What I ate today for vegans 3!!

[Kobanidaughters]

New thread for all the deliciousness!

I've just done a little fauxmagerie order
I got a pretend feta so I can do a Greek style salad yum
And pretend clotted cream so I can have some scones

Today's food!

Watermelon fingers
Oat milk coffee

German rye bread - fresh from bakery
Avocado
Pomegranate seeds
Pumpkin seeds

Mango

Black rice and edamame bean falafel salad

Pistachio energy ball

@Kobanidaughters - you have to go to Vromage.

I just found out the beautiful cheese my daughter gave me for Christmas is online!! 🎊 then had my hopes dashed that its collect only. 😔 boooo!!
When i can next get to the city I will be straight to the shop. (Oh yeah, and see my DD)

B. Dates, cashews, fig, dried cranberries.

L. Pot'o'kale. (Veg soup)
D. Asda mushroom tart type thing which are really good. Potatoes, carrots, green beans, asparagus. And Branston Pickle.

I like the I Am Nut OK, but it's not the same as dairy cheese. The only ones that my cheese loving DH will entertain are follow my heart Gouda slices (which are like plastic burger cheese) and violife cream cheese. I also like violife feta but am interested to hear what the artisan fake feta is like (and the clotted cream!)

B: oats with soya milk/yogurt, blueberries and seeds
L: Bol pea and courgette soup, 2 Matzo crackers
D: big salad (lettuce, cucumber, beetroot, tomatoes), chickpea mushroom and spinach omelette and crusty bread with naturli

L: pretty boring salad
S: 2 gherkins
D: white bean and fennel stew

Yesterday was

B: toast and marmite
L: leftover chickpea burger, baked beans
D: rice and red kidney beans with baked tomatoes

Today is

B: toast and marmite
L: leftover kidney bean stew on toast
D: Friday fridge clearance surprise, DP is cooking but it will be something involving mushrooms.

Is anyone trying to eat more seasonally / locally? I don't think it's 100% possible with a vegan diet but I'm trying to cut back on air miles and out of season produce this year.

I don't bother with breakfast except fruit tea.

Sweet potato wedges with spring onions, coriander, chilli and tahini sauce.

Tonight quinoa stew with nachos and guacamole.

I love tyne cheeze.

@ElfAndSafetyInspector I eat reasonably seasonally and locally but that pretty easy where I am, most of my fruit and veg comes from within my state or over the border from Mexico. We have two strawberry seasons a year and the climate means we get most produce all year round. Although with my shopping at the Japanese and Indian supermarkets there definitely a lot of food items that have travelled far to get to me.

I read recently about British farmers having great success growing beans and lentils which might be a game changer!

I do try to follow the dirty dozen/clean fifteen rule when buying organic.

Oat coffee

Home made granola, banana, coconut pot yogurt style thing, chia seeds, pineapple, dates

German rye bread, from the bakery with avocado, pomegranate seeds, sunflower seeds

Home made pistachio energy ball

1/2 banana
Raspberry and beetroot smoothie

Unsure about dinner. I think freekah with roasted veg

@ElfAndSafetyInspector I am trying, and have had a seasonal veg box for the last few weeks. It's not the easiest time of year to do it though! And if it was the only veg I was buying, it would feel restrictive. Especially in terms of feeding the family. It's easy enough to use everything in some kind of stew/soup/casserole type thing if I haven't got other things to do with it. And I've had lovely Isle of Wight cherry tomatoes a couple of times, which are within 5 miles of me (albeit with a mile or so of water in there 😂)
@Kobanidaughters what's the dirty dozen/clean fifteen rule?

DH and I caught a bit of a really interesting programme recently that was really interesting. It was called a feast to save the planet and they talked about the food miles in each of the guests meal (and drink). Sara pascoe was the only vegan, but as a vegan only had one choice at each course. The asparagus in her starter screwed her score up from the start as it was flown in from Kenya or similar. She did say she would have chosen it even if it wasn't the only choice to be fair, and the point is that the mode of transport is massively part of it. So lots of the things we might buy from the Asian store can be pretty low in food miles scoring because they travel well slowly. Same for bananas and pineapples, but not green beans

Dirty dozen/clean fifteen is basically 12 fruit/veg that you should always buy organic because they aren’t good at keeping pesticides out so you will be taking in whatever is put on them or into their soil, and then 15 that you generally never need to worry about because they have natural barriers brilliant for keeping away nasties. Helps me prioritise on my budget what to buy organic and what not. The list is updated every year (though I personally think it rarely changes), I think currently it’s the following (USA):

THE DIRTY DOZEN (2020)
Strawberries
Spinach
Kale
Nectarines
Apples
Grapes
Peaches
Cherries
Pears
Tomatoes
Celery
Potatoes
+EWG’s Dirty Dozen Plus:
Hot Peppers & Sweet Bell Peppers

THE CLEAN 15 (2020)
Avocados
Sweet Corn
Pineapple
Onions
Papaya
Sweet peas (frozen)
Eggplants
Asparagus
Cauliflower
Cantaloupe
Broccoli
Mushrooms
Cabbage
Honeydew melon
Kiwi

L: white bean and fennel stew
S: an orange
D: fried haggis, cabbage, spinach and reggae reggae sauce....then finished off DS’ pasta

Thanks for that list @Kobanidaughters, that's interesting and I haven't heard of it before. Seems odd that carrots aren't on there, I'd imagine they'd be in the dirty dozen wouldn't you?

Yesterday was
B: oats soaked in soya milk/yogurt with raspberries and seeds
L: fridge soup with nooch and seeded ryvita thins
D: fried tempeh sambal with coconut rice from the dirty vegan, which was very tasty. For the veg I used red/green pepper, spinach, mushrooms and broccoli as that's what I had in.
S: chocolate brownie. I'm going to try the one you recommended later too @Kobanidaughters. I think I might have over baked it last time I tried, and I'm definitely looking for a gooey brownie. The ones I made yesterday were quite good, but I didn't quite feel like it was the recipe I was looking for somehow.

I'm fancying some sort of spicy rice for breakfast at the moment (which I'm blaming on @AlmightyBob 😂) but will probably go and have some porridge soon...

Yesterday
Overnight oats with vanilla alpro, banana and mixed nuts.
Violife beetroot and salad sandwich. Packet of salt and vinegar crisps.
Homemade chicken and veg pie ( frys chicken style strips) mash and spring greens with gravy. Vegan magnum.
2 apples.

I am not as careful about eating seasonally as I should be @ElfAndSafetyInspector . There's also studies like this one

ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

which argues that the contribution of food air miles to climate change is not nearly so great as the impact of producing the food itself (ie plants or meat/dairy). But I still see the importance of eating locally where possible.

I didn't know that about the 'dirty dozen' @Kobanidaughters , yikes! Many of my favourites on there and I don't often buy organic.

Spicy rice for breakfast is the way forward @PartTimeDomesticGoddess ! But I applaud your porridge. Usually it's some form of toast for me. Like every other bugger at the moment, I make my own sourdough and I love it so much that I eat it at every opportunity, even if it's not particularly healthy. I used to

Yesterday:
B: sourdough toast with hummus and tomatoes
L: ready salted crisps, satsuma
D: burger (with lettuce, tomatoes, gherkin, special sauce, plastic cheese) and chips, corn on the cop
Snacks: half a marzipan Ritter Sport.

Today is pizza night. I'm going to experiment with a white pizza sauce, which I never had even when I ate dairy.

*I used to... what was I going to say? Who knows. Something riveting I'm sure!

Hello all my fellow vegan eaters both newbies and trads.!! I hope you had good Christmases. I've finally managed to get through the Fr.border !!! Back to my laptop!!!

it's crazy because dh is quarantining from me (i've had the jab and had to have a clear test).

B. My HM lemon. date, apple, ground linseeds, smoothie
L. Baked butternut squash,onion on rye,
S\sn. Grapefruit and ground apple'\ almonds in a bowl.

Konbani fascinating list, thanks. We mostly buy organic, (which is easy here because we are lucky to have friends with organic farms, that you can go and visit, we go every week and buy at their shops).

Hey @ppeatfruit! Glad to hear you're back safe and sound. Was starting to fear you were stranded at your DMs.

@AlmightyBob I still haven't tried doing my own sourdough. Did it go ok from the first attempt for you, or do you have any tips to share?

And I've remembered that I also had quite a lot of chocolate last night! Clean forgot about it when I was posting earlier

Welcome back @ppeatfruit!

@PartTimeDomesticGoddess yeah I need to add the late munchies to yesterday’s list too

Thanks for the welcome! Yes I was beginning to think the same PartTime ! What did you choose for the Xmas meal finally? ( thought of you while making the chestnut loaf at mum's).

Talking about chox, I also forgot that dh left me a box of really delicious ones, I ate too many they aren't vegan I've frozen them now (I had my 70th birthday in blighty). It was nice just mum and dsis (family bubble). Better than getting a takeaway with just dh to look at .

B.leftover smoothie and half a grapefruit
L. Pnut butter,olive oil on rye with shallot\endive salad and hm mustard\garlic\basil dressing.
S\sn chox Half a grapefruit, dates,pear and pear juice.
S.

@PartTimeDomesticGoddess I think the best advice I got was not to read too much! there's so much confusing information on the internet. I already had a good baking book (James Morton's 'Brilliant Bread') and i used the staple white sourdough recipe from that, which I've tweaked slightly over the months.

The main things to consider are (in my view):

• making sure your starter is nice and active before you bake with it;
• paying attention how the dough looks and feels at certain stages, rather than how long it's been proving for (this comes with practice);
• sourdough is very loose and sticky - wet hands and dough scrapers help a LOT!'
• approach it with the mindset of experimenting and having fun. Even a flat loaf makes nice toast!

Yesterday's first attempt at a vegan white pizza sauce was pretty decent. It was a cashew-based garlicky sauce that you mixed with a roux to thicken. Then, toppings were: spinach (already steamed and chopped up with salt and nutmeg; garlic mushrooms, red onions, chargrilled artichokes and olives.

For today's dinner I'm making falafel, pita breads or wraps (not decided yet - I prefer pitas but it's too upsetting when they don't rise properly), tahini sauce, some sort of yoghurty sauce, pickled red onions and salad. I bought the hummus because in all honesty I have never made hummus that I like quite so much as cheap supermarket hummus!

Yesterday:
B - overnight oats with hazelnut milk, tinned pears and Sweet Freedom choc shot.
Mid-morning - Nescafé dairy-free instant almond latte
L - Tuscan bean soup with ciabatta
T- jacket potato with veg chilli
Pud - piping-hot baked apple with a scoop of Morrison’s non-dairy salted caramel ice cream.

@AlmightyBob you’ve inspired me, I’m doing a pretty basic Greek mezze tomorrow night so I’ll make some flatbreads to go with, I never got into sourdough but was baking up all sorts of things at the start of covid and then during BLM protests the baking kind of slipped away. I love Sainsbury’s be good to yourself hummus but obvs can’t get that here and I hate American supermarket hummus (tastes like it’s shelf staple if you know what I mean) so I always make me own now - I think my instapot gets used to cook dried chickpeas more than anything else!

Happy 70th @ppeatfruit and I hope you enjoyed your choux - I love how this thread is all about good and not judgement, if you “fall off the wagon” occasionally make sure it’s for something delicious!

Yesterday was:
L: home-made pizza
D: miso jackfruit, truffle and ponzu baked sweet potatoes, teriyaki carrots
Evening snack (!!): grilled cheese sandwich at 11pm in front of the last episode of The Great