How has this diet helped you? What are you eating that you find helps with symptoms? This stage in life is whack. One day I have energy the next I have zero energy. Not to mention the weepiness. IYKYK

I just made the most awesome ham replica, so much better (and way cheaper!) than what can be bought. I used one recipe for method and a couple of others for flavour. With only a dessertspoon for measuring this is roughly what I did:

250g firm/hard/high protein tofu
1 cup water
2dsp massel chicken low salt stock powder (or equivalent if you're not Australian)
1 dsp liquid smoke
2 dsp nutritional yeast
1 dsp maple syrup
1 dsp tomato sauce
2 dsp [sunflower] oil
1 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/8? tsp ground cloves

Slice tofu really thin.

Put everything else in pan, bring to a simmer over medium high heat, then reduce the temperature down to medium to keep the simmer going. Add tofu, stir occasionally to make sure all the pieces of tofu are in the broth. Simmer for about 15 minutes or until all the vegetable broth has been absorbed and cooked off. (Mine actually took way longer because I could set my pan for barely simmer and just checked every 10 minutes or so.)

You could add beetroot powder or something if you want it more pink, but that doesn't bother me. It tasted and felt so much like shaved ham, I couldn't stop nibbling it until it cooled enough to refrigerate..

I’m new to this journey but striving to follow more plant based habits. I used whole grain penne, olive oil, nutritional yeast, mushrooms, grape tomatoes, and broccoli. Very tasty and filling!

I'm in the mood for chili cause its getting chilly! I just got an instant pot/pressure cooker last month and have only used it twice.

What is a good chili to try tonight? Either your own or a recipe you can point me to!?

I remember it traced the path of a couple families and individuals as they switched to plant based. Camera quality felt like early 2000s. Earlier than Forks Over Knives.

May have had Dr Esselstyn I can’t remember really.

Any leads? I’ve been googling but probably just need to google harder

Edit: nevermind I think it’s Vegucated

Broccoli instead of broccolini, with lions mane mushrooms, king oyster mushrooms, brown beech mushrooms sautéed in olive oil with shallots, garlic, and sweet peppers. Served over white rice and topped with mustard microgreens.

So ever since I have went plant based, I have found that I get full and bloated pretty easily, so I barely have an appetite. I only eat once a day because of this. But when I do eat once a day, I don’t particularly feel that hungry. It’s my mental hunger that makes me want to eat rather. I don’t particularly eat that much fiber. Just smoothies/shakes, cauliflower rice, sweet potato, edamame, vegan tenders, hot sauce, a sandwich with white bread, and some sweets as examples of things that I might choose to eat. After that I don’t want to eat for the rest of the day because I’m too full and it would be painful to eat anymore. I don’t particularly feel tired. I need to lose weight, but I don’t know if I should be concerned or not.

Tell us what you've been eating this week or what you'll be eating the rest of the week! Bonus if you can link photos and recipes. :)

Question - if you can't get B12 from a plant-based diet, how do they get the B12 used in a supplement? Sorry for the dumb question - it's just been bugging me. 😄

Last month I went to see my cardiologist, and I thought he would be impressed with my cholesterol numbers, and he was. However he told me I should try to get my LDL cholesterol below 50.

Does anyone here have LDL below 50, and if so what type of diet and exercise plan do you follow?

Hi, I make coconut milk from dried coconut, blender and nut milk bag, but my hands have arthritis and it’s getting harder to squeeze the liquid out. Any suggestions for a nondairy milk maker machine that would work for my purposes? Bonus points if it’s not full of plastic. Im located in the U.S.

My uncle lives in the middle east and his doctor told him to control fruit consumption due to diabetes. How does this work?

Bought this coconut yogurt and was just wondering what live and active cultures was ?

Hi!
to those who have struggled finding tasty vegan meals - Clean Food Dirty Girl has literally saved my life. I scoured google when I first wanted to eat like this and soooo many recipes were horrible. Now I usually eat whatever my mom makes for dinner from this site, but when I meal prep I always make one of their cheese based meals. My GI tract and taste buds haven't been happier, and my cholesterol is now within a normal range, which is an unfortunate thing to look out for at 23. Buuuuut I 10/10 reccommend trying their recipes. However, their meals are pretty labor intensive, so I usually make them in large batches then freeze them. Also - pro tip - use a Vitamix blender to blend the cheese until it is hot and thick, so you don't have to blend the cheese and then set it to the stove (make sure your vitamix is rated to heat up dishes). Hope this helps!

My wife is going through chemo right now and has realized that soft/creamy foods that are cold have been working best for her. She realized that foods served hot tend to not go well. She is having trouble coming up with ideas, and I was wondering if other people have recommendations of things we might try. We tend to eat a lot of Mediterranean and Mexican inspired foods before. We are going to try avocados, but I'm not sure of what else to try. She is happy to branch out to a variety of foods. She tended to prefer more textured foods in the past or hot prepared foods so both limitations have removed a lot of the things she liked to eat before.

edit: I just wanted to say thank you so much. We've been really tired lately, so it can be hard to think of things that wouldn't have been a challenge normally.

No recipe. I was just putting plantains in the air fryer and I decided to put a couple dates in (both deglett and Medjool). Very nice treat. Medjool was better than deglett. Almost caramely.

Edit: 370 degrees Fahrenheit for 8 min

For me, adding dates as a "neutral" sweetener to food. Like no, those chocolate popsicles have the taste of dates now, and its a pretty strong fruity flavor, definitely not neutral.

I asked a question last night and it was removed without comment.

I read the starch solution and really liked the premise. I am a huge fan of carbs and felt bad I had to cut them if I wanted to lose weight. Later, I learnt that calories-in and calories-out is the most important. As long as you eat less than you burn you lose weight regardless of diet.

WFPB is shown to have exceptional benefits among all diets. So I got to know about starch solution through this sub. I read the book and loved it. Although I have some disagreements, I thought it was fine overall.

My understanding of the starch solution is based on the principle that we center our diet around starches. So basically something like 70% of our calories coming from starches. He mentions to cover 70% of plate with starchy foods.

Does that mean starch solution is basically Indian diet? I mean, we have bad eating habits these days with increased income and delivery services. But traditionally, the diet was centered around rice/roti with some dal, vegetable, and dahi. I imagine it as something like half plate rice, one fourth dal, and one fourth vegetables, with some yogurt on the side. In south, we sometimes have rasam (a kind of soup) and pickled vegetables as well. Most of the food is made sauteed with a litte oil.

I grew up eating somewhat similar to this pattern. I feel this is what Dr. Mcdougall is getting at. I did get obese but that's because of all the cookies, chips, fried chicken, and other calorically rich foods. But if the traditional Indian eating pattern is what Dr. Mcdougall is suggesting, then it feels like I had the answer with me all the time haha.

Tldr: Dr. Mcdougall in Starch Solution suggests covering 70% plate with starchy food and the remaining with non-starchy food with no oil or animal products. Traditional Indian plate is 50% rice, 25% dal, and 25% vegetables, but cooked in oil with a side of dahi. Both have similar patterns, so I want to know if I interpreted the diet correctly.

Please clarify for me!

Hello -

I’m not looking for a miracle. But, if anyone has a reliable southern-style cornbread recipe that can sop up collard greens and only add to the glory of pinto beans — I’d love to hear it.

Thank you!

What pan (crepe/fry pan???) are you'll using to make flax/lentil tortillas?

I've been wanting to make them but not sure what pan to get- want one that is safe (no harmful chemicals/fumes) yet non stick?

Ceramic? Carbon steel? The electric ones look like they have pfas?

I had a cast iron skillet and it was too heavy. I had a carbon steel wok but did not enjoy stir frying b/c it always made a mess.

I'm not completely no oil. I use a little bit here and there but minimizing where I can.