As it's been two weeks, I have not missed anything. I don't miss cheese, egg, butter and others. Talking about butter I am actually enjoying Biona's olive oil butter, it is so good.
I did have some struggles though last week. I struggled a bit with knowing what to make for lunch or dinner. Breakfast is never an issue for me though; I have tonnes of ideas. It made me realise the importance of planning the meals a week in advance- I didn't write one last week so I made sure I've written one for this week.
Day 8
Protein smoothie to start my day; kale, peanut butter, banana, baobab powder, oat and almond milk.
For lunch I made avocado, apple, spinach and pomegranate salad. Garnished with some walnuts.
For dinner I made something really simple but yummy. Although the dinner was simple to make, but I actually spent an hour in Morrison deciding what to make. I was buying lots of produce but just couldn't figure out what to make with them. In the end, I turned to Vegangela.com for help and found this delicious oven baked tomato risotto. I added some kale to ensure I have my greens.
Day 9
Breakfast was coconut porridge topped with banana and coconut. I opened a coconut the night before and blended the pieces of the coconut with some oats and almond milk. I blended almost 1/4 of the coconut but there's hardly any taste of it.
For lunch I just had left overs of the risotto. For dinner I made vegan butternut squash mac and cheese. Found this recipe from Ohsheglows.com. I'm not too sure about the taste. I reckon I put too much nutritional yeast.
Day 10
Just a simple avocado, coconut and banana smoothie for breakfast.
I had found a new way of having avocado. Mango, cherry tomato, avocado and spinach salad. The sweetness of mango and tomato masked the taste of avocado so I managed to enjoy this. For those who don't know, I don't like avocado but I eat it because it has good fat and high in fibre.
Day 11
I didn't take picture of the breakfast as I was in a rush to go to work. It was just a protein shake. The picture below is my lunch, rice noodles with oyster mushrooms and green veggies. This lunch cost no more than £2! I got all the ingredients on sale!! Rice noodles for 19p, broccoli for 19p, green peppers for 40p, and oyster mushrooms for 90p.
This was not my breakfast, this was my dinner. Yes I had pancakes. I went to my parent's home and they had nothing to eat for dinner. I found rye flour, chia seeds, and oat milk so decided to make vegan pancake. I made the chocolate sauce and peanut sauce myself. I just mixed dark cocoa powder with a bit of water and cane sugar, mixed peanut butter with water.
Day 12
I had a smoothie for breakfast but didn't take picture, sorry. For lunch I went to the food market near my work place, I had a vegetarian paella. It was super hot that day and so had to sit outside to get my doses of vitamin D whilst munching.
My dessert, strawberries and coconut cream. This was so yummy. I 'm sure it was the coconut cream, it was like pure indulgent.
Day 13
It was hot on Saturday but I still had a warm porridge- apple pie porridge- and a honeydew and banana smoothie.
That strawberry and coconut ice lolly had got me wanting more. So on Saturday morning I decided to make my own. This was pomegranate and grapefruit.
Day 14
I made a peanut butter and banana protein shake, I added a tablespoon self- milled hemp seed for an extra boost of protein. The grapefruit was the second part of the breakfast.
I was happy to find out that Sushi Samba had a vegan menu. I admit that seeing the regular menu did make me feel I'm missing out on some dishes, e.g. their shrimp tempura. But I was good.
To start, I had miso soup and edamame beans. Then I had to watch my parents and my brother eat until my grilled asparagus came followed by aubergine in mustard miso sauce. The aubergine was really good. The asparagus was £9.50, seriously not worth that price. I could have made that myself, it wasn't anything special. However, I did like the pinch size seaweed salad- that's the black fluffy object on the side of both plates. It was real seaweed.
Then finally my sushi, a selection of veggie nigiri and maki. I did like this and I like the coloured rice paper. I think they are rice paper, didn't taste like seaweed. In total we ordered 14 courses, 5 of which were vegan. I was still hungry after this. I would definitely come back again to try out the regular menu but I will only have sushi and skip the appetisers as they were overpriced. According to my parents the gyoza and others appetisers weren't that special but the shrimp tempura was different in a good way. So I will definitely want to try that.
For dinner, I had stir fried grilled tofu with green peppers and bean sprouts in black bean sauce served with some rice.
I am happy that I learnt about the tomato risotto and the mango avocado salad. Since I'll be busy revising for my first PT theory assessment on Sunday the risotto will be a good quick meal. Did you have any vegan food this week? Or have I encouraged you to?
