Maintaining a vegetarian, raw or vegan diet while also receiving enough protein is not as hard as you think. Even if you choose to eat meat it’s healthier to only eat it a couple days a week and replace some meat protein with plant ones. There is no need to struggle with adding alternative protein to your diet because there are so many different varieties of protein substitutes on the market. With a little knowledge, you can incorporate plant-based protein into every meal.

Try this:

1. Buy organic tempeh. Add it to your stir fry, pasta dishes, burgers, “scrambled egg substitute.” Add it to a salad or use it in your curries, sandwiches, and crumble into sauces.
2. Eat beans.  Delicious, healthy with a lot of fiber and vitamins. Make chili, tacos, and soup. Add black beans to your brownies, muffins or cakes. Use chickpea flour for baking or try hummus on your sandwiches instead of mayo.
3. Use more hemp seeds, sacha inchi seeds. Sprinkle hemp seeds on salad; add them to your smoothies, or in baking. Use hemp tofu if you don’t like tempeh.
4. Eat nuts! Use cashews to make cream soups or sauces. Make raw pies with nuts (loaded with protein and so delicious). Add nut butter to your smoothies. Soak your nuts overnight and add it to your salad. Bake with nut flours. I love soaked nuts. They rock! Soaked walnuts are just the best.
5. Eat seeds. Sprout pumpkin or sunflower seeds and add them to your salad. To sprout the seeds: soak them overnight in water in the fridge, drain and let them sprout for 48 hours.
6. Get some spirulina. Add spirulina to your smoothies, salads, crackers, and baking.
7. Eat flaxseeds. Add ground flaxseeds to your loaves of bread, waffles, cookies, and smoothies.
8. Make Tasty Ice Cream. Make nut ice cream with coconut, fruits or chocolate.
9. Eat leafy green vegetables. Believe it or not, they have a lot of protein
10. Lentils – my love! So good, cheap, and easy to make.

Make soups, stews, bake with them, toss them in a salad or create an entire lentil based salad.

Raw (no bake) cacao pie

Crust:

1 Cup walnuts

3/4 Cup shredded coconut

6 dates (soaked)

Filling:

2 1/2 Cup raw cashews (soaked)

1 Cup raw cacao powder

1/4 Cup cacao paste (melted)

1/2 Cup coconut oil (melted)

1/2 Cup coconut nectar liquid

2 tablespoons vanilla

pinch of salt

water

Put walnuts into the food processor and pulse it. Then add coconut flakes and dates. Process until sticky. Spread the dough onto pie form.

Put all remaining ingredients in the high speed blender and been until very smooth. Add as much water as you need to make the filling smooth. Pour over crust into the pie form and put it in the fridge for 3 hours to settle.

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In Health

Angie