Our vegan way

I’m 36 and I’m on a healthy plant-based nutrition from 2017. Before changing a diet I also had some health problems, not serious, but unpleasant. I often caught cold and took medicine from time to time. Besides, sometimes I suffered from a lack of energy.

Now I’m active and full of energy. I practice yoga and work out more often than I used before changing a diet. I don’t take medicaments any more.

Today my son is at school. I’ve already shown my son’s school meal in the previous topic What does my child eat at school. Now I want to tell you about my today’s lunch.

It’s great when you enjoy eating fresh vegetables and fruit. The fact that some people don’t perceive fruit and vegetables as a hearty meal. It’s sad to watch moms on the beach treating children with chips instead of an apple or an orange.

This year my son went to a private school. We couldn’t find any vegan school at Sochi, only two vegetarian schools. The fact that, we didn’t choose them because of some moments in an educational process.

In the first month Egor confused to eat any fruit there. The reason was that all classmates ate only candies and snacks.

In my previous recipes I shared with you how to cook vegan meals. This is because we don’t cook many raw meals. We like to eat fruit and vegetables separately because the taste of each is unique. But we also like different raw salads.

Another reason is that most of raw recipes use nuts. Since our son is allergic to them, we keep a decision not to cook such meals at home.

But I want to share one raw recipe with you. Some time ago we visited raw cafe “Slivka” (it means “little plum”) in Sochi. There we tasted  Russian borscht. It was delicious!

Some vegans ans vegetarians tend to believe that the most harmful product is meat. Unfortunately, meat products nowadays are not the most dangerous.

According to naturopath Mikhail Sovetov, the most harmful food can definitely be considered the one that doesn’t exist in nature and contains chemical additives.

If you look through the list of ingredients of the most common products in the supermarkets you’ll find out that most of them contain chemical components.

From the time we are on a healthy plant-based nutrition, I try to find biscuits with harmless ingredients in the supermarkets. Every time I get frustrated. About 99 % of biscuits contain unhealthy and even harmful ingredients.

Fortunately, nowadays we have some healthy food shops in Sochi which can provide enough variety of healthy raw biscuits. But my son doesn’t like them.

What to do in the situation when your child asks for delicious but unhealthy cookies because all children at school eat them?

Breakfast is an essential part of a daily routine. It provides our body with vitamins that will support high level of energy and fight off any signs of exhaustion.

In this case a green smoothie is a great variant of a healthy breakfast!

Green smoothie is, as you can notice from the name, green in color.