Hi Vanessa, I’m glad to hear that your plant-based journey is going well! It really is a game changer. 🙂

Hi Leslie! Seitan is usually acceptable, even the store-bought kind. It would be considered a minimally processed food. As for homemade vegan cheeses and spreads, it really depends on the ingredients you use. If you’re using a handful of whole plant ingredients (for example, a can of chickpeas and tahini to make your own hummus), then it would be considered minimally processed. It helps to think of “processed” as a spectrum. Highly processed foods are the ones made in factories that no longer resemble anything you’d find in nature, minimally processed is what you could make yourself, and unprocessed would be foods as they’re found in nature. The goal is to eat mostly unprocessed and minimally processed foods. I hope this helps! 🙂

Hi, Kelly! Tortillas can be tricky because each brand includes different ingredients in their products. The Food For Life brand of Ezekiel sprouted whole grain tortillas have a fantastic ingredient list…it’s all whole plant ingredients! But if you can’t find that brand, I recommend looking through your available options and picking the bag with the shortest list of ingredients that you can pronounce. Often that will either be corn or whole wheat tortillas. In my experience, the white tortillas usually have the worst ingredient list.

Sheryl, I’m glad you liked the article! 🙂 And thanks for the tip! I tend to find that many people can’t handle that much raw starch without getting an upset stomach, so I generally recommend eating them cooked.

Hi, Linda! Thank you so much for the kind words. Some of those foods don’t have a particular recipe since I just wing it when I make them, but I did go back and include links to the recipes I do use. I hope this helps! 🙂