Vegan no,4 What we eat every day !! Everyone welcome

[ppeatfruit]

Hello newbies, regulars etc.

ppeatfruit The beetroot and parsnip rosti was fine but really not worth the faff and mess. I think some roasted cubes of the veg would have been just as nice (although different texture).

Hello to newbies and returners.

Yesterday:
B:G&b Hotchoclate and seeded oatcakes
L: Fried up leftover cabbage, potatoes beetroot, parsnip and added some mushrooms, chilli flakes and chives. Tom Ketch. Lovely after a very chilly walk.
D: Kids cooked me tofu, edamame, leeks, carrots. broccoli and rice, soy.

Today:
B: Hot chocolate, pistachio cookies, apple
L: mashed potato, vegan sausage, cabbage, scallions, peas
D: Riced cauliflower lots of toasted seeds and nuts, green pepper, raisins, grated carrot, dill and parsley, E.V. Olive oil, garlic, preserved lemon , harissa dressing. Flatbread.

L: tofu scramble with feta and chilli sauce
S: Bombay mix
D: took my parents to our favourite pizza place and shared 3 pizzas, some fried artichokes and eggplant Parmesan

Spending the weekend at Disneyland….wish me luck!!!

@ppeatfruit - from Ocado (although also available from Amazon)
@Ostryga - nice trick. My favourite pizza cheese is pizza express, but at home I generally just go without and that's surprisingly nice especially if the base is decent. I sometimes make the base but we all rate the frozen northern dough co pizza bases too, have you tried those?
@SapatSea - your bowl type dinner sounds amazing. I think I need to find my groove with that kind of meal. It's all about the dressing, right?
@KobaniDaughters - good luck 😂

Yesterday was
B: porridge with sultanas and seeds
L: celeriac and watercress soup, sandwich (half filled with vegan pate and half filled with squeaky bean pastrami, sliced gherkins and mustard)
D: gyoza, bao bun and wok greens
S: salted nuts, Whitaker's orange creams

I know exactly what you mean about rosti Sapat it always sounds so nice but it's such a faff to make. I'm a bit like that with pancakes too, so nice on pancake day (once a year ) but I don't bother at any other time of the year ,it's the frying in my case . I try not to eat very high temp. fried food very often.

Thanks Part I can't get ocado here. We do sometimes order stuff from Ireland (who are ,of course, IN the EU!) the orders from Eng. are getting more and more expensive.

B. Ground pumpkin seeds, soaked prunes/ filtered water, apples and apple juice with fresh ginger smoothie.
L. Hm Root and leek soup with pumpernickel. Tofu vanilla dessert. with grated choc.
S. Fennel, celery and shallot salad with Kamut toast and usual spreads

Day One at Disneyland as a vegan has been a success!

L: at Bengal BBQ in Adventure Land, shared with DS we had grilled vegetable kebabs with steamed rice and a vegan slaw, and three types of hummus with a selection of raw veg - all very delicious
S: Mickey Mouse pretzel (requested no butter) and some weird “green milk” from Star Wars land, dole pineapple whip
D: cauliflower steak sandwich with vegan lime aioli, lettuce and tomato from the Rose something tavern in Fantasy Land

And a frozen pina colada by the pool at the hotel

@KobaniDaughters good food day 😊

Yesterday was

B: 2 crumpets with plant butter/marmite
L: harissa roasted veg (aubergine/pointed pepper/cherry tomatoes/cabbage) with lemon/tahini dressing and seeds. Jammie dodgers
D: Indian takeaway with friends - poppadom and pickles, tarka Dahl, mushroom bhaji, veg jalfrezi and pilau rice
S: Christmas cake, oatly cream cheese and crackers, orange creams

Frozen pina coladas by the pool Wow get you Kobani it's another world!!!

Mind you green milk reminds me about taking our Gd to the Harry Potter Studios; the food was disgusting there was NOTHING nice! Even for non vegans!

B. Finished smoothie.
L. Root soup with leeks and ryvitas 2\3 pieces choc.
S. Frothy almond milk\ginger molasses\xmas spices drink with some of my unsuccessful HM spelt bread. and usual spreads

S.

Disneyland and lots of vegan food - who would have thought?

Did you make the Bao buns PartTime or are they the ones Ocado sell? I l considered getting the Mindful bites vegan Pannetone but chickened out at the price/versus poor experiences in the past. Nice to hear it was good. My DD's love the La Boulangere vegan croissants and pain au chocolats so we spend quite a lot on those (when they are actually in stock).

B: G&B hot chocolate made with hot water and Oatly barista top and a few digestives. Unhealthy but I seem to crave it this past week.
L: Meera Sodha Simply spiced cabbage, cumin roasted chickpeas and roti
D: Black rice, edamame, peas, ginger. garlic, spring onion, white pepper, sesame oil, pak choi, soy.

Yeah I was pretty impressed. Day two at California Adventure and I’ve basically eaten impossible meat all day

B: shared a breakfast wrap with DH of impossible sausages, just egg, cheese and tater tots in a pita style wrap thing
L: impossible meat and Pickled onions on cheese stuffed arepas

On our way home and prob just going to throw on a packet of ramen noodles for a quick dinner before collapsing

Is "Impossible meat" an American thing Kobani Do you know what's in it? Your parents have gone now?

B. Soaked prunes and ground linseeds, ground almonds, apples, with prune juice and almond milk.
L. Mushroom,garlic and shallot dish with steamed green cabbage, tamari , olive oil and horseradish sauce. chocs
S, Root soup.

Yesterday

B: huuuge bowl of porridge with seeds and golden syrup
L: spiced parsnip soup and crusty granary roll (with plant butter obvs)
D: hm naan topped with aubergine/cabbage/mushroom all cooked in Pataks tikka paste and topped with cucumber/soy yogurt raita
S: Ben and Jerry’s fudge brownie ice cream

Just remembered that I also had roasted tenderstem with dinner last night

Yes @ppeatfruit it’s a vegan meat company - kind of like beyond but better

impossiblefoods.com/products?utm_term=impossible%20meat&utm_campaign=DTC_Brand_Impossible+Burger_Exact&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=2479765405&hsa_cam=12533286701&hsa_grp=118520323399&hsa_ad=548013987773&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-347614969615&hsa_kw=impossible%20meat&hsa_mt=e&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=CjwKCAiAz--OBhBIEiwAG1rIOo75ZnQFBZY4N6i8ZUQgXUQnwqcDpZNdP0WDW6BQ43g-i809CsC1_xoCMPoQAvD_BwE

This is easier:

Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors, 2% Or Less Of: Potato Protein, Methylcellulose, Yeast Extract, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Mixed Tocopherols (Antioxidant), Soy Protein Isolate Vitamins and Minerals: Zinc Gluconate, Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12. Contains: Soy

B: ended up going for a random coffee with my dad and DS and shared an AMAZING mushroom, tomato, tahini toasted sandwich thing with a mocha
L: cous cous, chickpeas, kimchi and feta
D: soyrizo and cabbage hash

Love the sound of that toastie @KobaniDaughters

Yesterday was

B: Monday smoothie
L: leftover roasted tenderstem paired with leftover pasta bake from the freezer (facon, ilchester blue cheese, mushrooms, spinach and topped with breadcrumbs)
D: sliced tomato and avocado on toast, collective raspberry yogurt with seeds
S: seed bar, apple

Thanks for that Kobani I wish the vegan companies would stop majoring on coconut and sunflower oil, dh is allergic to them and to soya!! .

B. Almond Smoothie
L. Ryvitas and shallot with usual spreads . chox
S. Slice of my much more successful, newly baked spelt loaf , I ground some spelt flakes from the cupboards I'm still clearing and repacking! Mixed root bowl with tamari and olive oil.

B: overnight oats with blueberries, kiwi and seeds
L: sausage and bean stew
D: quiche, roasted carrots, cauliflower and cabbage, purple sprouting broccoli
S: small protein shake, eat natural chocolate nut bar (not vegan because of honey but I bought a big box and DD isn’t eating them quickly enough and I hate food waste!)

Yesterday was my birthday and Iam afraid to admit [whispers] We went out for a special lunch ( It wasn't just a bit of honey that wasn't vegan!!!) It wasn't even THAT good annoyingly! There aren't any veggie restaurants locally let alone vegan.

Oh I HATE wasted food too. We're lucky here because we have cats 2 outside who eat the food left by our picky inside one. Also I leave any of dh's meaty\fatty\cheesy etc. waste for the pheasants or whatever (everything always goes we have no idea what eats it !) right at the end of the garden, And breadcrumbs, old seeds etc. for the birds

Ah well
B. Smoothie, ground pumpkin seeds with soaked sultanas,pears a lemon and almond milk
L. See above !
S. steamed veg bowl with tamari, olive oil. A coffee tofu dessert.

Happy birthday for yesterday @ppeatfruit

Last night I made pulled jackfruit in the slow cooker, will have that for lunch with avocado and salad.

Happy birthday for yesterday @ppeatfruit! Shame your lunch wasn't that great - sometimes I just enjoy someone else doing the cooking though, as long as it's not terrible 😂

@Curlyreine I haven't had pulled jackfruit for ages. How long did you cook it in the slow cooker?

Yesterday

B: overnight oats with frozen berries, kiwi and seeds
L: celeriac risotto with roasted cherry tomatoes (I love my freezer!)
S: Apple
D: Tesco Christmas lattice (bought as a back up), roasted baby potatoes/carrots/cauliflower/parsnips, purple sprouting broccoli, buttered leeks and gravy

Today

L: rose harissa chickpea/spinach/cherry tomato stew
S: seed bar, apple
D: mushroom and spinach ravioli with rose harissa pesto and nooch with garlic bread.
Ben and jerrys (chocolate fudge brownie)

Happy Birthday for yesterday @ppeatfruit

DS tested positive for covid last night so poor mite is isolating in his room for the next 5 days, that’s what you get for going to Disneyland during a pandemic!!!

Tuesday
L: lentil soup
D: sheperdless pie and broccoli
S: Indian crispy peas

Wednesday
L: random mix of leftover quinoa, chickpeas and lentil soup all mashed together
D: mum slow cooked aubergine, tomatoes red pepper and fennel and served with a roast garlic and lemon dressing - sooooo delicious and enough for leftovers for lunch today

Thank you all very much for the birthday wishes One is coming true, I'm off to good ole England next Tuesday. Off line again.

It's funny PartTime I really do prefer to cook for myself (the days of cooking for the children have passed!) DH cooks organic meat,eggs etc for himself, I steam veg and make salads for us both

B. Yesterday's smoothie.
L. Grated carrot'shallot, coriander and green cabbage salad, toasted ryvitas with usual spreads. Choc.
S. Curried veg with tofu yoghurt.

Safe travels again @ppeatfruit. Will do my best to keep the thread going while you're away 😂
Hope your DS is doing ok @KobaniDaughters. 5 days is a lot better than 10 but still a long time to isolate, especially for young ones. Hope everyone else in the household is ok too

Yesterday

B: porridge with sultanas and seeds
L: tofu and veg Thai red curry with sticky rice
D: GRT minestrone with chilli oil and pine nuts, with crusty bread and plant butter
S: pretzels, mini magnum (at last!), black cherry creams

Thanks v. much Part
Kobani hopefully he'll be fine; It does seem that omicron is everywhere now, both our dil and her sister, also her partner have had it, It's innocuous, but they have to isolate too. They all have stressful jobs, so need the rest IMO ! I've had delta and the 3 jabs so I shouldn't get it but who knows when you're travelling about, mask or no mask.

B. Finished yesterday's smoothie with some walnuts.
L, Heted up curried veg with tofu yoghurt and tamari. choc.
S. Picked at too much; leftovers from Xmas etc. it's getting a habit.