Go Meatless Monday — It’s Good for You, and Good for the Planet
We have delicious plant-based recipes and guides to help you implement Meatless Monday in your school, hospital, workplace, and community.
Weekly Features
This Monday, we’re offering tips to help you get your kids to eat more vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes.
The fun of cooking with seitan is its versatility. The right sauces, seasonings, and cooking methods, can be transformed into everything from fajitas and taco meat to cold-cuts and chicken tenders. Looking for some inspiration? Check out our roundup of fun and innovative ...
The summer tomato is juicy, bright, and pleasantly tart. It’s a versatile ingredient that can be transformed into everything from chutneys and salsas to salads and savory tarts.
A combination of desire, technology, and creativity has allowed for food manufacturers and home cooks to create nearly every variety of dairy product imaginable without the use of any animal products. Plant-based butter? Yep. Plant-based ricotta? Yep. What about plant-bas...
Kids can be tricky and picky eaters, especially with school cafeteria. To help win over their hearts and bellies, here are some Meatless Monday lunch and snack ideas.
Explore kid-friendly meatless meals the whole family will enjoy. Plus tips and tricks to help kids love veggie meals.
Pulses are one of the healthiest categories of plant-based ingredients you can find. They are naturally low in fat and sodium, contain no cholesterol, and are great sources of protein, iron, potassium, and fiber. But pulses are also good for the world, serving as an affor...
This Monday, combat meat cravings by making smart substitutions that capture the essence of meat—minus the animal. We’ve got five unexpected tips, as well as corresponding recipes, to help you cook up delicious dishes that are better for your health and the environment.
Bring Friends and Family Together with Meatless Monday
The Meatless Monday For Friends and Family Package contains all the information and materials you need to encourage your social circle to adopt a more plant-forward diet. Adjusting how and what we eat is a big step, but when you’re making the commitment as a group, you’re more likely to see it through and reap the many health benefits—together.
In the News
What can you do to help? Consider donating to these organizations working to supply food and other necessities to Ukrainians in need.
Musical superstar, Billie Eilish, spoke out to Capitol Hill in support of the Healthy Future Students and Earth Act.
Following the success of Meatless Monday and Meatless Fridays, Mayor Eric Adams — a vocal advocate of plant-based eating and a long-time supporter Meatless Monday — announced the new initiative that he promises will improve the lives of thousands of New York City students.
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Success Stories
In Columbia, South Carolina, every Monday is now officially Meatless Monday, thanks to a city proclamation fueled by a partnership with Let’s Meat Less, an organization advocating plant-based eating.
Meatless Monday has officially arrived at the prestigious network of NewYork-Presbyterian hospitals, giving the hard-working staff and visitors at the Allen, Columbia, Westchester and Cornell sites new vegetarian choices every Monday.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza, and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams announced that Meatless Monday will be expanded to all New York City public schools beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, reaching 1.1 million students every week.
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