Vegan diet

[Jamie16]

I've recently started doing Slimming World at home, and have lost 9 lbs in the last three weeks, which I'm very pleased about. I've been attempting to incorporate some vegan recipes into my regime, but do find beans and tofu a little tasteless. Also, when I've tried making burgers out of beans they invariably fall apart in the pan. Does anyone have any good vegan recipes? I'm not adverse to using the odd egg or a bit of cheese, but then this would be more vegetarian.

If you’re not used to cooking with tofu it can be bland... but it takes on whatever flavour you’re adding, so you just need to add more - really draining it out and baking it with spices helps.

Beans, well they taste like beans, lol.

No specific recipes I’m afraid because I’m very much a just throw things in a pan type person, but things like chilli or curry work really well with beans and pulses.

Bolognese with green lentils has an almost meaty flavour... though I do add marmite to anything with tomatoes as well.

Roasted veg in a tomato sauce and pasta is also a nice easy one and you get more flavour from roasting the veg over just cooking it.

My consultant is veggie and likes jack fruit to cook with.

A lot of the meat substitutes are free or low syn. Linda McCartney sausages range from free to 0.5 syns. You can get syn free vegan mince and the new vegan range from Quorn is either free or low in syns as well.
Tofu, canned jackfruit and plain and unsmoked seitan are also free.
Here are a few recipes
Lentil curry pinchofnom.com/recipes/syn-free-lentil-curry-slimming-world/
Salt and pepper tofu pinchofnom.com/recipes/syn-free-salt-pepper-tofu/
Tofu stir fry tastefullyvikkie.com/2-syn-tofu-vegetable-stir-fry-serves-1-slimming-world-vegetarian/
Scrambled tofu www.slimmingworld.co.uk/recipes/spicy-tofu-scramble
Pulled pork jackfruit www.slimmingworld.co.uk/mums/recipes/barbecue-pulled-pork

Thank you all for replying to my post. I'll certainly try some of the suggested recipes, and let you know the results.