Vegan Store Cupboard Challenge

leftatthetrafficlights

Puy lentils, buckwheat with a coriander dressing, hommous and a papaya and mango salsa for dinner last night - made far too much so will be eating it again tonight probably 😂

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Had a couple of sweet potatoes, quarter of a red cabbage, broccoli, handful of Brussels and a couple of carrots to use up - I parboiled, sliced and roasted the sweet potatoes; thinly sliced the red cabbage, made the carrots into batons, halved the sprouts and sautéed all together in 'butter' olive oil and wholegrain mustard; steamed and mixed the broccoli with some seed butter; cooked some puy lentils and whipped up some hommous - all very tasty!! 😊

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Discovered some chorizo style shroomdogs in the freezer yesterday so chopped them, potatoes, onions, garlic and chilli and sautéed, added some tomato puree, paprika, black olives and stock and cooked until potatoes were tender - very yummy! 😊

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Just finished cooking today's food - green lentils; kale in wholegrain mustard and maple; fennel in orange; broccoli in seed butter; sliced aubergine with coriander dressing; garlic crushed new potatoes; roasted tomatoes and a batch of hommous 😊 looking forward to dinner! 😉

kacie

I'm getting an aubergine is my next veg box and thinking about doing a stuffed aubergine, does anyone have any non tomato recipes for it? 

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kacie said:

I'm getting an aubergine is my next veg box and thinking about doing a stuffed aubergine, does anyone have any non tomato recipes for it? 

It's nice stuffed with red lentils and apricots 😉 cook the lentils with chopped onion and garlic, chopped aubergine flesh,  veggie stock, chopped dried apricots and raisins - when lentils are cooking, brush the aubergine shells with oil and pop in the oven for 10 mins. Fill the shells with the lentils and put back in oven for 15-20 mins until aubergine shells are soft. 

leftatthetrafficlights

I'm doing a cupboard clear out/ reorganise today 🙈 I've realised that I've got far too much stuff food wise- half of it has been lurking for ages! I'm no longer going to buy in bulk as we just don't get through the quantities we used to so I'm setting myself the challenge of buying no more dried or tinned goods until we've used up at least 3/4 of what we currently have 😉 ( I see lots of pulses and buckwheat on the menus ahead!! 😂) On the bank holiday weekend I'm going to make job lots of pasta and dehydrate it (I have a ridiculous amount of pasta flour 🙈) and also cook a load of beans to freeze to make life easier 😊 
I'll be back on here more regularly too - I've started to embrace healthy eating (been on a bit of a detox) so there'll be less maple dressing used! - I find it helps me run down my stocks 😉

leftatthetrafficlights

Wow - I have a ridiculous amount of food!! 🙈😂 Cupboards have been emptied, cleaned and reorganised- I'll be going to the wrong ones for the next few days but it's worth it!  😉 
Over the past few weeks (until the beginning of this week) I have been on a detox and I have to say that tI felt a whole lot better for it so from Monday I'm sticking to many of the principles but expanding what I can eat 🙌 Now that I can see what I have, it will be a great deal easier - I'll be having salad, grains, veg and herbs for lunch and dinners, fruit for breakfast and sticking to water for drinks. I've got lots of ideas to jazz it up so I'm looking forward to Monday! 😁 
This weekend I'm just going to be using up what I have lurking in the fridge so I'm doing Chinese beef with sweet potato noodles tonight- nomnom!!

Debt_Me_Out_Of_Here

I'm on a similar mission to you @leftatthetrafficlights, I too have a ridiculously full store cupboard, lots of dried beans and grains and loads of random stuff like Chapatti flour I've never even touched. It's a good idea to use some stuff up in bulk and freeze, I think I'll do the same with some beans as I always end up using the tinned ones when I'm in a hurry (which, with 2 small kids, is always haha). 
About to make a lentil loaf for our roast dinner later - we normally use some kind of meat analogue but they're so expensive in comparison and lentil loaf is a lot more nutritious too. 

kacie

Yes I've been doing this too, cancelled the veg box for this week, and going to try to get through the cupboard and freezer stock instead. However I also want to make some beetroot bread too, been years since I made bread and well I do have beetroot to use up! 
https://www.twiggstudios.com/2014/05/beetroot-and-walnut-bread/