How To Go Vegan Course
So we talked about reasons for going vegan:
Save the Animals – 70 Billion killed a year for the food
industry
Save the Environment – Gas Emmissions from Herds and
Intensive Farming
Feed the World – If crops were eaten rather than fed to
animals, everyone’d eat
Health Concerns – Dairy and Eggs linked to Cancer
Weight Management – Readymade foods have meat, dairy, honey,
eggs or at least whey powder, gelatin or lactic acid (derivatives) so vegans
avoid them and so by great chance avoid sugar and salt-laden foods too. This means
conscious eating equals weight loss.
The risk to vegans is too many carbs as
veg and potatoes and pasta etc are all carbs in part! The solution is to have
small portions of carbs and include protein at every meal. Eat often and prosper: 6 small meals a day
keeps your metabolism busy, energy up and toning happening!
Vegan Bread –
With the added bonus of no yeast, fully organic, rye
potential, gluten free potential, no hot cupboard needed for rising the dough
and works with whatever you have handy.
2lb dry ingredients altogether – flour, bran, spelt, rye
flour (half a pound max)
3 teaspoons baking
powder
2 teaspoons molasses/treacle
1 teaspoon baking soda
Mix dry ingredients
Heat spoon in small bit of water for molasses to be liquid
Add nearly a litre of liquid – nut milk/soya milk/water
Grease and flour 3 bread tins
Divide up mixture and add tomatoes/walnuts etc if wanted.
Sprinkle pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds on the top.
Put on at 200 or 180 for 35 minutes and then 10 minutes more
once you get them out of the tins and placed upside down in the oven.
Cool on a rack – under a t towel in winter and not in
summer, so crust isn’t too crunchy.
Soups
Kales, cabbage, garlic – protein: beans of any sort that you
have soaked or tinned.
Carrot, lentils
Potato leek
Just start with onion, vegan boullion, garlic and ginger at
the end for max health or not at all, if you intend to dance with someone.
Rice crispy buns
Real Chocolate/Dark cooking chocolate/Cocoa, sugar (or golden
syrup), tiny bit of nut or soy milk and
warm slowly on the hob
Mix with rice crispies.
I thought this couldn’t go wrong but ours was more like
delux cocoa pops than buns!
Hummus
Cooked Chickpeas – olive oil, organic lemon (when you find
organic lemons buy them. Grate rind and
keep in freezer for snacks and teas and total instant health (20 times the
strength of chemo therapy I’m told and good for all sorts) and keep the lemons
there too and defrost when you want the juice for a round of hummus. Add a
little water so that the mixture will whizz with the whizzer and not block the
blades entirely. Maybe salt and pepper or paprika or tahini. But delicious in
anyway. I also have a simple tin of chick peas for a snack with a few teaspoons
of apple cider vinegar over them and a flax oil or olive oil – basically you’re
getting good fats, the pea protein and the vinegar that heals joints, yeast
imbalance and nearly every other complaint of the body, disguised as a light
salad. PS If you’re getting a whizzer for the first time, get a stainless steel
rather than a plastic one,. Can’t remember why now but just sharing that!
Shepherd’s pie
Potatoes cut small and add boiling or cold water and a sprinkle
of salt
Keep checking with fork for when soft and ready for mashing.
Mash with a spoon of Pure margarine (any dairy free
margarine whether sunflower, soya or olive), splash of soy milk, salt and
pepper.
Pie Filling
Prepare onion and sauté in olive oil
Then add soya mince with a half an inch of boiling water
Frozen kale
Tinned tomato
Mustard
Mixed herbs
Steamed carrots
Spoon into a dish and flatten potato evenly on top. Grate
vegan cheese on top. I love the soy free Cheezly cheddar and the Smoked Cheese
by Bute Island. Everything can be ordered by your health food shop in
sufficient amounts to make it affordable. But be warned the smoked cheese lasts
for ever but the ‘easy listening’ cheezly and slices last about one sitting.
I recommend a few definite s for your cupboard. Probiotics
keep your stomach with the right bacteria working away and undoing all the
damage of the yeast and sugar from the past.
In my first seven days survival kit I also included:
Boullion (vegan, organic, gluten free) is like a vegetarian
stock cube essentially and a stash of this adds taste to any sauce or even
rice.
One kilo Brown Rice
A tin of beans and lentils that are always there for you
Cooking chocolate is not too appetizing to eat but means you
have the materials for rice crispy buns. Etc.
Vegetarian mince from the health store or even Holland and
Barratt. Its super cheap, lasts for ever and only needs a momentary rehydration
and seasoning to ready it.
Oat cakes, rice cakes and Tartex (delicious vegan pate in a
tube).
Lidl gourmet muesli, 50% fruit and nuts is vegan and went in
the survival kit.
Frozen meals:
Vegan Shepherd’s Pie,
Tandori curry with Tofu, Coconut milk and Pak Choi.
Vegan Chilli Con Carne – The Lidl sauce of this name is
vegan miraculously but to make it yourself you just sauté the onions, add chilli,
kidney beans (soaked overnight and cooked) soya mince, Vegan Tom Yum Paste,
tomato paste, a tin of organic chopped tomatoes, carrots, frozen peas and let
them infuse the flavours until you have the rice cooked. If you can’t find an
ingredient, use something else. Everything seems to work, when you cook with
compassion and a sense of adventure.
Monday –
readybrek, apple
bread and hummus lunch
chilli con carne
Tuesday –
Bread and soup lunch
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Shopping
Plantgoodness.ie is a good Irish online vegan food supply and is where I get my vegan organic dog and cat food too! However, don't forget to support your local health store for going to the trouble of stocking and sourcing great vegan alternatives and organic supplies!
Soya and nut milks for tea and cereal and cooking
Hazelnut milk is magic for coffee
It is really a tea party to be vegan!
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