When I published my first “What I Eat In A Day” post a few months ago, I had no idea what to expect.
So I was happily surprised when the post received such an outpouring of positive reader feedback, with many people writing in to say they loved seeing the example of how a vegan day in the life might look.
As I mention in the first post, there’s no typical day for me, but the amount of food stays pretty constant. I’ve also never been one of those people who can go even a day without dessert!
If you missed it, here’s the first post: Everything I Eat in a Day – Part 1
What I Eat In A Day
I wake up hungry and usually snack on a handful of nuts as I check emails, maybe post to @Chocolatecoveredkatie on Instagram, and make breakfast.
Today I also ate a few strawberries that needed to be used up. If I’m going running in the morning, I’ll make a cup of coffee and have a more substantial first breakfast.
That’s about 1-3 times per week, depending on whether or not I feel like running.
I’ll never again force myself to exercise if I don’t feel like it, after being an obsessive exerciser for years.
Anyways, no running or coffee today.
Breakfast
Lately, I’ve been craving savory food for breakfast.
Today was two Homemade English Muffins–one of my favorite recipes in my new cookbook–toasted in the oven with organic vegan buttery spread, kale sautéed with olive oil and garlic, and caramelized cherry tomatoes.
It looks fancy, but honestly the tomatoes took under a minute to prepare, and all I did for the kale was throw it into the cast-iron skillet the day before and let it cook as I put my groceries away.
Lunch
Lunch was even easier to prepare.
Heat up some leftover Buffalo Chickpea Chili from the freezer, dice an avocado and throw it on top, and finish the meal by breaking off a piece of extra-dark (95%) chocolate.
My blog title really is a good name for me.
Snack 1
I always get hungry in the afternoon, and—surprise—it’s usually for chocolate.
Today was homemade cashewmilk and a Chocolate Brownie Paleo Bar.
Dinner
Dinner was this Broccoli Cheesy Rice, also from the cookbook.
I added extra broccoli and served it with sautéed mushrooms on the side.
I could eat this meal every single day – it is the epitome of creamy comfort food.
Snack 2
Nighttime snack: Chocolate Peanut Butter Nice Cream
More creamy comfort food. And also more chocolate. Katies are simple creatures, and we know what we like.
That’s usually it for the day in terms of eating, but on this particular night I went out later and had a glass of red wine as well.
Daily Total: 3,003 calories
(As a vegan, I also take Vitamin B12 and Omega 3s each day.)
By Popular Request: Link to the Full Nutrition Facts
Hi, I purchased your second book and can’t find the English muffin recipe. I’ve went through it a couple time and I just don’t see it. Help please!
On another note, I love all your recipes and posts. 🙂
Hi! I am so sorry for the trouble – the bonus pack with a few extra recipes sometimes gets caught in a spam filter (I’m guessing) en route to its destination. I’m emailing you immediately, and let me know if you don’t get it within the hour!
Jason (media relations)
Everyone that is saying that that is way to many calories and that she should be gaining weight, she is VEGAN. It is known that as a vegan you have to eat a lot more calories.
Hey, I know this post is over a year old now, but just wanted to comment. The broccoli cheesy rice looked delicious so I went ahead and bought the cookbook….alas no recipe listed. I guess I should have known by the title of the cookbook. Perhaps that link use to go to another one of your books but with the time passed, it changed? It’s all very sad here in computer-no-cheesy-rice land, however I’m sure I’ll like many of the other recipes and am not unhappy with my purchase. =)
Oh you absolutely should have that recipe! And a few others as well – it’s in the bonus pack that should be sending out automatically with the book but sometimes gets caught in a spam filter en route. Sending ASAP, and let me know if you don’t see it within the hour!
Jason (media relations)
there is no way that this calorie count is accurate. NO WAY that this is what she eats every day. NO WAY.
Okay, so…
I cut out most animal-based products from my diet a few years ago including all poultry, beef, pork etc. My mind and body thanked me, my tastebuds did not. Eating consciously and exercising routinely allowed me to shed 40 pounds (although I would actually attribute most of this to diet). As happy as I am with the physical changes I see, I miss my meat-based products/foods (or I did). I think a lot of people, myself included, believe that vegetable-based substitutes will taste the exact same as their animal-based counterparts. They might…. but likely not.
That being said, Katie has offered some great recipes here that really reinvigorates my love for plant-based dishes. Her recipe for black bean brownies is KILLER. I struggled not to eat the entire tray (Thanks Katie!)
For those who are experimenting with plant-based takes on traditionally meaty dishes… don’t expect the exact same flavour. The aforementioned brownies have a slightly different taste than your typical brownie, but my god, they are delicious.
Happy snacking! Thanks Katie!
Hi Katie! I only recently stumbled upon your website and have already made a couple recipes and read several of your articles. Thank you so much for all the hard work and passion you obviously pour into this blog – it made it so that I woke up this morning excited to find a recipe specifically on your blog to make today. I also love these What I Ate Today posts. Some of the comments are a bit off-putting but I just wanted to let you know that there are many people reading these articles who are appreciative of your openness, honesty, and desire to help others live healthy lives!
Hi Katie
I love your message. It’s a very important message.
The level of insecurity and ignorance on display in these comments is staggering. I wonder how many of these individuals go onto a body builder’s blog and take them to task because if THEY ate 8000 calories a day, they’d be dead… The human body is not cut and dry. It isn’t “calories in calories out” (please, for the sake of all things healthy get that noise out of your head) and it isn’t one size fits all. There’s a lot at play here. The obvious is that Katie has an aggressive metabolism. That boils down to a combination of genetics, your adrenal and digestive systems in general, and everything from what you eat to how much you work out. The reason some vegans, irregardless of metabolism, can get away with eating more calories? Higher quantities of fiber and complex carbohydrates like pectin and lecithin, which can block the absorption calories. Interestingly enough, many get the same effect from certain fat and protein profiles in ketogenic and carnivore diets. There is new research into weight loss and metabolism in the past year that I highly suggest anyone who doesn’t simply get a kick out of being a judgemental prick look into. Much of what we have been taught in the past has been disproved several times over and you readily can find the answer to why she can eat 3000 calories, but you can’t go over 1600
Wow, my 24 year old, 6’1″ vegan triathlete son in law eats 2800 calories per day and he probably has 60 pounds of muscle on Katie. He does he more on long training days, but on those days he is doing a 10 mile run or a 50 mile ride. Unless she can change the laws of physics or she has some type of metabolic abnormality, there is not one chance our very thin Katie can eat 3000 calories per day and stay that thin. Just sayin’.
I followed the link for the cookbook to get the Cheesy Broccoli Rice recipe. It took me to your breakfast cookbook, which I bought, but after looking through it, I don’t see it. Help!
Hi! I am so sorry for the trouble, the bonus pack should have sent out automatically along with the book. Sending it manually ASAP, so let me know if you don’t see it within the next few minutes!
Jason (media relations)
Got it! Thank you!
She is beautiful !!! She’s eating a plant based diet and helping people make delicious food so they can also be healthy. No wonder she is gaining popularity and attention. Normal people appreciate beauty and kindness. Haters have evil and jealousy in their heart…so to see such a beautiful women have success hurts their soul. Sometimes stating the obvious is needed. So there you go.
Although I’m sure Katie isn’t being intentionally misleading, I do think she has her “calorie count” off. Basing off of similar food calorie counts and portion sizes, I doubt the day she described is any more than 2,400 calories at most, unless she just ate really large portions of each meal. Because the food looks pretty much homemade, it’s easy to grossly miscalculate, under/overestimating the actual caloric amount. For the future, Katie, it might be easier to measure actual portions if you are incorporating calories into your post.
Of course calorie counting is always going to be inaccurate to a degree. But here’s a link to the full calorie breakdown of her day: https://lett-trim.today/day-life-nutrition/%3C/a%3E%3Cbr /> Jason
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I simply don’t believe this is what you eat in a day. It’s a work of fiction. You know it. And I know it.
How can you say that? That’s not nice. That I know.
I agree
Congratulations and thanks for the recipe! The best keto Buffalo Chickpea Chili I have ever eaten!!!
Hi Katie,
Thanks for sharing what you eat, it looks delicious! I know there has been a lot of debate about how many calories you are eating and how you stay skinny, etc, but I wanted to add my two cents because I was eating a similar way. In high school I was very skinny (not quite as skinny as you though perhaps), and when we did health class I recorded that I was eating about 3000 calories per day (and a lot of that was junk) and I was not gaining any weight. I think the teacher assumed I just did it wrong (I later went on to get a bachelors in Biochemistry, and was acing all my classes at the time, so I really think I was pretty accurate).
It turns out I was (and am) suffering from celiac disease. Despite eating a lot of calories my body was not able to absorb a lot of the nutrition. I also found myself eating a very high fat diet at the time because it helped my body to feel better. If you develop any gastrointestinal symptoms, joint pain, weird rashes, etc (there are so many potential symptoms), I would recommend having your doctor look into the possibility of celiac. (I’ve been strictly gluten free – the treatment for celiac – for 5 years and now follow a normal caloric level diet and it is enough for me, a number of other seemingly unrelated health issues cleared up for me too). Take it or leave it, just my two cents, but hopefully this comment might help shed some light someday if that is what’s going on for you or anyone reading the comments :-). Have a great day!
I once worked with a lady that was so skinny it was actually a little scary….seriously I could almost wrap one hand around her upper thigh. Everyone always commented on her weight, I actually felt sorry for her for having people be so focused on it. But she everyone back for the jokes at lunchtime. Almost every day she would go to the pizzeria down the block and order a full-size, 12-inch, meatball hero on Italian bread (and I am NOT joking) and 2 large chocolate chip cookies with a large Coca-Cola and eat every bite right in front of us. It was hilarious! People stopped eating in the lunchroom with her because the delicious smell of her food would put everyone off their salads LOL! This lady couldn’t gain weight if she tried. Its not scientific, its not what anyone could calculate and make sense of but it was her situation. If she had underlying health problems I didn’t know about it. She certainly wasn’t healthy though. She smoked a pack of cigarettes a day and never worked out either. Skinny as a rail. Katie can eat this was because of genetics. Don’t follow her lead if you know its not going to work for you, period.