Greetings everyone from IDT 590. As you have now learned from my introduction I am a Vegan. I decided to invite you all into what a typical day of my meals is like. One of the difficulties with this type of diet is that food can get pretty boring and sometimes it is hard to come up with new and interesting meals. As a result, I try and make every presentation fun and exciting. This is done by incorporating bright colors, varying textures and shapes, and through trying different ethnic cuisines.
Let's take a typical breakfast for example: I call this my "Voluminous Oats"
Here I chose a bright yellow bowl to begin with. Next I
strategically placed blue berries around the border. Then we have dark chocolate chunks placed while oats are hot so they get melted. Of course you can not forget a generous spoonful of almond butter as well as a spoon of jam to complete everything!
Alright so let's move on to lunch shall we? Every lunch is typically a salad beast. This particular beast included:
romaine, carrots, yellow pepper, tomato, pickles, beans, vegan dressing, and salsa. Again the various colors, layers and textures make eating so much more appealing and fun!
Throughout the day I also incorporate snacks depending on my mood and level of hunger. I usually always eat at least one of these daily: A banana, nut butter and vegan chocolate chips.
Tonight I was really busy and didn't have too much time to cook dinner so I settled with toast and added a fruit. BUT remember I try my best to make every meal look as appealing as possible which is exactly what I did tonight. Behold: Two slices of sprouted grain bread with jam. A banana smothered in nut butter. See the happy face?
I apologize if this dinner was not very "exciting" I promise many of my dinners are much more complex but when I'm crunched for time this really hits the spot!
You are making me hungry!
ReplyDeleteMary,
ReplyDeleteI have a few things to say so bare in mind.
Blog design: I like your blog design, it makes the visitor focus on the posts upon entering the site. I like the background as well. The one thing I would recommend is changing your font-type of the header if at all possible so that it flows like the rest of your blog. (just a suggestion)
I can relate to your vegan habits because my girlfriend was a vegetarian for about 5 years and I always ate what she did and her diet mainly consisted of tofu, peanuts, yogurt.
Although Vegans cannot consume diary or meat, I think its still very possible for them to get the essential protein in their body. By the looks of your blog post, your source is peanuts and other sources of nuts.
These meals look very appealing, do you aspire to make a vegan cookbook?
Are you taking the color techniques observed in the classes power point to make your meals look appealing?
Lastly, I understand the tough times behind making dinner when your short for time and other reasons but your ability to make something look appealing with these constraints is quite interesting.
Take care,
Ali