Vegan diet
- Dietitian.Lauren Hmede
- Feb 1, 2019
- 1 min read
Introduction:
Vegan diet has many beneficial effect on healthy like promoting the gut hormones responsible for regulating blood sugar, satiety and weight.
Vegans avoid all animal-derived foods. These include chicken, meat and fish. It even excludes eggs, dairy or honey. Let us have a look at how vegans can plan their meals.
Breakfast
Breakfast is the main meal of the day as it provides your body with needed energy. Choices at breakfast can be fruit or a vegetable salad, nut butter and toast, a handful of nuts and oatmeal, sandwich, quinoa or a fruit smoothie with soya or almond milk.
Lunch
Lentils and rice, vegetables salad with nuts and seeds or wheat with beans and legumes. You can have also a bowl of vegetable with tofu to meet your protein requirements.
Dinner
Always choose light meals at dinner because heavy meals can affect digestive process. You may have include khichdi made up of lentils and rice. Stew vegetables can be light meal and nourishing. Chickpeas along with cherry tomatoes and onion could also be a warm crunchy dinner.
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