Vegan Store Cupboard Challenge

[Deleted User]

Happy new year!!! :beer:
We've been using up lots of leftovers and I've got a basic mealplan for a few days:
1. Mini jacket potatoes - new potatoes baked in the oven, split and a pesto soft 'cheese' added- served with beetroot relish, roasted onions and squash saute.
2. Courgette and black-eye pea lasagne with rosemary and garlic foccacia
3. Cabbage, beans and rice with cranberry relish
4. Seitan burgers, hm bbq beans, hm red coleslaw, hm cajun sweet potato wedges
5. Seitan casserole with red wine served with garlic cabbage wedges

All of these are made from store items so I'll make these before I venture out to purchase anything else - I can premake the lasagne, saute, casserole, cabbage wedges, burgers, beans and jacket potatoes which means I can cook them all at the same time I will do this tomorrow to save time during the week. We'll eat the cabbage beans and rice tomorrow- I've got some lo sushi rice in the fridge so will be making use of that, I've got a whole white cabbage to use up so some for this dish and a few cabbage and garlic wedges to go with the casserole, i have cranberry relish that is far too sharp for me so will get that sorted with some sugar and I have some tinned butter beans I'd like to use up. With the eating of leftovers, these meals should do lunches and dinners for a week
I'm enjoying re-purposing food - it will be interesting to see what happens after this lot

Plasticfreemama

This is brilliant, I am a vegetarian but trying to have at least 3 vegan days a week! Thanks for posting!

Herbyme

Loving this thread, just stumbled across it! Some great recipes and general inspiration. My family went veggie after seeing that Netflix programme too, I was amazed! I never thought they'd do it, I've been wanting to for years but no point trying if you have to cook two lots of meals, I thought. I've heard that some of the science is a bit over-stated but the outcome in our house suits me fine!

So I'm still working out a repertoire of meals that everyone likes, don't take too long to cook, use ingredients I can buy locally and don't cost too much. Not difficult at all! Squirrelgirl, how do you do those complicated-sounding meals, I feel weak at the knees at the time and effort I'd have to put in to make them!

candygirl

SQUIRRELGIRL your recipes sound amazing !Can I come n live at yours?:rotfl:
I'm a lifelong vegetarian, n will be following this thread for vegan recipes now

[Deleted User]

Hi plasticfreemamma, carolinerunner and candygirl- welcome aboard!! :wave: I'm glad you're enjoying the thread
Caroline- I think my food always sounds more complicated than it is!! :rotfl: I love to cook - it's one of my favourite things to do (I generally have a glass of wine on the go and am singing my head off!! :rotfl:) so it never feels like a difficult thing to do and I'm very much a 'throw it in' type of person so I don't stress about it!

Candy- of course you can

I can't believe we are almost through January already!! :eek: We've been very sporadic on the eating front - work has meant I've been away a lot so little is being cooked but no shopping required so no waste

I've bought some banana blossom while on my travels so will hopefully trying that out this weekend- I'll let you know how it goes!

Wednesday2000

I am making tabbouleh some time this week. No mint added as I don't like having it in there.:p

squirrelgirl wrote: »

I can't believe we are almost through January already!! :eek:

I was just saying that! This year is flying by!

Jacs205

So delighted to have found this thread! Hubs and I have been vegan for years and years but I've been overspending lately because of all the nice new things to try. I'm trying to reel it back and subscribing to the grocery challenge but will enjoy lurking around in here to remind me that I can cook vegan and have done for a long time without needing to buy every new thing just because it is vegan!

[Deleted User]

It's been hectic!!
I've been away a lot so very erratic on the food front- however, I made a pasta sauce for my grandbaby with cauliflower, tomatoes etc then blitzed it before I added the vegan mince, gravy granules etc.  I kept some of the blitzed sauce and it is the most lush tomato soup I've had!! 

Herbyme

I realise this may not be relevant, but there's clearly a lot of vegan know-how here, I'm struggling as a new vegan/veggie to make meat-free versions of (eg) cottage pie, bolognese sauce, chilli as tasty as the meat ones - I'm using Quorn mince and following well-reviewed meat-free recipes eg from BBC Good Food. I'm using flavourings like stock, sometimes also marmite/miso paste/plenty of seasoning, spices, herbs as per the recipes, but they all seem to taste bland. Where am I going wrong?

[Deleted User]

I don't like Quorn mince much myself, I much prefer the dried soya stuff (tvp) and usually soak it in soy sauce before using. 
I rarely do that these days though, I use green or brown lentils for anything that calls for mince instead and that's much nicer and also more nutritious.
I find adapting meat recipes just doesn't work as well as making dedicated vegan recipes.
Generally, things I add to make things taste more "umami" include marmite, tomato paste and soy sauce. I add soy sauce to a lot of things I never used to before turning vegan.