Mario Batali’s Meatless Monday–Sorta
Written by Vegetarian Star on April 22nd, 2011 in Chefs, Flexitarian, Food & Drink.
Mario Batali is on board and ready to embrace a life with less meat. He’s observing Meatless Monday is his restaurants, has plans for a vegetarian cookbook and made one of his New Year’s resolutions for 2011 to learn to cook more vegetarian meals.
Making vegetables the center of his plate is how Batali lost a significant amount of weight and continues to maintain a lighter figure.
During one of Grubstreet’s regular “a week in the food life of [insert famous person],” Mario gave an an example of how he keeps Meatless Monday.
“Boxing at 8 a.m. I box three days a week and I play squash two days a week. In the morning almost every day, I have a shake with some almond milk and some frozen fruit, and that’s my morning routine. I don’t really need breakfast. In all honesty, if I have a substantial breakfast, I’m hungry at eleven. And then I’m hungry at one, and then I’m hungry at three. If I just start eating a big breakfast, I eat all day long. So I’ve found if you just kind of limit it and then try to go vegan-vegetarian until dinner — it’s all about calories in, calories out.”
“I had a little snack at home at eleven: two stalks celery, with hummus and Sriracha. Then I came down here [to Otto] and shot an espresso. If I drink espresso before noon, I get kind of zippy.”
“For lunch, I ate family meal [at Otto]. Two or three days a week they make a soup and this one was a vegetable one with rice: vegetables and cilantro, and then they put hot chilies and jalapeños on the side. And I had a Diet Coke.”
Actually, this Meatless Monday is more like Mark Bittman‘s “vegan until six,” flexitarian approach, as you’ll learn about what happened at dinner time at GrubStreet.
But we do give a guy credit for some efforts.
Photo: PR Photos
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