What I ate today for vegans 3!!

[Kobanidaughters]

New thread for all the deliciousness!

Yes sometimes the veggie\vegan food is much better than the 'normal' food on business class Eurostar\planes (esp. if you can book it earlier, this was when we were in the money ) otherwise I starved , or I ate round the 'main' Now I always take my own food when travelling.

I remember flying in to New York and knew not to take any of my fruit in from the plane. BUT the search dog could smell it in my bag!! I bent to down to stroke the sweet dog and the dog handler snarled (the dog didn't !!) at me "Don't pet the dawg ma'am!!!" Luckily I wasn't dragged away in chains !!

B. Pomelo and prune smoothie
L. Quinoa salad with added defrosted peas (straight out of the pack they are delicious) And spelt toast
Sn 2 slices of pumpernickel with yeast spread. S. fruit and pumpkin seeds.

The insipid wrap and hard as nails scone though were another matter…home now and nobody caught me bringing in smoked hummus and It’s Not Bacon into the country!

Ah kobani but's that because like the Butter it's NOT bacon!!!

I always hated the real stuff even when I was 13 and given it by my carnivore dad (who shouldn't have been eating it was against his religion!)

Yesterday was all jetlagged induced:
L: smoked hummus, toast and lettuce
S: cheddar sticks wrapped in a kind of vegan pastrami
D: Greek aubergines, onions and tomatoes, tabbouleh, more smoked hummus. Blueberries and cherries

B.Finished smoothie
L. Finished pea/quinoa salad/ choc/pnut butter fudge
Sn\ Bowl of spelt flakes and oats with molasses and almond milk.

B: blueberries
L: leftover Greek mezze
S: cherries
D: burger with Its not Bacon, grilled chao cheese, mushroom and onions, coleslaw and strawberries

Kobani You're back in the States now? Do you have to quarantine?

B. pear/sultana/ground linseed/lemon/ pineapple juice smoothie
L. Spelt toast with cuke and pnut butter/yeast spread.
Sn. S almond/hazelnut dessert. piece of choc/ HM Vegetable juice with carrot/fennel/cucumber. Poppy seed savoury snax.

I am back and no we don’t due to double vax’d status and “land of the free” weirdness…there’s no info at all to be honest. We had to get a test to fly and fill in an attestation form but that’s it, no further tests, no quarantining. Went to the beach all day yesterday. Will test before we see friends and give it a couple more days though to be sure

Hope you all get over the jet lag quickly @KobaniDaughters

Friday
B: overnight oats with pineapple, nectarine and seeds
L: green soup and crackers
D: green salad and Moroccan carrot salad with roast fennel, tomato and new potato stew
S: dates, graze lime and chillis nuts, popchips

Saturday
B: porridge with nectarine, blueberries and seeds
L: tomato sandwich on granary
D: hm minestrone with pine nuts and grilled cheese sandwich (follow your heart smoked cheese slices)
S: graze chilli and lime nuts, chocolate and raspberry nakd bar

B: tinned grapefruit, croissant, mocha
L: mango, big salad of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, beetroot, radishes, artichoke hearts, seeds and raspberry vinaigrette
D: spicy bean burger in a bun with lettuce, tomatoes, gherkins and burger sauce with tenderstem, black beans and avocado from the quick roasting tin
S: mango cornetto, too many dark chocolate digestives

S: figs, cheese sticks, “pastrami”
L: last of Greek mezze bits
D: we made sushi! Nigiri with marinated mushrooms, grilled aubergine and turmeric tofu and some avocado and cucumber rolls

Did you find somewhere to move to in Blighty Kobani ?

B. leftover smoothie.
L. Marinaded tofu in tamari, fresh sage/mint dried basil/ onion and garlic. French green beans. HM Choc. fudge.
S Sn. Fruit plate with nectarine plat,grapes, pumpkin seeds and sultanas. Plums from our own tree! Oh and mirabelles.

Nope! Was hoping we’d find the “perfect” school and that would drive the decision!

All that fruit sound delicious @ppeatfruit

B: cashew yoghurt, blueberries and strawberries
L: tofu and fresh tomatoes
S: more blueberries
D: squash from the garden stuffed with lentils, sundried tomatoes, olives and marinated artichokes, broccolini roasted in balsamic vinaigrette

Your dinner sounds amazing @KobaniDaughters. I've never roasted broccoli with balsamic vinaigrette, I'll add that to my list!

B: Monday smoothie
L: tinned grapefruit, mango, Soulful Onepot red Thai curry with brown rice
S: beetroot, collective raspberry yogurt
D: carrot tarte tartin, roast new potatoes, peas, green beans, broccoli

Oh the fruit (and everything else fresh, esp if you buy organic) is so fantastic, the marketeers literally pick the day before! We're soo lucky.

Speaking as an ex teacher, (I did lots of supply too) there's no such thing as the perfect school! Even if you find one with a good head ,which makes such a difference, there'll be teacher and or a curriculum which doesn't suit your child or vice versa! Sorry

Part Carrot tarte tatin sounds good did you make it?

B.Dried soaked apricots/fresh apricots/lemon/ hazelnut butter and milk with ground linseeds smoothie.
L. Pumpernickel with yeast spread and pnut butter sliced onion and cuke.
Sn.S Fruit plate with some of breakfst smoothie, plums and nec. etc.

Sorry Kobani The beginning of my last thread was meant to be to you

@KobaniDaughters How soon do you have to decide where you're going to move back to? I don't know how many secondaries have a specialism, but the one my DDs have/do attend does (performing arts in their case). Not what either of my DDs are into, but might be a real boon for someone with an interest in that. Others might be sound academically but excel at sport. Do either of your DC have anything they are really interested in that you could search by? Is it harder because you have quite a big area?
Maybe you should base your search on which local towns have the best vegan options 😉

@ppeatfruit I'm jealous of your fruit and veg markets...

@ppeatfruit I did make the tarte tart in (with bought puff pastry though if that's what you meant) I've never made one before but it went down very well. I sort of based it around 2 different recipes I found online and would have crumbled a bit of vegan feta on top if I'd had any

Re schools we actually liked them all so in a good place really, I was just hoping one would be the stand out winner but honestly I’d be happy with any of them.

@PartTimeDomesticGoddess we won’t make any firm plans until the new year I think, realistically moving next summer

L: seaweed salad
S: breadsticks and cashew gouda
D: mixed veggies and tofu braised in HM dashi
S: pistachios

B. Finished apricot smoothie
L. Spelt toast/basil/chive\cuke, red onion salad with usual spreads. square or 2 of dark choc.
S.Sn. Chicory coffee with frothy almond milk. Pumpernickel with steamed fennel salad, Italian style served cold in olive and walnut oil/garlic/onion/celery salt and fennel feathers.

L: leftover stuffed squash, watermelon
S: cashews
D: cauliflower shawarma, fattoush style Israeli cous cous salad, brownie with warm raspberries

FD Tuesday

L: sweet and hot veg curry
S: protein shake
D: whole roasted aubergine with fennel/tomato/cannellini beans

Yesterday

B: overnight oats with blueberries and seeds
L: Apple, beetroot, cucumber sticks, tomato on granary sandwich
D: dates and 2 Brazil nuts, Bol cauli ceasar salad pot
S: popchips, collective raspberry yogurt, Tony’s chocoloney

Part What is Tony's Chocoloney??

B. soaked prunes,mirabelles, nectarine/prune juice/lemon/linseeds smoothie
L. fennel salad, cuke, ryvitas and spreads
S.Sn. Rice with HM pesto/nooch sauce