Interwebs

Okay, so the doctor said, "plant based whole foods". NOT vegan. And honestly, that's what I'm trying to stick to. But this is an honest blog about trying to transition, I'm not perfect, you're not perfect, so every once in awhile I MIGHT mention something vegan, or slightly corrupt. The idea is 90% of my diet has bee transitioned to PBWF and I'm sharing trials and tribulations.

So the first thing I did was go to the inter webs!

This will make PBWF so freaking easy. I'll look for a menu builder, a grocery shopper, a pinterest wall. What do I have to worry about? I have Google!

I came from e-Meals. It was great...when I was vegetarian. It built 7 days worth of meals with groceries and price check. So my first task was to see if I could fit that into my new lifestyle (remember, no dairy, no meat, whole foods, no flour.)

I went to the vegetarian meal plan. It was chock full of cheese and flour based items. I may have said a bad word at this point. I looked at all the other plans, gluten-free, paleo, clean eating, nothing. Grrrr....

Okay, no problem. Google will help me. I scoured the internet for meal plans. I found one that only gave you five days worth of meals for about $30 a month. I only looked at the trial and got frustrated because it wouldn't let me switch things around and was limited on options. It may have been better if I paid, but I wasn't impressed.

I looked at other various meal plans and menu builders, but I'm OCD and spoiled with eMeals. So I gave up on those.

So next I found a website with tons of really cool recipes that seemed simple enough, but it still mentioned white potatoes and corn tortillas. I wasn't really sure given Doctors orders, if this was okay, but I started pinning. It's a website called Forks Over Knives. It's actually pretty cool. Tasty looking recipes. Simple items. I actually did try the avocado potato salad and it was a hit!

But I didn't want only that. So I started pinning. Once I started pinning, I realized that I wanted two boards, one for trying and one for successful recipes. (My Pinterest Board).

So this is the beginning of my journey. I used to be a "grocery shop at Frys and Costco once every two weeks" kinda gal and have gone to "buy every few days at Whole Foods and Frys" kinda gal.

Why?

Well let me tell you. Organic...

and by no means do I really care if it's organic or not. If you do, great! Buy organic. But right now I'm focusing on just finding easy, decent stuff to eat. I just happened to buy organic because that was at Whole Foods when I went

...foods do not last long. I bought some Ezekiel bread, to be mentioned in a future post, which was great but went moldy in a few days. I bought it frozen, it did not say refrigerate, and we didn't eat it fast enough. So I would suggest refrigerating your super expensive specialty bread.

If your starting out and really have no idea where to start, here's what I suggest:

• Take a deep breath. It's cool, it's not as bad as you think it is. But let's start off slow.
• Go buy some fruits and veggies you know you'll eat. Don't go all crazy buying new fruits and veggies "to try". you may hate all of them and then not eat them. If you like peas, go buy peas. If you only like carrots, go buy carrots. 
• Get a couple substitute items to try even if they don't adhere strictly to PBWH diet. Ease into it. I suggest Spelt or Ezekiel bread (hubs prefers Spelt and it lasted longer.) Maybe some peanut butter (ingredients should only say Peanuts.)
• Get some popcorn and some Mrs Dash or something to sprinkle on it. It will satisfy your carb cravings. Costco has a big old tub of it for like $10. 

We can totally do this. I know, I know. Spelt is not white Wonderbread. Popcorn with Mrs Dash is not butter popcorn. (If you need to, put a little bit of butter sprinkles on it...just to get you through to adjusting your palate.) But we'll get through this together, truly.