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

[ppeatfruit]

Hello newbies, regulars etc.

Hello everyone (oldies and newbies).

I fell off the thread several months back - illnesses in the family etc. Sorry about your freezer PartTime that must have been so annoying. Kobani sounds like you have had a really busy time. Are you glad to be back or missing the SoCal food?

Last Night: I made a Quinoa/blackbean salad fron the trusty Feasting at Home blog:
www.feastingathome.com/black-bean-quinoa-salad/
I added in cucumbers and toasted pumpkin seeds and served with extra limes, Frank's Chipotle sauce and the new (to me) green jalapeno one which had a nice bite
www.ocado.com/products/frank-s-redhot-fire-roasted-jalapeno-craft-hot-sauce-568455011?ds_rl=1126321&ds_rl=1164972&ds_rl=1291426&gclid=Cj0KCQjwuaiXBhCCARIsAKZLt3nlVSzpcQ6DvZlNLtUkVe61yw-z4JttTlbMFDj22gUpWOYB72oSdTYaAhvCEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Lanibanani my adult kids love Hotel Chocolat nutmilk buttons and selector truffles for a special treat.
www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/shop/collections/dietary/vegan-chocolate/
They quite like Lindt vegan chocolate but have found they aren't into chocolate as much as they used to be (wish I could say the same)
www.ocado.com/products/lindt-classic-recipe-vegan-smooth-chocolate-bar-572624011

Everyone seems to be bringing out vegan milk bars - even Galaxy and Cadbury. I guess they are good money spinners as they are invariably more expensive than their standard bars. Lots of sweets are "accidentally" vegan
Here are Asda's offerings:
groceries.asda.com/shelf/vegan-plant-based/vegan-food/vegan-food-cupboard/vegan-chocolate-sweets/1215685992643-1215685643316-1215685741257-1215685741258

I think you have to try out several things to find what you like best. The favourite treat in our house is Bourbon Biscuits! most own brand ones are acidentally vegan, though a few brands have whey in the cream (Aldi Belmont and M&S IIRC). Nice and Cheap!

@SapatSea Bourbon biscuits are vegan?!

made stuffed marrow last night, I usually cut it lengthways but saw a recipe that suggested to cut it into rings then stuff each ring and it’s so much better! Easier to serve and eat, quicker to cook. Stuffed it with a rice, lentil, mushroom, gigante bean and heck sausages filling

@Lanibanani sweet treats are my specialist subject!

Easy to obtain ones - lots of places are now stocking vegan sweets as mainstream. Rowntrees fruit pastilles, jelly tots and fruit gums are all now marked as vegan. M&S percy pig and friends range are becoming vegan (check the front of the packs as some old stock may still be around), coop wine gums, midget gems, American hard gums, jelly beans. Some of the supermarket 3 for £1 bags of sweets are becoming vegan. I also like to order a kilo of pick n mix from the Conscious Candy company every now and again!

I also love the Buttermilk bars - vegan equivalents of Mars bars, snickers and crunchies, usually found in the free from section of the supermarket. Other stuff in this section worth trying would be nomo (the yellow caramel one is my favourite), galaxy (can also get white galaxy in asda) and vego bars (chocolate with hazelnuts)

Vegan ice cream is fairly mainstream in most places now too. Gu do a vegan range of their desserts which are good (usually in the free from fridge section).

It's far too easy to get hold of this stuff now.

Love from a fatty who went vegan for health 😳

I agree OhRiRi it is far to easy to be a really unhealthy vegan these days!

KobaniDaughters I like the sound of your stuffed marrow. I haven't had one since 1988. I remember it because my flatmate and I made it for our House warming as the photo in the cookbook looked great and we thought it would show that veggie food could be posh and nice. It took all bleeding day to prepare and cook and then tasted crap. No one ate it and we all got totally plastered on wine and poitin due to a lack of "lining in our stomachs". Cutting it in rounds is a great idea!

Yesterday:
L: GoodLife Beanburger and salad and some Belazu Smoked Chilli Harissa which I seem to be addicted to - adding chipotles to harissa - what a great idea and it goes with anything!

Dinner: Ottolenghi's Ethiopian Lentils and Coconut Cream Cumber sauce. Chappatis.I make this quite often it makes a lovely change from Indian Dal.
www.theguardian.com/food/2018/oct/06/yotam-ottolenghi-eritrean-ethiopian-recipes-berbere-vegetables-teff-flatbread

Big wave to @SapatSea 😊
Great stuffed marrow story 😬
Yes, freezer was slightly heartbreaking. To make matters worse, DH didn't realise he was ordering a smaller new one so I'm 2 drawers less than I had 🤦‍♀️ Will be interesting to see how I manage, but I hope it will make me better at rotating stuff/not keeping things in there for aaaages

@KobaniDaughters I also like the sound of your stuffed marrow. Am pretty sure I wouldn't get it past DH though 😂

@Lanibanani - totally agree that it depends what you like but here's some ideas to add to those already mentioned. To Bourbon biscuits I'd add ginger nuts, jammy dodgers, party rings and oreos. My favourite biscuits are Tesco own dark chocolate digestives (although supply has become a bit sporadic on my online app). Dark chocolate rice cakes are also nice, I really like a dark chocolate orange one. Then there's Soreen (which I'd have thickly spread with flora plant butter). I think plant kitchen (M&S) were doing some vegan marshmallows that were nice and pretty reasonable.
Alpro desert pots are nice sometimes, the caramel one has a touch of butterscotch angel delight about it. The vanilla one is custard and there's a chocolate one.
Then more expensive. I don't love dark chocolate (all the dark chocolate things above have something with them), but as well as the digestives I love Tony's chocoloney dark chocolate and salted almond bar. Love raw caramel wafer bars are expensive but soooo delicious (think kinder bueno, loved by all non-vegans I've given them to). Available on line (direct, Amazon or vegankind supermarket). Vegan magnums. Ocado do a chocolate spread that we like (Valsoia). And at the top of the scale for me are booja booja truffles😋

Odd few days food wise for me, two nights away from home then a night out at the cricket (vegan chilli chicken wrap with lots of salad and hot sauce, very tasty)

Yesterday
B: overnight oats with raspberries
L: lentil cakes with oatly cream cheese, tomato and cucumber
D: beans on toast with nooch and reggae sauce
S: miso soup

Today
B: overnight oats with blueberries
L: lidl fresh tomato soup, sourdough crumpets with marmite
D: moving mountain fish finger tacos (avocado, lettuce, Mayo and jalapeños)
S: lentil cakes,

Oops - posted before I'd finished listing my snacks 😂

Chocolate orange rice cakes, melon, roasted rhubarb with alpro custard pot

B: mango and papaya smoothie bowl with protein powder, topped with oats and more fruit
L: Korean pancake topped with stir fried chickpeas and broccoli, topped with kimchi and dried onions
D: Tapas: Tesco vegan potato omelette, Mediterranean grilled veg, etc

Lots of inspiration on this thread!

Yesterday:
B: Banana and Protein shake (before bike ride)
L: Sourdough sandwich with hummus and loads of crunchy leaves and tomato with sriracha Mayo.
Snacks: Frozen Raspberries and a small piece of baclava with a cup of tea
D: Jackfruit Wings with gochujang, a few fries (pinched from DH) and salad

Went to a local(ish) folk festival yesterday
B: overnight oats with roasted rhubarb, jus-rol cinnamon swirl
L: lentil cakes with oatly cream cheese and fresh tomatoes
Vegan paella, vegan duck and hoisin sauce in a toasted wrap - both at the festival
S: ginger nuts, shreddies with soya milk, chocolate orange rice cakes

Today
L: toast - one slice with fresh tomatoes and one slice with avocado. Melon
Dinner at wagamamas- shared vegan crispy squid with DH and DD. Japanese pickles and kimchi. Vegan sticky rib ramen. Chocolate orange cake with ice cream
S: ginger nuts, alpro yogurt (apricot)

Vegan curry night tonight. Not pictured naan and poppadoms 😳

I so badly need to get my food intake under control. I'm back to my heaviest weight ever and just cannot get my head in the game!

Same @OhRiRi i literally can’t stand the sight of myself in the mirror at the moment

spent the weekend in Paris, fell off the earth a wagon a great times but had our last night in a lush vegan restaurant in the Marais

today was a shitty vegan ham and cheese toastie from Costco, then had a snack of cucumber slices and tahini and lemon, DS and I made mushroom bourguignon and mash for dinner and I ate a LOT of it (and taste tested along the way!)

Me three @KobaniDaughters @OhRiRi
Feel like I've lost my food mojo a bit, hot weather hasn't helped

Today
B: overnight oats with berries
L: half a pot of hummus, 2 mini cucumbers and a granary roll
D: Bosh one pot spaghetti (highly recommend)

Yesterday
B: smoothie (frozen banana/mango/pineapple, cashew butter, soya milk)
L: puy lentils, cumin roasted courgette and golden beetroot with pomegranate molasses
Didn't fancy cooking at all - sandwiches (half squeaky bean pastrami with sliced gherkins and mustard and half nut cheese and cranberry sauce), 2 lentil cakes with oatly cream cheese, tomato and basil leaves, popchips, creme egg

Monday
B: Monday smoothie
L: bol pasta pot (I like everything I've had of theirs but don't recommend this one)
D: Richmond sausages, new potatoes, runner beans, spinach, broccoli, cumin roasted courgette and golden beetroot with gravy

Really @PartTimeDomesticGoddess ? Your food sounds amazing

L: cucumber and hummus
S: almond magnum
D: loaded gazpacho (made a vat of gazpacho and popped a million toppings on the table - coriander, basil, spring onions, it’s not bacon, avocado, croutons, samphire)
S: loads of olives, more hummus with cabbage and cucumber

Yes really @KobaniDaughters, as in struggling to know what I want to eat let alone cook. I think the freezer debacle added to it as I felt very lost without my well stocked freezer!

Thursday
B: overnight oats with frozen mango
L: more hummus with granary roll and baby cucumbers
D: silken tofu shakshuka with spinach and capers, broccoli

Yesterday
B: overnight oats with raspberries
L: doorstep granary sandwich with tomatoes from my dads greenhouse and basil. Popchips. Grapes
Dinner (loose term 😂) was some crackers with pesto cashew spread, a bowl of shreddies with soya milk, and a 2 pack of love raw Ferrero type things
S: sesame coated caramelised peanuts

Hello lovelies, it's me!, so nice to be on here with me bezzies again I hope you're well!! Sorry I won't be here long,Mum just died after I got back so I'm off again on Friday. She was 94 so it was expected but still upsetting of course.

B. mirabelle\fig\lemon\fresh ginger ground linseeds and apple juice o\n soaked smoothie. twas good.
L. Black rice, butternut squash, cauliflower and Tamari
S. Spelt toast and pnut butter\yeast spread cuke with shallot salad

Nice to see some newbies on here, welcome one and all !! I've got some good weight loss tips if anyone's interested.

I'm so sorry about your mum @ppeatfruit. Also sorry you won't be here long, as you can see I've not done the best job of keeping things going in your absence lol

We're just back from a few days away so yesterday was a case of limited options (breakfast and lunch at least)

B: trek peanut bar
L: fresh pineapple, travel pot of hummus and carrot sticks, packet of ready salted crisps
D: pea and leek risotto with pine nuts and broccoli. HM chocolate sorbet in a mini waffle cone
S: chickpea puffs, salted peanuts

Must make special mention of a vegan place in liverpool where I had breakfast on Monday. They called it Veggs Royale - muffin topped with baby spinach, carrot smoked salmon and fake poached eggs (guessing tofu based) all covered in cashew hollandaise. Was amazing. And when that had gone down a bit, I managed to fit in another pot of tea and a slice of lemon and raspberry sponge 😂

Oh my goodness I'm so sorry, I don't even know how I did that!

Was trying to say hello! I hope it's okay to join in.

Yesterday I had:

B: Toast and hummus.

L: Spicy carrot and parsnip soup, banana, 2 squares of orange and almond dark chocolate.

D: Root veg and chestnut stew (carrot, parsnip, onion, turnip, squash, kale) with mash and broccoli.

S: Soya yoghurt and mixed berries.

I work shifts and have become so lazy recently with relying on toast and soup so looking to try and be better with eating a healthy, varied diet. Starting a new job next week (still shift work) so hoping to use it as an excuse to shake things up a bit and build better habits.

Hi everyone.

I became a vegan a week ago for health reasons- my GP advised no animal products due to my cholesterol and high blood pressure.

I am absolutely loving it although I'm probably still in the honeymoon phase. I am determined to keep at it though.

I have just stopped it all dead so hope that's the right thing to do. I was a massive carnivore and ate meat/animal products for two of my meals a day. I really only miss cheese so far.

@ppeatfruit - I would be really interested in weight loss tips. This has already made me eat much less as I am not eating milk chocolate, butter on toast, desserts and chunks of cheese which is what I would binge on.

I have started taking the vegan society's vitamin supplements. Today's food:
Brunch: coconut, nut butter and banana porridge, oat milk coffee x2
Dinner: red lentil and coconut daal with spinach, an apple.

@ts96 I work shifts too- it's hard! And I'm finding it annoying having to cook separate meals as the three men in my house are not vegan!

Creeping back in, spurred on by a blank meal plan and a blank brain!

Very sorry to hear about your mum @ppeatfruit, I hope you're doing as well as you can be.

Jumping in again.
(I frequently name change for various reasons)

We’ve been eating out loads as away on holiday, lots of social events and visiting family. I had to dip into a bit of vegetarian/fish to make it work for me but normality has now been resumed!
DS made a lovely vegan pie yesterday. I didn’t ask for the recipe as it will mean I have to make it next time 😂

We’re eating out tonight and Thursday too but it’s at an Indian and Pizza so easy to stay on track.

Other meals for this week are Pasta alla Norma, which we have loads. I have a hankering to make Jamie’s shepherds pie for the weekend, probably because of the changing weather, and definitely Black Pepper Tofu will be in there somewhere as it’s one of my favs

Welcome back all 😊

B: overnight oats with frozen berries
L: paella (last night's dinner), beetroot
D: chickpea crumble, broccoli, spinach and gravy

Peachypips78 we have a mix of vegan/veggie and a meat eater in my house. I don't cook seperate meals - I cook the vegan meal and the veggie can have cheese/yoghurt/egg on side if needed and the meat eater can sling some fish or meat in a pan/oven to have on the side, although I've found over time he is eating less meat. For example, with your dal, the meat eater might make a sheesh kebab with some mince and garam masala or have a piece of cod or chicken in foil alongside.

On Monday I managed to get some curry leaves from Sainsbury's and cooked a Malaysian Dal I saw in the Guardian at the weekend - recipe by Meera Sodha
www.theguardian.com/food/2022/oct/29/vegan-malaysian-dal-curry-recipe-meera-sodha
It was really nice with a different flavour profile to regular dal due to the tamarind paste, lemongrass and star anise. Quite rich. I made some garlic spinach and green beans as a side and chappatis to have instead of rice (as the meat eater is a low carber). The leftovers tasted even better for lunch the next day.

Tuesday:
I don't buy Hellofresh boxes but do use some recipes from their sites and adapt.
The meateater loves this Moroccan Shepherd's Pie - I leave off the cheese and sub a tin or two of lentils for the minced beef and serve with greens and rose and green harissa's. He never comments about the missing meat. The Ras El hanout and sweet potato is a nice change from traditional shepherdless pie.
www.hellofresh.com.au/recipes/moroccan-beef-cottage-pie-5e969927d5347852ee22263f

Wednesday - made this old favourite ( without the feta and eggs for vegans) but added more green veg and a tin of cannellini beans to make it more filling. Served with some flat bread and harissa's.
thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/braised-eggs-with-leek-and-zaatar/

PartTime your breakfast of the fake salmon and eggs florentine sounds amazing.