Bryn's 7-Day Vegetarian Challenge

Today marks the end of Bryn's 7-Day Vegetarian Challenge.  I am very proud of him for sticking to it.  I didn't have any doubt that he would finish.  He's a stick-to-it kind of guy and if he puts his mind to it, it shall be done!  Bryn had a great attitude going into the challenge and I believe that had a lot to do with it, mentally he was ready.  I was more worried about him physically not being able to function without the meat protein but the vegetarian diet proved itself again.  He's always eaten a lot of veggies throughout the day but breakfast was a concern which is 100% meat protein.  All of the food I prepared for him was vegan which means not only do they not contain flesh meat but they also don't contain any meat by-products (eggs, dairy, cheese, etc) but he was following a lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet which means he ate eggs and dairy products.  This was very important for his breakfast meal so he could continue having eggs and I got him some fake bacon.  He started the challenge last Monday, Nov 29th.  I got a head start on Saturday to get the dry beans ready to make them into meals on Sunday.  By Saturday night I had a four different beans cooked and ready to be made into yumminess.

Beans, beans and more beans!

All the dishes I made were requested specifically by Bryn and they were hummus, baked beans and chili.

Here's the hummus, easy to make and so delicious.  We eat it with raw veggies but you can add it to sammiches or use pita bread or crackers to dip into it.

Hummus and chickpeas.

The baked beans are a huge hit with Bryn!  He ate them with his breakfast, eggs, baked beans and fake bacon!  Sounds good doesn't it...well, I know fake bacon doesn't sound to appetizing but he liked it.


Here are some pictures of the Baked Beans, I took pics before during and after cooking because I think it looks really cool lol.

This is the before, altho there is some pre-cooking.

This is after about 1 hour of baking.

This is after 2 hours, you can see it's boiling!

This is the after picture, 3.5 hours later!  Nom-nom!

I got busy and didn't get the chance to take pics of the chili but I assure you it was delicious too, I used both the black beans and kidney beans shown in the beans pic for the chili.


I would like to thank Bryn for doing the 7-Day vegetarian challenge.  I never dreamed it would be such a positive experience and I hope this little game has had a long term effect on you.  I'm not saying that I think you have to become a non-meat eater full time but it's nice to know that you could if you chose to.  Eating consciously and making a conscious decision to eat less meat is all that I ask.