How To Eat Plant-Based Like Kat Von D!

No conversation about beauty or goth queens is complete without the mention of Kat Von D.  The animal activist, fine artist, musician, tattoo artist and outspoken vegan always tells it like it is, no matter the consequences. From brutally honest interviews about her disaffection for the Kardashian sisters to her avid promotion of living a vegan lifestyle, Kat remains a fan favorite celebrity for her true thoughts and activism. Oh, and her fantastically vampy-dark style of course.

After being a vegetarian for life, the starlet stumbled upon the documentary, Forks Over Knives, and became a vegan almost instantly. She told Mercy For Animals, “Veganism changed me. It taught me to look past myself—to consider how my choices affect others—the animals, the people around me, and the planet we live on. To me, veganism is consciousness.”

So what does Kat enjoy eating?

Macrobiotic Brown Rice Arame

Kat eats a macrobiotic, vegan diet, which is a diet that focuses on eating local and seasonal foods that balance each other in harmonic ways. Some people follow this diet as a philosophy of life and others follow it for health reasons. After yelling, literally yelling, ‘Good morning, today!’ as her positive morning ritual, she goes to prepare her breakfast. She said she used to adore coffee, but cut it out of her diet. You can drink non-coffee, coffee alternatives in the morning if you want to slowly eliminate coffee from your diet, too! A chai tea, kombucha drink, or black tea will suffice for natural early-morning energy. Here are 8 Drinks, Besides Coffee, That’ll Wake You Up.

Macrobiotics suggests that we choose and prepare food in a manner that serves our health condition and lifestyle. Choosing to live in harmony with nature and realizing that we are part of everything around us is the basic tenet of macrobiotic thinking. Supporters believe that by comprising your diet mostly of grains and vegetables and limiting the number of animal products, your health and happiness will both benefit greatly. They also believe in the Yin of some foods, and the Yang of others; think hot and cold, or passive and aggressive.

Macrobiotic vegan diets do allow for the occasional noodle, pasta, veggie burger and other partially processed grains. So, if you want to eat like Kat, you can still go out with friends and enjoy a heavy, greasy meal.

Try this Macrobiotic Millet Cauliflower Mash With Shiitake Gravy, this Macrobiotic Brown Rice Arame and this Macrobiotic Pearled Barley Ojiya: Japanese Breakfast Porridge for some super healthy recipes. Look to this guide: How a Vegan Macrobiotic Chef Stocks Her Pantry (and Kitchen) for Success.

So, what about lunch time?

Kat Von D/Facebook

Kat told The Kit that she enjoys going out to eat from time and time. One of her favorite places is Real Food Daily on La Cienega Boulevard. Their menu includes shakes, smoothies, noodle bowls, veggie tacos, organic coffees, house-made jams and intense veggie burgers. Although her diet is relatively nutrient dense and as healthy as can be, she enjoys a good veggie burger with a side of french fries from time to time. Don’t we all?

You can make your own hearty veggie burgers at home. Try this Red Bean and Mushroom Cheeseburgers recipe, or this Black Bean and Basil Burgers which are perfect for grilling. You can also make this Tempeh Black Bean Burgers With Creamy Dill Sauce or this Black and White Bean Chia Seed Veggie Burgers.

Kat Von D/Instagram

On her Instagram, she posted a photo of a gorgeous plum tart she enjoyed from Floret Vegan Kitchen. If you want to try one for yourself, try making this Easy Plum Cake, this Raw Plum and Prune Cheesecake Tart and these Fruity Pop Tarts.

When it comes to her cruelty beauty like, Kat told Vogue Paris, “Advances in technology now allow us access to ingredients which no longer require animals to suffer or the planet to be exploited and we are lucky to have this choice. I’m not a moral militant, I just want to show people that there are alternatives, there is a choice. As a big fan of make-up, I like to know that I’ve chosen a beauty product knowing everything, rather than buying it because I had to.”

For inspiration, Kat Von D looks to beautiful cities that elicit creative and calm emotions. She listed Edith Piaf as a style icon and believes that makeup can act as the perfect medium for self-expression. In recent news, the star announced her marriage, her pregnancy, and her 40 new vegan lipsticks from her brand, Kat Von D Beauty. As long as this star is alive, she promises to defend animals, shine the light on plant-based living, and stay as authentically cool as she possibly can. And we know that she always will.

If you enjoy recipes like this, we highly recommend downloading the Food Monster App, it’s available for both Android and iPhone and has free and paid versions. The app is loaded with thousands of allergy-friendly & vegan recipes/cooking tips, has hundreds of search filters and features like bookmarking, meal plans and more! The app shows you how having diet/health/food preferences can be full of delicious abundance rather than restrictions!

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