Vegan Store Cupboard Challenge

leftatthetrafficlights

Light seitan casserole and potato 'pie' for me tonight- got them both out of the freezer so will just need to make some gravy to go with it as the casserole absorbed what it was cooked in! 😂 
I've finally got some room in my freezer so have a grocery delivery tomorrow to fill it up again - following this delivery I'm planning on a not spending again until the end of February- we should have enough fresh veg in the garden and stuff in the freezer to keep us going until thenp and I really want to avoid going out if I can possibly avoid it so the challenge is really on!! 😉

leftatthetrafficlights

Discovered some puff pastry lurking so opened a jar of red peppers and sliced them, some red onion, the remains of a tub of green olives with lemon and herbs and some vegan cheese. Spread the remains of a jar of vegan pesto onto some of the pastry and filled with the above. Made two big pasties from those then used the remaining pastry to make a couple of vegan cream cheese and onion chutney rolls. The remaining pastie filling (minus the cheese) was blitzed and used as a pasta sauce. 😊 Served the pasties with new potatoes and salad leaves, the rolls we ate for lunch and the pasta was served with salad leaves, grated carrot and apple, chopped cucumber and grapes. 
Tonight it's ethiopian lentils and fried rice. 
Everything from fridge, freezer and storecupboard 🙌 

candygirl

Ooh those pasties sound lush LATTL .Might have to copy that recipe 😋

leftatthetrafficlights

They were lovely @candygirl! 😊 
We're having pizza tonight - normally I'd make our own but the vegan jackfruit ones were on offer and I decided that it would be nice to have a lazy Friday night after a very long week! 😉 
I've got some hm bread that has gone a bit stale so I'm going to make it into breadcrumbs tomorrow and make some lentil balls along with a leek and vegan cheese gratin of some description- no idea what else I'll put in it yet, depends what I find lurking! 😂

leftatthetrafficlights

Had a change of plan! Didn’t make the lentils balls as I couldn’t be bothered to shape them 😂 I made a lentil bake instead- cooked puy lentils and buckwheat then added breadcrumbs, finely diced and sauteed onions, garlic, carrot and a potato then added the whizzed remains of the salad from the other day (carrot, apple, cucumber and grapes) and cooked for about 10 mins - mixed that in with the lentils mix, added some whizzed vegan Greek style 'cheese' and half a jar of chilli jam, made sure everything was stirred together well then spread in a shallow baking dish, drizzled with olive oil and baked for 25 mins. It was absolutely lovely! 😁 it made quite a bit so I had some for breakfast this morning and the chilli jam appears to have matured somewhat!! 😨😂 I'll freeze whatever is left by the end of today (dh wants some for lunch 😉) 
I've got some casserole out of the freezer for dinner tonight which we will eat alongside kale and brussel sprouts from the garden 

MandM90

DD made the root veg stew from the cookbook I posted upthread and it was delish. We made it again last night but doubled stew and tripled dumplings so there was plenty for lunch today.
Tonight is chilli, corn on the cob, tortilla chips and brown rice
Tomorrow spag bol (soya mince), garlic bread, salad (DD to make)
Weds mushroom and green lentil shepherds pie
Thurs - not sure - maybe chickpea/lentil curry
Friday - naughty stuff. HM deep fried chips, Tesco vegan nuggets and no duck spring rolls, beans etc.

leftatthetrafficlights

I do love dumplings @MandM90 😋 next time I pull a casserole out of the freezer I'm definitely making some! 
Dinner for tonight is a mango,butternut squash and kidney bean sauté with pomegranate and papaya salsa and salad leaves. I intended to put the mango in the salsa but it was like a brick 🙈 I decided to cook it in the sauté but even after cooking it for half an hour it's not soft 😂 I've never had fruit and veg as part of a supermarket delivery previously and with this experience I never will again! 

leftatthetrafficlights

I've decided that I'm making February my month of turning things around - I'm tired of feeling tired and doing nothing! 🙈 I've done myself a 4 week menu plan for Feb (dinners only, lunches will be buddha bowls with leftovers from the previous day and breakfasts will be fruit or smoothies) so for the next 10 days I'll be using up most of the fresh stuff in the house - I've got potatoes, cauliflower, swede, job lots of carrots and stuff in the garden (parsnips, leeks, kale and sprouts) I need to do a menu plan for the next 10 days for those! 
I'll be using a lot of stuff from my stores in February (grains, pulses and nuts mainly) but will need plenty of fresh veg and fruit - it may not be looking like the most frugal month ahead but the benefits will be worth it 😉 
Tonight we're having seitan bolognese with pasta and salad - I'm having my grandbaby tonight and he loves it so I don't have much choice! 😂

leftatthetrafficlights

Two boxes of stuff from the freezer removed for dinner tonight- one is the remains of a seitan pie filling and the other some runner beans from the garden cooked with cannellini beans- I'll mix them together and serve with swede and potatoes from the fridge and sprouts from the garden 😊 nice comfort food on a very chilly day!! 😨

bubblycrazy

savagelyric said:

Hi all, long time lurker here but hoping to get some pointing the right direction please!
I'm looking for:
1) a vegan version of 40 meals in 4 hours, where you meal prep for slow cooker of similar in one go
2) an app where I can load my ingredients (store cupboard and fresh/frozen) and it churns out meal suggestions.
I've seen both aimed at meat eaters and just wondered if there are similar vegan versions available
TIA

Hi, I seen this post by savagelyric which has gone unanswered, however they are the 2 questions I am also looking for the answers to, so I'm hoping someone can help. Thanks!