Forks Over Knives: YOUR Challenge!

I received the book Forks Over Knives as a gift this week. It is the companion book to the movie by the same name. The basic concept behind the movie is that eating a plant-based diet is better for you, the planet and animals. I did a blog before on the movie which I'll link here. I moved the movie! It was a very convincing argument for moving to a plant-based diet. There was research galore, but also lots of real life stories about his switching to a plant based diet changed people's lives in drastic ways. The book is a VERY basic synopsis of the movie, but the cool part is that it has recipes.
 Here is a section in the book that says:
Consider this: If the entire U.S. population were to adopt a plant-based diet for just one day, the nation would conserve the following resources:

• 100 billion gallons of drinking water, enough for every person in every home in New England for nearly four months
• 1.5 billion pounds of crops, enough to feed the population of New Mexico for over a year
• 70 million gallons of gasoline, enough to fuel every car in Canada and Mexico
• 33 tons of antibiotics.

Meanwhile, the following environmental damage would be prevented:

• 1.2 million tons of CO2 greenhouse emissions
• 3 million tons of soil erosion
• 4.5 million tons of animal waste
• 7 tons of ammonia emissions.

So, my challenge to YOU is to try it for one day. I realize that the readers of my blog are not going to make the drastic different e talked about in the book, but even if only 10 of you try it, that's better than nothing! So to help you be. Plant based eater for one day, I'm going to give you a few menu ideas to help you along. If/then you try this, please, please, please let me know how it went!

Breakfast:
Oatmeal with maple syrup
fruit
Smoothie (fruit, greens, ice, almond/rice milk, juice, whatever you like!)
Toast (whole grain) and preserves

Lunch
Salad (simple, right?!)
veggies and hummus
Lentil soup/black bean soup
nut butter roll-up (Ellie's favorite!)
baked potato/sweet potato

Dinner
Spaghetti Squash with tomato sauce
Wild Rice stuffed acorn squash
vegetable kababs on the grill
Vegetable stir-fry with rice
These recipes from the Forks Over Knives Website