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

[ppeatfruit]

Hello newbies, regulars etc.

Hello @MinnieMinimal and welcome 😊. No excuses needed for cake 😬

Yesterday was

B: porridge with raspberries, flakes almonds and golden syrup
L: cheese and crackers from my Sophie's Delight box that arrived on Thursday. I absolutely love the smoky, and next time will order that and some of the others to try
D: aubergine chilli, rice, Mexican sweetcorn, avocado and cashew sour cream. Affogato for pudding

Hello @MinnieMinimal and welcome 😊. No excuses needed for cake 😬

Yesterday was

B: porridge with raspberries, flakes almonds and golden syrup
L: cheese and crackers from my Sophie's Delight box that arrived on Thursday. I absolutely love the smoky, and next time will order that and some of the others to try
D: aubergine chilli, rice, Mexican sweetcorn, avocado and cashew sour cream. Affogato for pudding

Yesterday

L: leftover chilli made into enchiladas, with avocado, cashew soured cream and lots of fresh coriander
D: roasted sweet potato with katsu sauce and sticky rice, green beans and broccoli
S: strawberries, few crackers and more nut cheese, hotel chocolat chocolates

B. Blueberries, granola (peanut Fuel), oat milk, black coffee
L. Chickpeas in sweet & smoky sauce, mixed salad with extra cherry toms, tiny bit of leftover foccacia, two clementines
D. Vegan chicken kyiv, mixed veg, rosemary & garlic potatoes, gravy. Strawberries & Oatly ice cream (minty choc).
Snacks: PInk Lady apple, green grapes (just a few), dry roast peanuts.

Drinks: Water, black coffee, diet Coke.

B: smoothie (dates/banana/coffee/PB/soya milk)
L: Dahl, flatbread. Strawberries
D: Clive’s broccoli and pesto ‘quiche’, new potatoes, roasted Romano pepper/baby carrots/asparagus
S: cashew ice cream, Ritter marzipan

B: smoothie (lettuce/avocado/pineapple/banana/ginger/lime juice/water)
L: veg and chickpea Thai green curry with rice
D: Bosh one pot spaghetti with cherry tomatoes and spinach, broccoli
S: miso soup

Yesterday was

B: overnight oats with blueberries
L: chickpea/orzo/dill/lemon soup
D: GRT sticky rice tray bake made with sweet potato, broccoli

S: chocolate orange rice cakes

I'm off to a festival for the weekend. Back next week 😊

Hey you lovelies I'm effing back!!!!!!!!!Can you believe it? I can't yet.! I'm on a different more up to date laptop! let's hope it doesn't do the dirty on me like the other one!

Well I hope you're all ok esp. Domestic and Kobani (are you back in engerland now?) . Annoyingly I've been trying to get the old computer to work for me for so long that I'm coming over again next week!

Anyhow yesterday I had
Breakfast ; The last of a plum\soaked Prune linseed and apple juice\water smoothie
Lunch; Ryvitas, with pnut butter/yeast spread and a large salad with a hm horseradish dressing
Supper; cool coffee shake with hm vegan tiramisu.

Welcome back @ppeatfruit

i actually should be a bit better now we’ve moved back properly.

L: facon lettuce wraps with hummus
D: baba ganoush, slice of bread and marmite, carrots, lots of wine

had a very stressful day and didn’t eat enough and now I’m twatted

Glad everything went well, kobani welcome! (Well I can say that in a week's time!) Are you South or north? I suppose this hot weather won't be difficult for you and your family.

Breakfast; lovely soaked O\n lemon,plum.prune,fresh ginger and ground linseed smoothie
Lunch; HM carrot\ lettuce spring onion and lemon juice. 2 slices spelt bread with put butter and yeast spread I got out the juicer machine!s and ground

Supper; chopped up plums with ground almonds and apple juice and almond milk in a bowl

Forgive the typos I'm trying to get the hang of this modern machine!

Sorry Domestic. How did the festival go? (I know it was a while ago). was it Glasto? It was brill on telly esp. the Robert Plant day! I managed to miss PaulMc. my idol!

Yay - the gang is back albeit this week only lol @ppeatfruit

L: ryvita with a broad bean/avocado/lemon/basil/garlic dip, a big tomato, a small piece of nut cheese and dates
D: green salad, mushroom ‘omelette’
S: alpro cherry yogurt

@KobaniDaughters - hope your day has been less stressy today and that you're all coping with the hot weather and our mostly inadequate air conditioning situation 😂 Did the move all go smoothly?

@ppeatfruit - it was the Isle of Wight festival that we went to, which was fab. My favourites were Nike Rodgers and Chic and Muse. Some of the Glastonbury sets were available on iplayer so might be worth a look
Good luck with new tech 😊

Everything going relatively smoothly but excited to get up to london this weekend. We’re in the south @ppeatfruit in Hampshire - we know NOBODY!

IOW festival sounds ace @PartTimeDomesticGoddess how were the food options??

yesterday DD did her taster day at the local village school, we haven’t really wandered round the village yet as we’re in an AirBnB in the nearest market town until 25th, so DH and I took the opportunity for a walk - 6miles later we deserved the pub lunch! I had their vegan fish and chips….I’m not sure what they used, could have been banana blossom I think? It was ok, the home made tartar sauce though was lush as were the mushy peas

pretty filling though so just made a big salad for dinner. DH and DS also had the pant based chicken kievs which they said were great so we’ll
get those again

had a slice of soreen as an evening snack

So we had to transfer my tickets because we had happened to pick the hottest day in England for my journey!! So I'm going next Thurs. Luckily we got the money back. So I'm still in relatively cool mid west Fr. much better now because the weather has broken. Same as England I reckon. I hope you all survived being boiled!

Breakfast; o\n soaked sultanas, whole lemon, fresh ginger prune juice\water and fresh peaches\ ground linseeds smoothie.
Lunch; red onion, fresh basil cucumber salad with olive oil pnut butter and yeast spread on spelt toast.
snack; one vegan choc ice on stick. Supper; h\m veg\beetroot juice with ryvitas

@ppeatfruit you are the glue that holds the thread together 😊 I replied in my head to the last couple of posts and then forgot to actually reply 🤦‍♀️
Glad to hear you got your money back and that the weather had broken for you. It's broken here too, still nice summer weather but not tropical at night which is a blessed relief

@KobaniDaughters would love to know where in Hampshire you got vegan fish and chips! That's what I fancied for my birthday but couldn't be arsed to go all the way to Brighton
Hope you all coped with the heat given that I'm sure you're all used to much more air conditioning than we have. How are you all settling in?

We did our first bbq in years on Monday, and Tuesday had dinner from the chippy (chips, curry sauce and bread and plant butter for me)

Yesterday was
L: paella
D: summer veg coconut curry with chickpeas

Today
L: tofu matar (Meera Sodha's take on pea and paneer) curry with rice
D: spicy chickpea and courgette fritters, avocado, spinach, broad beans, purple carrots and roasted tomatoes

@KobaniDaughters the food at the IoW was OK. There were enough vegan options although not that many healthy ones 😂 Highlights were an Ethiopian dinner of Misir Wat (spiced red lentils) with veggies and rice and a marmalade toastie!

You won't believe that we had to transfer the ticket into Aug. AGAIN 😐 because of the strike!!!! so I'm coming over by Eurostar next Tues. Luckily I'll be going the right way (there are never long queues in Lille) Probably coming back will be more crowded but I'm used to it!

That's sweet Domestic. Thank you.

Ref. Aircon kobani. I let my body get used to the heat gradually (keeping the shutters closed against the sun in the morning and opening them when it gets less oh and opening all the doors) . This house is ancient and made of stone so it is used to extreme weather! DH is trying to cut down on AC due to the environment (and my nagging!!)

Breakfast ;
o\n soaked dates .prunes whole lemon and apples\apple juice\water with fresh ginger and pumpkin seeds smoothie.
Lunch;
HM mushroom, white bean, onion and garlic, herbs loaf. with French beans.
Supper. Almond milk carob drink with a couple of ryvitas and put butter.

Domestic. Interesting talking about vegan food and healthiness, it's like any way of eating I suppose; I study healthy eating and I know that you can survive on rubbish just as well (and put on weight!) on a vegan diet! Which I'm doing (putting on weight 😀not eating rubbish! ) because I love summer fruits and am snacking on almond butter . The Paul McKenna WOE is having to be kick started! and eating earlier.
Also I need to get exercising more now the weather is better (i can't stand the broiling heat!).

B; o\n soaked dates 2 nectarines and whole lemon with ground pumpkin seeds, apple juice\filtered water.
L. My nut breadcrumb loaf and a large mixed salad.
S.Oatcakes with my fave spreads and spring onion salad

@PartTimeDomesticGoddess did I see you went for the sophies delight cheeses? 😋

Hello everyone! Sorry to be so awol - just life, but @ppeatfruit have you actually made it back yet?!

we have finally moved into our house and had our first guest overnight and bbq - amazing marinated and grilled tofu, potato salad, grilled courgettes and corn on the cob in our lovely garden overlooking the South Downs, all very quintessential and lovely - breakfast of baked beans, DH home baked bread, roast tomatoes, mushrooms and heck sausages

yup I need to get back onto healthy eating too 😆

Life getting in the way of posting here too...

@OhRiRi - yes, I did order a selection box from Sophie's delight. The Gouda was my favourite, which I really enjoyed. Am about to order more of that as well as some blue and some spicy to try...

@ppeatfruit - hope you've made it to the mother land (if that's where you wanted to be of course!)

Good update @KobaniDaughters, no wonder you've been too busy to post much if you've been moving into your new house. Would love to hear more about the amazing tofu marinade for the bbq. A homemade one or a bought one? We barbecued recently for the first time in years and I really enjoyed my bbq veg, but would love to add to that

Lowlights and highlights of the last week or so include eating out twice. One terrible - think tough sourdough pizza base with some kind of completely runny vegan cheese in the middle - and one amazing (pop up kitchen at a Belgium bar in southampton serving Asian style street food)
The other major lowlight was my garage freezer packing up and throwing away most of the contents ☹️. Still, new one coming on Wednesday which I'm sure won't take long to fill up...

Today I've driven to north wales for a couple of nights with work. Hotel have given me a flask of soya milk for tea in my room and I've just had a delicious vegan burger with chunky chips 😋

DH was given a Deliciously Ella book so has been experimenting with that. I’m impressed so far! (with Ella, DH is a great cook)

I struggle a bit with barbecue food. Not the accompaniments, just vegan food for on the barbecue. Hoping for inspiration here

Hi all!

I have just started a plant based life a few days ago and loving it !

i was vegetarian from age 13-30 then started eating chicken and fish when I was pregnant the first time . Now nearly 50 and want to not eat anything from animals .

really enjoying it so far, esp oatly single cream thing in my coffee !

can anyone give me some ideas for vegan confectionary in supermarkets ? Other than dark choc which I have . Just love a sweet treat in the evening sometimes !

@PartTimeDomesticGoddess and @TheGetaway i kind of made it up - dark and light soy, crushed garlic, miso paste, chilli flakes, sesame oil and olive oil. I cut one block of tofu in half then each half in half again but horizontal so they were more like steaks IYSWIM, marinated in the fridge for about 5 hours

welcome @Lanibanani afraid I can’t help with confectionary ideas as I’ve only just moved back to the U.K. but I’m a fan of dates in the evening for those sweet cravings!

yesterday I had my brother and niblings over and we did a picky/build your own salad lunch with salad bits and olives and bread, last of the nut loaf, some GOSH falafel etc. Then I put out the BOSH carrot cake I’d found in tesco and it was pretty tasty though more like a ginger cake than a carrot cake

dinner was a random mix of couscous with this Mexican nutty chilli oil I bought in the farmers market, topped with a kind of Italian stir fry of mushrooms, kale, onions, garlic, olives, broccoli and crumbled smoked tofu

then was bored later in the evening (and also loving being back with British bread) and had a fat slice of seeded loaf with oatly cream cheese and cucumber slices. No booze though!