We Tried The 7-Day Vegan Challenge

how's that pie for breakfast wyatt we're vegan we're gonna be vegan soon so eat that pie while you can [Music] hey i'm hannah and i'm the world's okayist mom and i'm here today to talk to you about the seven day vegan challenge now you guys have seen this all over the internet because you've been asking me non-stop to try it and this is a series where you ask and we deliver so we're gonna give it a shot it's gonna be seven days family of four one painfully picky eater and i'll let you guess who that is wish us luck guys so what is the seven day vegan challenge well it's exactly how it sounds it's seven days of eating vegan no animal products simple enough our family's eating habits don't really rely much on animal products to begin with each person has very different tastes in food i'm kind of like a plant lover i'm a salad hoe so la so matt likes to eat a lot of food he likes to feel full but it's not like he overeats he has a fast metabolism and so he just likes to be full jackson is my dream eater he just came out of me hungry and has never stopped eating scents he's like a garbage disposal then there's wyatt he's pretty much on the white diet where white foods are good if there's a speck of green in his food he will find it and he will remove it you excited to be vegan yeah i don't know if you really are but okay this is my vegan grocery haul i know that fruit is always safe to get and then fresh veggies so i got a lot of that i don't think this is enough food for the week but it ended up costing about 50 more than my average grocery trip and then while i was at the grocery store i had to say goodbye to one of the most important things in my life goodbye cheese i will miss you so day one i was feeling pretty prepared for breakfast and lunch i had prepped overnight oats the night before for the boys and then for matt and i i made freezer smoothie packs with all this good stuff in them let's see how this tastes this is really good really healthy everything was going smoothly until it was time for me to make my coffee i have a very specific shade of coffee that i need and it's a very specific ratio of coffee the strength of the coffee and the half and half that's going in it so i bought soy creamer and coconut creamer throughout the week i tried various mixtures of both i just don't like it i have a very open-minded palette and this is the one thing like the one food i can't budge on so for matt's lunch i got him what's called a rainbow wrap it's exactly how you'd imagine like a tree wrapped up in a tortilla if i started him off with like the most intensely vegan lunch then the rest would be a nice surprise now i'm feeling it healthy manipulation i do it all the time this week shouldn't be that bad i think it's gonna be good so for lunches i did eventually find some vegan bread i decided to make a sun butter and jelly sandwich despite the fact that that vegan bread straight up tasted like fresh hay night one the dinner was just you know my dream meal a big ol salad i was so excited for this dinner but i was very worried about how the kids would react to it i only love black beans and rice that's not true you like white beans i don't want the beans on it wyatt ate his salad and i was shook i mean to the core like when he took the bite of broccoli i pinched myself it's almost like he ate more vegetables in this one meal than he's eaten in the last six months whose plate is that nice your plate so day two woke up feeling great feeling healthy made a really nice breakfast i bought this vegan cream cheese because i figured the toast needed a little oomph um uh this one i'm serious this vegan cream cheese rocked my world how is it a mustache it was so good hey jackson are you enjoying your breakfast you're wearing it a little bit good breakfast everyone's happy and then i made my coffee and that was the start of the worst day of the week no that day in particular was a very big day for me at work i had a huge video to shoot i was making all of this glorious food and i did not realize that i could not eat a single bite of any of it this is the thing i work for tasty this is what i look forward to in my job i get to snack on just the best food you can imagine i was so devastated that i couldn't eat it it was a frustrating day so here we are enjoying our tikka masala i actually do like it and i would eat it again i am the first one home tonight so i'm going to make dinner and i'm absolutely starving for my shoot so i'm gonna make a vegan pizza and i think the boys will actually like it i think they'll be excited for a pizza tonight the first few bites i was like oh my god this is delicious yes bread carbs but then as i started going in on my slice the cheese is a little gluey it's sticking to my teeth i honestly would have preferred it as more of a flatbread without the cheese but you know we're all very hungry so we all ate it much glue you like it and then it came time for wyatt to try it what's the plus the crust is right there you want me to cut it for you what do you think you like the pizza mommy made it from scratch why do you like the pizza he didn't eat it he opted to eat salad instead of his pizza which you know means that pizza was not good so we started the morning off trying some coconut yogurt that's made from coconut milk with some vegan cereal and raspberries you like it why do you like it so far i'm bad in a thousand on breakfast like win win win win win it is going great day three of this copy better i guess lunches i feel like i'm packing a lot of chips this week but other than that pretty easy this lunch look good yeah did you like your lunch yesterday yep that was amazing really now i thought that pizza would be the safe bet for dinner but it just didn't turn out the way i planned it all so for tonight's dinner i decided to make pasta i know i make a really good pasta sauce so i was feeling really excited about this lentil pasta that i found that has protein in it so i made that roasted some broccoli and that was our dinner yeah it's good okay that's all that matters wyatt gets into these weird moods sometimes at dinner time where he won't feed himself because he's just a diva he'll sit there and be like you can offer me a bite if you'd like and i might eat it but he went straight for the broccoli on his plate which was very confusing but very awesome he eventually did eat the pasta but not without letting us all know that we're very lucky to have him eating the pasta at our table do you like it good thank you wyatt your presence is appreciated you know we're not worthy very rushed breakfast this morning because i have to get ready and be on set today what do you think wyatt thumbs down but he's eating it all what i was shooting at work was a food competition show and it was me versus my co-worker matthew we had to make this crazy dish and so some things happened i completely forgot about this vegan challenge and my food was ice cream and cake and it had eggs dairy all that stuff so i ended up having to taste it russell tried my meatball don't tell them they're okay oh i just ruined everything today i gotta go like double vegan tonight to make up for it i'm gonna eat some grass here's the thing like i can't put food in front of someone for a cooking competition without tasting it my family doesn't even know that this happened so i'm sorry i failed you i didn't mean to and i was a little bit deceitful tonight's dinner is gonna be like a burrito bowl you know with these new foods that we're trying i don't know how spicy something is going to be it might be a little spicy it ended up being very spicy and a little too spicy for the kids and they were not happy spicy little spicy i hate wasting food so i ended up eating three or four times more chorizo than i normally would and i forced matt to do the same the flavor is good what is it i think you're gonna get the poops day five matt and i decided to do a date night we decided to put our vegan selves out into the world which was something i was really dreading because i didn't want to be that person who's ordering at a restaurant and asking a million questions about the ingredients so we went to this little wine bar by our house what we ended up being able to order at the wine bar was a plate of olives a little veggie salad from there we were still so hungry so we decided to stop at this little british pub someone was looking down on us we opened the menu and they have a vegan burger this burger was so delicious it had vegan mayo lettuce tomato on a vegan bun that didn't taste like the wheat had just been pulled from the earth it was so good and then we curly fries with it it was so good so on day six i decided to take it to the next level and i went to taco bell and could i also get no sour cream or nacho cheese on those it was a lengthy order it was kind of annoying but i i was so excited to try it the thing that i love the most about crunchwraps is the nacho cheese sauce so i miss it i should have added some guacamole to this i feel like guacamole would be really good for dinner asian food is something that we've been lacking this week because i could not quite grasp how to cook it vegan i was struggling with that so we decided to look for a vegan asian restaurant like i went crazy on this menu and i over ordered i was like ready to shovel all of it into my face are you just going for it so end of day six i'm feeling great i have it cooked in a whole day i was really optimistic and then it all fell apart chocolate croissant but they're not vegan babe so we have to make something else it's okay croissants are extremely difficult to make vegan croissants i don't even know i gave your toast with peanut butter and jelly right here okay why do you want them [Music] you like it yeah were you hungry after the meltdown at breakfast i decided that for dinner i would make something that i knew they would like we were going to my parents house for dinner so i knew i had to bring food for us to make and i decided on vegan mac and cheese not as easy as it looks while i was making my vegan dinner my mom was making delicious teriyaki salmon oh i want that so bad i never thought i would be like wow that salmon is so tempting but on that day on the final day of our vegan challenge that salmon was looking really good so we made it through all seven days i didn't think we'd make it through that easily and i didn't think the kids would be so receptive to the challenge so the next day after it was over i decided to surprise them with a little something special [Music] croissants they're going to be so happy surprise it's very hot be careful good breakfast jackson my kids got their chocolate croissants okay guys they got the chocolate croissants so what did i learn on this seven day vegan challenge well i learned first that it's actually not that difficult to be vegan if you're cooking a lot of your own meals it's not that much more expensive it's not that difficult to get your protein either next i learned how to get wyatt to eat vegetables i don't think you guys realize how huge this is for me and how much of a struggle it's been for all of us i mean ever since he could eat solids this is like the peak of motherhood for me right now and last i learned that i really want to continue doing as much of a vegan challenge as we possibly can going forward but that said i know that i will never be a full vegan because i cannot deal with vegan creamer in my coffee i'm sorry i have to have my half and half i can't do it so that's all i got for today i'm hannah and if you've tried the seven day vegan challenge let me know in the comments tell me how it went or if you have any ideas for future food challenges for us to try leave that in the comments too or you can always text me this is a real number and i don't always answer every single text because i get a lot but i do read every single one now if you'll please excuse me i have some decent copy to make because it's been so long since i've had it until next [Music] time [Music] anything with curry or masala i'm just like in cloud on cloud9 so this is really good i'm stoked

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Length: 14min 44sec (884 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 08 2018