When you hear “eat more plants,” do you imagine making monster salads? Or never eating pizza again? Here are 28 non-monster-salad ideas for eating more plants (and one does include pizza!).
In my opinion, eating more plants really means making sure that there’s a fruit or veggie present in every meal or snack you consume; it’s as simple as that! And the 28 ideas listed below show you that it really is exactly as simple as that.
- If you can find roasted chickpeas at the store, you struck gold. If you can’t, you can make them yourself.
- Frozen veggies are your besties; you can always defrost them and add them to any dish, even delivery food.
- When in doubt, stuff a sweet potato.
- Mix drinks with kombucha instead of soda.
- In general, just drink kombucha instead of soda.
- Make overnight oats for a breakfast on the go.
- Veggie burgers are great and can be used on a salad or in a sweet potato.
- You can’t really mess up roasting veggies! Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle on salt and pepper, roast at 400 degrees until they smell and look perfect.
- Don’t like cutting? Buy veggies pre-cut! Nobody’s judging.
- Try kale chips. They’re really not bad!
- Make homemade bolognese by mixing a jar of tomato sauce with lentils and wilted spinach on the stove.
- Getting pizza? Top it with all the veggies.
- Dessert on dates stuffed with nut butter.
- Make black bean brownies.
- Or chickpea blondies.
- Make banana ice cream.
- Snack on apples with cinnamon (plus optional nut butter).
- Snack on pineapple with coconut shavings.
- Have a mid-morning snack of grapefruit with coconut sugar or stevia.
- Ask for avocado instead of mayo on a sandwich.
- Get guac instead of cheese and sour cream at Chipotle.
- Popcorn comes from a plant! Pop your own and snack on that.
- Wilt spinach into your canned soup on the stove.
- Baby carrots are deceptively good to snack on.
- So are grapes.
- Drink coconut water when hungover, craving a sweet drink, or before and after exercise.
- Boil quinoa instead of rice. And when getting delivery or take out Asian food, sub your homemade quinoa for restaurant rice.
- Master one simple green smoothie and make it A LOT.
