, there is a guide on defending the vegetarian lifestyle. Kardena offers tips on how to answer people who may criticize or ask questions. I just skimmed through this transcript. It's also an audio file if you have the time to listen to it, maybe at the gym or something. :)
So that's the Easy Veggie Meal Plans package in a nutshell. It gave me a lot to think about and a lot of good ideas for meals!
Monday, July 27, 2009
New Veggie Meal Plans
Today was the first day in as long as I can remember that I did not have any meat at all. Didn't necessarily plan it that way, just sort of happened. I originally planned meat for dinner, but at the last minute I decided to go with broccoli quinoa frittata (woo-hoo, how's that for being flexible!)
So the menu today was:
scoop of whey protein (pre and post workout)
pumpkin oatmeal (nectar of the gods)
1/2 oz almonds
business lunch - ordered spanakopita (spinach, onion, walnuts in phyllo dough)
broccoli quinoa frittata with small salad and pineapple
plum
whey protein shake
Calories: no freaking clue (man, that felt good!)
Also today I got the email for Kardena Pauza/Craig Ballantyne's Easy Veggie Meal Plans (50% off until July 30th). I haven't purchased it yet because ever since we got home from vacation we've been trying to save more than we spend, but I'll probably cave very soon. :) I was on vacation when the freebie download thing happened so if anyone would like to share, just let me know. ;)
So the menu today was:
scoop of whey protein (pre and post workout)
pumpkin oatmeal (nectar of the gods)
1/2 oz almonds
business lunch - ordered spanakopita (spinach, onion, walnuts in phyllo dough)
broccoli quinoa frittata with small salad and pineapple
plum
whey protein shake
Calories: no freaking clue (man, that felt good!)
Also today I got the email for Kardena Pauza/Craig Ballantyne's Easy Veggie Meal Plans (50% off until July 30th). I haven't purchased it yet because ever since we got home from vacation we've been trying to save more than we spend, but I'll probably cave very soon. :) I was on vacation when the freebie download thing happened so if anyone would like to share, just let me know. ;)
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