HOW DOES IT WORK?
This 30 day meal plan includes weekly menus and shopping lists covering all recipes from breakfast to lunch and dinner plus snack ideas optimised for a healthy daily nutrition intake.
The basic idea is to cook for two meals at once which means having dinner left overs for lunch the next day. This saves time, money and reduces food waste and makes the menu plan more realistic to follow and stick to. For mid-week breakfasts, we have planned nutritious smoothies which are super easy to prepare and for the weekends we’ve developed recipes for ‘sit down’ breakfasts.
The meal plan and recipes have been designed for two adults which means each main course recipe makes four servings (two adults get a dinner and a lunch for each from every meal). However, you can easily double or half the recipes if you cooking for one or more people.
We recommend doing groceries twice a week to avoid daily shopping but, at the same time to make sure you’ve got fresh produce for every meal. Therefore, the weekly shopping lists have been divided into two, one for the main shopping day of the week and one for a mid-week top up of fresh produce.
WHAT DO I NEED TO GET STARTED?
This meal plan has been created to be as easy as possible to follow with simple ingredients and cooking methods so you shouldn’t need any special tools or advanced cooking skills to follow this plan.
The only absolute necessity to have is a good food processor or a blender as you will be blending a lot of smoothies and making different dressings and pastes. Also, if you don’t spend your days at home, then you will need food containers to bring you lunches and snacks with you to work. What you need is a bottle for the smoothies, a lunch box for the main meals and a small bag or box for the snacks.
Finally, all the ingredients used in the recipes should be relatively easy to find however, if you are completely new to vegan diet you might have to navigate your grocery store a bit more at first to familiarise yourself with some of them. Just don’t go hungry and you’ll be fine!