- It looks really fancy.
This is a lot of work, but actually not.
It was really fast to make.
We have entered the vegan zone,
AKA vegetables and fruits.
What even is tofu?
Shout out to all you vegans.
This is a hard lifestyle.
Hi guys, it's Audrey and today,
I'm honestly a little
nervous for today's video.
So today what we are gonna be
doing is I'm gonna be trying
to be a vegan for 24 hours.
Oh boy, ow, I just slapped myself.
So I've never, I am not a vegetarian.
I'm not a vegan, I'm not a...
What's the fish one?
Something -itarian, I don't know.
I don't eat meat all day every
day, like excessive amounts.
I just eat everything
in a good proportion,
so I feel like this video's
gonna be really hard for me
just because I have to
restrict my diet a lot
because it's not only
meat that I can't eat,
but I don't think I can
eat any dairy products
or anything from an animal.
Let me look up the definition
of a vegan real quick.
All right, it says, "veganism
is the practice of abstaining
"from the use of animal
products, particularly in diet,
"and associate philosophy that rejects
"the commodity status of animals.
"A follower of the diet or the philosophy
"is known as a vegan."
Let's see, what can you eat as a vegan?
Oh, okay, so vegans avoid
eating foods of meat, poultry,
fish and seafood, dairy,
eggs, bee products.
I did not expect that, okay.
So this is gonna be
super hard 'cause there's
a lot of things, gelatin?
Can I not, okay, there's a
lot of really weird things
I can't eat, vitamin D3? What?
Oh my gosh, it comes from
fish oil or sheep's wool.
Ah, this is gonna be super hard!
So okay, what I think we
should do is we should look up
some recipes that vegans can
eat and then what we should do
is we need to go to the
store 'cause I'm pretty sure
everything that I have
is not vegan friendly,
and then we're gonna start
the 24 hours tomorrow
because today I've already eaten normally.
Shout out to all you vegans.
This is a hard lifestyle,
but if you are able to do it,
props to you.
Okay, I'm gonna pull up
some recipes real quick
and I'm gonna come back
and show you what I found.
Okay guys, I found some options.
It took me a little bit to
figure out what I wanted
because a lot of things
take a long time to make
and I don't want to cook forever.
So I tried to find fast and
easy vegan meals to make
for 24 hours and I think
I found some ideas.
So for breakfast, I found
cucumber avocado toast.
So that's what it looks like.
Fancy pictures. I have
heard all of the hype
about avocado toast.
I've never tried it before.
There should not be
anything non-vegan in this,
so we're gonna try that for breakfast.
Hopefully it's good.
Usually I just have cereal for breakfast,
but this looks like a more healthy option
so we're gonna try that.
And then for lunch, this
is on the PETA website,
so you know we're official now.
We found some Mediterranean tacos.
This is the Mediterranean tacos.
There's no meat in it
at all and it looks like
a very fancy taco.
We have hummus, we've
got sun-dried tomatoes,
we've got all the things,
so I'm gonna find these
ingredients at the store and
then we also, for dinner,
I found easy vegan cauliflower fried rice.
So this is what it looks like.
Ta-da, it honestly looks
good, but I'm a little nervous
because it has tofu in it
and I've never had tofu
but I guess that's like the substitute of
chicken or meat if you're
vegan and I've also heard a lot
about cauliflower rice being
amazing and really healthy.
So we're gonna pick up these
ingredients from the store.
You're gonna come along with me.
We're gonna see if we can find them.
I haven't looked for any vegan snacks.
Hopefully I don't get
hungry throughout the day.
Maybe I need to pick some up
'cause there's like, no
protein, besides beans.
Am I getting anything with beans?
I have no idea.
So let's go to the store and
let's see what we can find.
Let's go get our items.
We have entered the vegan zone,
AKA vegetables and fruits.
And we have our avocados.
Guys, it has been so busy
here and I don't know where
the sun-dried tomatoes are.
There's a lot of things
I've never bought before
and I have no idea where
they're supposed to be,
but I've got a few things.
I've got a lot of vegetables,
more than I'm used to eating,
which is probably good.
It's probably a good video
for me but I'm so confused.
Where do I find these things?
Like sun-dried tomatoes and other thing?
I have a whole list.
Anyways, wish me luck, here we go.
We're gonna keep looking for
more stuff, and sesame seeds.
What? Okay, I'm supposed to
find sesame oil and I don't see
sesame oil among any of these oils, hmm.
All I see is like the normal
olive oil, vegetable oil.
All right, now I'm on the
mission to find pita chips,
which apparently is not chips because
I went down the chip aisle
and they ain't there.
So I'm down the next aisle.
Still not finding them,
and I still haven't found
the tomatoes either.
I am so lost.
This is why I get HelloFresh guys,
'cause I hate grocery
shopping with a passion.
Yes, we found them.
I don't know which one to
get, but we found them.
It was right in front of
my eyes the whole time.
Alrighty guys, I am back
from the store and holy cow,
that took me so long.
I hate grocery shopping,
first of all, second of all,
I had no idea where most
of these things were,
but I have three bags worth of food and
(shocked gasping)
maybe some personal things too.
I'm not fully vegan, you guys.
Actually, I'm not vegan at all.
I just need this for cereal
for my other days, okay?
Okay, don't come after me.
Now I can get on to the vegan stuff.
So this will be like my little haul,
and then in the next
clip we'll start making
the actual food.
So I found the pita chips, finally.
There was only one brand, and this one
is Mediterranean herb,
which good thing I'm making
a Mediterranean nacho thing,
because this is the only option
but I'm actually really
excited to eat this
'cause they look really good.
Got some peas, oh, this is not vegan.
This is for other stuff.
Oh my gosh, I'm really exposing myself.
I got whole wheat bread, which I've never,
ever in my life bought.
I've always gone white bread,
so this will be exciting to try.
We got some sun-dried tomatoes,
which literally took me
forever, forever to find.
You can see it on Aud Vlogs.
I was showing a little
bit of me shopping for
my back to school video, but holy cow.
They don't even look good.
They just look like gross things
in a can, like pig's feet.
Just sayin'. Also, I hope
everything that I got
is vegan friendly, like
the chips and everything,
because I didn't really
look at the ingredients,
I just assumed that it would
be, so maybe this is not
like, fully accurate.
I'm tryin' my hardest, guys.
It's already hard enough.
We got green onions.
This is my veggie bag.
We've got cauliflower,
which usually I don't eat,
but we're eating that today, or tomorrow.
Cucumbers, oh, this is for
my personal enjoyment, pears.
I was just really excited to get pears.
Avocado, which I hope I got a ripe one.
I've never bought an avocado by myself,
and I know they're supposed
to be a little squishy
but not too squishy and
I hope this is ripe.
I don't know, we'll see.
We'll see when we open it up.
Garlic, lemon, my favorite
fruit, and baby carrots,
which are just gonna be chopped up anyway.
I was gonna get the big
carrots, but then I was like,
I'm never just gonna eat
a giant carrot, you know?
So I got the baby ones and
just gonna chop 'em up.
Oh, so I guess we still
have some vegetables.
I'm supposed to get cherry
tomatoes and I got these.
There's so many different
kinds of tomatoes.
I have never known that.
I don't know what the difference is.
Oh, got some Airborne,
because sick season, you know.
We got some soy sauce.
We've got hummus, oh,
that's moved around a lot.
Um, the hummus has moved.
Hopefully it's good.
We've got basil.
This is the only basil thing I could find
and it's very fancy.
We've also got sesame
oil which took forever,
forever, to find, too.
They're not with all the other oils.
No, no, no, they're in a
whole different aisle, so.
This took me a solid,
probably like 20 minutes
to find, just sayin'.
Cashews, the only kind of nuts I like
besides sunflower seeds, also pistachios.
I don't really like almonds.
We got black olives, which this
is the only can it came in,
and they're sliced.
I don't know why my
grocery store is so weird.
And last but not least, we
got the nasty, pressed, firm,
whatever tofu, which I assume is gross.
I think I might have tried
it once in my life before.
I don't know, maybe I haven't.
I just think it's going to be
gross, but maybe it won't be.
Maybe this will be my next favorite food.
Anyways, that's my haul.
Now let's get into the
actual making of the video.
I'm a little nervous, but you know what?
We got this, let's do it.
All right guys, it is a
couple days later actually,
but it is time for me to finally become
a vegan for 24 hours.
I am so nervous.
I am ready though, it's the
morning time before my classes
and I'm all ready for the day,
I just have to make my food
and usually guys, in the
morning, I do not put
a lot of effort into my breakfast.
I just have cereal.
Let me show you the cereal that I have.
This is like my routine.
I end up having this every day.
Frosted Flakes, 'cause they're so good.
Anyways, so I usually
eat that, but I mean,
that's probably vegan, right?
I'd probably be good making that.
Anyways, we're gonna be healthy
today and we're gonna make
our avocado toast.
Ta-da, there we go.
The first thing to do, it
says to mix mashed avocado
with lemon juice, so I have
my avocado but I don't know
how to open it so we're
just gonna, oh my gosh,
everything's rolling off.
We're just gonna try, also,
don't judge me and my knives.
I know this is a steak
knife, but I don't have
any cooking knives so we always use this.
It's a knife, it works, okay?
So I think I've seen people
cut their avocados like this
since there's a pit in the middle.
Do I cut the whole thing up?
I don't feel like I do.
Then what am I gonna
do with the other half?
This is so stressful.
This is very mushy, I think it's ripe.
Oh wow. (laughs)
Look how big this is.
Oh my gosh, okay, this is a mess.
I think we're gonna use half and then
save the half for later, but oh my gosh,
this is really a mess.
Okay, great presentation.
I'm just gonna scoop it out.
This is also like Cooking with Audrey 101.
We don't know what we're doing. Ew.
Also, I don't hate avocado,
but I'm not like a person
that goes for avocado.
I actually used to hate it,
but now I'm getting better at it.
This is like, really mushy.
I hope this is still good.
We gotta mash it up.
Mixy mixy, here we go, mixin' an avocado!
Wow, it's very...
I hope this has flavor, 'cause
I'm a big flavor person.
It has to taste good.
I don't like oatmeal because
it's just like mushy nothing,
so I never eat oatmeal, as
an example of I have to have
something that tastes good.
Okay, and now I have to pour
a teaspoon of lemon juice,
so hopefully this adds a
little zest to the meal.
Let's see, I mean, it's not
that much but maybe that's good
that it's not a lot.
Okay, mixy.
All right, we're mixing that in.
I love lemons, by the way, guys.
That's my favorite fruit.
Lemons are so great, and I
could just eat a whole lemon
like straight up.
It doesn't affect me.
That and limes.
This is real simple.
So all we have to do next is
put the avocado on the bread
and then put the cucumber,
I have to cut this up,
put cucumber on the
bread, sprinkle some basil
and then we're done.
So I don't think you guys want to watch me
do the whole thing so I'm
just gonna hurry and do it
real quick and then I'll
come back and show you
what it looks like and then
we're gonna give it a little
taste test review.
Alrighty guys, I finished making my meal,
and you tell me what you think, you ready?
Ta-da, this is what it looks like.
Honestly, not bad.
It actually looks kind of gourmet.
So let's try it 'cause honestly
it doesn't really matter
about the presentation, it
matters more about the taste,
in my opinion, and also,
by the end of this video,
I want you guys to comment
down below which meal you think
looked the best or
which one you would try.
So we're gonna try our
avocado toast first.
It looks really fancy.
This is a lot of work, but actually not.
It was really fast to make, so.
Hmm, this is weird. (laughs)
This is something I would
not gravitate towards because
it's just very vegetable-y.
I don't know if that makes sense.
I feel like I need more savory
stuff and more, maybe sweet.
In the morning I eat cereal,
so it's sweet, but this,
it's very healthy tasting,
if that makes sense.
I think the most prominent
taste to me is not the avocado.
I can't taste avocado at all.
All I taste is the cucumbers.
Like, overpowerly cucumbery,
and then the bread,
which I'm not used to this kind of bread.
So on a scale of one to
10 for the avocado toast
I probably rate it like
(drumroll)
a four?
It's not gross, but I would
never do this again myself.
I wouldn't go for this,
I wouldn't choose it,
so yeah, this is meal
number one of the day.
Let's zoom to lunch time and
start making meal number two.
- Alrighty guys, so it's
lunch time now, and honestly,
after I ate that avocado toast
for breakfast this morning
it made my stomach hurt.
It still kind of hurts,
it doesn't feel good,
so still never gonna eat that again.
Maybe there's other avocado
toast that tastes better,
but the one that I made
I don't like at all,
so we can only go up from here hopefully.
All right, now we are
gonna make our lunch,
which is Mediterranean nachos.
I have never heard of
Mediterranean nachos.
Now I love nachos, sometimes
when I go to restaurants
I'll just get nachos for
my meal or I'll get soup.
I'm really weird, like
I eat the appetizers
for the main meal.
So that's why I picked
this because, I don't know,
it's a food that I'll eat, and plus,
it's a little bit different and fast.
So what I'm gonna be doing,
it says to make it in a bowl
or a plate, but I'm gonna
be using this Tupperware.
So let's see what the instructions are.
So it says to put the pita chips,
that took me five-ever to
find, in the bowl first.
This is enough for a family,
right, a family of one.
Okay, hmm, they smell good.
Let's do a little taste test.
I hope this is vegan.
Otherwise I'm cheating.
I don't think I am cheating.
Whoa, wow, the flavor is immaculant.
(laughs) It's like TikTok.
They're crunchy, actually, I love these.
Okay, so far this is already
better than breakfast.
So we're just gonna add
some of this in here.
Oh, that's a lot.
Okay, next I have to heat the hummus
in a microwavable safe bowl
for one and a half minutes.
I'm gonna taste it.
We gotta make sure everything has a taste.
Last time we had no flavor for breakfast.
What? This tastes so weird.
Also, I'm double dipping
and I'm a germaphobe
but it's fine because I'm
the only one eating this.
Hmm, I actually really like this.
It says three cups of
hummus, how much is in here?
I don't feel like there's
a lot in here, but also,
do I need to use all of the hummus?
All right, I just finished
making the rest of it up,
and this is what it looks like.
So this is definitely not
nachos I would usually make.
For nachos I just like, literally
get Doritos and then put
shredded cheese on top and then that's it.
So this is a little bit more fancy.
It was a little hard opening
up the canned jar of olives.
I gotta say, I hate
working with can openers,
and also these sun-dried
tomatoes were really weird.
Let me show you.
I had to like, rip them apart.
They're very oily and like...
I don't think I've ever cooked with,
I haven't cooked with that before.
There's chips, so I'm just
gonna scoop stuff out.
Alrighty, here we go.
(upbeat pop music)
Hmm.
Not bad. I actually
really like the hummus.
I'm gonna try to get one of those nasty,
maybe they're not gross, the
sun-dried tomatoes on it,
just to see what it tastes like.
This is actually really good.
I would recommend trying it, wow.
Who knew? I don't think
nachos, well, actually,
this is a great substitute
for not having cheese,
I feel like.
Lunch definitely beat
out breakfast, ta-da.
And we get to have
leftovers, which is great,
'cause I don't have to keep
cooking, and it was fast.
I just had to assemble
everything together, so.
This was really good.
Now, I'm gonna go to class and
let's move on to dinner time.
Alrighty guys, it is dinner time.
I'm back from my class, it was good.
I only had one today, so
today has actually been
a really good day, but I
was getting ready to set up
for dinner and I have all my ingredients.
There's gonna be a lot in this process.
It's not gonna be as
fast as the other ones.
We've got a few things, and
the thing says it takes me
25 minutes to make, which
honestly, it's probably gonna
take me a little bit more than
that, but I was getting ready
to set up for this and I was
using the stinkin' can opener
and it broke.
Legit, I'm not kidding.
I was trying to open
this, and it fell apart.
So we have this, (laughs)
the spring, and this.
Like, oh my gosh, I don't know,
how do you fix a can opener?
Is it done for?
So yeah, I don't know what
we're gonna do, but we're gonna
try to figure out how to
open this can of green peas
and start cooking.
I figured it out, I got it open, so.
The first thing it says for me to do is
press and drain the tofu.
Like what does that even mean?
So we're gonna open this up together
and see what it looks like.
Oh my gosh, the juice is leaking out.
We're just gonna...
Wow, okay, it doesn't smell good.
What even is tofu?
I'm just gonna press
it in this box and then
hopefully it all squeezes out.
Ew, I hate this.
So now I have to keep crumbling this mess.
How much do I need though?
'Cause that's a lot of tofu.
It says a pound of tofu.
We're gonna eyeball it
'cause we don't like
taking measurements. Ew.
It feels like something
I should not be eating,
to be honest.
Sorry to all the tofu lovers out there.
I don't mean to be a hater.
Maybe I'll love it when I try
it, but this is just weird.
Okay, so, this is what
the bowl looks like.
This is what I crumbled it out of.
I have to cut the
cauliflower in to florets.
What does that even mean?
What does the picture look like?
Um, discarding the tough inner core.
Working in batches if
needed, pulse the cauliflower
in a food processor until it
breaks into rice size pieces.
I don't have a food processor.
I have a blender, and I don't
really want to blend it.
Okay, we're just gonna
see what we make of this.
All right guys, so I
crumbled the cauliflower
as much as I could.
It's such a mess.
It doesn't really look like rice.
It's really chunky rice, but
this is what's gonna work.
And then next step was to use a large wok
to put sesame oil in
and I don't have a wok
but I have a frying pan so
we're gonna use this instead
and I hope it'll work.
I mean, we gotta use
what we have so I'm gonna
stick this in here and
hopefully this turns out good.
I had to mash three cloves
of garlic and it blends in
with the cauliflower so hopefully
I didn't get any of that
mixed in but that's a lot of garlic.
So I'm gonna finish making
all this and then we're gonna
see what it looks like and
then we're gonna try it.
(upbeat techno music)
Okay guys, I finished making the food
and it doesn't look bad.
It's in a huge container
but it looks pretty good.
So we're just gonna try it
and see what it tastes like.
It smells like a Japanese
restaurant to be honest.
Okay, here we go, first bite.
Let's see, here we go.
Hmm.
(drumroll)
Actually it tastes pretty good.
I'm getting a lot of
cauliflower and like honestly,
I can't really taste the
tofu but I don't know
what tofu tastes like, so I
don't know what to look for.
This is a tofu bite.
This is a squishy one.
Ew, okay, here we go.
Hmm, it's squishy, but soft,
and it tastes just like
soy sauce because I had to
put in soy sauce in here so honestly,
I don't think tofu has a flavor
so I guess it's good.
I'm so surprised that I don't hate this.
I thought it was gonna be
really gross, but I'm glad that
I don't hate it because I
have a lot of it to eat.
So I'm gonna keep eating this
and on a scale of one to 10
I'd probably rate this one,
probably like a seven or an eight.
It might beat the nachos,
but the nachos were good.
So I don't know, it's like,
on the same scale, not bad.
Yay, we did it!
All right you guys, that
is it for today's video
of me being a vegan for 24 hours.
Now I gotta say, going into this challenge
I was very, very nervous.
I was nervous that I would
not be able to be a vegan
for 24 hours.
I might have to cheat a little bit because
I didn't really know what it
was like to eat vegan food
on purpose but I actually
ended up not hating it.
It's pretty good.
But the thing is I don't think,
after this experience, I don't
think I'm gonna be a vegan
just because it takes a
long time to plan out what
you're gonna eat and then make it.
Some of the meals were
really fast to make.
But just going to the store,
that took me a long time.
I don't know, I don't want
to be restricted to one
certain type of food and
always have to worry about
what I'm eating but I want
to give props to the people
that do that because it's hard.
But I think if you're really
into it then it's great
and honestly the food is not bad.
Out of the three meals I had
today, I loved two of them,
so I'd say that's a pretty good win.
So I want you guys to
comment down below which meal
you thought looked the best.
Was it one, breakfast?
Was it the lunch or was it the dinner?
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