Over the Veggie Slump

Wow! What a difference a week can make. It could partially be due to just having a better grasp of my meals or just feeling better overall, but I’ve found this past week way easier than the previous.

A major factor might simply be hitting new recipes this week. This being those recommended on the Plant Based on a Budget site. The meals from last week were good, but pretty straight forward. A pasta salad one day, soup the next. The food tasted good, but it also left me with so much in leftovers that I was eating the same stuff two or three days in a row.

Another thing that I believe has helped me a lot is simply eating more. Last week, I think a major factor in A) the amount of aforementioned left overs and B) the fatigue I was feeling some days was the quantity I was eating. I’ve never been a calorie counter or anything so maybe I was getting more or less, but based on how I felt last week, I needed to bump up the amount of food I was eating throughout the day. I now have guilt free snacks like the smoothie I’m drinking as I type this (banana, strawberries, broccoli, kale, almond milk, and some protein powder).

Now, I’m planning on veering off of the plan provided by the people at Plant Based on a Budget, and will more so look to their site for recipes and guidelines. I believe I have enough groceries for the rest of my trial run, all in all totaling about $65 for the month. Though I do see myself running to the store to grab some more fresh fruit. I’m really looking forward to the next couple weeks, and not simply to struggle thru it all to finish at the end as I was last week.

On a different note, my cousin jokingly asked if he could do a guest post here about not having a phone for four weeks after he was pushed into our pool and lost his. Guest posts from friends or family have been something I’ve considered for some time. Let me know what you think, would you like to hear from somebody other than me from time to time?