What I ate today for vegans

[PartTimeDomesticGoddess]

Shiny new thread

Today has been
L: grapes, 2 plums, sticky rice traybake with butternut, cashews and broccoli
S: handful of pistachios
D: potato and violife feta bake with cherry tomatoes, beetroot and Bombay carrot salad

Oh !! That 's a surprise I didn't know you could do that within the old thread!!

Thanks for it PartTime

Wave to @IJumpedAboardAPirateShip
@ppeatfruit you're welcome

Yesterday was
B: overnight oats with soya milk, blueberries, mango, seeds and soya yogurt
L: green soup with large wholemeal roll spread with naturli
D: ginsters quorn pasty with broccoli, carrots, green beans, peas and gravy
S: salted cashews, sultanas, bbq lentil chips, 2 bitesize rocky road things (too sweet, but I needed the second one to be sure )

I saw some canned banana blossom today. Anyone tried it?

@SerenityNowwwww I've eaten it at a Brighton restaurant this summer, cooked as 'fish' and chips, I think with some nori or similar cooked with it. There's a recipe in my new Bosh book that uses it, think it might be a Goan style curry. I've had a tin for a while, but think I'm likely to start with the Bosh curry

Yesterday was

B: spiced porridge with sultanas, soya milk and seeds
L: crackers, 2 with white bean spread from a jar and 2 with violife cream cheese. Mango and plums.
D: large salad, Sainsbury's plant burger in a bun with sweet potato fries, half a corn on the cob and M&S plant kitchen coleslaw
S: family size bag of sweet and salty popcorn...

Evening snacking is out of control again 🙄

L: ramen and iced matcha latte
S: almond butter and maple butter on toast
D: falafel and kimchi siracha followed by FOUR slices of banana bread!!!

B. Apple,lemon,linseed smoothie
L. Spelt baguette with olive oil and yeast spread and salad
S. Baked pumpkin. onions and quinoa. Twas my first 'bake' of the autumn. lovely. I did that thing of making holes in the whole pumpkin shoving the onions etc. sweet potatoes (for dh) in the oven after brushing with oil. Then left the oven on lowish and went out!

After lurking forever for inspiration - thank you @PartTimeDomesticGoddess for the sticky rice tray bake, it's delicious! - I'm going to start posting to keep myself honest.

Trying to eat well and lose some iso-kgs. I'm in Aus so will be posting at weird times.

L: leftovers from yesterday's Sri Lankan cooking class (potato curry, dahl, coconut sambal)

S: carrot with hommus, apple, leftover cold veg sausage (yuck)

D: smoothie with almond milk, coconut yoghurt and protein powder

B. Ginger shot and veg juice
(Apple, spinach, cucumber, parsnip, broccoli, lime, courgette, avocado) polishes halo
L. Brocolli soup. Brocolli, garlic stock and Engivita
2 squares Hotel Chocolat ginger vegan squares (halo slipped).

D. Bagel with toasted mexicana cheese and beans. Blueberry soya yoghurt with banana and flaked almonds.

@ppeatfruit I've never cooked a pumpkin that way. Do you do anything to it, and how do you/did you eat it?
@Breathmiller are you back from your holiday? If you haven't bought a sandwich toaster yet, I can heartily recommend a grilled cheese sandwich (US style, done in a frying pan). You do need to press it down regularly while the cheese is melting, but we all prefer those to the ones from the cheap sandwich toaster we had. It might make a difference if you buy a more expensive one, but try a frying pan (I have a non stick frying pan, so butter the outside of the sandwich the same as for a machine and put into a hot pan, no oil)
@BinkyandBunty welcome 

Yesterday started feeling a bit shabby after drinking too much tequila and staying up late on Saturday night
B: 4 x vegan American style pancakes with lots of maple syrup
L: hm roasted cauliflower soup with crusty bread and flora block butter. Mince pie. Another vegan huggs recipe, was nice but not a strong cauliflower flavour, but I didn't have a whole head of cauliflower to use
D: traybake from the guardian on Saturday which was roasted kale, carrot, chickpeas and tomatoes with a couple of Richmond sausages
S: hula hoops, nakd bar, bowl of ice cream, ombar pistachio chocolate bar

Ooooh @PartTimeDomesticGoddess
Thank you for that tip. I am back from my holiday and have been eyeing up sandwich toastie machines with my birthday money. But I'm a sucker for something that can be done without a special gadget.

I could eat grilled Mexicana every day at the moment

Literally the best thing about moving to the US was learning about grilled cheese sandwiches! Bloody genius

@PartTimeDomesticGoddess

Yesterday was

B: spiced porridge with sultanas, soya milk and seeds
L: crackers, 2 with white bean spread from a jar and 2 with violife cream cheese. Mango and plums.
D: large salad, Sainsbury's plant burger in a bun with sweet potato fries, half a corn on the cob and M&S plant kitchen coleslaw
S: family size bag of sweet and salty popcorn...

This sounds yummy

PartTime The beauty of it is that you just make a few holes in it (no peeling) then brush with a tiny amount of oil. You choose how long you bake it for (if you want to slice and fry it later) then don't let it cook for too long just until you can get a sharpish knife into it.

Obviously you leave it longer if you want to slice and eat it immediately. I warmed mine up the day after for supper too. I eat the peel but it's easy to peel when cooked this way.

B. HM Apple and pear smoothie
L. Sandwich with cucumber, lettuce, onion, and beetroot slices.
S. Leftover pumpkin and yeast flakes with quinoa

L: air fried vegies with pine nuts and leftover tomato sauce from the kids' pasta

S: cashews, dried seaweed, homegrown celery with hommus

D: almond milk, coconut yoghurt and protein powder smoothie

I am loving my new air fryer to quickly roast a serve of veg or crisp up anything I'd usually cook in the oven. My oven is huge and takes forever to heat up, air fryer cooks in 10-15 mins.

Yesterday was
B: date/coffee/banana/soya milk/chocolate PB powder smoothie. I can't contemplate a Monday morning without one now 
L: veg and tofu red Thai curry and rice
D: large salad topped with sprouted lentils, pan fried gnocchi with a herb/caper/lemon/olive oil sauce
S: plums, pineapple

@BinkyandBunty an air fryer is the next gadget that I'm very very tempted by

@PartTimeDomesticGoddess I'm borrowing one at the moment to see if it's worth the investment, and so far it's a big yes. They're so big, so really need to earn their place in the kitchen! Especially useful for my teens to heat up snacks.

I really want one too!

Yesterday was:
L: bean, lettuce and tapenade salad
S: melon
D: pumpkin curry, lentil curry and rice
S: some peanuts and a bit of dark chocolate

B. Granola and oat milk
L. What else but toasted Mexicana on bagel? I had tomatoes too to mix it up a bit. I will get sick of at it some point , I'm sure. I bought bread today to do the toasted sandwich in a frying pan tomorrow. Just for a bit of variety
D. Pasta and vegan pesto with loads of veggies and salad.
S. 2 packets salted crisps.

Evening all

L: Tesco spicy bean burger, avocado, tomatoes, beetroot, Mexican Sweetcorn and the rest of the M&S coleslaw
S: slice of granary toast with PB, handful of twiglets
D: Mediterranean nut roast (packet mix, quite liked it) with a big plate of the frozen mixed med veg and a bit of plant kitchen Caesar dressing

Ugh so full

L: taste tested quite a lot of tonight and tomorrow’s dinners I was prepping! So some chilli and some risotto
S: half a slice of toast with almond butter and maple butter
D: jackfruit and bean chilli with rice, guac and chips, and a chocolate pud

Blimey IJumped Almond butter AND maple butter DH likes that !

B.Figs, apple and pear leftover smoothie
L. Gently fried grated courgettes ,onion and garlic with basil on toast
S. 4 Rude Health oaty crackers with pnut butter and olive oil

L: big green salad with felafels
S: almonds, goji berries, celery sticks with peanut butter
D: almond milk, coconut yoghurt and protein powder smoothie

Yup @ppeatfruit and I enjoyed every bite! Also then did 45mins of weights so decided the protein was good for me even if the maple butter wasn’t

B: usual smoothie (rare night of insomnia for me last night and felt it was needed  definitely helped)
L: Bol ping meal of jerk sweet potato, rice and peas and some veg. Pineapple
S: peanut/flapjack snack bar thing, plums
D: black bean chilli, rice, Mexican Sweetcorn, beetroot, avocado, violife feta

@Breathmiller did you try the frying pan toastie?