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Vegan What I Ate Today: July 2017

From smoothies to corn on the cob, and all the IKEA veggie balls in between. Check out the food I ate today on fun family weekend day in July!


Here's a preview of the day...

Heading to Trader Joe's to do some grocery shopping!

The girl's lunch: vegan grilled cheese (baked in the oven because I was feeling
lazy-lol), Vegan Rob's Brussel Sprout Puffs, baby carrots, Hampton Creek's
Just Ranch, and organic strawberries. 

Dessert after dinner: Almond Dream vanilla ice cream, strawberries,
and Ah!Laska non-dairy chocolate syrup...yum!

Ikea Veggie Balls with what turned out to be a
 not gluten-free or dairy-free meal ) : see below.

Check out the full day of food here...




And if you got a little hungry, here's the Vegan Cheesy Casserole recipe I had for dinner!


⭐️ PRODUCTS USED IN THIS VIDEO ‣ http://shwv.co/~/fRLp-kITYc8

IKEA food update: Apparently what I ordered at IKEA was officially called: "Veggie Balls w/Thai Coconut Curry, Brown Rice Blend and Seasoned Bean Blend (8 pc)" and now I know thanks to checking their menu online after I got home, that it contained milk and wheat. Bleh. No fun. ) : Next time I will just order the veggie balls plain...and check the menu ahead of time before I go. Don't you hate it when the menu changes!


Thank you for all your support
💚Ashley
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Vegan What I Ate Today: January...with Mila!



After a long break from making my "what I ate" videos, I finally have one to share with you greenies, and this time I have a special guest...Mila! Her grandma who usually watches her on Tuesday and Thursday was out of town, so I had the day off to watch her. So my food for the day will not only include my food but also her's as well so you can see my some of our favorite vegan kid foods and snacks. 

So let's get started with Mila and I's food for the day...



Okay so usually I post not only the video but also detailed pictures of each thing I ate during the day, but with my busy schedule, I've decided to cut down on all the pictures in my blog posts to help save time. Sorry to loyal blog readers, but it's just become too time consuming to take the pictures, compile the video clips, edit the video, write the post, link products...and still edit the pictures, stick my logo on them and then arrange them on the blog. So for awhile I think I'm going to be going with reduced-picture blog posts so that hopefully I can get more videos out to you guys. Thanks for understanding.

With that said, here's a list and all the links to the food Mila and I ate that day...

That's my food for the day!
Have you ever tried any of the food Mila or I ate? Share below!
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Vegan What I Ate Today: April 2016

Since it's been a while since I've posted a "What I Ate in a Day" video, I thought you all might like a peek at the gluten-free, vegan food I've been eating these days.



So here's my food for the day:




No time for the video? Here it is in picture form:

5:00 AM Warm lemon water: 8 oz. warm water + juice of 1 lemon
While drinking this I like to write in my journal and get my food ready for
the day to take to work. 

5:20 AM: Pre-workout snack: Quinoa Chia Crunch cereal with rice milk. 

Workout: 60 minutes of Bethenny Frankel's Body By Bethenny Yoga DVD. Never mind that big blue, red, and yellow thing in the background...that's my girls' bouncy house and this is what it looks like when it's deflated. 


This DVD gives me such a good stretch. 


Here's a preview of the workout DVD...



Then I come upstairs and make my breakfast smoothie...

For this one I have: 1 scoop Sunwarrior Chocolate Warrior Blend, 1 1/2 Tbs. Vitamineral Greens powder, 3/4 cup Trader Joe's Rice Drink, 3 frozen banana halves, and 5 frozen strawberries, and a handful of spinach.



I blend it all up and pour it into my mega mug and leave a little in a bowl for Mila to have for her breakfast.
7:30 AM: Breakfast smoothie. I make one smoothie and share a portion with
Mila (as Avery is not a fan).
With my smoothie buddy.

After I leave for work, I oil pull in the car. In case you don't know, oil pulling is where you swoosh coconut oil in your mouth for 20 minutes or so and then spit it out. It can help improve oral health as well as helping your body detox, among other issues. Here's a post I did a while back on the topic, "Oil Pulling: What is it & How to do it."

Just oil pulling while I drive.

9:15 AM: Morning snack #1: Fruit bowl, 1 banana + several organic
strawberries.  Other than my smoothie in the morning, this is the only fruit I eat all day
as it seems to mess with my digestive system if I eat it later in the day
and combine it with other food. 
Then around 10:20 AM I get ready to have my main morning snack for today, which are two of my "Sweet Potato Biscuits". I like to top these some Earth Balance vegan butter and Trader Joe's no sugar added strawberry jelly.



I warm them up in my handy little toaster oven.

Then around 12:00 I start warming up lunch with my hot plate. Read here
about how and why I don't use a microwave. 

12:10 PM: Lunch: "Naughty and Nice Vegan Enchilada Casserole" from the
blog, Oh She Glows with some organic corn tortilla chips.
2:30 PM: Snack time, for this I've been having
one of my favorite new snacks: a  protein
chia drink.


Chia Protein Drink

Combine all ingredients into a jar and shake well. Store in the fridge for at least 20 minutes for the chia seeds to gel up. 



Then I later in the afternoon I drive home and then it's time for green juice. I try to wait 2 hours after my chia drink before my green juice.

5:15 PM Green Juice: 2-3 stalks of swiss chard, 1 gala apple, 1 knob of ginger
3 stalks of celery, 1/2 a lemon peeled, 3/4 a large cucumber *all organic
Then in comes my green juice helper. Since it's a slow masticating juicer it's
safer for her to help me with and she loves it.

Then it's time to drink up!


In comes green juice buddy #2!
Some nights my green juice will hold me over until dinner, other nights I need something else to eat before dinner. So before I even started making my green juice I began making one of my favorite snacks: Homemade Oven Roasted Fries! Here's how I make them...

Homemade Oven Roasted Fries

1. Wash 4-5 russet potatoes and chop them into fry-like shapes. The skinnier they
are the faster they will cook, where as cutting them into wedges will take longer to
cook. From there I put them in a mixing bowl and add 1 1/2 teaspoons of
safflower oil, a few shakes of garlic powder, a little salt and pepper too. 

2. Spread them onto a baking sheet and bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes.

3. After 15 minutes of cooking, take them out and flip them so they can
cook on the other side.  Place them back in the oven for another 10-15 minutes.

4. Then take them out and let them cool. 

Once they have cooled, they are ready to serve. We love having them
with some organic ketchup. 
About 30-40 minutes after we all snacked on the fries, then it was time for dinner.

6:45 PM Dinner: "Mushroom Broccoli Skillet" with short grain brown rice,
broccoli, mushrooms, and a homemade vegan cheese sauce. 

We love to have it with some gluten-free toast.

Dessert: Gluten-free, vegan mini chocolate cupcakes from Minimalist Baker
and my "Healthier Vegan Frosting" colored naturally with
India Tree's Natural Food Colors.

Then I'm done for the day. I try to stop eating around 7:00 or so and I got to bed around 9 or 9:30 PM. Did you see any food you like or currently eat? Share below.  See you next week for my next green tip!
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Vegan What I Ate for Thanksgiving 2015

As you can see my video posting is a little ahead of my blog posting, so bear with me readers! I'm finally getting the posts to match up with the videos I've had posted for a while now,  but better late than never right? ( :

So just as I find it interesting to see what other fellow vegans eat in a day, I also am interested to see what they eat during the holidays, specifically for meals like Thanksgiving or Christmas. So that's what I'm sharing with you today, what I ate for Thanksgiving.



As you'll see below, I had two Thanksgiving feasts, one for lunch with my husband's family and one for dinner with my family. And although it was a lot to try to cook all the food for both feasts that morning, it was well worth it...and the fact that I didn't have to cook at all the next day because we had so many leftovers!

So in case you're wondering, when we go to family gatherings like Thanksgiving, our standard protocol is that we make and bring our own food. I don't expect my in-laws or even my own parents or grandparents to make food that caters to my restrictive gluten-free, vegan, no-GMO, no refined sugar diet. But sometimes my family members are sweet enough and know me well enough that they can make me small little side dishes or special little desserts that fit all my picky diet needs and for them I am so thankful.

When it comes to deciding what to eat for holiday meals I always try to find foods that are similar to what the rest of the group will be eating, so if everyone is having turkey, mashed potatoes, and green bean casserole with rolls, I won't be coming in with spaghetti or burritos. Trust me, I've tried this and it just feels weird. The smells don't match up and the flavors are just all wrong when you're eating something so different than everyone else. But maybe it doesn't bother you, you could eat whatever, wherever. For me I love making "classic" dishes but in vegan ways so that it feels like I'm taking part in the tradition, but in a vegan way.

With that in mind let me show you what I had to eat this Thanksgiving...


No time for the video? Here's a picture breakdown and list of the food I ate:


Lunch: Vegan Cheesy Pasta (cheese recipe found here), sautéed mushrooms,
organic mashed potatoes with vegan butter. To tell you the truth, the pasta was
a bit dry and I needed something green (broccoli?) or orange (butternut squash?), 
maybe I'll get it down next year.  Usually we only do one feast so this
meal was a stretch for me.


Dinner: My "Vegan Cheesy Casserole" with rice, vegan cheese, potatoes, 
broccoli, carrots and tofu. A side of organic green beans, a gluten-free vegan
Schar "Ciabatta Roll" and a homemade sweet potato casserole my
awesome aunt made for me and the girls with Dandies (vegan) marshmallows,
Lakanto sugar, and Earth Balance vegan butter. Yum! This dinner was
my favorite feast of the day!


Happy Thanksgiving from our green family. What did you eat? Post it below!
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Vegan What I Ate Today: June 2015 (with kids!)

So I might have fallen off the bandwagon for the month of May in keeping up with my "Vegan What I Ate Today" series (cue the crazy end of the school year for me), but I'm back and ready to share my vegan food for the day for the month of June.


So if you haven't seen the past two "What I Ate" posts you can check out "March" here or "April" here. Or you can jump right in to my gluten-free, vegan food for the day...and since it's summer I figured I would share a little bit about what I do with my girls now that I'm home with them for my summer break from teaching. So this post is a combo of "what I ate" and "a day in the life." Let's get started!


Now, you would think I'd be sleeping in on my day's off, and in the past I have, but now that I have my girls I need all the time to myself that I can get because once they are awake, they take a lot of my attention.  With this is mind, I still get up at my usual "work day time" of 4:45 AM. This allows me to get up, workout, get some computer work done, shower, and get ready all before my girls wake up...which is a glorious thing to me. I think it's mainly because that's how it is during the school year, that's my routine, so to get up at the same time as them (7:15-7:30) I feel WAY behind already.

So here I am 5:00 AM with my warm lemon water: 8 oz. warm water + juice of 1 lemon
During this time I write in my little journal. This is where I keep track of my exercise from the previous day (that I was too tired to write the night before), how much sleep I got, my dreams if I can remember them, and any other thoughts I have right when I wake up. I track food symptoms, things to be grateful for, and ideas for posts and videos. Probably sounds like a lot to be writing first thing in the morning, but I don't write on all the topics each morning, just whatever comes to mind that particular day.
5:25 AM Pre-workout snack: Erewhon Brown Rice Cereal with Trader
Joe's Rice Drink and Lakanto Sweetener
While eating my pre-workout snack, I do some social media time. This is where I reply to YouTube and blog comments, check email, and maybe edit a video if I have time. Usually I only have about 20-30 minutes max for this, so replying to comments is about all I get to. I've found I enjoy replying to comments much more in this small quantity (just a few a day) instead of waiting for them all to pile up and it taking me an hour or two once a week. I bet you all like hearing from me a little quicker too!

Replying to comments while eating my pre-workout snack.

Workout: 60 minutes Bethenny Frankel's Skinny Girl Yoga Workout. This is one of my favorite workouts to do to stretch and tone. As you'll see in the video, I love plan and come up with ideas for posts, videos, and even my finances (hence the planner I set down in front of my yoga mat). Something about exercise gives me the best ideas, so I'll stop a pose or wait for a break, jot something down, and then get right back into my workout.  Can you tell I do a lot of thinking, planning, and writing in the morning? I seriously love my mornings to myself. The rest of my day gets so busy and crazy with kids, so I savor this early morning time to myself and use it to not only fuel my body, but also my mind.


I'm way happier with my girls once they get up too, since I know I've already had some time to myself to get my workout in, get some work done, get out all the thoughts and ideas I have floating around in my head, and take a shower. This way I feel refreshed and ready for them, not already behind and they are roaring and ready to go. Maybe it's just the little piece of "working mom" I still have left in me? To where even though I'm on summer break, I still like to have some routine/consistency/sense of productivity. Can anyone else relate? 

Here's a preview of this DVD:




After my workout, I shower, get ready and then my girls usually start to
wake up.
 Morning smoothie recipe:

Blend + serve.

7:30 AM: Breakfast smoothie. I make one smoothie and share a portion with
Mila (as Avery is not a fan).

Every morning Mila loves to push this Croods movie
DVD case (not even the actual movie, just the case)
around our kitchen counter in her stroller, it's hilarious.

She then has a small portion of my smoothie in her smoothie cup. Right
when she gets up I nurse her, so she's not too hungry when we're all
eating our smoothies/breakfast snacks.

8:00 Avery's breakfast: a KIND Bar (Strawberry and Peanut Butter)
She usually eats half now, and an hour or two later,
then she'll eat the other half.

9:00 AM: Morning snack #1: Fruit bowl, 1 banana + several organic
strawberries.  Other than my smoothie in the morning, this is the only fruit I eat all day
as it seems to mess with my digestive system if I eat it later in the day
and combine it with other food. As you can see from my bowls, we all have this
for a snack. Usually I chop Mila's frozen grapes in half.

Finishing her KIND Bar on our way to Nana and Papa's house.
On this day we headed over to my parent's house to hang out. They are both teachers like me, and also off on summer vacation so it's fun to have the chance to spend more time with them. 

As you can see, Avery caught on to me taking pictures of everything
in our morning so far, so she was all about taking pictures too of her food
and in this case of her sister's "cute feet"!

10:15 Morning Snack: "Quinoa Oatmeal" (actually no oats, just reminds
me of oatmeal. I made this using rice milk, Lakanto Sweetener, 
and some Ancient Harvest Quinoa Hot Cereal Flakes.

Avery had a little of my "oatmeal" to snack on as well.

Lunch 12:15: Wildwood Sprouted Tofu Veggie Burger, organic roasted
potato rounds, steamed peas.

I like to dip mine in Organicville Ketchup and BBQ Sauce.

The girls lunch was a mix of leftovers with Field Day Gluten-Free Pasta
with spaghetti sauce, some of my leftover veggie burger, and a little
frozen mango. They also ended up with some of my peas as well. 

Lunchtime with my girls.

For their dessert (which I use sometimes to motivate them to try healthy
foods or eat a little more), they got a Lucy's Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookie.
Avery got a full one and Mila got half of one. 
After lunch we head home and I put them down for a nap, which they take at the same time (thank you!). I then lay down and take a 15-20 minute nap to recharge a bit since I've been up since 4:45 AM. After I get up, I head downstairs to "work" and snack. 

2:15 PM: Drink up time: Daily Chia Seed Drink: 2 cups water+ 3 Tbs. chia
seeds + 1 packet of SweetLeaf Stevia + juice from 1 lemon. About 20 minutes
later I'll have a Peanut Butter Cookie Larabar.
During this time I work on my writing blog posts, filming or editing YouTube videos, or when my eyes are tired from looking at a computer screen I do some cleaning and decluttering (one of my favorite things to do in the summer when I'm on break).


Then I usually hear this little sleepyhead whispering at me from the stairs, "Mom...I'm awake!" So she comes on down in her over-sized t-shirt (her favorite PJ attire at the moment) and gets a snack. Usually it's vegan yogurt or today she had a MamaChia Chia Squeeze.

"I'm awake and I'm hungry...and why is this camera tripod out?"

3:15 Avery's snack: MamaChia Chia Squeeze

Shortly after that Mila wakes up and she likes to have a Trader Joe's Strawberry
Fruit Squirter. 

About an hour later, the girls (aka snacking machines) are hungry again, so they have
some Lentil Snaps together. 

4:45 PM Green Juice: 2-3 stalks of swiss chard, 1 gala apple, 1 knob of ginger
3 stalks of celery, 1/2 a lemon peeled, 1/2 a large cucumber *all organic
I like to wait at least 2 hours from the last meal/snack that I've eaten to have my green juice so it's easier for me to digest, instead of getting stuck behind tons of food. And tonight we were heading to our local pool, so I made a "green juice to-go" with this straw lid on my mason jar.


After playing at the pool for an hour, I "bribed" them with some Trader Joe's Organic Fruit Wraps, and we headed home to get ready for dinner. 

Bikini Mila snacking on a fruit wrap.

Avery with my Dad.

6:30 PM: Dinner was Veggie Burritos. For mine I had a Food for Life
Gluten-Free tortilla shell with Dayia Cheddar Cheese, brown rice, organic
fajita veggies (red pepper, green pepper, onion and spices), organic corn,
salsa, and Trader Joe's guacamole...with a few organic corn chips on the side.

As you can see we make this like an assembly line with rice in the rice cooker,
black beans, fajita veggies, guacamole, salsa, and corn. This way we can
make our burritos specific to us. Personally I can't seem to handle beans lately
so I avoid those, and Brandon seems to be allergic to whole corn, so he skips
that one. I love buffet style meals. ( :

For my girls I made cheesy quesadillas with Daiya Cheddar Cheese and
Food for Life gluten-free tortillas, as well as salsa, guacamole, beans,
rice, corn and a few veggies (they are not bell pepper fans). 

Family dinner time.

For dessert the girls each had a Dandies Vegan Marshmallow.

For my dessert: 1/8 cup of Lily's Sweets Baking Chips (stevia-sweetened)
Sometimes I don't have the time or energy to cook a fancy dessert or even just
a regular dessert, so I pour some chocolate chips into a measuring cup and eat
those for my dessert. Quick, easy, and satisfies my sweet tooth.
Anyone else like to eat just plain chocolate chips? ( :

So there you have my food for the day, and all the things I did on a typical day at home with my girls in the summer. Did you see any food you would like to try or do you have a special food you or your kids have been loving lately? Share it below! See you next month for the next "What I Ate" post.
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