WIAW: Vegetarian Life

I've never enjoyed eating meat, I don't know why but I just never liked the taste. I can't even tell you the number of times I tried to cook my own chicken and ended up throwing it away because I was too grossed out to eat it. Don't even get me started on red meat and pork. I haven't eaten either in such a long time and I do not miss it at alllll. The only thing that was stopping me from becoming a full-on vegetarian was the fact that I don't know anyone else who is one and I didn't want to come off as being "high-maintenance" or "stuck-up" when I went out to eat with friends. Well Thanksgiving was the last straw for me. Seeing the raw turkey and even the cooked turkey literally made me gag and lose my appetite. I told my mom about wanting to be a vegetarian and she was very supportive and even told me to find recipes that she can cook for me when I am home for winter break. So it's been almost 3 weeks of Vegetarian eats and I'm still going strong, and I have no desire to eat chicken at all.

So the first thing I did when I got back after Thanksgiving was go grocery shopping for lot's of yummy and nutritious food!

 

A few things I purchased were peas, edamame, spinach, carrots, spaghetti squash, cauliflower, bananas, apples, hummus, oats, and almond butter. 

So now here comes the eats, for breakfast I normally just eat some sort of protein bar like a Luna Bar or Clif bar, and a piece of fruit. 

 

I had extra time one morning so I made a batch of protein powder pancakes. As you can tell from the first picture I made way too many, so I had 2 days worth of breakfast from them! I put almond butter on top of them the second time and it was so delicious! 

 

This is my new favorite lunch! It is a spinach wrap with roasted red pepper hummus, spinach, lettuce, carrots, edamame, and some cheese. I had to take a picture before I actually wrapped it because well I'm really bad at it!

 

I also made sweet potato chips to go on the side one day. Some of them turned out like chips, but some of them turned out like circular sweet potato fries (hence the ketchup).  

Next I tried to conquer the cauliflower crust pizza.

 

It may or may not have conquered me...

  But in the end it turned out fine and I will definitely be making it again. (hopefully with no burns)

 

On nights that I work my new favorite meal is Grilled Cheese and Tomato Basil Soup. Or I'll just make a yummy salad, perks of working around food! I love that I can make almost anything I want out of the ingredients that we have, I'll never get bored!

So that is just some of the food I have been eating. I'm looking forward to trying much more! 

And now I have a recipe for y'all. It's actually really simple and you could probably make it on your own but I'm going to share it anyways!

Almond Butter Oatmeal Cinnamon Shake

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Almond Milk
• 2 Tbs. Almond Butter
• Dash of Cinnamon
• 1/2 cup Oats
• 1 scoop Vanilla Protein Powder

So all you have to do is throw all of the ingredients in the blender and wa-la! You have yourself a yummy and filling breakfast shake!

 

For all of you vegetarians/vegans out there please, please, please share recipes with me! Or if I do not follow your blog and you have lot's of yummy recipes on there please say hi :)