Meatless Monday Meal Plan: Soup, Salad, and Pasta!

Greetings Meatless Monday friends! Today I thought I would share a “day in the life” of food from last week – through Instagram photos – simply to demonstrate just how simple it is to eat a plant-based diet.

Meatless Monday Meal Plan

Breakfast

Leftovers. Yep, I love, love, love eating leftovers for breakfast. I’m working on this potato soup recipe for my book

potato soup | JL goes Vegan

and it’s been a perfect morning meal: potatoes, mushrooms, and tofu! It comes together in seven minutes in the pressure cooker!

Lunch

I pack lunch to take to the office and this one was super simple. I warmed up tomatoes, chickpeas and mushrooms with a little tomato sauce and served it over chopped green leaf lettuce and topped it off with nutritional yeast.

hot veggies over raw greens | JL goes Vegan

I absolutely love warm veggies on top of raw veggies. You?

Dinner

My non-vegan husband whipped together a super-quick dinner for us this week. Spelt angel hair pasta and a simple, jarred, marinara sauce loaded with beans and fresh veggies and topped with vegan Parma.

Pasta and Bean Sauce | JL goes Vegan

Well done, husband, well done!

Are my meals fancy? No. Delicious? Yes! Made in minutes? Yes! Eating vegan is so easy!

10 thoughts on “Meatless Monday Meal Plan: Soup, Salad, and Pasta!”

  1. Nice that your husband is willing to eat and cook vegan! My boyfriend is the same way and it makes everything so easy!

  2. Correction: Eating vegan is easy *if you have a pressure cooker!* I have been wanting one for a few years now, and Santa never quite pulls through. I’m not vegan, but I like eating healthy and I like to cut out meat on a pretty regular basis. I’m just usually disappointed at all your recipes (not your fault) but they almost ALL use a pressure cooker. I NEED to own one! (on the flip side, it would be realy nice if a *few* more of your recipes didn’t involve the P.C. but its your life, not mine 😉

    1. @disqus_sSyM7kreWS:disqus, I believe that eating vegan is easy without a pressure cooker. I just happen to be someone who does use a pressure cooker.

      I have over 200 recipes on this site and I think 50 or so use a pressure cooker. (Perhaps a few more since I started working on my “Vegan Pressure Cooking” cookbook.) In the book Vegan for Her I included 50 recipes, none of which required a pressure cooker (but I included pressure cooker instructions for seven). There are so many great vegan food blogs – I’m sure you can find one with recipes that suits you better!

      1. I just found your blog a few weeks ago, so if you’ve been posting more PC recipes lately, then that’s probably why it seems disproportionate to me. I haven’t delved into your recipes yet. I’ll keep browsing! I’m not interested in becoming vegan (not now anyway) but I do like to eat healthy, so I’ll be sticking around 🙂 Also- I just noticed (and found it hilarious) that one of the largest words in your tag cloud is “Mofo.” hehehe!
        *EDIT: Oh, evidently it’s “Vegan Mofo” I’ll have to see what that is….

        1. I’m glad you’ll stick around, @disqus_sSyM7kreWS:disqus! I’m laughing about MoFo, kind of awesome! Vegan Mofo is the Vegan Month of Food. Bloggers commit to posting daily, or nearly day, for an entire month. As you can see, I participate! 🙂

  3. I love leftovers for breakfast too! Especially soup, not sure why! It’s perfect on frigid mornings like this though!

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