Monthly Meal Plan: June

Breakfast- Choice of: Oatmeal, Fruit smoothie, or Joes O's with plant milk
Lunch: Leftovers from dinner, or Big Salad

Dinners:
1. Shepards Pie, Corn
2. Southwestern Potato Salad and Green salad
3. Hawaiian Haystacks
4. Beans and Corn (crockpot)and Cilantro Lime Rice
5. Bulgur stuffed Peppers and Corn muffins
6. Minestrone Soup and WW Garlic bread
7. Chili bean/Refried bean tacos
8. Blanca bean Enchiladas, Lime Rice, Corn
9. Spaghetti w/ meatless meatballs and Peas
10. Sesame noodles and Stir fry Veggies
11. Split Pea soup and WW Garlic bread
12. Homemade Veggie burgers and Roasted Red potatoes
13. Green Lentil enchiladas, Cilantro lime rice, Corn
14. Black Bean soup and Corn muffin
15. Artichokes, Baked Potatoes, Green salad
16. Mandarin Orange Cashew Stir-fry and Rice
17. Shepards Pie, Corn on the cob
18. Mexican Pizza and Green salad
19. Mushroom stroganoff and French Green beans
20. Grilled Avocado sandwiches and Tomato Soup
21. Bean Tostados
22. Southwestern Black bean Salad and Quinoa
23. Chinnese Salad and Fruit
24. Ceasar Pasta salad and Peas
25. Bean and Tomato Quesadillas, Corn
26. Bean and Corn Soup and Baked corn chips
27. Pad Thai and Carrot sticks
28. Lentil Taco salad
29. Veggie WW Pizza and Green salad
30. Split Pea soup and Biscuits

My food budget for a whole food plant based diet

Monthly food budget: $325.00

Non dinner items:

A MONTH supply of
Oatmeal (10 lbs.)
Frozen fruit for smoothies 14 lbs. (peaches, mixed berries, and strawberries)
Raw Almonds (3 lbs.)
Total: $43.09

BI-WEEKLY
2 loaves of whole grian bread
Sprouted bread for croutons
Total: $7.38

WEEKLY
Salad stuff (6 heads organic romaine, 1 lb. organic baby spring mix, cucumbers, tomatoes, seeds)
Fresh fruit (1 cantalope, 1 pineapple, organic pears or apples, organic red grapes)
Bananas (6 lbs.)
Joes O's (1 box)
Total: $21.00


DINNERS 7 days: Weekly average $45.00

GRAND TOTAL $321.85

30 day challenge

My friend Clair and I are doing a strict whole food plant based diet for 30 days. This means: No meat, dairy, or eggs, no oil, and no sugar. I will post my recipes, food logs, and meal plans. Here we go!

Weekly Menu

Week One:

1. Layered Mexican casserole
Corn
Green Salad

2. Wonton Soup
Garlic WW bread
Green salad

3. Veggie burgers (from Costco) on WW buns
Trader joes french fries (really good)
Green salad

4. Stir fried Asparagas
Roasted fingerling potatoes
Quinuoa

5. Lentil taco salad
Corn

6. WW spagetti and trader joes vegan meat balls
Peas
Salad

7. Black bean stuffed peppers
Cilantro lime brown rice
Green salad


Week Two:


1. Veggie Cinncinati chili over WW spaghetti
Corn

2. Wild rice & Mushroom soup
WW garlic bread
Salad

3. Southwest stuffed red peppers
Salad
Corn bread

4. Artichokes
Stuffing
Quinuoa

5. Grilled avacado sandwhiches
Tomato Soup

6. Bean and Rice burritos

Lentil Tacos or Taco Salad

1 cup chopped onion
1 garlic clove, minced (I buy the jar of minced garlic, its 1/2 teaspoon of that)
1 cup dried lentils
1Tablespoon chili powder
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 teaspoon dried oregano
2 1/2 cups chicken broth
Salt to taste

Directions:
-Put in pot and bring to boil, then simmer for 30-45 minutes, or until the lentils are done. Use like ground beef for tacos, or taco salad. We add lettuce, tomatoes, corn, and avacado.

Mexican Corn (add on tacos or taco salad)
1 bag frozen corn
add garlic salt, chili powder and microwave until hot. You can add cilantro and lime which makes it really good.

Brazilian Black Bean & Pumpkin Soup

1 ½ cups dried black beans, rinsed
8 cups reduced sodium chicken broth
1 small or med. Onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
One 15 ounce can of pumpkin puree (1 ½ cups)
1 ½ cups chopped tomato
1 teaspoon sea salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1 ½ tablespoons lemon juice
3-4 scallions, thinly sliced, divided

Soak beans. Drain and add to a pot with the broth, onions, and garlic. Bring to boil then simmer until beans are tender, about 1 hour. Add remaining ingredients, reserving 2 TBS scallion for garnish. Simmer 15 mins.