• Try eating one animal-free meal every week. Click here for recipes.

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• Make your Mondays "Meatless Mondays."

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• Visit the Forks over Knives website for healthy plant-based recipes, articles, meal planners, and online cooking courses.

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• Scan menus for plant-based options. . . each time you order plant-based it's as if you're sending a vote to the restaurant owner to offer more delicious plant-based options in the future.

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• Try an impossible burger.

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• Consider eliminating one animal product that has a big environmental impact (i.e., red meat) from your diet for two weeks and see how you feel.

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• Have a salad or loaded grain bowl for lunch as often as possible. . . Why not skip the routine deli sandwich?

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• Participate in the Veganuary challenge.

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• Make most breakfasts either frozen-fruit-green-smoothies or oatmeal-topped-with-fruit-nuts-and-seeds. Click here for recipes.

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• Follow plant-based cooking sites on social media for yummy recipe ideas.

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• Watch another plant-based documentary. There's no reason to stop at only one!

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• Instead of having meat with veggies, try centering your meal around veggies . . . how about veggies with a little meat?

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• Stop eating four-legged animals. (Eliminate beef and pork, but keep the chicken and fish for now).

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• Try this simple meal formula for lunches and dinners: a grain, a green, and a bean.

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• Learn to read nutrition labels. This is a skill which eventually will become lightning fast and make you aware of what you're eating!

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• How about trying almond, oat, coconut, or soy milk instead of cow's milk?

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• Try to incorporate a leafy green (such as spinach, kale, arugula, lettuces, chard)  into nearly every meal.

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• Take a plant-based cooking course.

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• Read How NOT to Die by Michael Greger, M.D., Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, or The Plant Based Athlete by Matt Frazier.

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• Do a google search of celebrities and athletes who follow plant-based diets and read about their journeys.

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• Watch  Gary Yourofsky's highly-influential speech  at Georgia Tech.

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• Educate others about the negative impacts of animal agriculture.

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• Follow author Michael Pollan's simple mantra: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. "

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• Share the One Movie for the Planet challenge with friends or family.

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