Excludes or minimizes: meat (including chicken and fish), dairy products, and eggs, as well as highly refined foods like bleached flour, refined sugar, and oil.

Staple Foods

• All kinds of vegetables, cooked and raw
• Vegetable sprouts
• All kinds of fruits, usually raw
• Beans and other legumes: lentils, chickpeas, black beans, pinto beans, adzuki beans
• Starchy vegetables like potatoes and sweet potatoes
• Brown rice
• Pasta
• Whole-wheat bread, pitas, and bagels
• Other grains and seeds: bulgur wheat, buckwheat,farro, millet, quinoa, flaxseed, hempseed, chia seeds
• Hummus
• Nuts, nut milks, nut butters: almonds, cashews, walnuts, almond milk, hazelnut milk, peanut butter, almond butter, sunflower seed butter
• Oils: grapeseed, olive, canola, coconut, flaxseed (unheated), hemp (unheated)
• Agave nectar (as workout fuel, not an all-purpose sweetener)
• Protein powder (I like this hemp, rice, pea, and chia blend)
• Soy products (limited): tofu, tempeh
• Tea and coffee (limited)
• Cheese (limited, non-vegan)
• Eggs (limited, non-vegan)