How to Design a Delicious and Nutritious Vegan Meal Plan

In our everyday lives, we need to put together our vegan meal plans all the time. Whether it's for a pleasant dinner to serve in-laws, quickly bagged lunches for your children, or great nightly dinners for the family, we always have to piece together a healthy recipe and vegan meal.

Whether you're heavily involved in  PTA meetings and carpools, or you have an important career to support and fuel, it's always difficult to find time to cook. By the time you arrive home and have a save minute, the last thing you’d want to do is actually think about what kind of meal you need to cook. While takeout might be easier, it always gets expensive in a hurry, and it never tastes as good as homemade.

Although the internet is stocked with an amazing vegan meal and you have a shelf full of vegan cookbooks, when there is not enough time, you need more than a recipe or a cookbook. You need a good plan.

  
We don't want to have to pry open some cookbooks every day to come up with a delicious, nutritious, and creative meal. We don't want it to be difficult or gourmet, but simple, whole foods put together in one delicious fashion. We don't want to see into the fridge looking for inspiration, we want to know up front what we really need for the week.

We want to spend time with our friends and family, not planning out our week.

To create a balanced vegan meal, just keep these pointers in your mind:

Half your meal must be a mixture of fruits and vegetables, and colorful and the more varied, the better.
A quarter of your plate should be whole grains like millet, quinoa, oats, rice, or wheat


A quarter of your plate should be beans, giving yourself a variety each day
I don't think it's necessary for most people to worry about portion size while they take their time eating and thinking about whether or not they really need to keep eating. A controlled eater always eats food, chews and swallows, and then decides whether or not to keep eating. When you are eating whole plant foods, even some overeating is not going to be a tragedy to your body.

If you have problem controlling your eating, just keep a food journal and also try to stick to the recommendations of the vegan food pyramid:

6-11 servings whole grains per day {1/2 cup hot or 1 oz is a serving}
3-6 servings vegetables {1 cup raw, 1/2 cup cooked or juice is a serving}
2-4 servings fruits {1 cup raw, 1/2 cup cooked or juice is a serving}
2-3 servings beans {1/2 cup beans or 4 oz seeds is a serving}
2-3 servings fortified milk substitutes {8 oz. is a serving}
What else can we do to make a daily balanced meal?

1. We need a vegan meal plan weekly
2. We need a grocery list that corresponds exactly with the plan
3. We would like the nutritional information for each recipe
4. We want seasonal, whole, fresh, normal {not gourmet} foods
5. We want pictures to see what the end result should be

  
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