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and I'm just going to use my bare hands because I am [Music] nasty okay woohoo today we're going to make a salad but not just any salad we're going to make a high protein plant-based meal prep salad that you can repurpose into a variety of different meals let's get started [Music] hi guys it's Rose and welcome back to cheap lazy vegan and another meal prep video in fact the first meal prep video of 2024 yay guys I'm not used to the fact that it is 2024 what is going on but hey it's the Year of the Dragon which means it is the best year you know why it's my year yes I am a dragon okay anyways so today guys we are going to be doing a little meal prep situation we're going to do a salad meal prep which you're probably like rose that's not normal of you well this is not going to be any boring salad okay this is going to be a very delicious filling high protein salad that you can actually use for many different things so you can actually eat it differently every single time that's right I'm going to give you some tips on how to switch things up so that you have a new and different and exciting experience every time you enjoy your salad and I'm going to give you just a variety of different ways to enjoy it so that you are not bored of your meal prep by day two the salad is going to be high protein filling and delicious and uh I hope you guys are excited but before we jump into the meal prep today's video is very kindly sponsored by Thrive Market if you guys have never heard of Thrive Market they're an online membership based grocery store and they specialize in sustainable healthy organic items sold at a discounted price for their members they have a huge collection of sustainable and organic groceries snacks household products Personal Care items and so so much more and what makes them really special is that they offer guaranteed savings on every order so if you find a lower price somewhere else they will match it and if you don't make your annual membership back in 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discounted and a free gift so check out the link below guys and thank you so much to thrive market for sponsoring today's video first I'm going to show you all of the different things I'm prepping and at the end I'm going to put it all together and show you the different variations that you can enjoy all right first steps first we are going to prepare whatever takes the longest when we are meal prepping we want to make whatever is going to take the longest that you can kind of set aside first okay so whether it's putting something in the oven the rice cooker whatever it is that's what you want to prepare first so my first step is going to be preparing the carbs now a lot of you guys are probably like girl aren't you making a salad yes I believe that you need to have some carbs in basically every meal okay I love carbs and and even in salad I love carbs it just makes the salad a lot more filling a lot more satiating and so much more satisfying and with the combination of the carbs the healthy protein and fats and everything it really just creates a wholesome meal for me so do not be afraid of carbs my friends so you can basically pick obviously whatever carbs you want to add my choices today pearl barley okay um I don't really have a particular reason for picking barley it's just I had this in my pantry forever so I'm just going to use it and plus barley is heal healthy so I'm going to cook it actually in my rice cooker so this is going to take probably the longest so that's why I'm doing this first okay so I'm just going to cook up the ballet I think I'm just going to use this whole thing up cuz again I just want to get rid of it had it for too long there we go I'm just going to give this a rinse there you go now I'm just going to cook this in the rice cooker I think I'm just going to cook it under the brown rice setting and that should do the trick so yeah rice cookers guys are essential in my kitchen so I'm going to throw this into the rice cooker next thing I'm going to prepare is going to be sweet potato now I'm not going to lie once again this is something that I've had in my freezer I had Frozen sweet potato cubes in my freezer for probably a little too long I just need to eat it okay so this is already cut up it's very handy dandy I did thaw it just a little bit just to like separate the pieces you can obviously use not frozen but like regular sweet potato you can use actual potato again this part this is all very you know customizable according to your preferences so into my sweet potato I'm going to add some oil I'm going to use avocado oil this is from Thrive market and I always do measure my stuff okay because you can go crazy with oils give this a little mix okay just just coat it nicely now this is already like cooked essentially so we don't need to do too much okay so I'm just going to season it with some garlic salt I don't think I need to go too crazy with this one just a bit of garlic salt you could just use garlic powder you can use whatever seasonings you want um actually I think I'm going to go in with some smoked paprika that might be good I'm going add some smoked paprika add a little flavor you can again use whatever seasonings you want now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to air fry these you can also throw these in the oven if you're cooking raw sweet potatoes you're going to want to you know cook them longer okay so I love my air fryer you guys it is a game Cher so if you have an air fryer you can just throw it in the air fryer that is what I'm doing okay here we go let's Chuck these in the air fryer I'm probably going to do like pretty high like maybe 400 and then just do like maybe like 10 minutes and then I'll check on it mhm cuz again these are already prepared I don't need to like cook them but I want to make them like crispy and stuff not that would matter later cuz I'm going to eat them later anyway put it in the air fry all right guys so I apologize if you can hear the rice cooker it is doing the magic and now we can prepare the protein so the protein is obviously going to help us well maybe it's not so obvious I don't know but it's going to help us feel very full it's going to help us grow the muscles okay and it's just going to add to the balance of this salad and your meal so I always always always try to add some sort of kind of main protein Source into my meals this really helps you know basically make me feel Fuller and just more satisfied this is why I feel like it's really important to have a balance I like to have my carb my protein my veggies my healthy fats all of that stuff and that really creates a really good balance that helps me feel satiated so for my protein I'm going to do one of my favorite things which is edamame beans so for the edamame beans I use frozen edamame beans which I just kind of thaw out by just pouring some hot water or you can just leave it you know in room temp and just let it thaw out it's basically already cooked it's it's shell it's ready to go I eat Adama beans multiple times a week so they're really great they're yummy they're so convenient I'm just going to drain the water and then we're going to just kind of let it you know kind of dry and we're also going to prepare a different kind of protein as well all right next protein Source if you haven't guessed it yet it is my favorite plant-based protein Source it is tofu okay I love tofu there are so many different things you could do with tofu if you need some ideas on how to prepare tofu I'll link some things down below for you but today we're going to make a really simple sort of tofu bacon bits sort of thing and it's so easy and it's just really gr to add into basically anything so this is perfect so I already cut the tofu up into cubes like so like smaller cubes it's going to make it so that it's easy to cook and also it's a small cube so it looks like you're getting a lot and you can put it into many things anyway what I'm going to do is I'm going to quickly cook it up on the pan this is really easy no need to marinate no need to press no need to bake anything so onto a pan I'm just just going to add some oil once again I'm using that avocado oil but you can use any oil that you want and then I am going to basically let this heat up I think this is already kind of heated up nicely so I'm just going to turn the heat down a little bit just in case it's a little too hot it might um burn me hopefully it won't okay okay I think we good so you want to be careful with the tofu cuz there's some water content on the tofu so when it touches the oil it might go a little cray cray okay there you go so now going to spread it let that oil [Music] spread all right so I'm just going to kind of let it sit for a while you have to be patient with cooking tofu you want to just let it sit okay let it sit let it cook let it golden up Let it kind of absorb that delicious oil and while you're letting it sit I'm going to prepare the very easy sort of marinade so for the marinade you guys I am going to start with soy sauce you can also use a gluten-free version you can use like coconut aminos stuff like that but I'm using regular soy sauce here and I'm going to add in some dark soy sauce now if you don't want to use dark soy sauce you could do just more regular soy sauce more tamari whatever next ingredient is going to be agave nectar or you can use maple syrup so I'm using agave nectar from Thrive Market I'm using this one right here it is a fantastic sweetener uh you could also use maple syrup like I mentioned uh but yeah this is great so into the soy sauce concoction we're going to add in that agave nectar lovely and last but not least because we want to make this a bit Smoky since it's a tofu bacon I'm going to add in some liquid smoke now if you don't care if it's bacony or not I don't know you could add in something like uh rice vinegar you know something like that to kind of bring up the flavor a little bit but I wanted to make this like a tofu bacon sort of situation okay woohoo okay so once again I'm going to go back to the pan here I want to get this really kind of nice and golden so again you just want to be patient and just let it cook okay you can kind of already see the colors getting kind of nice and golden I don't know if you can see but you just kind of want to toss it around try to let it cook evenly as much as possible all right guys now you can see it's nice and golden okay now what do I do once it is nice and golden like so is first I'm going to turn the heat kind of to like a low okay um let it kind of be low for a moment let it kind of chill there for a moment depending on how strong your heat is you want to kind of wait a second I don't know if my heat is that strong or I'm just impatient so and then once you do that you can pour the Marin okay I'm going to toss this around let this sort of absorb okay into the tofu it should start caramelizing it should start smelling so good and I really want all of that marinade to be absorbed so if that means you have to turn the heat back on a little bit more just kind of adjust it then then great just keep an eye on it so that it's not going to burn okay cuz if the heat is too strong then it might burn so yeah you basically want to toss it around keep letting that marinade marinate into the tofu and it should absorb and the outside of the tofu should start to kind of caramelize and get you know nice and delicious all right as you can see here the sauce is nicely absorbed so at this point you can just turn off the heat and then of course we can move on to the next step you can leave it on the pan if you want and just let it cool down and then it should kind of like become even more I don't know it should do some more stuff on this pan even though uh the the heat is off there's some residual heat you know what I'm saying so it's going to firm it up more make it nice and crispier on the outside and then yeah okay oh my God I mean we're just going to have to try a piece though okay M oh my God so good it is so good okay I mean it is so nice and savory if you want it a little bit saltier you could also use add a little bit extra soy sauce if you wanted I think for me it's a good amount of saltiness um but oh my God it's so good okay setting this aside and then let's move on to the veggies okay I know we haven't even gone to the veggies and we're making salads all right guys veggie time so first we're going to start off with the base veg aka the leafy green okay I'm going to do two different kinds of leafy greens cuz we're going to keep things interesting but I also don't want to do too much work so one of them is just going to be some mixed greens that have already been washed yes my friends okay this is already washed it's ready to eat okay it is just prepared and ready to go okay it just makes life easier and without these I don't think I would eat as much leafy greens so I already have this this is all ready and it's basically it's it's ready to go okay so I'm just going to set that aside the other leafy green kale okay again you can pick and choose which leafy green you want to do um I'm doing kale so this is the one thing that I'm going to have to prepare which is okay okay we're going we're going to get through it again you can just do this and call it a day it's up to you I'm giving you many options okay but sometimes you want to switch up things right you want to keep things interesting so you want to make sure you want to switch things up which is why I'm giving you the different options why is this thing on so tight why what is going going on like is this really necessary okay anyway okay so first let's wash these okay let's wash and then I'm going to chop and then I'm going to show you what I'm going to [Music] do all right it is nice and washed it is ready to G so what I'm going to do is first I'm going to chop off the um stem okay and you know all that stuff and then we're just going to these into you know salad [Music] pieces and now guys this is my new Proud purchase one of my most recent purchases which is a salad spinner I can't believe I've never had this in my life well my parents have one but I have not owned one myself which is kind of crazy so this is going to help draw out that moisture okay now obviously you can just dry it you don't need a salad spinner but if you want to meal prep salads often this might make your life easier here's the thing with meal prepping salads the thing is with meal prepping Fresh Veggies the main thing that usually makes your veggies go bad is going to be that extra moisture in that container so you want to kind of like take out most of the moisture as much as possible that way it's going to last longer much longer okay so I'm just going to spin okay we're going to spin with draw that sure I was a little too excited to get the salad spinner just fun you know all right here we go let's see how much water it's not too much look at that water it's not too much but it still took it out so now there isn't too much excess moisture on the kale and what I want to do is I want to massage the kale with a little bit of oil okay because that's going to help kind of break it down and help you you know digest it cuz kale is a bit harder to digest you know so we're going to massage it with a bit of oil all right here you go here's the kale I'm going to put it into a bowl and I'm just going to use my bare hands because I am nasty once again I'm just going to go in with that avocado oil but you can use like olive oil extra virgin would be nice you know what I'm saying I don't want too much oil because I don't know we're making we're being healthy just break it down this part is fun you can already see kind of the colors getting like more rich I think once you like massage it and this is again going to make it really much easier for you to digest next we are going to chop our other veggies so obviously you can choose whatever veggies you want to add but if you want your salad and veggies to last longer in the fridge then you might want to choose veggies that don't have high water content so for example I would probably avoid cucumbers because it's obviously very high in water so instead I chose carrots which last a really long time in the fridge same with red cabbage and of course you can also use white cabbage if you'd like one tip if you really don't like chopping veggies or if you're really bad at it then I recommend using a food processor to help chop the veggies especially something like carrots or bell pepper those work really really well in the food processor as you can see I did mine by hand but the food processor works very well and I really like red onion in my salad so I chopped up some red onion as well and also some bell pepper now bell pepper doesn't last that long in the fridge so I'm kind of going against what I just said there but what I did was I just chopped it up and made sure to dry it out as much as possible like just kind of get rid of the excess water and I'll give you some other tips after as well I also wanted to add some cilantro for some extra flavor obviously you can leave that out you can also do like parsley or whatever you'd like now I do love tomatoes in my salad but chopped tomatoes do not last and they will make your salad soft doggy so I suggest using something like grape or cherry tomatoes but just don't cut them in half because if you do then you know it'll get all wet you know all right guys so now last but definitely not least we're going to make the dressings yes I'm going to make two different kinds you can pick and choose you can make both but this is just for inspiration um this is one way you could really switch up your Meals by making different types of dressings and also you can make one dressing and then have like different store dressings on on the side if you want to switch things up and make things easier for you so the first dressing recipe I'm going to show you guys is going to be a creamy vegan Greek yogurt dressing it's so good and it's much healthier than using like vegan Mayo for example so it just makes it a little bit lighter so what we're going to do is into a bowl we're going to mix together all of the good stuff so first we're going to start with vegan Greek yogurt now you can just use vegan plain yogurt whatever you want but this is just going to be a lighter higher protein kind of substitute for like vegan Mayo so it's still going to give it that creamy consistency but vegan Greek yogurt is definitely higher in protein lower in fat lower in calories and just a bit healthier but if you want to use vegan Mayo you could do that as well it's totally up to you another thing you could do is you could also do like Humes and Dijon instead of like a vegan Greek yogurt or a vegan yogurt if you can't find it you basically want like a plain unsweetened unflavored vegan yogurt okay so into this I'm going to also add some nutritional yeast and using this one that I got from Thrive market and uh obviously nutritional yeast is a must have in every vegan's kitchen along with the nutritional least I'm also going to add in some garlic powder and some dill you can do fresh dill if you want I'm just going to use dry dill because I don't have fresh de next we're going to add in some lemon juice next I'm going to add in some white wine vinegar you could also probably use any sort of vinegar okay I'm just using white wine vinegar I think it's quite tasty and finally I'm going to add some agave nectar once again I'm using the one from Thrive Market we're just going to pour that in here and then I'm just going to mix this up now you can also taste this at the end and add some salt and pepper if you wish but I'm just going to mix it first and see how I like it all right let's give it a taste M oh it's so good I don't think I need to add salt and pepper yeah so guys give this a taste see if you want to adjust anything if you want to make it sweeter if you want to make it more acidic obviously switch things up according to your liking I think I like it exactly the way it is so we're going to there you go that's dressing option number one all right now dressing option number two is going to be my nut butter recipe now this is on my blog as almond butter dressing uh but you can switch up the almond butter for peanut butter or any type of nut butter even like seed Butters like if you want to use like I think there's like sunflower seed butter things like that okay so switch switch things up now I'm switching mine up instead of using almond butter or peanut butter I'm actually going to use pb2 powdered peanut butter so you can find this also on Thrive Market if you guys haven't heard of powdered peanut butter it's basically a powdered version of peanut butter so what you do is you just add like water or any sort of liquid to make it kind of like a creamy kind of peanut buttery sort of consistency but it's lower in calories and lower in fat and higher in protein for example this is for 2 tablespoons it's 60 calories calories and 6 g of protein whereas traditional peanut butter is going to be a lot more in calories and lower in protein although I'm not going to say that it's like healthier than traditional peanut butter because you know traditional peanut butter is also healthy but if you are trying to kind of like cut back on some calories a little bit then this might be a good option now I do think for some things you just got to use the real Nut Butter but for something like dressing pv2 works really well I wouldn't say I use it for everything in terms of like replacing peanut butter but I do like to use it for dressings because it still tastes really really good in dressings so I'm G to add the pb2 into my bowl I'm going to use basically the equal amount and I'm going to see how the consistency is if I want to change it I'll change it up bit so I'm going to use the equal amount um according to my recipe which is linked below so if you want to use just regular peanut butter you can use regular peanut butter next ingredient is going to be apple cider vinegar now I'm using the apple cider vinegar from Thrive Market next once again that agave nectar now I'm using half the agave nectar of the recipe because the pv2 is slightly sweeter from my experience than regular peanut butter so I'm just going to half it and if I need to add some more sweetener later I can but that's optional so I'm just going to use less sweetener next I'm going to add some soy sauce if you're gluten-free you can use tamari if you're soy free you can use coconut aminos and then I'm going to add garlic powder and ground ginger there you go now let's mix now I may need to add some water but I'm going to give it a mix first to see if I like the consistency actually I don't think I need to add water now throughout the week this might thicken up more and in that case you can just add a little water a little lemon juice a little apple cider vinegar whatever you want to add to thin it out according to the consistency that you want so I do think I want to add a bit of water but I'm going to give it a taste to see if maybe I want to add apple cider vinegar instead or if I think it's enough vinegar okay I'm going to add a tiny bit more sweetener actually never mind the have sweetener part I do want it a little bit sweeter there you go m so good okay I think do I want to add more water I don't think I do I think it's good for now there you go all right guys this is a bit of a long process but I promise once you get this done once it'll be worth it okay so now we can put it together I'm very excited I'm going to talk you through my thought process as we do this okay so first I have these s sort of glass meal prep containers so we're going to put the veggies in here now I'm going to mix and match okay so we're going to start with the leafy the leafy greens so I don't know do I want to do maybe like two leafy greens okay two leafy greens and then the kale why don't we do three KS now one pro tip if you are meal prepping just make yourself an extra meal while you're at it so that you don't have to cook dinner after meal prepping seems obvious but you know so I think I'm going to save myself a little KO and now we can assemble the other veggies as well to make the veggies last even longer my tip would be to add a paper towel into the meal prep container along with the veggies now you can put a piece of paper towel on the bottom or on the top or even both so that will soak up any excess moisture and it will make the veggies last longer especially if you're using something like bell pepper then this will really help make it last longer all right guys so I have prepped the veggies into one container and what I'm going to do is I am going to keep the uh barley as you can see it's cooked to Perfection and I'm going to keep the sweet potatoes separately because I want to switch things up throughout the week and that way I can have different varieties and also for these two if I ever want to have a different meal like for example if I want to have like a hot meal if I want to have like a stir fry that I can use the barley as kind of like my rice so I can do different things with these two as well so instead of mixing it all together so that I only have the salad option we're going to keep it separately all right guys so now for the tofu now I haven't decided if I want to add the edamame straight in here with the rest of the veggies or if I want to keep it separately with the tofu but I definitely want to keep the tofu separately because I kind of want it to kind of I don't know retain I just wanted to you know be on its own I just feel like tofu she deserves her own room I'm going to put the tofu into these smaller meal prep containers that I have here yeah I mean I might as well use these I got these so I'm just going to evenly distribute this [Music] torur okay I made an executive decision this room is a little too big for my little tofu so I am going to keep the AME as well in uh this room so that um tofu has some company I'm just going to try to evenly distribute also the adame now keep in mind you can just put this straight with your other veggies you don't have to do what I'm doing okay here we go look at that Pro protein and you can also keep this just separately you don't have to portion it out like I'm doing look how beautiful I've got the protein here I've also got the veggies I also have the carbs I also have the sauces I'm going to keep the sauces separately in a jar and then just use them interchangeably throughout the week and oh my God now I'm going to show you different ways of putting these things together it's going to be so good ah so the first option would be of course the classic salad with all of the ingredients that we prepared this is going to be the easiest option obviously because you've already prepared all the awesome ingredients so you can just put it all together and the beauty of it is that you can make four different variations of this salad so obviously we have the vegetables but we have the kale version and then we have the mixed greens for the bases right so then with the kale you could do the kale with the barley and sweet potato of course and then you could do either the peanut sauce or the creamy sauce and then of course you can do the mixed greens with the vegetables and then the barley and sweet potato and then you could either choose the peanut sauce or the creamy sauce so that's four different variations and of course you can always switch up the base as well you can use different types of greens and just have fun with it okay I'm actually eating one of these for dinner it's so good it's so good next option is to do a pasta pasta salad so this is going to be really easy all you have to do is cook up some pasta whatever pasta of your choice just drain it after it's cooked and rinse it out thoroughly so that it's nice and cold and then just throw it in either with the kale in the vegetables or the mixed greens in the vegetables and then I think the sauce to go with this is that creamy sauce so that's two different variations of the pasta salad next is probably going to be my favorite it's going to be a noodle salad so you can choose any noodles of your choice I would suggest either SOA noodle so these two noodles are awesome and will go really really well with this but of course you can choose whatever noodles you want maybe you want to do like I don't know udon maybe you want to do ramen noodles it's up to you anyway if you were doing the soba and rice noodles again you can choose either the kale or the mixed greens Bas with the vegetables and then I would suggest using the peanut sauce I think that would be perfect for this once again it's the same thing with the pasta salad just make sure you cook up the the uh SOA noodles or the rice noodles according to instructions and then just rinse it out so it's nice and cold and then just add it to that salad just a side note I wouldn't suggest making the SOA noodles ahead of time because SOA noodles tend to get like soggy pretty quickly uh with rice noodles you might be okay but with SOA noodles definitely don't make it ahead of time because it will get soggy pretty quickly so you just want to prepare them once you are ready to eat next suggestion would be to make a wrap yes guys who does not love a wrap now I would probably take out the tomatoes to eat on the side and then again you can choose either the kale or the greens for your base and then just add that in and then just add in your tofu maybe take out the edamam I would probably eat that on the side as well just cuz you know you don't want to over stuff your wrap and then just wrap it up and enjoy and for this I would probably do the creamy sauce now it would probably be good with the peanut sauce as well but I would probably do the creamy sauce um you can either keep the sauce on the side and just like pour it on top and eat it with every bite or you can mix the sauce in before before you put it in the wrap and then just roll it up or you could do half half mix half of it in and then have some extra to you know have extra sauce cuz who doesn't like extra sauce next variation is to make fresh spring rolls what are they called solid rolls yes make a salad roll guys just take a piece of rice paper just wet it with some warm water and then just add in the veggies you can do again either the greens or the kale and then just add in those veggies and then you could again I would probably leave the edamame and the Tomato on the side and then I would just wrap it up with the tofu bacon and then of course the dipping sauce has to be the peanut [Music] sauce and guys with all of these the best way in my opinion to switch things up is to change the sauce okay because the sauce is the flavor right so feel free to make a difference sauce change up the sauce use a store-bought sauce there's so many sauces on Thrive market so I'm just looking over on Thrive market right now under the dressings and the vegan dressings guys under the dressings there are tons of options here there's plant-based ranch with avocado oil there's balsamic vinegar blueberry pomegranate I mean so many different kinds so again feel free to always switch up the sauce or the dressing to change up the flavor completely so that's one way to make this really interesting and make it your own and make it different each time you enjoy it usually those dressings last a really long time in the fridge anyways so it's not like it's going to go bad in the week so you can always feel free to have some store-bought dressings in your fridge and it's ready to go so let's talk a little bit more about customizing your salad okay so I've already talked about how to customize The Taste by switching up the dressings and things like that but if you wanted to lighten up the C calories even more I usually like to kind of lower the carb amount just a little bit and up the protein amount okay so it's not really lightening up the calories as much as I'm kind of switching up the macros a little bit so that I feel Fuller with the same amount of calories that means I'm less likely to reach for snacks or like you know be hungry and less satisfied so it's basically lightening up your calories for the day if that makes sense but yeah you can always like decrease the carbon amount and optionally increase the protein amount um obviously watch out for the amount of dressing that you use the dressings I made both of them are pretty light in calories but you know anytime you use a dressing just make sure that you pay attention to how much you're adding in because they can add up quite a bit of calories depending on what the dressing is another option would be to add more veggies to the mix and add slightly less of maybe other things that basically lowers the calorie density because vegetables are really high in volume and low calorie dents so that's one way to lighten up your meals I would suggest maybe making the salad rolls because those are really good and rice paper is pretty low in calories or just eating the salad the way that uh I made it the classic version now if you wanted to bulk up the calories where you could easily do is just eat more food I'm just kidding but really you can increase the protein content just add more tofu make more edamame and if you have a hard time like eating like a high volume you could decrease the amount of veggies a little bit so that you're not eating like a giant bowl and you're just sitting there chewing the whole time because that would be hard to do if you're trying to like eat a ton right so I would probably make it so that there's more of the higher calorie DSE stuff and less of the lower calorie Dent stuff which is the vegetables you could also add in some more of the carbs for the extra energy boost and you could also add in some like avocado slices on top maybe some nuts and seeds as well into your salad that makes it higher in fat in healthy fats and um higher in calories another way to up the calories a bit is to maybe instead of using powdered peanut butter you could use regular peanut butter to make that peanut butter dressing so there you go so as you can see there are tons of different ways of switching up your meals with just preparing a salad okay it seems boring but there are so many options and opportunities for you to get creative and the thing is like you know we got to eat vegetables right so we might as well prep the salad I don't know why I have not prepped salads much because I don't know it's genius okay because I'm eating vegetables I'm EA EA vegetables so I might as well prep the vegetables and then that makes life easier to eat more vegetables and then I can switch things up you know usually I don't switch up the vegetables Bunch anyways so it makes sense to meal prep the vegetables you know anyway guys that brings us to the end of the video I hope you guys enjoyed this meal prep I hope it was helpful for you I really enjoyed this and um I think it's great I think this meal prep is wonderful all of the recipes measurements anything like that will be linked down below so make sure you check out that information and uh if you enjoyed this video give this video a big thumbs up if you are new to my channel don't forget to subscribe obviously okay it's my year the least you could do is subscribe and if you guys want more meal prep videos I have an entire playlist of meal prep videos all vegan of course that will be linked below as well once again thank you so much to thrive market for sponsoring today's video don't forget to check them out the link is down below for you to get 30% off your very first order and a completely free gift worth up to $6 if you join today so yeah definitely check 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Length: 37min 14sec (2234 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 18 2024