Vegan menu help

[Kursk]

Ok I am new to this. We live in a remote homestead in Northeast USA. We stock up food for the winter as when the snow starts we are essentially cut off from the world for 10-12 weeks. So we batch cook stew, chilli etc and preserve by canning. That way we can preserve without running a freezer (limited electricity)

D niece is staying within us for the winter from the UK, She is vegan. So far I have made her veg stew (30 portions) I don't know what else to cook!

I am also worried that the meals need to be high calorie and high fat content, as it gets cold here, we heat the house with wood so no central heat.

Lentil and cauliflower coconut curry and rice

Briam (I always add black olives and capers) and avocado salad

Pasta with homemade pesto (no Parmesan)

Spicey bean soup with vegan bread

KarateKitten

Thanks for the help, the soup and curry I can preserve,

Pesto would have to be without cheese anyway.

Salad, and avacado are not possible as They Wong store for long enough

Think warming curries, veggie burgers, vegan waffles, oriental veg that you can freeze and then stir fry, you can freeze stir fry and tomatoes based pasta sauces? X

We don't have a freezer, so that limits us.

The waffle mix we can store dry in a jar so that's a good one!

Egg free pasta with vegan pasta sauces. Vegan cottage pie. Roast veg. Ratatouille. Buy vegan milks that she can have with cereal, in porridge oats, hot cocoa etc.

Milk we have covered with Oat milk. It's easy to store.

Roast veg is a good one as it will be in the root cellar anyway.

lentils. store dry and use for all sorts of good things. Oats, ditto.
herbs and spices. oil, rice.

Butter beans in tomato sauce?
Lentil Dahl served with flat bread or any bread?
Chickpeas added to veg stew?
Caponata? Not sure if you could get the ingredients for that where you are though.
Vegetable flans? Can you get jars of veg such as tomatoes and peppers in oil? They would give an alternative taste / texture.
Rice with black beans?

Hit up a good grocery store and healthfood store!
Dried lentils (red, green, puy) - they only take 30 mins to cook.
Lots of tinned beans/lentils/chickpeas.
Tinned baked beans (no pork).
Dehydrated tvp chunks and tvp mince(hamburger granules) - rehydrate with boiling water for 5 mins.
Tetra packs of soymilk or other nondairy milk. And/or powdered vegan milk.
Tinned marinated tofu, mock duck and similar (if you can get this near you).
Lots of nuts and seeds.
Lots of peanut butter; and other nut butters (almond, cashew etc) and seed butters (sunflower, sesame, tahini).
Boxes of powdered vegan burger mixes.
Boxes of powdered falafel mixes.
Boxes of powdered vegan sausage mixes etc.
Tinned vegan chili; curry; bean soups etc.
Vital wheat gluten (expensive, but goes a long way - and makes amazing vegan roast beef and other mock meats -google for recipes).
Nutritional yeast (delicious flavouring, gives a great eggy or cheesy flavour).
Shelf-stable vegan puddings - chocolate etc.
Packets of vegan cookies.

The above plus tinned tomatoes/passata and rice!

I'm so fascinated with your life OP! Sounds amazingly different. Somehow I missed the fact that you'll be cut off!

QueSera's list is good

I bulk buy a lot of my food online (and am a closet prepper!), my pantry has large stores of: dried pasta, rice, quinoa, polenta, oats, lentils, beans, chickpeas, cashews, almonds, tins of chopped tomatoes, coconut milk, and more beans, jars of gherkins, olives, sun dried tomatoes, sauerkraut, kimchi, roasted peppers. Bottles of different vinegars, oils, thinks like Worcester sauce, hot sauce etc. Tubs of nutritional yeast, smaller quantities of lots of other stuff: other nuts (Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, peanuts, pine nuts) seeds (pumpkin, sunflower, chia, hemp hearts, flax), tonnes of different herbs and spices, dried fruits, random things like kelp powder, spirulina, cacao powder/nibs, dates.

Fresh things that I buy most often, apart from fresh fruit and veg, are non-dairy milks/cheeses and tofu - all of which are easy enough to make from scratch to be honest. Some specialist ingredients to get hold of make it easier - lecithin, nigari, agar agar, vital wheat gluten as mentioned up thread. I have just started exploring making things from scratch with this book and it's been amazing so far - fantastic pancakes, macaroni cheese mix and non-dairy milks so far. I have a kg of soy beans waiting to have a bash at my first homemade tofu soon!

Your life sounds amazing, OP. I would love to hear more.

I would get a variety of dried pulses and grains.
We have: short grain brown rice, brown basmati, sushi rice, bulgur, polenta, corn meal, two kinds of quinoa, oat groats, steel-cut oats, oat flakes, barley, seitan (in jars), 4 kinds of flour, different pastas (including high-protein edamame pasta), kasha, and others...

For dried beans: black turtle, red lentil, puy lentil, pinto, kidney, yellow split pea, adzuki, chick-pea, black eyed pea, navy beans, haricot bean, butter bean.

With these things, some canned tomatoes, some onions, garlic and potatoes (which can be stored for months) and some dried herbs and spices, you can cook endless vegan dishes.

We have a off grid homestead in Northern Maine USA. We have lived here for 4 years since leaving the UK.

We are 15 miles from the nearest tarmac road, and 7 miles from the nearest neighbor. So have a nice quiet life. No electricity other than occasional generator and solar power. We heat the house with wood, internet is limited to mobile phones. However in the winter we can get up to 5ft of snow so the road is cut off so we have to prepare for being totally alone.

We decided that we wanted to live outside society and be 100% responsible for ourselves and we are working towards that.

We grow our own vegetables, we keep chickens and breed rabbits for meat. We also hunt deer and fish. Our diet is 75% vegetarian. But what meat we do have had been collected sustainably and ethically.

Wow Kursk. What skills you must be learning. Do you think it will be your forever life?

How wonderful.
I spent my summers without electricity in the Adirondacks, and always had a pipe-dream of spending a winter there.
How old is your niece? Is she a good cook? Do you have other kids with you for the winter?

op can you blog? im really interested in knowing more.

I'll look into doing a blog, never realized that people would be interested! Yes this definitely will be our forever life. It's a harder life than the U.K., but so much more rewarding.

It is a learning curve, from learning to sharpen the chainsaw through to tracking a deer through the woods, it's all fun though

We have 2 kids who are loving the new lifestyle, DN is coming from London, she is a teen who is going off the rails a bit so hopefully a change of scenery will help.