A Week in the Life of a Flexitarian

Welcome to the first "A Week in the Life of a Flexitarian"

This is a post where you get to see a snapshot week mine to see what I have been eating and what my life (food wise) as a flexitarian is really like.

So here goes........

Before I start here is what my normal flexitarian plan is:

• Monday - Thursday: clean eating vegetarian
• Friday - Sunday: no restrictions

For this week in particular here are a few facts that have shaped the way I have eaten this week:

• I am trying to be healthy so this means that particularly on my clean eating vegetarian days I am trying to be super healthy and therefore I am eating quite low fat, low carb. So my meals probably aren't a great reflection of the excitement and goodies you could easily have as a flexitarian (macaroni cheese is springing to mind).
• This week was the week before pay day, therefore money was tight. This therefore means my meals were bean/canned goods heavy.  It also meant I couldn't afford much meat so in the end I only had 1 meat day this week.
• I was cooking for just myself all week.  This often leads to lots of repetition (e.g. cooking a batch of soup to do my lunches all week.  So in some ways this makes my weekly meals look repetitive and somewhat boring.  

Monday

Breakfast: Nuts and Dried Fruit

Lunch: Soup from the Canteen at Work

Dinner: Beans and Veggie Sausages with Jalapenos.

Snacks: Seeds and Dried Fruit.  Medjool Dates filled with Almond Butter

Tuesday

Breakfast: Pineapple, banana and wheatgrass smoothie

Lunch: Lentil soup

Dinner: Deliciously Ella's Roasted Butternut Squash and Quinoa

Snacks: Dried fruit and nuts

Wednesday

Breakfast: Banana Protein Smoothie

Lunch: Lentil Soup

Dinner: Clean Eating Baked Beans on a Baked Sweet Potato

Snacks: Nuts and Dried Fruit

Thursday

Breakfast: Berry and Banana Smoothie

Lunch: Lentil Soup and Dried Dates

Dinner: Left Overs Challenge - Bake Beans with Sweet Potato Mash

Snacks: Sweet Potato Wedges, Dried Prunes, Medjool Dates Filled with Almond Butter

 Friday

Breakfast:  Chocolate, Banana and Nut Protein Shake

Lunch: Left Overs Challenge - Bake Beans with Sweet Potato Mash

Dinner: Chilli Con Quorne and Meringes, Berries and Cream

Snacks: Sweet Potato Wedges, Dried Prunes and Protein Flapjack

Saturday

Breakfast: Berry Smoothie

Lunch: Mince and Tatties

Dinner: Veggie Chilli

Snacks: Graze Brooklen Bites, Chocolate, Pick'n'Mix and Custard

Sunday

Breakfast:  Banana and Chocolate Protein Smoothie

Lunch: Nuts
Dinner: Veggie Chilli

Snacks: Frozen Berries