I bought two cans of chickpeas, and noticed that they have different caloric values for 50%, which I find crazy.

First one: 115kcal 1.9g fat, 7.5g protein, 20g carbs

Second one: 72kcal 1.5g fat, 3.8g protein, 12.4g carbs

How is this even possible?

Just sharing this recipe I love - so bright and flavorful! When I have it in the fridge, I wake up excited to slather it on something. Enjoy! https://www.loveandlemons.com/red-lentil-hummus/

What are the best meat substitute options to grow muscle, other than eggs and that are easy/quick to cook?

So recently I went to this incredible upscale vegan restaurant, seriously the best food I’ve ever had. A few of their dishes incorporated nuts, mainly pistachios, in ways I hadn’t thought to do before. There was a salad with oranges and like caramelized pistachios, and then some roasted veggies with fennel and pistachios (I forget what veggies exactly, there were like 6 different courses). So now I’m on the hunt for good meals that incorporate nuts/pistachios in unique ways. Google isn’t giving me any good results, so anything you’ve got I’d love to check out!

Microgreens, boiled purple sweet potato, black beans, whole wheat pasta, pickled beets, pepitas, and a dressing I made out of avocado, lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper!

Hey. I make them powder in an automatic grinder, but I found that sprinkling them on food like salt makes it bitter and dulls the taste of everything else. If I put it in a glass of water and try to drink it, it forms a bitter paste that is pretty hard to drink. If I eat them whole they don't have any flavor and it's easy, but are they absorbed that way? I don't think so. So enlighten me with your wisdom, advanced flaxseed digester.

Oh, please have into account that I'm not incluiding sugar/fructose in my diet because of health reasons :)

The last month or so, I’ve been trying to add a lot more plants to my diet, but I haven’t eliminated meat or animal by-products yet. After reading some books and watching some documentaries, I’ve decided I want to challenge myself to at least a whole week on a 100% plant based diet, and I’m hoping to continue it after the week is done. I’m giving myself a few days to plan and shop so I can set myself up for success!

A few things I’m worried about: • I know I have a sugar addiction. I’ve cut back a lot lately, but I love chocolate-y sweets after dinner. It will be super hard for me to train myself to not crave a sugary treat! • I start every morning with a protein shake with my coffee. I like having something in my stomach when I wake up, and it’s easy for me to prepare when I wake up with my 1 year old! Also I don’t like black, unsweetened coffee so I don’t know how I’ll get that morning caffeine! • Diet Coke is my downfall! I feel like I need one every afternoon. I really just like a nice bubbly beverage, and I’ve gotten hooked on Diet Coke. Hoping I can be strong during my week long experiment and kick the habit for good.

If anyone else had these struggles when starting a plant based diet, I’d love some encouragement, advice, or healthier alternatives! Also totally open to anyone dropping their favorite recipes, extra points if it’s something my 12 month old will eat too 🤪

Since I became vegan and started eating a plant-based diet, I've been watching a lot of videos that discuss lots of concepts related to nutrition that I never really paid much attention to before. I've learned a lot, and it seems that most of what people say is backed by scientific studies, but there can be a lot of leeway in how a youtuber interprets the results of scientific studies that might not reflect reality.

I want to make sure I'm understanding these things in a way that is fully backed by science, so I'm interested in reading some books about nutrition that are free from any kind of agenda (either pro or anti plant-based diet). Does anyone have any good recommendations?

I started eating WFPB and felt amazing- cut out all added sugar, artificial sweeteners, sodium, and processed food. I felt amazing and was noticing all of the benefits- and the best part was that I didnt crave any of it any more. I genuinely started to fall in love with the taste of whole foods and felt my best mentally and physically. I did all this while traveling solo and it was really easy since I could just be completely on my own time. This was for the past 7 months or so.

Then I traveled to India and caught a horrible stomach bug- had a fever for 3 weeks. I ended up coming home, taking antibiotics (Cipro) and after taking the antibiotics my gut was really messed up. Every time I ate, my stomach would expand super big and my body was retaining water like crazy. And I also started craving junk food. Suddenly, ice cream and cookies and chips and muffins sounded so good to me. So I had a couple “cheat days”- not the end of the world right? I’d get back on my good WFPB routine. But now those couple of cheat days have spiraled into weeks. I feel so puffy from all the sodium, so bad mentally from the added sugar, and each day I tell myself “Ill get back on track tomorrow.” My partner loves to eat out almost every meal and it’s been super hard to get back into my routine. Not sure if it’s because of the antibiotics wiping out my gut bacteria, if Ive now gotten addicted to sugar and sodium again, or if I just can’t keep this new lifestyle up when living with my partner again, but im just wondering if anyone has experienced falling off the WFPB lifestyle and what you did to get back on track. Any advice is appreciated

Hello, Thus far I’ve been eating mostly frozen vegetables that are cooked in the microwave. I’m looking to pickup some fresh arugula. I’m going to weigh out about 5-6oz of leaves and then cook i them in the microwave. Roughly how long should I microwave these for and should they be covered? Thanks!

Hi

I want to make my own supplements capsules for taking turmeric, garlic powder, cumin etc.

Dr Gregor talked about how he makes his using something that he buys from Asian stores. This is very different than buying empty capsules and filling them yourself. He also mentioned that they were easier to swallow.

Does anybody know what he was talking about?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

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. :)

I like pumpkin spice and vanilla flavors, sometimes strawberry, but they can't be too sweet. I always drink my protein at night as my last meal. Currently drinking Naked Nutrition's Pea Protein but it's tastes like 💩💀 I heard rice and pea proteins are best for our type of diet. Also I rather not have a protein with like a grainy feel to them.

Goal is to just maintain my health and fitness, maybe gain a little. I run, box and yoga 3-4x a week each, I hike and skateboard weekly as well.

If it matters I'm 29m, 5'10", 145lb, 7% fat, 1800 bmr

Looking for recipes sources that could fool omnivores into thinking it’s the real deal! Forks over knives comes to mind. Like I could bring it to a “normal” dinner party. Do y’all have any suggestions? ☮️🌱

I want to make fruit popsicles with ground chia seeds. Does freezing them change the texture in any way? Does it destroy any of their nutrients?

I was recommended the plant based diet. Does anyone have any ideas for ingredients, recipes, or just general grocery shopping tips? I’m active. weight training, running (with my dogs 🐶), and I’m concerned about protein intake. As well as staying full. Thank you.

Hi there. I've got a weird problem...

In the morning, during the first two hours, I drink a lot of water and liquids (around 0.5l water, creatine+protein shake with around 0.3l of water, and lemon water, again around 0.3l).

After that, during the day, I almost don't drink any water, maybe another 0.5l or 1l if I do strength training.

However, I need to pee a lot. I go to the toilet every hour and pee a lot (it's bright, almost like water, so I'm well hydrated). I also wake up every night to go to the toilet, even though I don't have a sip of liquid after 5 p.m. In the morning, I rush to pee again, haha.

I eat a lot of vegs, and my meals are cooked with a decent amount of water. I eat a lot, since I'm very active, around 3k kcal, so it's a loot of food. Is it possible that I get THAT much water through foods, or perhaps I have some disbalance in my body?

Has anyone experienced anything similar? It's weird and frustrating.

Need meal suggestions!

Having some friends over for dinner in a few days. One is on an entirely plant-based diet right now and is gluten sensitive, another hates chunks of tomatoes, another hates peas, 2 are big on food that is fresh not processed (although they’d eat processed if they needed to) and I dislike seafood and mushrooms.

It needs to be something I can either make the night before or can make in under an hour because they are coming over at the end of a work day. And the ingredients need to be something I could find at a typical grocery store (not a health food store) because I won’t have time to go to multiple stores searching for ingredients.

I already made them a sweet potato burrito bowl the last time they came over.

Please help!!

Hi! Im starting out my Plant-Based Diet journey! But I have sensory issues and I don't like crunchy veggies, so I often have to boil or steam my broccoli down til they're soft like potatoes, as well as my lettuce, spinach, onions, etc. But I found out recently that they lose nutrients by being softened so much, so my gameplan is to boil them down in a stew or soup so I can still 'catch' the nutrients lost in the veggies using a sauce-y base. Will this work? And what other reccomendations do you have?

I'm doing WFPB and using Cronometer to track my eating (I need it for accountability reasons). Anyway, the macro settings are preset to percentages: 20% Protein, 60% Net Carbs, 20% Fat. There is an option to use fixed values, but then I have to fill in those values in grams. Can anyone help me know what those should be daily? I'm 45 year old male, trying to lose fat and lower cholesterol.

Hi friends, anybody an avid Aldi shopper and if so, what’s your favorites that you pick up on your trips?

UPDATE: I ordered a rice cooker. I'm thinking this will help. Keep the suggestions coming. Thanks!

Looking for whole food plant based meals that don't require cooking or baking. Currently traveling and do have access to a microwave and fridge but that's about it. One of the tricky things is I try to eat low sodium so that can make things a little bit more complicated.

I’ve been eating a plant-based diet for 6+ years now. Last year, I had my blood tested with a full metabolic panel. Everything was in the normal range except my ferritin was low (was 15 ng/mL while the reference range is 16-154). I upped my beans and tempeh then redid the tests about a year later. Now my ferritin is 22, however my total iron dropped from 135 to 65 mcg/dL (still within normal range but a significant drop). Why might this happen? Could it be related to my cycle? FYI I don’t take any medication at all.

Hi ya'll, I've completely given up dairy yogurt and cheese. (I never drank milk anyway), but I've yet to find a good Plant based yogurt replacement. Yogurt is one of the foods I miss the most because it was such a quick and easy way to get protein. I've tried a bunch of brands and different kinds, but I've yet to find one that tastes similar... The most palatable ones have a crap ton of sugar in them, and thats a no-no to me.

So i'm curious if anyone here has a good low-sugar (plain is fine with me as I'll add natural fruit) plant based yogurt or even type or brand they'd recommend....

Thanks.

this is not to shame anyone, just an interesting conversation I had the other day. I was chatting with a friend the other day while lifted (🍃) and we were discussing our favourite snacks to binge on. he had asked me specifically what i would snack on if i was alone in the moment. so i said dates, nuts, veggies and hummus, fruit, dried mangoes, and maybe if i’m feeling hedonistic plant based candies.

he seemed quite shocked that i said that, i’m guessing because he was expecting the typical SAD snacks of doritos, mountain dew, chocolate bars etc. He seemed quite hooked on the idea of us going to get snacks (SAD snacks) and i declined because i knew i would just feel sick.

i just don’t understand how people eat like that ALL the time?? doesn’t it make you feel like shit?

edit: okay context. i didn’t rudely decline to go get snacks, it was the end of the night and i had snacks at the house. also if you are not interested in conversations regarding diet and plant based eating why are you on this subreddit? my intentions with this post was to bring up conversation about snacking and its relation to plant based snacks, versus the typical snacks people go for.