{"id":7194,"date":"2009-04-06T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T20:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=7194"},"modified":"2009-04-06T16:28:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T21:28:36","slug":"vegetarian-for-a-week-challenge-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/vegetarian-for-a-week-challenge-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian for a Week Challenge &#8211; Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally here, my vegetarian for a week challenge. I explain the <a title=\"vegetarian\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/vegetarian-for-a-week-recipe-challenge\/\" target=\"_self\">background of the challenge<\/a> here, but to recap, my husband had this &#8220;brilliant&#8221; idea to go vegetarian for a week and I accepted. Watch to see how day one went.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ys_9rfhqrTk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ys_9rfhqrTk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Day one was relatively easy on us. Our <a title=\"vegetarian\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Vegetarian_Diet\/\" target=\"_self\">vegetarian<\/a> meals were all simple to prepare, tasty and rather filling. One of my only real concerns going into this was feeling hungry. I admit I felt some hunger yesterday; I don&#8217;t know if I was just psyching myself into it, or if the pangs were legit. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"vegetarian diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/vegetarian-for-a-week-challenge-day-one\/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Day One Vegetarian Menu<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Breakfast &#8211; egg white veggie omelet. This is actually what I have most mornings. We wrapped it in a whole grain tortilla with about a tablespoon of shredded cheese. Served with a cup of 0% fat <a title=\"greek yogurt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/we-love-greek-yogurt\/\" target=\"_self\">greek yogurt<\/a> with blueberries, strawberries and honey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lunch &#8211; tuna fish sandwich. I use the tuna packed in water in the foil pack, mix with a little paprika, one tablespoon of light mayo and dice half a sweet pickle. Served on whole grain bread with a bunch of grapes on the side.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/categories\/vegetarian\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7200\" title=\"vegetarian-dinner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vegetarian-dinner.gif\" alt=\"vegetarian meal\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Dinner &#8211; grilled portabella mushrooms. Having seen many vegetarian friends choose this at cookouts, we knew we had to finally give it a try. A light spray of olive oil, fresh cracked black pepper and a pinch of kosher salt and then we cooked on the grill for about 20 minutes. Served with roasted red skin potatoes (chop potatoes in about sixths, toss with a little olive oil, cracked black pepper, dried thyme and basil, cook on 425 for about 30 minutes, turn once), skillet seared asparagus, and a small spring green salad with balsamic vinaigrette.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Snacks &#8211; reduced fat string cheese, whole grain crackers with <a title=\"peanut butter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/the-best-low-fat-peanut-butters\/\" target=\"_self\">peanut butter<\/a>, six ounce smoothie made of 0% fat greek yogurt, banana, strawberries and blueberries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally here, my vegetarian for a week challenge. I explain the background of the challenge here, but to recap, my husband had this &#8220;brilliant&#8221; idea to go vegetarian for a week and I accepted. Watch to see how day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/vegetarian-for-a-week-challenge-day-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695,16],"tags":[29,24,1274],"class_list":["post-7194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","category-recipes","tag-nutrition","tag-vegetarian","tag-vegetarian-for-a-week-challenge"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7204,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions\/7204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}