feed a family of 4, almost vegan, on a rather small budget! Old Style!

missymoo81

Thanks shandyclover, lovely tips thanks, was just trying to do it to budget. But you're right with the seeds and soya flour. No peanut butter or marmite here unfortunately. It's on the hated list. Might look at molasses though thank you. And I appreciate the orange juice is full of sugar etc, but they're having other sugary fruit at the same time so classed as one sugar hit for the teeth. It's more for the vitamin C, as neither children are that keen on eating satsumas.....

I don't know anything else that is so high in vitamin c...?! Im also going to look at £100 for a month and see what I can get in bulk, as i could save on some things? As I wouldn't need 4kg of rice for instance, so could spend that 80p on seeds for example. So will think month long and see what I can come up with. Thanks so much for the ideas.

Love the Instagram thoughts wanttobese I've never thought about looking on there before. And I love spinach anyway, and usually have 3 cubes of frozen spinach in my smoothies, but I don't think there's quite enough for me to do that every day, so have chosen fresh.

Joedenise, I didn't know that!!! I may try my luck and ask!!!

missymoo81

Ps shandyclover, the hm mozorella links and links would be much appreciated!

Florence_J

I've just remembered but there is a Forum poster on here called Evkizzy and they have a debt free diary about being vegan on a budget and have also started a facebook page called either cheapskate vegan or vegan cheapskate. Might be worth a look, and they are really nice.

missymoo81

Thanks Florence, do you have a link to the thread? I'm not on Facebook unfortunately.

Spendless

Hi everyone

I've dipped in and out of reading this thread. Not vegans ourselves, but my teenage daughter became vegetarian earlier this year.

Anyway I noticed there's been a few posts about making vegan yorkshire puddings, and there's a recipe in a local mag I picked up recently, which I'll write the recipe for out below. I don't know how it will work out costwise nor how easily found any ingredients are, but I will say I don't live in the most expensive and widely available products area and this recipe is from a local magazine.

I have copied it out as worded from the mag, including the comments in brackets and I know some of the instructions are basic to many on here;) but I didn't want to miss anything out that could be potentially an issue, so stuck to the author's words.

Vegan Yorkshire Puddings

100g self raising flour

1/2 tsp Himalayan black salt (for the traditional eggy flavour)

2 tsp No-Egg (made with 4 x tbsp water)

200ml warm water (for crispier, less dense pud use sparkling water)

150 ml soya milk

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp apple cider vinegar

12 tsp vegetable oil (1 tsp per hole in your yorkshire pudding tin)

Method
Pour 1tsp of veg oil into each hole of a 12 hold yorkshire pudding tin. Place the tin in oven and pre heat to 200C for around 10-15 mins.

In a jug/bowl, whisk the No-Egg with the water until frothy. Add warm water, milk and apple cider vinegar and whisk until thoroughly mixed.

Into a new bowl, sieve the flour, salt and baking powder. Slowly add the liquid ingredients whilst whisking. Keep whisking until a lump-free, foamy batter is former. Transfer into a clean jug for easy pouring.

Take out the pudding tin and pour batter into each of the holes. The oil should be nice and hot and beginning to smoke, so the batter should start to cook and bubble immediately. Put the tin back into oven and bake for 15-20 mins before dropping the heat to 180c for a further 10 mins.

Half way through, open oven up, make sure nothing is burning and give the tin a turn for even baking. When time is up, remove puds from oven and leave to chill for 5 mins, then gently slide a blunt knife around the edges of the puddings popping each one out.

If anyone does make this, come back and let me/us know. I'd love to hear how they turn out. :)

missymoo81

Spendless wrote: »

Hi everyone

I've dipped in and out of reading this thread. Not vegans ourselves, but my teenage daughter became vegetarian earlier this year.

Anyway I noticed there's been a few posts about making vegan yorkshire puddings, and there's a recipe in a local mag I picked up recently, which I'll write the recipe for out below. I don't know how it will work out costwise nor how easily found any ingredients are, but I will say I don't live in the most expensive and widely available products area and this recipe is from a local magazine.

I have copied it out as worded from the mag, including the comments in brackets and I know some of the instructions are basic to many on here;) but I didn't want to miss anything out that could be potentially an issue, so stuck to the author's words.

Vegan Yorkshire Puddings

100g self raising flour

1/2 tsp Himalayan black salt (for the traditional eggy flavour)

2 tsp No-Egg (made with 4 x tbsp water)

200ml warm water (for crispier, less dense pud use sparkling water)

150 ml soya milk

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp apple cider vinegar

12 tsp vegetable oil (1 tsp per hole in your yorkshire pudding tin)

Method
Pour 1tsp of veg oil into each hole of a 12 hold yorkshire pudding tin. Place the tin in oven and pre heat to 200C for around 10-15 mins.

In a jug/bowl, whisk the No-Egg with the water until frothy. Add warm water, milk and apple cider vinegar and whisk until thoroughly mixed.

Into a new bowl, sieve the flour, salt and baking powder. Slowly add the liquid ingredients whilst whisking. Keep whisking until a lump-free, foamy batter is former. Transfer into a clean jug for easy pouring.

Take out the pudding tin and pour batter into each of the holes. The oil should be nice and hot and beginning to smoke, so the batter should start to cook and bubble immediately. Put the tin back into oven and bake for 15-20 mins before dropping the heat to 180c for a further 10 mins.

Half way through, open oven up, make sure nothing is burning and give the tin a turn for even baking. When time is up, remove puds from oven and leave to chill for 5 mins, then gently slide a blunt knife around the edges of the puddings popping each one out.

If anyone does make this, come back and let me/us know. I'd love to hear how they turn out. :)

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this out and post it!!!! I definitely miss Yorkshire puddings, so would be worth a go!

missymoo81

For those of you trying gluten free to, I just found this, a lot of ingredients though,

http://www.forkandbeans.com/2014/01/01/gluten-free-vegan-bread/

greenbee

missymoo81 wrote: »

Thanks shandyclover, lovely tips thanks, was just trying to do it to budget. But you're right with the seeds and soya flour. No peanut butter or marmite here unfortunately. It's on the hated list. Might look at molasses though thank you. And I appreciate the orange juice is full of sugar etc, but they're having other sugary fruit at the same time so classed as one sugar hit for the teeth. It's more for the vitamin C, as neither children are that keen on eating satsumas.....

It's not so much the sugar as the acid. Milk or water are the best things to drink (for all of us, not just kids) as far as teeth are concerned. If your kids are eating lots of fruit and veg generally I wouldn't worry too much about vit C. This list might be helpful.

There is no more risk of a vegan child eating a balanced diet having malnutrion than any other - at least you're not feeding them on big macs and fries every day! However if your OH and kids don't want to give up milk, let them have it - they may come round, but not making a big deal out of it will probably make it easier for them to accept the other changes.

I eat a mostly plant-based diet, with small amounts of egg, fish, meat on occasion. I still use milk in coffee (less than a pint a week), and make my own yogurt, but otherwise choose vegetables and pulses a lot of the time. However if I'm out, or visiting people, or even if I just feel like it, I'll eat pretty much anything I'm offered (with the exception of licorice and tripe...). When people visit they may well be given a vegan meal - often they don't notice, as they don't associate me with it (and hopefully because it's delicious!).

The important thing is to find the right solution for you and your family from an ethical, health and financial standpoint. Compromise is fine!

missymoo81

greenbee wrote: »

It's not so much the sugar as the acid. Milk or water are the best things to drink (for all of us, not just kids) as far as teeth are concerned. If your kids are eating lots of fruit and veg generally I wouldn't worry too much about vit C. This list might be helpful.

There is no more risk of a vegan child eating a balanced diet having malnutrion than any other - at least you're not feeding them on big macs and fries every day! However if your OH and kids don't want to give up milk, let them have it - they may come round, but not making a big deal out of it will probably make it easier for them to accept the other changes.

I eat a mostly plant-based diet, with small amounts of egg, fish, meat on occasion. I still use milk in coffee (less than a pint a week), and make my own yogurt, but otherwise choose vegetables and pulses a lot of the time. However if I'm out, or visiting people, or even if I just feel like it, I'll eat pretty much anything I'm offered (with the exception of licorice and tripe...). When people visit they may well be given a vegan meal - often they don't notice, as they don't associate me with it (and hopefully because it's delicious!).

The important thing is to find the right solution for you and your family from an ethical, health and financial standpoint. Compromise is fine!

Thanks greenbee! Very helpful! And of course you're right! I never went through the macros and nutrients for the children before I went vegan. So maybe I shouldn't be quite so hard on myself now. We haven't ever had juice to be honest, oh maybe for a special occassion, but I was just thinking of the Vit C.
Have been eating rubbish the last few days, due to time commitments with assignments and work and poorly children..... My stomach is in agony though, right up to my ribs hurts my back and stomach hurt, I'm sure it's food related as I can't think of another cause, trying to be kind to myself today, but it's not really easing.

shandyclover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo2K1nSef2Y

Tapioca flour/starch you can get from a chinese shop. I have successfully substituted unsweetened soya milk for the cashew milk they make cause it's cheaper. We buy nutritional yeast from a health food stall in our market but you can also substitute the tiniest amount of marmite.