Monique 6/6/22 Monique 6/6/22

174. Easy Vegan Tips for Busy Folks (or LAZY Vegan Tips lol) | Solo Episode)

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I’m bringing you a quick 15 minute podcast today full of my “lazy vegan” tips to help you save time and keep you on track in your vegan lifestyle.

I’m calling these lazy vegan tips, but in reality, these are just real life tips. We all have things going on in our lives between family, work, our social lives, and so many obligations. I share in this podcast the simple truth that if you’re going from eating a standard American diet to trying out a plant based diet, you’re going to be spending more time thinking about and planning for food. It’s just the reality. But with some strategy, you can quickly learn how to make veganism convenient for you and feel much more capable of staying on track.

You’ll have to listen to the episode for all the details, but I’m talking about:

Using meal and grocery delivery apps to make meal planning and shopping more convenient
How to find vegan options and specialty items near you
Using convenience items like precut fruit, frozen vegetables, or bags of fries to make quick meals
Easy vegan meal prep suggestions
The importance of vegan sauces and how to make your own

Alright ya’ll, let me know if you found this helpful and if you have some of your own lazy vegan tips, please share them with me–I’d love to know!

Resources Mentioned:

Instacart - pick up groceries or have them delivered to your door

Imperfect Foods - get produce delivered right to your door

Happy Cow

Monique 5/4/22 Monique 5/4/22

168. Vegan Tips for Newbies & Veganizing Cultural Meals with Aida

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If you’re a new vegan or someone interested in becoming vegan, this episode will be so valuable to you!

Today I have Aida Habte on the podcast.
Aida’s family is from Eritrea and her cultural upbringing as a first generation Eritrean-American helped shape her food choices later down the road. Growing up, she understood from an early age where meat comes from since her family and community would buy fresh meat from local farmers and would often see the animals being slaughtered.

While it was a normal experience for her culture and community, Aida does share with me on this episode that seeing the realities of animals being killed from a young age definitely played a role in her initially going pescatarian.

As so many of my guests share, watching documentaries about our food systems, health impacts of animal products, and the realities of animal agriculture played a huge role in helping Aida decide to go vegan.

She thought, “If I care enough about these issues to stop eating meat, I should probably go all the way and go vegan.”

Aida talks about this transition and how she made the final decision to go vegan in 2020.

Like I mentioned, this podcast will be so relatable for new vegans since Aida has only been vegan for two years herself. As a newer vegan, she brings a great perspective about transitioning to veganism, and shares some amazing tips that you all will definitely benefit from.

She is also a vegan mom and we have a powerful conversation about letting go of having complete control over your children’s food choices, educating and empowering them to make their own decisions, and how we all need to release judgment around vegan parenting.

In this episode we chat about:

Aida’s personal journey going from being a pescatarian to a vegan, and what inspired her to go vegan
Veganizing cultural dishes
Being a vegan mom, raising vegan children, and the complexity of transitioning a family to veganism
Nutrition myths about meat and dairy that we all were raised to believe
Strategies for staying full and feeling satisfied as a vegan
Why raw vegans need to eat larger portions
Tips for new vegans to help them transition easily, make delicious & simple meals, and feel satisfied when eating plant-based
Why you need to find what works for YOU as a new vegan

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Monique 2/24/22 Monique 2/24/22

155. Vegan Grocery Shopping Tips for Beginners (Solo Episode)

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In this episode, I share practical vegan grocery shopping tips. My goal is to make shopping a little less overwhelming for you, so you’re more confident in the store.

Resources:

Episode 152
Is It Vegan?
Purple Carrot
Green Chef
Tattooed Chef (most of their products aren’t vegan even though the front of the package says plant-based)

Monique 7/23/14 Monique 7/23/14

8. A Candid Conversation with Vegan Cooking with Love (Michelle Johnson)

Michelle is one of my best friends, so it only made sense that we would get together and talk vegan life and food on my latest podcast episode.

I have to tell you that I was sooo nervous to record with Michelle because we tend to have like 80 convos going at the same time and I wasn't sure if people would be able to keep up. lol

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I listened to the convo back and think we did a great job of keeping it together. We talk about dealing with family after transitioning to vegan eating, how to eat out, why being a vegan isn't a life of perfection and why vegan meals isn't "space" food.