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Day 5 of Recipes for Your 21 Day Plant-Based Challenge

Hailey Welch
|Updated Jan 11, 2020

It's Day 5 and You're Doing Great, Keep It Up!

These Recipes are designed to fill you up and energize you all through the day. We have compiled a breakfast, lunch, dinner, and two snacks -- and for your pick of desserts check out the recipe carousel at the bottom of the 21 Day Plant-Based Challenge homepage.

Breakfast: Tofu Scramble with Spinach and Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Lunch: Vegetable Hummus Stack

Snack 1: Cream Cheese and Chives on Crisp Bread

Dinner: Creamy Roasted Garlic and Tomato Baked Gnocchi

We all love homemade pasta, but making your own can be intimidating. Luckily, this sweet potato gnocchi is as delicious as it is easy, no prior pasta-making experience required!

Snack 2: Celery Sticks with Sunbutter and Raisins

Nutrition Notes:  

Approx. 162g carbs; 51g fat; 44g protein

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Breakfast:

  • Olive oil
  • 7 oz tofu (about 1/2 a block)
  • Turmeric
  • 2 cloves chopped garlic
  • Himalayan sea salt
  • Black pepper
  • Sun-dried tomatoes or cherry tomatoes
  • Spinach

Lunch:

  • Olive oil
  • Salt and pepper
  • 2 Portabello mushrooms
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 1 orange or yellow bell pepper
  • 1 head of cauliflower
  • 1 tomato
  • 1 zucchini
  • Hummus (store-bought or homemade)

Snack 1:

  • Crisp Bread
  • Violife Cream Cheese 
  • Chives 

Dinner:

For the Roasted Garlic Cream Sauce:
  • 12 cloves garlic
  • Vegetable broth (such as Imagine No-Chicken Broth)
  • Raw, unsalted cashews (soak overnight if not using a high-speed blender)
  • Nutritional yeast
  • Salt and pepper
  • Shredded Violife Mozzarella Shreds
For the Creamy Roasted Garlic and Tomato Baked Vegan Gnocchi
  • 1 16oz package gnocchi
  • 1 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes

Snack 2:

  • Celery sticks
  • Sunbutter
  • Raisins
  • Sunflower seeds 
  • Pretzels sticks for extra crunch

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