Exploring Purse Sauces for Plant-Based Dining

Speaker 1 0:00

Tonight , jared and I are meeting you at a local restaurant to go out to dinner together . We are so excited to get to meet you for the first time . We hug and start talking and I forgot to zip up my purse . And so you glance down and you see there's a little container inside my purse and you wonder what in the world is in there . You say , anita , what is in your purse ? And I'm going to tell you all about purse sauce . Listen , friend , I cannot wait for you to discover this secret .

Speaker 1 0:35

If you've heard about purse sauce before , I promise you're going to learn a few new ideas when it comes to what you can add to your food when you go out to eat . I know , I know I get it . You want to dine out like a regular person , right ? You get tired of feeling different , like you just can't do things the way other people do . Well , you can . When you eat plant-based , the pop way . We're going to show you how we came up with the idea of adding a purse sauce to your purse or your bag , your backpack , maybe . If you're a guy , it's very simple to do . You can be nonchalant about it . No one even has to know . You just know because you were curious about what was in my purse . But nobody is ever going to know . It's in there and when you put it on your table it's going to be so not obvious at all . You'll get sauce right on to your food and it is going to make the biggest difference . But the biggest thing is not only is the food going to taste better than it would have with the oil-laden , sugar-laden , salt-filled sauces that would have been on that delicious whole food , plant-based meal you ordered . You won't be hurting and sluggish and exhausted afterwards because you ate all of those unhealthy foods that have been holding you back from living your dreams for so long . Jared and I can't wait to share more on this episode with you about purse sauces . Even the guys are going to love this one .

Speaker 1 2:00

Hey sister , welcome to the Power on Plants podcast . Are you tired of staring into the fridge wondering what to eat so you can just feel better ? Do you want to avoid spending hours in the kitchen making complicated meals in the name of health ? Would you love to leave fatigue behind and finally have the energy to do all the things you want to do ? Hi , we're Jared and Anita Roussel .

Speaker 1 2:22

Christ followers , healthcare professionals , parents of four and big fans of great tasting food . We , too , tried exercising more , eating natural and clean foods , but we still found ourselves struggling with what we thought were changes that come with age or bad genes , and we weren't finding answers the traditional route . So we dug into the research and created our secret nutritional weapon sustainable plant-based living . The truth is , you can eat more whole plant foods , and it's not hard . You just need the way that's realistic and delicious so you never feel deprived . If you're ready to enjoy your meals , no longer be held back by your health struggles and actively live your life , then you're in the right place . So grab your favorite plant-based cup of happy pop in those earbuds and let's get started .

Speaker 1 3:11

Hey there , friend , welcome to this episode of Power On Plants . If you're new here , we are thrilled to have you joining us , and if you are a longtime listener , you know that we love you and we are glad to be back with you to share more about how you can heal naturally with whole food , plant-based meals that actually taste good , that are simple to prepare and make you feel amazing so you can fully live your best years . Yet jared and I are passionate about showing you how these foods that we were created to eat actually can work with your regular schedule and you can have meals that you love . Never feel deprived , never think about going back because you love the lifestyle . Dieting is kicked to the curb , although always are gone . There's so many ways I could go right now in this conversation , but we don't have time to cover it all . I'm laying this out for you inside our brand new course that will be upcoming shortly , but what I want you to know today is just one thing just doing one simple thing at a time . Right now , while you're waiting for us to be able to walk you step by step to plant based joy is going to start changing things for you in massive ways , and purse sauce is one of those things I wish I could tell you exactly .

Speaker 1 4:29

When I first came up with this idea , it wasn't something I saw anybody else do , and I actually named it myself purse sauce .

Speaker 1 4:36

I've never heard anybody else in the plant based space , or any space for that matter , talk about purse sauce , but this was one of those mind blowing things that just changed everything for us , because when you go whole food plant based , if you don't do it the right way , it's very easy to start feeling like you're very different and you're missing out and it just doesn't have to be that way .

Speaker 1 4:57

And one of those times when I noticed that our clients feel that way and where we felt that way when we didn't know how to do it , was dining out .

Speaker 1 5:06

You want to be able to go out and have really great food , good ingredients that taste amazing , but we find that a lot of the things that are standing in your way to feeling good are placed into the foods through the sauces and through the dressings , and so you have this really healthy thing like a beautiful salad or a beautiful bowl of some type with all kinds of vegetables and delicious things , and then they put the sauce all over the top and you can't figure out why .

Speaker 1 5:34

When you just quote , went and ate a salad and now you don't feel good , your joints ache , you're exhausted and you're tired of feeling this way every time you go out to eat . But if you will implement carrying some of these purse sauces with you that I'm talking about today , this can change everything for you when you start dining out , because you're going to love the way it tastes . It is quick and simple to prepare and it's going to make your food taste amazing . People are going to want to try it at the table , trust me . How many times have we had that happen ?

Speaker 2 6:09

It's been quite a few . People see that and they want to try that . They take a little sampling , they wow , that's really good , and then they end up using it as well . So now we always make a full container , and our containers are around what ? 16 ounces . We go ahead and just make it full so that everybody can share in it .

Speaker 1 6:27

Isn't that hilarious . And we're talking about people who are not whole food plant-based . What is that ? Can I try it ? They try a little spoonful and next thing you know they're picking up the sauce container pouring it over their meal . That is so much fun . I just love it . It's another way to make people that are with you curious about the way that you're eating and maybe even start to eat a little more whole food plant-based themselves . And before long , maybe they're all whole food plant-based and healing and getting better and reversing disease that they were told they would have their entire life , like type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure and high cholesterol and extra pounds and all these things that they've been struggling with their entire life .

Speaker 1 7:06

And all of it changed over something as simple as the idea of a purse sauce . So what exactly is a purse sauce ? This is what I call my five minute power on plant dressings and sauces , things that , literally , you throw this into the blender , you throw that into the blender , blend it up , done five minutes or less . I'm seriously stretching it when I say five minutes , because most of these sauces I can do in under three easy and most of the time , once you start making them , you'll get to a point where you'll just throw in the amount you like and you'll kind of adjust things out . But I've set it to where you can just follow it exactly and get a delicious sauce . But it's really easy to tweak these things and you're going to learn how to do that as you go .

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Speaker 1 7:49

But you take this sauce and you put it into a container . That's not obvious . I mean , I wouldn't use like a neon container , you know , a hot pink or a bright green container that draws attention right , and one of the things that we don't like to do when we first start this journey is draw attention to the fact that we're doing things differently , because we just want to blend in and enjoy the conversation and not draw attention to ourself . We want it to be about the people that we're with so we can listen to them and serve them and make it a fun evening together without it all being focused on us , and it doesn't need to be . So just put it in a container that you love .

Speaker 1 8:26

I have a beach happy container that you can see on our Instagram page , where I take my favorite drinks to the beach in it , and it's an insulated container so it keeps my sauce cold . So think about an insulated , stainless container that you might have that you would put your drinks in your favorite drinks . So it's kind of tall . I mean , choose a container that's going to fit in whatever bag you're carrying . For one Number two , you're just going to choose something that doesn't stand out like a sore thumb , so it's not a bright color , right , and then you don't have to worry about it . So you make this sauce that takes literally five minutes or less . You pour it into your container . I like the ones that keep it cold , so I use the insulated drink containers . I pop it in my purse . Make sure the lid is on tightly , please . You do not want that popping open , because you really don't literally want a purse saucy .

Speaker 2 9:16

You don't want it in your purse . You don't want a saucy purse ? No , you don't . And it sounds like that's just a simple gammy . Hey , it happens , it just it happens sometimes . So double check the lid . Something else I was thinking too as far as the container size , think about who all's going to be there . If it's just two of you , maybe you don't need 16 ounces of sauce . Now , when we go out , it's six of us , sometimes with our family , and then sometimes more if we're going with friends or guests . So we pack ready .

Speaker 1 9:45

Absolutely . You've got to be ready because I promise , just like Jared said , the people at the table with you are going to want to try it . If they don't , I'd be very surprised .

Speaker 2 9:54

I think one of the aspects with having a purse sauce is that it makes it easier when you're ordering , because if you have a salad now , one of our favorite places we go to we've mentioned in one of our other episodes called Fish Out of Water there's a quinoa bowl that has a sauce . All we do is just say , hey , either leave off the sauce or I would just like the sauce on the side , that's it . You don't have to go through any questions . Hey , does it have this ? Can you omit that when you make the sauce ? Because many times the sauces and dressings are pre-made . You just simply say , hey , just leave it on the side , made . You just simply say , hey , just leave it on the side . And then you've got your own . And it makes it very easy , very inconspicuous , like Anita said , nonchalant , and I mean we wouldn't think of any other way of doing it now .

Speaker 1 10:36

That's such a great point . I love that you brought that up , because it is another way to not draw attention to yourself to just say just leave it off or just put it on the side . If you want to try it or you think someone else at your table might enjoy that sauce , you can have it left on the side and then again they don't think anything about it . And so once we place our order , I just go ahead and casually remove the bottle of sauce from my purse and set it on the table . It's no big deal . We've ordered drinks . It's sitting there . No one has ever asked or questioned anything . And then I don't make a big deal about it when I open it and put it on my meal . I just open it up and pour it on there . Now , if you're a close friend of mine and we're sitting there together and we're dining out , I would lean over and say hey , do you want some of this ? I brought the sauce with me . It has this and that , and if you think it'd go well with your meal , you can try it and use it on your meal too if you'd like . If not , I'm not offended . So it just gives you options and it's just so much fun to be able to share eating this way with people , because I think what happens in the plant-based space even is that things just are too difficult . Why do things have to become difficult ? Keep things simple for yourself . When you learn these step-by-step ways and these secret insider tricks to doing things , all of a sudden it becomes just what you do , and before you go to the restaurant .

Speaker 1 11:56

There's one more tip I want to give you , and it's consider the cuisine , because let's say you're going to a down-home kind of southern foods restaurant and you're going to get maybe a baked potato . You could use barbecue sauce on it or something else that you could put barbecue on wherever you would go to eat barbecue . Maybe you're getting a bowl and you think a barbecue sauce would be good on there , or a nacho cheese sauce , or maybe cashew cream . One thing I love to do when we go to eat Mexican and I know that's the type of cuisine we're going for I would use the Power and Plants cashew cream and I would put a squeeze of lime in it and stir in a bit of my favorite salsa . Now I've got a salsa , cashew cream that's limey . That's going to be delicious on Mexican dishes like veggie fajitas or a taco bowl or anything that I might get at a Mexican restaurant it's delicious bowl or anything that I might get at a Mexican restaurant it's delicious .

Speaker 1 12:50

If I know it's a restaurant that I might want to get a salad . Blue cheese is great . Also really , really good on a baked potato or ranch dressing Another favorite for a baked potato or a salad . So these are things that you can use on multiple dishes . Maybe I want to get a baked potato and a salad . I could use that one dressing , either ranch or the pot blue cheese , on both of those things . So I want to think ahead a little bit about what I might want to order , but especially the type of cuisine and that's going to help steer which five minute dressing I make to get in that purse sauce bottle and get that into my purse or backpack before I leave to go to the restaurant .

Speaker 1 13:23

Now , all of those recipes that I just mentioned you can find in our original cookbook bundle at poweronplantscom forward slash cookbook . But then in the Thrive cookbook at that same web address you can find Chick-No-Way sauce . Oh my goodness , that one is a game changer . Or what about the lemony tahini sauce , one of my favorite dressings for salad of all time . I don't even know how to describe it . It just tastes so good . It's creamy . It doesn't have nuts in it . If , for some reason , you can't eat nuts , it's made with sesame seeds . It is absolutely fantastic . Or our yum yum sauce is also in there .

Speaker 1 14:03

So say , I was going to a Japanese or Chinese restaurant and I was going to get a bowl of vegetables that had been steamed or sauteed right , and I was going to get a bowl of vegetables that had been steamed or sauteed right . Then I would want to get that yum yum sauce in there . Or to go on my bowl of rice . Oh , my goodness , you're not gonna believe how good this is . I cannot wait to share this with you .

Speaker 1 14:21

Grab your copy of the Thrive Cookbook bundle if you want to try these recipes that I've just mentioned .

Speaker 1 14:27

These are perfect sauces . You can get both of them at poweronplantscom forward slash cookbook . And then , jared and I want you to join us inside our free community podcast insiders experience at poweronplantscom forward slash PIE . That's poweronplantscom forward slash pie . And in there , snap a picture of you enjoying your purse sauce at the restaurant and tell us which one you tried and how it went . We want to get to know you better and hear all about how these things are making such a difference in your life . Listen , we know you don't want to feel different . You want to enjoy your meals , but you don't want to ache in your joints like you used to . You don't want to be dealing with a high blood pressure and high cholesterol and autoimmune disease and digestive disorders and brain fog and low energy that you had whenever you were eating non-plant-based , and you shouldn't have to deal with those things . This is one very simple thing that you can do to make dining out a joy and to introduce others to whole food , plant-based living too , if you so desire .

Speaker 2 15:34

And the power on plant sauces make that so much easier . Because what we know is that people they don't dislike plant-based , they just don't like nasty tasting food . But unfortunately , their experiences have taught them that plant-based can't be tasty , can't be enjoyable .

Speaker 1 15:51

And that makes me want to cry .

Speaker 2 15:53

It

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Speaker 2 15:54

does . It's sad , but when you follow these recipes and those sauces are amazing and your friends and your family members try it , they are pleasantly surprised . So then you don't have to worry about sharing these with them .

Speaker 1 16:07

You are going to fall in love with purse sauces . So the next time you go out to eat , do not leave home without your purse sauce . And then let us know how it goes . And remember , before you whip up your sauce , keep in mind the type of cuisine you're going to be eating and tailor your sauce to go best with that type of meal Friend . We cannot wait to hear all about your purse sauce adventures inside pie and tailor your sauce to go best with that type of meal Friend . We cannot wait to hear all about your purse sauce adventures inside pie and we look forward to getting to know you more there . Hope you have a fantastic week , sunshine , and we will see you soon , thank you .