Veganuary anyone?

[mnpeasantry]

So, never had a lot of luck with launching popular threads but wondered if anyone was game for a bit of vegan January?

My plan is to eat a plant based diet and cut out booze for all except 3 pre planned events in January.

I've put together a list of meals that sound good to me and not too arduous to put together on top of working and caring for two under 3.

Meals include:

Chips
Quinoa and sweet potato cakes
Avocado
Guacamole and tortilla chips
Veg chilli
Lentil soup
Brocolli and cashew stir fry
Spicy coconut noodles
Onion bhaji
Aubergine curry
Hummus
Sweet potato and white bean chilli
Curried coconut veg noodles
www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/veggie-noodles-with-curried-coconut-sauce/
Sweet potato chickpea curry
www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/sweet-potato-chickpea-amp-spinach-curry/
Pumpkin, chickpeas and coconut curry
www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetable-recipes/pumpkin-chickpea-coconut-curry/
Vegan shepherds pie
www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/vegan-shepherd-s-pie/
Best vegan burger
www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/the-best-vegan-burger/

Why? Feeling a bit fat after Christmas and still need to lose a bit of baby weight. I feel that I have become a bit meat based in my meal planning lately and would like to diversify a bit. I'm aware of environmental and ethical issues surrounding the consumption of meat and I feel like I'm starting to believe that dairy doesn't really agree with me and triggers a number of allergies in my family.

So, is anybody with me? Let's (hopefully) improve our health and fitness, complexions, environment, digestion, etc! Feeling hopeful.

Jen, tesco actually sell bags of frozen avocados! they're great for sticking in smoothies etc

Great to see some others are sticking with it

Tesco frozen avocados are great - not so much for straight slicing into salads etc but brilliant for mashing onto toast, guacamole, whizzing up for pasta sauce etc. I think I might try them for chocolate mousse :)

Have had fun in the kitchen today. Got a nutribullet! I made my first smoothie today, a green one - apple, kiwi, date, celery, cucumber, spinach and lime. Yum. Then later for dinner I made a sundried tomato pesto (pine nuts, sundried tomatoes, roasted red pepper, olives, nooch, olive oil) which I had with mung bean pasta, and made a vegan parmesan (cashews and nooch) to sprinkle on top.

Trying to decide whether to try chocolate mousse with avocado, or blueberry nice cream for dessert 😃. Perhaps the nice cream, have had quite a lot of nuts today probably don't need the avocado too.

Does anyone have any tips for reducing the wind?

My digestive tract has been blowing a force 10 gale for the last 3 or 4 days 😳