Based on: fruits, vegetables, tubers, whole grains, and legumes
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)