Five Tips To Help Switch Your Family To A Plant Based Diet.
Easy to follow steps to get started.
I have clients join my program all the time and then get inspired to help their families make the transition to a plant- based diet.
One of the most crucial foundations of a healthy and successful living is eating, and a whole foods plant-based diet offers all of the advantages that make it the best option.
If you're attempting to move to a more vegan diet and want to share this philosophy with your family, continue reading for a few pointers to help you along the way.
1) Make sure your family is prepared
First and foremost, have an open and honest discussion with each member of your family about your desire to become a plant-based household. If you're the one who cooks the majority of the meals at home, you could try to persuade them by preparing delectable dishes.
Apart from your own reasons for being vegan, you could demonstrate your concern for animals or the environment by answering honestly but gently. Don’t attack them for their choices, but rather, just inform them about making different choice. Guide them draw the dots between the food they eat and the animal on the farm by viewing a family-friendly vegan documentary with kids or reading vegan literature together.
2) Start with small steps
Transitioning to a completely vegan diet is likely to be too drastic in just a day or two, so easing into it and making incremental changes is the ideal option.
Start with Meatless Monday or a tasty vegan breakfast, then gradually include more plant-based dishes into your family's usual meals. Begin by removing two animal-based items and substituting a healthy choice. You can replace your conventional dairy milk with a plant- based milk. Maybe try some vegan cheese.
This is how I started with my own household and have now managed to make my family mostly vegan.
3) Stock up on nutritious foods
Having vegan snacks, frozen meals, or lots of fruits and nuts in your kitchen is the greatest way to avoid cheat days and similar situations.
I like to keep simple things like rice paper rolls (these make a great wrap for air fried spring rolls!), date and chocolate nut balls, Oreo’s (yes, don’t judge) etc so the family has simple snacks to reach out for.
4) Get the kids involved.
Make plant-based eating a part of their daily routine and watch it become a new habit for the kids. Thank your children for trying new foods and present them in a variety of ways to discover how they prefer their fruits and vegetables.
Let kids make their own smoothie or plate your salads. They are more likely to eat it if they are involved in the cooking process.
5) Begin with foods your family already loves.
Make your favorite fast food, like as pizza or chicken nuggets, using complete plant-based ingredients. Start by cooking homemade vegetarian, meatless, or black bean patties with their favorite toppings if your kids enjoy burgers.
Use flax seed egg (mixing flax seeds with a little water) instead of egg for baking, tofu scramble instead of scrambled eggs, nutritional yeast and cashews to make cream sauces instead of cheese, and so on.
Make sure to keep things light at the beginning so that the transition does not become overwhelming for your family. By following the above tips, you can easily switch your family to a plant based diet.
Trust this helps,