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What I eat in a day – On the road

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Today I’ll show you what my bf and I ate during a trip to Mulhouse (France).

For breakfast we had freshly pressed orange juice, coconut yogurt with blueberries and some veggies with hummus. Unfortunately we were so hungry, I haven’t had the chance to take a picture of it.

But I do have a picture of some of the food I bought for the trip.

At first we had a nice cup of tea in the center of Mulhouse.

Then we visited the “cité du train” – Europe’s largest train museum! It was really impressive to see all those different types of trains.

But walking around all the time made us pretty hungry and we enjoyed our lunch burritos! I made exotic burritos with hummus, avocado, mango, peppers, guacamole, coriander. Also we had the rest of the veggies and a cookie for dessert.

For dinner we found a cute vegan organic restaurant! It’s called ” Eve au paradis vegan” at “14 Rue des Trois Rois”.

I had a burger with fries and my bf had a ‘tarte flambée’. Both really delicious.

We spent the night in Mulhouse and searched for breakfast in a French supermarket – really difficult with my ambition for clean healthy vegan food. But it’s always fun to accept the challenge and it’s even more fun when I actually find something. 🙂

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My 3 favorite (raw) cookies!

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Those are the rookies-cookies recipes! (www.rookies-cookies.com) They are gluten-free and free of refined sugar and soooo delicious! You can buy them or you can make them yourself with the following recipe:

Apple and cinnamon cookie

  • 3-4 dates
  • 2 x dried apples
  • 20 walnuts
  • pinch of baking soda
  • 2 tbsp date syrup
  • 2 tbsp coconut oil
  • 3 tbsp oat flakes

OR

Apricot and vanilla cookie

  • 4 tbsp oat flakes
  • 3 dried apricots
  • 20 almonds
  • 2 tbsp date syrup
  • pinch of baking soda
  • 2 tbsp coconut oil
  • 3 dates

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CHOC CHIP AND HAZELNUT COOKIE

  • 3-4 dates
  • 2 tbsp date syrup
  • 1/3 tbsp cacao powder
  • 2 tbsp coconut oil
  • 1 tbsp chocolate drops
  • 4 tbsp oat flakes

Instructions

  1. Blend all the ingredients in a high speed blender.
  2. Form cookies.
  3. Bake 8 minutes at 180 ° C OR eat them raw.

Homemade wraps

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Ingredients for 7 medium Tortillas

  • 220 spelt flour
  • 1/2 tbsp sugar
  • 1/3 tbsp salt
  • 1/4 tbsp baking powder
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • approx. 800 ml water

Instructions

  1. Mix all the ingredients together. Knead until it becomes an even dough.
  2. Divide the dough into small portions.
  3. Roll out the dough balls as thinly as possible (make sure you put flour onto the surface and the rolling pin).
  4. Put each rolled out tortilla into a medium heated pan (greased with coconut or olive oil). They need about 1 min each side in the pan.

Filling

Fill your tortillas/wraps with everything you want. I filled mine with hummus, shredded carrots, lemon balm, vegan greek cheese.

If you need some inspiration check out my blog posts about:

What I eat in a day 2

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The breakfast (fruits with peanut butter) two days ago was really yummy so today I had the same – but this time with berries and watermelon juice.

watermelon-juice

For lunch we had burger (beyond meat patties) and fries – and while I love burger and white bread, my skin doesn’t. So I only ate salad and fries.

Ice berg lettuce with cashews, blueberries, fresh herbs from the garden.

Snacks during the day:

Kala Namak toasts again!
Homemade raspberry ice cream.

I slept til 9:30 am, had my breakfast at 10 am and lunch at 2.15 pm – so together with the snacks, there was no room for dinner. That’s mostly because I tried to chew consciously today. I still had the full fealing of satisfaction but definitely ate less than usual. Conclusion; We don’t need as much food as we think we do (and we can still be happy!).

Check out: health-benefits-from-chewing-well

What I eat in a day

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Today I was home all day studying. Usually when I wake up I start with learning immediately, thus I eat breakfast later.

So this was the first meal of my day:

I had two small apples, 1 banana, a few dates, some chashews, walnuts and a biiig spoon of peanutbutter 🥜. Also I enjoyed a cup of tea.

After a few hours it was time for lunch:

I had a mixed salad with sprouts.

Samosas and tortellinis.

And for dessert:

Berries with vegan cream.

I ended my day with margarine toasts topped with kala namak (salt that tastes like egg) and veggies.

After all a very successful day full of yummy food!

It would be wrong not to mention the amazing weather:

It’s getting H O T here in Switzerland.

Inspiration for healthy smoothies

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Smoothies are yummy and – can be- full of nutrients. So it’s perfect for breakfast or as a snack. Here are some really good smoothie recipes I’ve found. I especially like the green smoothies in the end! 😀

Baam – 7 different smoothies in one video:

Yummy smoothie and a funny video to watch:

Smoothies for athletes:

And 3 different green smoothies:

Something to think about

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“If you believe animals matter morally but you are not vegan, you need to ask yourself why your conduct is not consistent with what you claim to believe.” – Gary L. Francione

And with this quote being said I want to introduce you to the world of morality. The reason why I’m a vegan now.

Most people have the following excuses for not being a vegan:

I really liked this comment from “Nell with an N”underneath the video above: “I have been vegetarian for a year and I thought I would crave meat, but please trust me when I say this, THE MORE YOU THINK ABOUT WHERE IT COMES FROM, THE MORE DISGUSTED YOU BECOME AT EATING IT.”

I think this sums things up really good. I really love(d) cheese. I still think the taste and smell of cheese are G R E A T. But the thought of purulent udders and the conditions in which the animals are forced to live in makes consuming milk and cheese disgusting for me. The cheaper the diary products the more it reminds me of the horrible conditions those animals have to suffer from in order for us humans to make money and to be cheaper than the competition.

So I really encourage you to watch the following video. Ed stands up for animal rights and does educational work referring veganism. In terms of morality and veganism he’s in my opinion one of the best youtuber. He makes various videos about veganism, about morality and shows us impressive street discussions about veganism with pedestrians (like the video above).

I don’t think veganism is about being perfect or being the most moral person ever. No, not at all. But I truly believe that it matters if all of us take the responsibility to our actions and make conscious decisions about our lifestyle. Ignoring facts is easy, ignoring feelings is easy, enjoying chicken nuggets is easy, but it’s not easy at all for a chicken to live all it’s life on a space as big as your hand, only to be killed and eaten a few months later.

I want to end this blog with the following question Ed mentioned in his speech:

“Are my taste buds more important than the life of an animal?”

Best breakfast ideas

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Here you get a whole week of breakfast ideas:

Annie has given me inspiration for yummy HEALTHY vegan meals and recipes! She eats a whole food plant based diet, I love her videos and I love her food! In this video you can see, what she eats throughout a whole day, but I’d definitely eat all of it for breakfast – or at least for brunch.

I love overnight oats. Here you have 3 varieties of it:

For the fanciness we cannot miss on breakfast BENTO boxes (also the breakfast-ideas look REALLY yummy):

I wish you a very delicious breakfast experience. Au revoir.

Love one – kill the other

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Isn’t it crazy that we love one animal and kill the other? Where does our love start and where does it end? Maybe it’s because we don’t spend time with them, maybe it’s because we think it’s wrong that our food could also be our friend (which I think is completely true – so simply don’t eat your friend) or whatever it is that makes people LOOOVE cats&dogs and KILL all the others. But let’s face it. They are all the same.

It is completely up to you if you want to support this:

Or if you let them have this life:

Choose wisely. Make a connection to what you eat. Your food was someone. Your food was born. Your food is just as smart and playful as your cat or your dog.