Transitioning to a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet – Week 4 (Dinner)

This week you are going to:

1. Continue your weekly plan for shopping and meal preparation (you are now shopping for breakfasts, lunch, snacks PLUS dinner).
2. Batch cook at least some of your lunches and dinners.
3. Continue eating your WFPB breakfast.
4. Continue eating your WFPB lunch
5. Continue eating your healthy snacks
6. Start eating a WFPB dinner.
7. Keep track of your progress using this daily survey.
8. Throw out or give away the rest of your unhealthy breakfast foods if you haven’t already done so.

Dinner

Dinner is not usually a routine meal, meaning that the majority of people generally have something different most days of the week at dinner time.  That doesn’t necessarily mean that it is hard to make a WFPB dinner, just that you will need to do more planning.

This is where you need to spend a little time on your planning day, picking out what you are going to eat for the week.  You don’t need to map out what food you plan to eat on which day (although you can be that specific if you want to) but a general plan of what meals you will be making and when you have time to make them is important.

One approach is to do a lot of your cooking on the weekend.  For example you could make a multi-day supply of soup plus a whole grain or bean-based salad for lunches during the week.  In addition you could make something for dinner on Saturday and/or Sunday that will give you leftovers to eat during the week.  The key is to know your schedule for the week and to plan accordingly in advance.

For ideas, see my recipe collection page here which included a section of ‘quick and easy’ recipes