What I eat in a day (+ what my baby eats) 🧸

Summary

After taking nearly a year away from filming to settle into life with her baby, Sadia returns for a day of family meals. Their daughter now sets the household’s wake-up time. Sadia says nights have improved, though they can still be unpredictable. To make busy days easier, she plans ahead and batch-preps food that works for both adults and their daughter.

Meals and practical tips

• Peanut butter chocolate overnight oats: Sadia prepares several servings the night before with oats, soy milk, yogurt, peanut butter, and chocolate. She prefers soy milk for its protein and explains that the fiber in the oats and the protein in the milk, yogurt, and peanut butter help make the breakfast filling. She also swirls peanut butter inside the jars to create little pockets of it in the finished oats.
• Green goddess sandwiches: She makes extra tofu-based filling for the next day. Before adding salt, she sets some aside for her daughter. She notes that the vinegar made the filling quite acidic and suggests using less for young children. To assemble the sandwiches, she uses pesto, cucumber, avocado, and alfalfa sprouts.
• Lemony tahini tagliatelle with burst tomatoes: The pasta can be made with tagliatelle, linguine, or spaghetti; regular chopped tomatoes can replace cherry tomatoes. The sauce combines toasted tahini, olive oil, lemon zest and juice, nutritional yeast, and maple syrup. Reserved pasta water helps thin the sauce, which thickens as it combines with the pasta. Peas and fresh basil finish the dish, with crunchy breadcrumbs as an optional topping.
• Adjusting food for her baby: For both lunch and dinner, Sadia portions out food before adding salt, then seasons the adults’ portions. Sharing meals lets her offer her daughter a range of foods without preparing a completely separate meal.

Sadia also reflects on motherhood as deeply joyful and difficult. She feels both grateful for her daughter’s milestones and nostalgic for the baby stage while it is still happening.

She introduces her cookbook, which contains more than 100 plant-based recipes, and says buyers can also access the recipes in the Pick Up Limes app.

Notable locations, products, and speakers

The video is filmed at home and outdoors during breakfast. Featured products include soy milk, tofu, tahini, and pesto. Sadia also discusses the Pick Up Limes cookbook and app. Sadia is the main speaker, with occasional comments from her partner, Robin.