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
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Low on eggs? This Breakfast Casserole (pdf) will fill you up without any! Watch this and all recipe video shorts on the City's YouTube Shorts page.
Breakfast Casserole
Ingredients:
- 1 bag of hashbrowns
- 1 package of plant-based sausage
- 1 red bell pepper
- 2 handfuls of spinach
- 3 cups of unsweetened almond milk
- 3 cups of plant-based cheese, shredded
- 2 tsp each salt, pepper, garlic powder,onion powder, and paprika
Directions:
- Cook the plant-based sausage on the stove on medium heat
- Cut the sausage into bite size pieces
- Dice up the red bell pepper
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees
- To make the cheese sauce, heat 3 cups of almond milk on the stove until it boils, then whisk in 2 cups of plant-based cheese
- In a large bowl, season the hashbrowns with salt, pepper, garlic powder,onion powder, and paprika
- Add in the plant-based sausage, red bell pepper, and spinach
- Pour in the cheese mixture and mix well
- Dump the mixture into an oiled baking dish
- Top with 1 cup of plant-based cheese
- Bake for 30 minutes and serve warm
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