These are literally the highest quality vegan meal preps out there. I love that it's nutritionally complete. Your stir fry on the last video like this is my husband's absolute favorite and it makes a ton for cheap. This is badass work.
This is such an amazing compliment and the kind of thing that pushes me and my team forward!! So glad that you and your husband are loving the meals and the content so much. 💚
Don't know if anyone commented on this, but in order to safely cool down food in the fridge you need to keep the food uncovered until it's cold, then cover it. Love the recipes. Thank you.
This is awesome! Thanks! I have been dying for a vegan influencer who lifts, to make meals that are nutritionally balanced, without using protein powders. Thank you!
Not vegan but I really appreciate that this embraces what it is without a bunch of powder supplements or faux products. I'm going to give it a try next grocery run.
Yes!! That's part of my goal and I love hearing that you're going to try this!! What recipe are you most excited for? Please keep me updated on what you liked best in this meal prep! 😃
Thank you for watching! If you enjoyed this video, then I'm sure you'll love our upcoming plant-based nutrition course, the Plant-Powered Body 💪🌱 I am super excited to share it with you! You can join our waitlist to get FREE access to this course when it launches: thevegangym.com/course
I love this series man. I’ve pretty much tried every meal prep you have made, and I can’t decide which I love more. Every week I pretty much just mix and match depending on what I’m feeling like eating for the week. I’m making this one for the following week, and this looks delicious already. Even though I enjoy protein shakes, relying on them doesn’t paint a good picture for the “where do vegans get their protein???” crowd. This is more than enough protein for the regular person, and just about enough for someone trying to build muscle.
Thank you so much for the kind words!! It's amazing to hear that you've tried all the meal prep guides!! What's your favorite meal of ours that you've tried? 😄🌱
Thank you for doing these videos. they are so well done and thorough. The efforts don't go unnoticed! The foods are also so similar to what I already eat so it's amazing to see little tweaks I can make, the nutrition breakdown, and others eating like this!
Thank you so much! Me and my team put a ton of hours into these videos so I'm glad it's being noticed! I absolutely love your perspective of making tweaks in your current diet to optimize it! 😃
This was much needed for me this week as I'm moving tomorrow out of a house where I have lived for over 22 years. Sad to say goodbye 😢but better times are ahead! So this meal plan will definitely come in useful! Thanks for oh so helpful content.
Ah I'm sure that was a bitter-sweet time for sure!! Thank you so much for sharing. I really can't wait to hear what you think of the meal prep! Please let me know what you enjoyed most with it. 🌱
Great videos and much needed and appreciated. Ive been vegan 15years but only recently started at the gym, been looking to tweak my diet for more protein. Thanks!!
hey this is fantabulous! I know such word doesn't exist! ;) As always I love your meal prep and you nailed it again this time. Just want to know what keeps you inspired for going to the gym everyday. I appreciate if you can make a video/short on that too please.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Making sure that everything we put out is the highest quality possible is one of the most important thing for me so I'm glad you agreed! 😄🌱
Yesss!!! I love your meal prep videos. They are better than any others out there. I have changed the way I eat because of what you have taught about upping nutrition. I get so excited looking at all of the green on Cronometer! And you are so entertaining! I crack up when you make fun of yourself…”bhegs.” And the quality of the recipes is delicious. I still drink Green Maca Smoothies for breakfast regularly. Thank you!!!!!
Thank you so much for the kind words!! I totally agree with seeing the green on Cronometer! It definitely itches a scratch I have in my brain haha. Glad you're loving the videos and the recipes!! 😃💚
@@TheVeganGym Looking forward to them! I was re-watching this video and was curious where you got your iron from? Also, how far in advance do you meal prep? If more than 3 days, how do you keep the food fresh?
Im allergic to Brazil nuts. Also note never eat more than 7, they can be toxic. Great ideas. I liked the high protein amount. As a senior studies have confirmed this aids in prevention of muscle loss. Critical for us. Our calorie requirements decrease as we age. Im eating 1500 and im 63.
So great to hear that you found the video helpful! This was a deliberate decision to have less music to see what our viewers thought of it so I'm glad to hear you noticed it! Thanks for the input. 🌱
These are awesome! Tried your other meal prep and found it was too much food for my smaller cookery supplies so I cut everything in half or 1/3. I would love to see some links to those beautifully uniform containers you use- I don’t think I have those sizes! Brand & size if you remember? Thanks!
I have been exhausted trying to balance both, this looks great...I might need to suck it up and deal with eating the same thing everyday when I get super busy.
I made the sammies this morning and want to add it to my Cronometer log. Will you be adding these recipes there? It would be great if your recipes were importable to make them easier to follow in my favorite cooking app.
hey just stumbled across your videos and absolutely love them! it would be awesome if you maybe to a full week meal prep for students (since we are on a budget). I know it’s a tricky request, but it would be so helpful 🫶🏻
@@TheVeganGym yeah, so these are really, really good. I spread some coarse Dijon mustard on the bread and that took it up a notch. This is now my second favourite way of eating uncooked tofu (the other being chocolate tofu pie).
Any chance you'd make a video about the process of how you come up with these meal prep plan videos? Like how do you go about deciding what meals to make, what ingredients to add for certain nutrients, etc to ensure that they are nutritionallycomplete and balanced without going over or under calories? Do you just wing it or is it pretty methodical in how you approach this? If it's a secret recipe/process I completely understand 😅 I'm just always interested in learning. Thanks for another great meal prep video 💚🌱 Ps. I hate to be that guy, cause I realise it's a newly done/renovated kitchen (or is this a different kitchen from the green cabinets one?), but have you looked into the negative health effects of using gas when cooking? There's quite a lot of data and literature out there in recent studies that you might be interested in considering. Induction is a lot more efficient and healthy 💚
I like that idea a lot! I will definitely share it with my team. Regarding your question about the negative effects of using gas while cooking, I don't know much off the top of my head but maybe this i something we could research and mention in a video at some point.
PB fit powder is the best when mixed with water as a spread. Today I made an experiment to increase protein content by adding rice protein powder to it and it tastes pretty good. I know it’s kind of hacky but works very well. Now I can eat high protein PB sandwiches without remorse 😂
Thank you so much for sharing your protein experiment!! I don't have too much experience with rice protein powder but I'd like to try! Glad it's working so well for you. 😄
@@TheVeganGym it’s pretty flavorless which I think is a good thing. The only thing that worries me is arsenic content but mostly what I saw online is that most heavy metals are washed away on refining process. in the same way white rice has less lead than brown rice. It just amazes me how many alternatives we have out there for plant based proteins
Thank you! Such a relief to switch gears from bars and shakes! My body composition plateaued on plant-based so I am in month 2/3 trying to boost protein and see if it moves the needle in the DEXA before considering going back to the dark side. ;) Notes to future self: brekkie $2.54/, lunch $5.02/, dinner $6.16/ (14% of which was a bougie tomato I didn't use) *SoCal price points, opting for organic when available, not itemizing small quantity spice. Brekkie- mail ordered PBFit and was surprised it was only $0.36 more per serving. Also surprised it only gives a +1 gram protein boost over the sticky stuff, but makes clean up and shelf storage easier. The remaining 10 servings will be clutch on my next backpacking excursion. Already have a decent arsenal of overnight oats/chia pudding mason jar meals, but never hurts to have one more. Overbuy bananas to adjust for "roommate" theft. Lunch-- My favorite of the 3. Found myself reaching for cherry to globe sized tomatoes because it felt weird to have a partial beefsteak hanging out for days. I got confused prepping these recipes over 24 hours vs 30 mins (alongside a 5 yr old sous chef) and accidentally pickled the "leftover" red onion from the seitan only to discover I needed it here, but if anyone else hates raw onion, ceviche it in a vinegar bath if you have a couple hours. I wonder if you could stuff these into cabbage leaf wraps if you were cutting carbs? Dinner-- TIFU when it turns out coco aminos aren't a great <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="61">1:1</a> sub for lower sodium soy sauce because they are next level salty, but this still turned out edible and better than most of my experiments. If you want to save $1.25 and generate less packaging trash, make your rice from scratch, but I'm actually surprised at how low the convenience tax is on this item. This would work pretty well as a dump and neglect instant pot recipe with a smidge of water. Get out your quart mason jars, this volume of food is going to overflow the pint size.
Love that plan and I love the notes you made for yourself!! More protein could definitely be a solution. Please let me know how this works out for you! 😃
Been a vegan for 10 years, I’ve used these exact products. The math here is incorrect. 4 cups of oatmeal, 4 tbsp of chia seeds, 4 tbsp of hemp seeds, 2 packs of seitan and 2 blocks of tofu doesn’t equal 120 grams of protein per day for 4 days. It’s like 85-95 grams of protein per day if spread out over 4 days
The math is correct. We inputted everything into Cronometer and did a nutrition breakdown at the end of this video. The full nutrition breakdown is on our website (link in bio). All plants have protein, so while you listed some of the higher protein foods, there’s a lot of protein in the foods you didn’t mention. The foods you mentioned (oats, chia seeds, hemp seeds, seitan, and tofu) all contain 75 grams per day. And all of the other foods contain 52.2 grams of protein per day. For example, the PBfit powdered peanut butter is 8 grams, the vanilla soy milk is 6 grams, and the 4 slices of Dave’s bread are 12 grams (per day). That’s just 3 other foods that you didn’t mention.
I always love your ideas and recipes! Have tried a bunch and liked them all. I do have a quick question though… The seitan I can find near me always has a lot of sodium. Do you know of any brands that are lower in sodium? Whether online or in store. Thanks
Thank you for the kind words! You may want to consider making your own homemade seitan. Here's a video where I show you one of my favorite recipes: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r3ltvFlRFZI.htmlsi=z_a71eO6WOQLbWkW
These videos are great! Would love to see some soy free meals to alternate. The only thing that has stopped me going full vegan is my body doesn’t seem to do too well with soy, and I was nervous this means I won’t be able to reach my protein and micronutrient content. (Did try veganism for a while and noticed my tiredness etc, so assumed I was missing out on things and reintroduced eggs 🙈).
You may be interested in our soy-free meal prep!! Thanks for sharing your concerns. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_PMvN-MYNvk.htmlsi=iku5g8VUTcngc1d5
This is such a great meal prep. Thank you. I am trying to sign up for the nutrition course, but when I press the ‘sign me up’ button it says that the page cannot be found 😅
Hello! This is a great video, however I recently took a body scan quiz and also through trail and error found that my maintenance calories is only 1500 :( so to lose weight and tone up I would need to eat lower than that! How do I get in enough protein being vegan (im currently vegetarian) while not gaining weight?
That was fast! I wish I could eat bananas, ugh…just the thought makes me nauseous (LOL). I also wheeze around them, so best that I stay away. I also can’t stand peanut butter in bowls, smoothies, or oats. I like PB on a sandwich or cracker once or twice a year. LOL I really enjoy your delivery and video style, keep up the great work! 🙌🏻
I give some ideas on how to lower the calories at the 7:29 mark! I don't get quite down to 1,431 calories but I get close! Glad you're enjoying the content. 😃💚
I use a full cup of oatmeal every morning (M thru F), plus a tablespoon each of hemp seed, flax and chia. Then a small handful each of walnuts and sunflower seeds plus a whole banana. I'd probably be starving again within an hour with only a half cup of oatmeal. Surprised he is fine with so little (and he's bigger than I am).
I'd pay for a service that allows me to mix and match meals throughout the week to ensure I am getting something nutritionally complete, high in protein and meets my calorie needs.
I am GF so I can't do seitan. But there are GF "meat substitutes" on the market, unfortunately, they aren't vegan as they use eggs as a binder since there isn't the gluten in them to bind. So not sure what to use here as a sub for the seitan. Otherwise, the other options...yeah buddy!
Why was I unable to participate in the vegetarian nutrition course when I sent an email? It seems that there is a problem on the page. Please solve it as soon as possible.
You take suggestions for your new RU-vid videos? I got one I think that is best suited for you out of all the other vegan channels. You can title it: "Can you maintain or even build muscle on only 50 grams of protein a day?" ----from time to time I hear that is the bare minimum daily requirement that a human needs.
Hello, I see in your table that some micronutrientes exceed the daily needs by many times (almost 5 times more for some!). Can it get toxic/bad for the body always eating that much more than the recommendations?
Everything was inputted into a nutrition tracking app: Cronometer. You can even see the nutrition breakdown by clicking the link in the description. 😊🌱
I had my doubts too, but looks like the peanut butter powder is really just flavored protein powder. My guess is that’s where the chunk of protein is coming from, followed by the oats.
@@matlikescatsnope, i put it into cronometer and i got 26g of protein.. All of little amounts of protein in each ingredient do add up! The pb fit is just powdered peanut butter. It has 7 g of protein in 2 tbsp
