Welcome to a new feature called, “What-I-eat-Monday”. On Mondays I will show you what I eat in a day on a whole food plant-based diet.
Today was a special Monday because it was the first Monday back to work after vacation week. I always make sure to dig into my Lifestyle Medicine principles during these transitions. I got up and exercised, meditated, and checked my blood pressure.
Then I ate a breakfast of oatmeal, blueberries, cinnamon, and soy milk and packed a lunch of leftover Chickpea salad, pita bread, greens from the garden, and cucumber salad
The chickpea salad is just some chopped veggies like celery, carrot, green onion, with raisins and chickpeas and then mixed with oil free hummus thinned with some fresh lemon juice. I sprinkle cinnamon in there too for a surprisingly great flavor.
For a snack I had some fresh nectarines and some whole grain cranberry pecan bread.
Then I made a quick and easy dinner of Quinoa taco meat. This is so easy to do as you boil veg broth (1c) and add in 1/2 cup quinoa, 1TBSP chili powder, 1tsp cumin, 1/2tsp paprika and 1/2tsp oregano, with 1/4tsp each of onion and garlic powder. Boil for 15 minutes.
This is the MOST yummy taco filling! Toppings are cabbage, tomato, avocado and salsa. I love these taco shells as we’ll
After dinner it was time for a walk and some garden time to unwind
I hope you had a great Monday and cheers to a good lifestyle and a good life!
Quinoa tacos are tasty….and even tastier with Mrs. Renfro’s jalapeño salsa!
I am going to try the quinoa tacos!!
Yay! Let me know what you think…they are husband approved 🙂
These look so yummy!! I had a delicious ginger, chipotle beet tart this week! Paired with some arugula with ACV and avocado mash! Yum!
You make the best beet recipes!
Hi, what kind of taco shells are they please?
Hello! They are Siete grain free taco shells (A picture of the box is in one of the photos if this helps!) They may be a little more on the “processed” side vs “whole food” and you can always just use corn tortillas if that is important to you.
Also wondering what you find inspiring to eat at breakfast?
I was always a cereal for breakfast person and so now I usually do Grapenuts with Soymilk and blueberries or oatmeal with blueberries or some chopped up apples and dates. You could do whole grain bread with hummus and fresh tomato too or sometimes I do that combination with a whole grain bagel! Some people like a tofu scramble in place of eggs, or a green smoothie…but I was never an eggs for breakfast or smoothie person…so it just depends what you like. It is not wrong to eat dinner leftovers either! Bean breakfast tacos are yum!