Ingredients

1 overripe banana, peeled, cut in half, and frozen 

2 Tablespoons date sugar (or 3 dates)

1 teaspoon cocoa powder

½ teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 to 1 Tablespoon natural peanut butter

1 Tablespoon flaxseed meal

4 or 5 spinach leaves

¾ to 1 cup of soy milk (or other plant milk)

Blend ingredients until smooth. Add more milk for desired thickness.

Recipe Cook Time
5 minutes
Recipe Prep Time
3 minutes
Recipe Serving Size
1
Recipe Total Time
8 minutes

Chocolate Banana Smoothie

With flaxseed meal and nutmeg, this smoothie provides a delicious, rich meal in minutes.

Ingredients

1 Tablespoon flax meal

1 cup of soy milk (or other plant milk)

2 Tablespoons vegetable oil, plus more for pan

1 cup of whole wheat flour

2 ½ teaspoons of baking powder

¼ teaspoon of salt

1/4 cup frozen blueberries

2-3 Tablespoons walnut pieces

Real maple syrup

Wisk the flax meal into the soy milk and set aside for 5 minutes. Heat a skillet. Cast iron works best. Wisk two tablespoons of oil into the milk.

Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together. Mix into the wet ingredients.

Recipe Cook Time
10 minutes
Recipe Prep Time
10 minutes
Recipe Serving Size
2
Recipe Total Time
20 minutes

Blueberry Pancakes

There used to be a restaurant in Northeast Minneapolis called Mill City Café and they served delicious pancakes with fruit and nuts embedded in one side which inspired this recipe. Blueberries and walnuts together have a great antioxidant punch.  

Ingredients

¼ cup sugar (date sugar has the most antioxidants)

1/3 cup + 1 Tablespoon soy sauce

½ cup fresh lime juice (about 3 limes)

1 + 2 cloves garlic

Red leaf lettuce

1/2 teaspoon sesame oil

Fresh mint, chopped

Fresh basil, chopped

½ cucumber, peeled, halved, and sliced

6 to 8 ounces brown rice fettuccini or pad thai noodles

2 Tablespoons vegetable oil

12 to 14 oz. tofu

3 cups red cabbage, chopped

1 cup shitake mushrooms, stems removed, sliced

2 cups bean sprouts

Recipe Cook Time
20 minutes
Recipe Paragraph
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Recipe Prep Time
10 minutes
Recipe Serving Size
2
Recipe Total Time
30 minutes

Viet Noodle Salad

The Vietnamese salad, bun bo xao inspired this dish. With brown rice noodles, five kinds of veggies, and several herbs, this salad is a longevity powerhouse.

Ingredients

Step 1: “Ricotta”

1 cup raw cashews

1 Tablespoon lemon juice (about half a lemon)

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon dried basil

Dash of garlic powder

1/3 cup soy milk

2 Tablespoons nutritional yeast

1 Tablespoon of flaxseed meal

Cover cashews with water and soak 2 to 12 hours; drain. In a food processor, combine cashews, lemon juice, salt, basil, garlic powder, milk, nutritional yeast and flax seed meal. Heat oven to 350 degrees

 

Step 2: “Mozzarella”

14 oz tofu

Recipe Cook Time
1 hour 15 minutes
Recipe Paragraph
Step 3: Veggies 1 Tablespoon olive oil 2 cups button mushrooms, trimmed and sliced 1 large red onion, diced 5 cups fresh spinach 2 cloves garli, Cooking mushrooms and spinach
Step 4: Assemble and Bake 24 oz jar of spaghetti sauce 8 oz 100% whole wheat lasagna noodles (1/2 box) 1 cup of vegetable stock (I use homemade) 2, Veggie lasagna in pan
Recipe Prep Time
2 hours and 30 minutes
Recipe Serving Size
8

Veggie Lasagna

This four-step recipe uses a store-bought jar of sauce and does not require precooking the noodles. Inspired by the Gantts of Asheville, North Carolina My friend Carrie gave me her mother’s recipe for spinach lasagna in 2014. It became a regular favorite, but back then, I was still eating dairy. It’s taken a few tries, but I have mastered a plant-based dish that is just as delicious.

Cruciferous Vegetables

Eat cruciferous vegetables every day. (Yes, that was a command. It's that important!) The members of the Brassica family, including kale, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, spinach and brussel sprouts, can prevent the spread of cancer and boost liver detoxification.

Launch

PlantBased16 is very excited to share our 16-day plant-based eating plan to kickstart a plant-based lifestyle. What should you eat on a plant-based diet? The focus of a plant-based diet should be whole, unprocessed foods. First and foremost, you want to pack vegetables and fruits into your meals and snacks. Beans are longevity powerhouses. Nuts and seeds should be daily staples. Use whole grains, like steel cut oats, brown rice, and barley to make meals filling and satisfying. A winter day might include steel cut oatmeal with blueberries, chopped dates, and soy milk for breakfast.