Anyone on a plant based diet?

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Can you give me an idea of what you eat on a normal day please?
How often do you deviate and have some non plant based items like a bit of cheese or milk?
Any substitutes you can recommend?
Many thanks

I usually do plant-based during the week and then just eat what I fancy on the weekends (as we are often socialising). I do it for health/environmental reasons so I don't have problems eating meat or dairy so not strict with it!

I only use oat or almond milk in coffee and tea. Takes a little while to get used to but I can't drink normal milk now. This was my first switch as I realised the dairy was affecting my skin. Soy has a lot of natural oestrogen so this didn't work for me either.

Meal ideas:

• roasted aubergine with harissa, cous cous salad
• Roasted cauliflower with tikka paste, serve with cucumber salad and rice
• curries and veggie chilli are very easy
• replace anything with mince for brown lentils, e.g. shepherds pie or spag bol
• roasted butternut squash with chimichurri
• Roasted med veg pittas with hummus
• stir fry teriyaki noodles

If you are just starting try 3 meals a week, then 5, then 5 whole days etc and see how you go. It's as simple as just not buying the stuff. I'd recommend planning your meals out in advance to make this as easy as possible, or it could feel difficult wandering around the supermarket avoiding the cheese!! Check out vegan instagram or pinterest for inspo, I love Miguel Barclays £1 vegan meals book and Bosh for vegan inspo, also the veggie or vegan stuff from MOB kitchen for fun recipes.

Thanks. I’m not worried about meals to be honest. Other than breakfast. It’s more the snacks I think I will struggle with.

Ahh you should have put that in your OP.

Breakfast:
Avocado toast
Coconut (or any dairy free) yoghurt with fruit and nut butter or granola
Smoothie with dairy free yoghurt or milk
Homemade vegan muffins

Lunch:
Salads or sandwiches with roasted veg, hummus, avocado
Bit of pasta with simple sauce
Soup

I dont really snack but fruit or any of my breakfast suggestions would work. Also olives, carrot sticks and hummus, a lot of crisp/biscuits are safe. Dark chocolate.
Magnum just came out with vegan versions!

I've eaten quite a lot today:

Bagel with avocado, tomatoes, and onion

Hummus and oatcakes

Homemade coconut cupcakes

A mango and some cherries

Orzo with roast veg

A little bit of dark chocolate

I try to eat mostly plant but I do eat some animals but I try to make sure they are vegetarian, eg a sheep. I don’t eat things like tigers who eat other animals as that’s too indirect. Though I eat cod and they eat prawns.

Breakfast: sunflower seeds, ground linseed, raspberries and blueberries, soya milk

Lunch: ratatouille with puy lentils and fried vegetable rice

Snacks: plate of raw veg, big chunk of dark chocolate

Dinner: Stir fried veg with Fry's chicken strips

For snacks I really like dried apple rings, salted almonds, dark chocolate, oranges, Alpro yogurt, lentil rice cakes with tartex pate, apple slices with crunchy peanut butter, raw veg with hummus, smoothies with pea protein powder....

Thanks all. Didn't think bagels and pasta was plant based. I presume they have to be wholemeal?
We have made some recent changes such as reducing our meat intake dramatically and we don't have much dairy anyway other than DH coffee and kids cereal.
I would be doing it for the environment too so would probably eat animal products when the kids eat with us at home.

Snacks are no problem because I love fruit and raw veg! I also eat:
Rice cakes (normally the flavoured variety so I don’t add any extra toppings, but you could add nut butters, hummus or vegan cream cheese)
Munchy seeds
Nuts
Popcorn
Mini bread sticks
Edamame beans
Eat Natural maple and pecan bar
Oat cakes
Ryvita
Jelly pots
Cup soup
Alpen alight cereal bar Jaffa cake
Cuppa porridge

And there are loads of ‘accidentally vegan’ products:
Belvita breakfast tops
Hobnobs
Ginger nuts
Oreos
Pink wafer biscuits
Co-op doughnuts
Doritos lightly salted or chilli heatwave
Most brands of Bourbon biscuits
Ritz crackers

I deviate when I’m at someone else’s house - I don’t expect them to accommodate my dietary choice.

@Al203 Who eats tigers?

What did you think bagels and pasta are made from?

Bring it in- when reading up about plant based I read that the foods should be whole foods. Unless it is wholemeal then most bread and pasta has stuff added to it.

I follow a whole food plant diet, which means, real food in its more natural form, so every thing that is highly or ultra processed.

I buy of course food from the shelves at the super market but it is mainly almond or soy milk, plain hard tofu. I tend to buy dry legumes and cook them myself, but I have of course, the occasional can of beans or chickpeas in water and nothing else.

I am French and adults don't really snack in France, but I always have frozen berries and they make a great snack.

Every morning I also make a big green smoothie without fruit or very little fruit and it stays in my fridge, so I might have half a glass.
Golden latte (almond milk, fresh turmeric, a couple of dates, ice cubes, stevia if you need more sweetness) cold or hot is a nice break .

I don't eat much bread and no pasta. I always have a box of black rice and / or quinoa and will add lentils to it or will add a bit of rice to a soup or dal