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Veganaunary - Jan 20

Hollis said:
Anyone else signed up to it?

Veganuary

I am currently pesco pollo vegegtarian with occasional lapses. Should be good.
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Yeah - go on then.

Mainly for the health benefits I hope to get from it - mainly inflammation related as I have arthritis among other complaints.

Have bought a book about One Pound Vegan Meals as I had a voucher for the bookshop
Vegan One Pound Meals: Delicious budget-friendly plant-based recipes all for GBP1 per person (Paperback) Miguel Barclay (author) £16.99

so hopefully this plus the On a Budget and Quick & Easy recipes here will get me through easily
Recipes

I currently eat what I like, am overweight, can't exercise in a worthwhile fashion due to joints/blood/illness issues.

Mrs A is vegetarian and is playing too. the Boy is at Uni, an occasional visitor and he's vegan.
lil'Angel is 13 so can eat what she likes as long as it is reasonably healthy - although I will miss playing Chicken Tuesday with her. "Chicken Chewsday innit!"
 
PursuedByBears said:
I did it a couple of years ago after being veggie for 10+ years. Still vegan, can't imagine going back. Cheese isn't all that, it turns out :)
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My BIL's still vegan after doing it three or four years ago after being veggie for 20 years.

My sister's vegan though so everything at home was pretty vegan already and they'd go to vegan-friendly places anyway. He found it all pretty easy as a result.
 
Tomorrow is the fateful day when i head to Morrisons to pick up the Vegan essentials... milk and butter subtitutes..

I am still figuring out sandwiches for work... I want something dead easy, which doesn't require 15minutes of preparation... which is what you get from the google.
 
Hollis said:
Tomorrow is the fateful day when i head to Morrisons to pick up the Vegan essentials... milk and butter subtitutes..

I am still figuring out sandwiches for work... I want something dead easy, which doesn't require 15minutes of preparation... which is what you get from the google.
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Quorn ham is easy (and now vegan). Bit of chutney or cranberry if still feeling festive. Hellman's do a vegan mayo which tastes exactly the same as the non-vegan one. Or take a tub of hummus.
 
There must be some kind of vegan savoury paste or pate that you can use for sarnies with salad. Hummus and grated carrot is always a winner for me and there are different flavoured hummuses around. Hummus and grated beetroot is nice as well.

Shop bought felafel and salad in a pitta. There's all those chunks of spiced vegan meat substitute in the supermarkets that you could stuff in a pitta with salad as well.
 
Hollis said:
Tomorrow is the fateful day when i head to Morrisons to pick up the Vegan essentials... milk and butter subtitutes..

I am still figuring out sandwiches for work... I want something dead easy, which doesn't require 15minutes of preparation... which is what you get from the google.
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Tartex pate in tubes used to be nice but it sure if they still make it
 
Mrs Miggins said:
There must be some kind of vegan savoury paste or pate that you can use for sarnies with salad. Hummus and grated carrot is always a winner for me and there are different flavoured hummuses around. Hummus and grated beetroot is nice as well.

Shop bought felafel and salad in a pitta.
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Sriracha mayo is vegan as are the rest of their sauces Or make your own with sriracha chilli sauce and your other vegan mayo


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Granovita do a pate as well. I prefer to get it in little tins rather than those tubes, much easier to use it up.

Pink peppercorn one is tasty!
 
I try it then I get massively bored. I want to like it. But I don’t know if it likes me. Was almost vegan (again) in the summer but now I’m back properly to meat again, but we aren’t big consumers of it. I don’t eat much dairy and prefer the vegan options - nut milks, desserts and yoghurts - but hoo boy giving up meat, thats a toughy. Doesn’t help that I dislike pulses to the point of phobia with some of them (Chickpea shells make me heave - honestly) - ok I try - I tolerate puy lentils, but many other things, nope. I don’t eat gluten since 1 year ago, or much potato so its really limiting, I used to eat a lot of the Quorn stuff (yes its frankenfood but I did like it) , but most of that stuff has wheat in. Yeah the protein thing is an issue, too, my meds are really not fun at all if I eat a lot of carbs, I rely on 2 boiled eggs to keep me on the level of a morning. We love tofu though (although its slow to prepare well and I’m fussy) and Vivera or Oomph fake kebab are the food of the Gods. Good luck those who are participating, I admire you x
 
Hollis said:
Tomorrow is the fateful day when i head to Morrisons to pick up the Vegan essentials... milk and butter subtitutes..

I am still figuring out sandwiches for work... I want something dead easy, which doesn't require 15minutes of preparation... which is what you get from the google.
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Fry's garlic polony is gorgeous in a sandwich and fried.Holland and barratt sell it in the freezer section.
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nyxx said:
Granovita do a pate as well. I prefer to get it in little tins rather than those tubes, much easier to use it up.

Pink peppercorn one is tasty!
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I prefer the tartex ones, I normally stock up when back in Liverpool (can't seem to find it here anymore) garlic herb one is nice. I got this nifty little tool free donkeys ago when I first bought tartex. Excellent if you like to get the last drop of toothpaste as well :thumbs:
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Hollis said:
Tomorrow is the fateful day when i head to Morrisons to pick up the Vegan essentials... milk and butter subtitutes..

I am still figuring out sandwiches for work... I want something dead easy, which doesn't require 15minutes of preparation... which is what you get from the google.
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Some kind of pickle/chutney plus vegan cheese and salad.

Peanut butter and jam

If you spend the time batch making falafels you can keep them for a week or two, or you can buy premade falafels, and chuck them in a wrap with whatever salad and sauce you like.

Hummus, vegan cheese and salad.

Guacamole plus whatever, not sure on this as although i like avocado, I'm not a fan of guacamole. Avocado, hummus and mixed bean salad sandwiches are lovely, you can get mixed bean salads premade to save time, but slicing up avocados is probably too long for what you want, so maybe guacamole would work.

I'm sure there's various vegan sausage (or similar) products you could chuck in the oven on a Sunday and keep cold over the week to use in sandwiches.
 
I never eat sandwiches for lunch anyway because when I'm working lunch is my meal of the day. Rice and curry and salad. Falafel salad and noodles.
I'm starting on the 2nd.
 
I have navigated my first few cups of tea with soya milk - fine actually, suprised at how little difference.

Next obstacle is coffee in local cafes... assume I will have to have it black, as can't imagine one of them doing anything but milk.
 
Hollis said:
I have navigated my first few cups of tea with soya milk - fine actually, suprised at how little difference.

Next obstacle is coffee in local cafes... assume I will have to have it black, as can't imagine one of them doing anything but milk.
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same here, but with oat milk

MrsA is currently knocking up some vegan pancakes, made w/mashed banana instead of egg and almond milk instead of cow milk

Lots of cafes do a alternative as pinkmonkey says
 
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