Plant-Based Eating
Want to learn more about the many benefits of plant-based eating? Want to support Mountain View’s amazing restaurants? The City’s sustainability team launched a plant-based eating program that will focus on promoting healthy and sustainable food choices, supporting equitable access to healthy food, and spreading awareness of the positive health and environmental impacts of a plant-based diet.
Monthly Video Recipes: The Plant-based Pantry
Welcome to our popular new series, The Plant-Based Pantry with Grace.
Brownies: Read the recipe here.
Breakfast Casserole: This Breakfast Casserole (pdf) will fill you up without any eggs.
Watch these and all recipe video shorts on the City's YouTube Shorts page.
Other recipes:
- February's bonus no egg breakfast casserole (above)
- February's Buffalo Cauliflower Bites (recipe) for your game day menu
- January's quick and balanced Quinoa Bowl (Recipe PDF).
- December's delicious and popular sugar cookies and icing recipe PDF is here.
- November offered up plant-based mashed potatoes and gravy, here's the recipe PDF if you want to follow along with the video.
- October's recipe was Veggie and Rice soup, watch the video here or download the recipe PDF.
Send your favorite recipe or plant-based eating tip, including a photo to sustainaility@mountainview.gov and it could be featured here.
Looking for ways to get started?
Recipes:
- Recipes Forum below!
- Vegan baking recipes from Minimalist Baker
- Meatless Alphabet from Acterra
- Zero Waste Chef recipe index
- Veggie burger recipe from Love and Lemons
- 10 African inspired vegan recipes from Afro Eats
Resources:
- Meatless Monday
- Green Monday
- Forks Over Knives beginner's guide
- Acterra's plant-forward eating resources
- Acterra's Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet fact sheet
- What science says about the benefits of a plant-based diet (Discover, June 2020)
- Emissions from the livestock sector (FFAC)
- 10 weeks to vegan challenge & resources
- 10 million black vegan women movement