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Vegan Storecupboard Challenge 2024

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  • Dinner tonight was cabbage, red beans and rice. It's one of my favourites - dirt cheap, tastes so much better than the sum of it's parts and done within 30 mins! 🙌😁 


    'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'

    Weight loss challenge 2024:
    Start weight: 9st 13.1lb
    End weight: 8st 13lb

    Weight loss challenge 2025: 
    Start weight: 8st 6lbs
    End weight: 

    JSF: £0/£2000

    'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'

  • Dinner tonight was mushroom and walnut mince bolognese with a rocket, broccoli sprouts, pomegranate, watermelon and strawberry salad with balsamic and the remaining butterbean puree.


    'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'

    Weight loss challenge 2024:
    Start weight: 9st 13.1lb
    End weight: 8st 13lb

    Weight loss challenge 2025: 
    Start weight: 8st 6lbs
    End weight: 

    JSF: £0/£2000

    'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'

  • The full food inventory is nearly completed - I've just got the freezers and the herbs, spices and stocks to do now (along with household and toiletries but the food one is most important!) so I'm planning on doing those tomorrow then getting a menu plan sorted. I'm going to decide on three meals plus one UFO per week as I always cook more and have leftovers - hopefully that will be the best way to do it but I'll see how it goes. I'll keep the inventories updated so that I don't need to do this again! 😉

    Tonight's dinner was dark speckled lentils, harissa roasted cauliflower, rocket, broccoli sprouts, black grapes and pomegranate salad. There's enough leftovers for dh's lunch tomorrow too 😁 

    'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'

    Weight loss challenge 2024:
    Start weight: 9st 13.1lb
    End weight: 8st 13lb

    Weight loss challenge 2025: 
    Start weight: 8st 6lbs
    End weight: 

    JSF: £0/£2000

    'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'

  • ~FlowerPot~
    ~FlowerPot~ Posts: 1,621 Forumite
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    gosh LATTLs your meals look delicious and healthy and I love the fuit mixed in.
    I am inspired!!!

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  • leftatthetrafficlights
    leftatthetrafficlights Posts: 2,085 Forumite
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    edited 28 November 2024 at 5:21PM
    @~FlowerPot~ - thank you! 😁 I love fruit in salads, it really elevates them and adds lots of colour and freshness to the plate 😁

    Today I've made an onion, carrot, cabbage, barberry and quinoa sautè which I'm serving with purple sweet potato, lemon chickpeas (chickpeas cooked in stock, lemons, lemon verbena and thyme) and a rocket, broccoli sprouts, pomegranate and black grape salad. 

    I'll post a piccie when I serve it 😁
    'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'

    Weight loss challenge 2024:
    Start weight: 9st 13.1lb
    End weight: 8st 13lb

    Weight loss challenge 2025: 
    Start weight: 8st 6lbs
    End weight: 

    JSF: £0/£2000

    'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'

  • As promised...


    'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'

    Weight loss challenge 2024:
    Start weight: 9st 13.1lb
    End weight: 8st 13lb

    Weight loss challenge 2025: 
    Start weight: 8st 6lbs
    End weight: 

    JSF: £0/£2000

    'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'

  • Tonight's dinner was cavolo nero and tomato sautè; spaghetti squash; calabrese; apple, beetroot and pear 'rice'; red lentils cooked in random sauces; chickpeas in lemon verbena and thyme; rocket, broccoli sprouts, black grapes and pomegranate salad; and hommous. Very lovely and dh even enjoyed the cavolo nero!🙌😂



    'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'

    Weight loss challenge 2024:
    Start weight: 9st 13.1lb
    End weight: 8st 13lb

    Weight loss challenge 2025: 
    Start weight: 8st 6lbs
    End weight: 

    JSF: £0/£2000

    'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'

  • ~FlowerPot~
    ~FlowerPot~ Posts: 1,621 Forumite
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    looks and sounds delicious x
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  • Thanks @~FlowerPot~, it was lovely! 😁 

    Tonight's dinner is aduki bean ans butternut squash sautè, purple sweet potato, mashed swede and carrots and parsnips in maple and dijon dressing. 

    I'll post a piccie once I dish up 😁
    'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'

    Weight loss challenge 2024:
    Start weight: 9st 13.1lb
    End weight: 8st 13lb

    Weight loss challenge 2025: 
    Start weight: 8st 6lbs
    End weight: 

    JSF: £0/£2000

    'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'

  • As promised 😁 it was delicious!! 😋 


    'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'

    Weight loss challenge 2024:
    Start weight: 9st 13.1lb
    End weight: 8st 13lb

    Weight loss challenge 2025: 
    Start weight: 8st 6lbs
    End weight: 

    JSF: £0/£2000

    'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'

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