March Grocery List + Meal Ideas
Eating healthy + plant based starts with a solid plan and preparation. When I fail to plan, my meals aren’t as healthy and I spend way more money than I should on food. Because of this, I make it a priority to plan out my meals for the weekly grocery shop.
Starting in March, I’ll be sharing a monthly grocery list. I get so many questions on how to eat healthy and I firmly believe that planning is the foundation of it all, followed by discipline.
The below list is an example of meals that I eat in a week. I did not include spices/seasonings on the list because once you get into the swing of things, you’ll already have these and would probably only need to repurchase them every month or so. There is also no need to purchase EVERYTHING on this list. Feel free to customize as needed. I like variety and I also value using the same ingredients to create different meals. I only want this to serve as inspiration for you.
List:
Fruit
*ripe* bananas – buy fresh then freeze when they get spotty
*frozen* cherries
Dates
Vegetables
Red Onion
Bell pepper
Lettuce
Avocado
Yukon gold potatoes
Tomato (on vine)
Cilantro
Garlic
Grains
Rice
Quick Oats
Brown rice pasta
Legumes
Lentils (1)
Pinto beans (2)
Nuts + Seeds
Hemp seeds
Cashews
Almond butter
Other
Cacao powder
Nutritional Yeast
Pasta sauce
Plant based protein powder
Meals:
Burrito bowl
Literally the easiest meal ever. This meal consists of the following ingredients: Rice, pinto (or black) beans, over roasted potatoes (because I’m a hoe for potatoes lol) but you can leave them out if you want, lettuce (or some type of greens), pico de gello (red onion, cilantro, and tomato), and avo to pull it all together!
Loaded potato wedges
Don’t be intimidated. This meal is wildy similar to the burrito bowl. Almost all the same ingredients just rearranged a little. It’s honestly a lazy version of chili cheese fries. Ingredients include: potatoes, beans, rice, pico de gallo, avocado and homemade vegan cheese sauce. Start with making your potato wedges. I have a video on my channel that you can reference. After your wedges are done, top it off with your beans, rice, pico, and avocado. Then add your cheese. The homemade cheese sauce consists of one cup of cashews (soaked overnight or at least four hours), ½ cup of nut mylk, loads of nutritional yeast (like maybe 4-5 tbsp..just play with the flavor and find what works for you), two cloves of garlic, pinch of salt, pepper, 1 tsp of smoke paprika, and 1 tsp of tumeric. I’m still perfecting this recipe and it still requires a bit of work but I still wanted to share it because what are loaded wedges without cheese? I’ll share a proper recipe once I feel like it's ready.
Pasta
Another easy recipe! This is another go-to for me! I have it every week! The ingredients include: brown rice pasta (any pasta will work but this is just what I prefer), tomato basil pasta sauce, ½ onion (finely diced), bell pepper (finely diced), two cloves of garlic (finely diced), a can of lentils (be sure to rinse ALL canned beans thoroughly). The spices I use include: nutritional yeast (for topping mostly), salt, pepper, garlic pepper, coconut sugar, and italian seasoning. Start cooking your pasta according to their instructions on the box. Then add all of your diced vegs to a heated pan with cooking oil of your choice. I like to use grapeseed oil or sunflower oil. Then add your lentils to the pan once all of the veggies are translucent. I like to mash some of the lentils with a fork a little, leaving some whole still just to give them more of a “meaty” texture. Mix all of it up then add your pasta sauce and seasonings. Let it all simmer for about 10-15 minutes so all the flavors will come together.
Oatmeal
I loooveeeee oatmeal soooo much! It’s the best thing ever. I like to use organic quick oats (or steel cut oats). But today, we’re cooking with quick oats. I ALWAYS add half of a mashed banana, sliced dates, cinnamon and coconut sugar and here lately, I’ve also been adding nutmeg. I like to switch up my toppings but this week, we’re using the other half of the sliced banana, cashews, hemps seeds, and almond butter. I also pour a little more mylk once everything is added to the bowl. It pulls it all together, in my opinion.
Smoothie
Smoothies are also another go-to at the moment. They’re quick, easy, and yum. My favorite as of lately has been my choc + nut butter smoothie. The ingredients are *frozen + ripe* bananas, *frozen* cherries, 3 tbsp of hemp seeds, 1 tbsp of almond butter, 1-2 tbsps of cacao powder, 1 date, protein powder, and about 1-1 ½ cup nut mylk. Blend it all up and experience the magic.
Let me know which of these you try. Proper recipes for each of these will be coming soon either in a blog post or in my ebook, which releases on April 17th! Thanks so much for being here. I hope this passage served as a bit of inspiration for you.
Peace and love.
Ri