Vegan: What I eat in a day
Today I thought I'd share everything I ate on a relaxed Saturday at home.
Disclaimer- I am not claiming this is a good example, a healthy or completely balanced diet. This is just what I ate!
Breakfast-
My favourite thing about the weekend is getting out of bed whenever I want and taking breakfast back to bed! On this day I had two small pieces of toast with Pip & Nut natural peanut butter, some linseeds sprinkled on top and some cherry jam. I had this with a mug of oat milk. This is one of my favourite quick breakfasts.
Pre-lunch snack
I then decided to go food shopping and got a little peckish before heading home to make lunch. I had been craving Yo Sushi avocado maki for ages so I decided I just needed to get some. I really enjoyed it with some soy sauce but for €3,40 I won't be buying it very often.
Lunch
My lunch was inspired by an instagrammer who I saw putting seitan in enchiladas. I decided to make seitan fajitas instead.
I fried a little diced onion and garlic with a courgette and half a red pepper. I then added a seitan patty cut into strips with some fajita spice mix, salt and pepper and some nutritional yeast flakes. I usually would have had these with tortilla wraps but I wasn't that hungry after the sushi earlier so I made lettuce wraps instead. This was really good and I saved the other half to have with wraps for dinner the next day.
Afternoon snack
I've been making these banana bites for a while now and they are a great boost when I fancy something sweet. Here's what I do-
- Slice up one banana and lay the slices out flat (in a Tupperware lid or tray) and put them in the freezer.
- When they are frozen, spoon about half a teaspoon of peanut butter onto half of the slices.
- Make little banana sandwiches by layering the other slices on top with the peanut butter in the middle.
- Melt about 50g of dark chocolate and spoon the melted chocolate over each sandwich (you could melt more if you want them fully covered but I find a little dark chocolate goes a long way)
- Place them back into the freezer to set the chocolate.
Dinner
A veggie burger and chips is a classic go-to easy dinner for me. This time I made sweet potato fries with a little oil instead of using regular oven chips! I had them with a soya burger and half a can of peas and had some vegan mayo and ketchup.
I keep trying different burgers as I'm on the hunt for the best juicy soya burgers I can find here in Italy, this one was not a winner as it was quite dry.
That is everything I ate on this lazy Saturday. I have been enjoying making new recipes and trying new foods recently and wanted to share as I love reading 'What I eat in a day' posts from others.
My Fitness Pal stats-
1,696 Calories
174g Carbohydrates
74g Fat
13g Saturates
70g Protein
61g Sugar
44g Fiber