What I Eat in a Week as a Nutritionist | a week of eating in December (healthy)

Merry Christmas! I guess this is my Christmas gift to you since it seems like many of you appreciate my What I eat in a week videos ❤️ This is what I ate in a week of December. I was very lazy this week and did not know what to eat at all so I just made a bunch of my own recipes. You can find them below!

Baked oatmeal: https://www.nutritionbymichaela.com/recipes/vegan-apple-pie-baked-oatmeal/
Lentil Sweet Potato and Cauliflower Stew: https://www.nutritionbymichaela.com/recipes/vegan-lentil-stew-with-sweet-potato-and-cauliflower/
Gingerbread cookie dough bites & No-bake saffron squares video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ks_4HFrZ9w
Minestrone soup: https://www.instagram.com/p/CaXqBVeIll7/
Super Simple Vegan Bean Burgers: https://www.nutritionbymichaela.com/recipes/super-simple-vegan-bean-burgers/
Vegan Creamy Orzo with Sun Dried Tomatoes and Green Beans: https://www.instagram.com/p/CneyeNOqF3K/

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ABOUT: My name is Michaela and I’m a nutritionist with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in nutrition science. I post ‘What I eat in a day’ videos, recipes etc. I eat about 95-98% plant based so most of my meals are classified as vegan, but not all of them. However, you can usually make the non-vegan meals vegan in case you want to replicate them ☺️
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Welcome to a new what I eat in a week this was a week in December and I started it with baked oatmeal I will link the base recipe below and the recipe I will link has apples but I’m making this with blueberries instead I also added some hum protein powder to

This one but otherwise it’s pretty much the same recipe so it contains a banana rolled oats ground flax seeds hump protein as I said cinnamon a pinch of sea salt baking powder and cardamom and then for the liquid I had pea milk but I forgot to mention that I wanted to try a

Gingerbread flavor so I also added ground ginger and ground cloves but since I didn’t measure it I just eyeball it it didn’t really taste like gingerbread so yeah but I blended everything together before pouring it into a baking dish and adding frozen blueberries Then I baked it at 175° C for 25 minutes I topped it with hump seeds and more pea milk and it doesn’t really look nice when I have pea milk on top but it tastes really nice and that that’s the most important Thing I also opened my Advent calendars and this one is with raw chocolate from a Swedish brand and this day it was licorice chocolate in Sweden we eat salty Licorice and it goes very well with chocolate non Scandinavians probably don’t agree though I also had a

Tea calendar and this day it was green tea which is perfect to have in the morning and I always drink my Advent calendar tea in my Christmas mug every Year wo it feels like you just walked outside and saw the brightness yeah for lunch I heated a sweet potato lentil and cauliflower stew

I have a recipe on my blog so I will link it below I also reheated some quinoa with that and when you reheat stews like this you want to add a spal water to REM moisture it kind of and to the plate I added half of an

Avocado like usual avocados or I mean healthy fats in general helps with the absorption of beta carotene so it’s a really great food combination because yeah sweet potatoes have beta keratin in case you didn’t know and I kind of wish I made more servings of this because

It’s really good and perfect to meal prep for my snack I had two gingerbread Cookie Dough Bites that I made in another video so I will link that video and the recipe below I also have had an Apple for dinner I made ministr soup and it was a plant-based one I actually

Posted a recipe for this on my Instagram I think last year or the year before so that’s what I used as my reference except that I didn’t have any celery and I was also too lazy to measure out the herbs and spices so I just eyeballed it

But if you want to follow the recipe properly I will link that as well anyways it’s includes onion garlic zucchini carrots basil oregano thyme herbs salt so many ingredients it’s actually not that many it just sounds like many When you mention them I also added two bay leaves then I added

Crushed tomatoes and water and one can of kidney beans for the Protein you want to let this cook for a short while before adding in the pasta I used whole wheat Pasta then I let that cook until the pasta was done I also added a bit of salt and pepper and right before the pasta was actually done I added some frozen chopped kale but you want to make sure that the kale is thought before you actually serve the soup and everything

If you’re using Frozen Kell if you use fresh then never mind before you serve it you want to take out the bay leaves and I was very lucky this day because both bay leaves were sticking together when I wanted to fish them out so I caught them right

Away I usually have to really look for them for a really long time yeah this is such a hearty and comforting soup which is perfect during the winter so I highly recommend it and if you want it to be more soupy you can add more liquid but

Don’t forget to add more of the herbs and spices as well to not lose the flavor I like it when it’s not too watery anyways I ate this with two Rye crisp Breads and one of them had hummus and the other had mashed avocado on top

And orb salt and then both of them had nutritional yeast as well on Tuesday I had my regular oatmeal that you’ve seen me make a thousand times and I topped it with cinnamon ham seeds and frozen blueberries even though the ham seeds I get are shell they still

Contain shells and I get disgusted when I bite into food and it has a texture it’s not supposed to have so yeah I try to remove the shells that I see I also have green tea most mornings but I don’t film it because it feels too

Repetitive but this day I had one cup in the morning and then one like during the early day I also had a banana in the morning for lunch I reheated the leftover soup and it was a really large portion so I only had one crisp bread this

Time I was super full between lunch and dinner so I didn’t have a snack but for dinner I just roast Ed some vegetables in the oven so I had carrots zucchini and broccoli I know I said I just roasted vegetables but obviously I did not only eat vegetables as you will see

So keep on watching I season them with salt pepper dried oregano and dried Rosemary [Applause] I also wanted to roast chickpeas and I seasoned them with salt paprika ground cumin and dried Oregano [Applause] by the way I feel like I have to address the lighting in every video because I’m so embarrassed but it’s the winter time I just I I hate this lighting and I’m sorry but I I can’t really do anything about it but I still want to make videos

So yeah anyways I roasted everything for about 30 minutes at 200° C but I kind kind of had another setting on the oven though so the broccoli and zucchini became a bit mushy which uh they usually don’t get when I cook them like this but with a normal setting anyways while that

Was in the oven I made a tahen dressing so I added lemon juice and a tablespoon of tahini as the base sort of and then I added too much sea salt and some garlic powder I whis it until it got thick and then I gradually added water until I got

It to the desired consistency and because it looks so thick you may find the urge to add a lot of water but really add just a little at a time because otherwise there’s a risk that it will become too Watery I served everything with some quinoa and unlike the vegetables the chickpeas were perfectly roasted you can kind of see that the vegies look slightly overcooked because the Rosemary is kind of burnt but as long as you use a normal setting on your oven this should come out really good

And it’s such a simple yet healthy meal to Make Then I drank the tea from my tea calendar and it was pretty nice the addition of Honey was very very nice the chocolate was much of flavored but I don’t think white chocolate is really chocolate I’m so used to eating dark chocolate so this only tasted like sugar

And fat I could not taste the Macho on Wednesday I had extra time to make breakfast so I made an oat rice porridge and in Sweden we eat a lot of rice porridge around Christmas and on December 13th we celebrate Lua which is the perfect day to have rice porridge

Oat rice is kind of like whole oats and I just followed the recipe on the manufacturer website which was to simmer the oat rice in lots of water and some salt for 10 minutes and then rinse it for 30 seconds and then put it back into

The pot and add milk I added pea milk I also added a little bit of cardamom just for extra flavor Then you’re supposed to let it simmer on low heat for about an hour so meanwhile I prepared the jam that I wanted to put on top so I added frozen raspberries to a pot and a little bit of frozen blueberries then I added one fresh date

And I didn’t know I covered it but I cut it up into smaller pieces I did not add any water I just let them Tha on the stove for just a few minutes and then they look like this the porridge usually cooks quicker than an hour it depends on the

Consistency you want and I like this Consistency I added a little bit of ham seeds on top and I see so many shells yuck then I added the jam and pea milk and cinnamon a very very tasty Breakfast I also had a banana don’t be too surprised for lunch I had the same thing as I had for dinner on Tuesday but I did not feel like making the tahini sauce so I just had avocado saffron is also a big thing for

Lucia day so I had one of my healthy no baked saffron squares I made in a previous video and my gingerbread cookies I will link both recipes below I also had today’s chocolate which was gingerbread flavor not the best flavor for chocolates I forgot to mention that this calendar gives you two chocolates

So you can share but I don’t really want to share so I get two I feel like this video is filled with my recipes but this week I was tired and I felt too lazy to figure out what to eat so it felt easy

To just go back to my own recipes I week is different but this recipe is my super simple vegan bean burgers which I will link below it is so quick and easy but yet so tasty it contains kidney beans or any beans you want really rolled oats sunflower seeds tomato paste soy sauce

Onion and garlic powder salt and pepper so you just need to throw everything into a blender and blend it into a dough or batter I also like to mix it around with a spoon to ensure that everything is evenly combined but if you have a really

Good blender you may not need to do this and this batter is very shapable but I like to make the burger shape with a cookie cutter you can fry the burgers in a pan but guess what I was too lazy and I was going to roast potatoes and

Anyways so yeah and I realized while doing this that I needed to move the burgers to the side to actually make place for the potatoes so that I could do everything on just one baking tray I seasoned the potatoes with sea salt and dried rosemary very simple but actually really Good I cooked everything at 200° C for 30 minutes on a normal setting this time once they were done the burgers looked like they were from the desert but yeah I actually think you’re supposed to bake them at 180 de check the recipe and you will see but also if you fry them they

Won’t uh look like this but actually they are not as dry as they look I also dip them in ketchup so yeah and I didn’t know what vegetables to have so I just cooked some frozen green beans and also a mix of green peas corn and bell pepper

Really quick I also had half of an avocado for the healthy fats to nourish my skin and then I I had the unsweetened ketchup which technically isn’t unsweetened they just use starch instead of sugar food companies really try to trick you but yeah I guess it’s still better than

Sugar the tea I got in my tea calendar I have tried before and it’s great for bloating and don’t forget to brush your teeth tonight because oral hygiene is also important for your health on Thursday I had oats meal for breakfast again and a banana for lunch I had the burgers and

Potatoes again but with a grated carrot instead of the other stuff because I wanted to have time for a walk during my lunch before my meeting so I didn’t have time for anything else this is what my chocolate calendar looked like in fall and as you may have

Guessed I also had my daily chocolate this day it’s just said light which I assume is like milk chocolate although this calendar is dairyfree um it tasted kind of dark though but it was nice for my snack I had a saffron Square G and two gingerbread Cookie Dough

Bites for dinner I made a creamy orzo dish that I made in one of my first videos on this channel it’s super quick and easy so it was is perfect for my lazy mood I will link the recipe below anyways I started by adding red onion

And garlic to a pot and I let that cook for a while before adding dried basil and tomato Paste then I added in the Orzo and water Then I added the frozen green beans and uh yeah after that I also added in pea Milk then you want to let that cook for 10 minutes while stirring to Ure that the orzo doesn’t stick to the pot I also remembered that I forgot to add salt and pepper earlier so did that and after a while I added sundried tomatoes and I also added frozen kale for extra

Nutrition it’s not included in the original recipe but yeah you can add it if you want you can also add a nutritional yeast as it says in the recipe but I Didn’t once the or so absorbs more liquid it will become thick and creamy like this and right before serving I added a splash of lemon juice you can also salt and pepper to taste but I didn’t feel like I needed To I actually sprinkled nutritional yeast on top instead of adding it to the dish you can do however you want I also had a grated carrot again I was going to have avocado as well but all of the ones I had at home were rock hard so I

Couldn’t you can also add roasted chickpeas or something else for more protein I was just too lazy to do more than this after dinner I had a protein bar my Advent calendar tea this day was sweet Licorice and cinnamon with a bit of cacao so it tasted really nice

On Friday I wanted avocado toast but then I remember that I didn’t have any proper avocados at home so I had oatmeal again but with warm blueberries I also had an apple which I suppose I forgot to film today’s flavor in my chocolate calendar was coffee and I usually don’t

Like coffee flavored chocolate but this one was kind of nice for lunch I have leftovers like usual and still no avocado but the portion was a bit smaller today so I also had two crisp breads with butter for my snack I had a chocolate protein smoothy and it really doesn’t

Look appetizing in this lighting but it’s good I swear and in it there is one banana raw cacao powder hum protein powder cinnamon and pea milk because we need some type of liquid and I just topped it with some pumpkin seeds as you could see for my

Dinner I had a black bean taco with avocado black beans with taco seasoning bell pepper corn cucumber lettuce and Greek yogurt as I’ve said before I’m not vegan I just eat predominantly plant-based I also had two gingerbread Cookie Dough Bites because I needed space in the freezer and these were the

Only ones I had left and today’s tea was falty apparently I missed to drink this after lunch but after dinner is fine and that’s all I ate this week it was a lazy week and my appetite was actually quite low but I hope you still enjoyed the

Video and got some meal inspiration and thank you so much for watching don’t forget to like And subscribe because it really helps me out and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year