A couple of us thought that a separate thread for vegans would be useful.
Here we could swap ideas, talk about what vegan ingredients we use, what's in our store cupboards - and, of course, all our tasty 5:2 dishes!
If we post a recipe, perhaps it might be best if that was done on a separate thread - with the word 'vegan' in the title - and then linked to back here.
Here's what I've got in my cupboard:
Pateole yeast & mushroom spread - I use this virtually every day. If I couldn't get it at my local HFS I'd send for it online.
Meridian green pesto - I've tried other versions, but they're all a bit 'gritty' IMO
Nutritional yeast (nooch)
Vital wheat gluten - for making seitan. I love the stuff!
Free and easy cheese sauce powder - I don't often make the sauce, but I do use the powder in things like seitan, and flavouring mashed potato
Parmazano - grated hard cheese replacement. I've only got a little bit left, and I don't think it's produced anymore. I use it in combination with F&E cheese sauce powder and nooch to make a replacement for parmesan on spag bol, etc.
Alpro custard - lovely stuff
Fridge/freezer:
Usual things like hummus
Linda Mac's sausages - also Fry's, which I prefer, I think (and they're only 58 calories a sausage!). Redwood's non-soya cheese, their bacon (but only for flavour in stews/curries, etc). Morrison's own mince - which I think is the best soya mince I've come across (since Quorn, TBH!). Their sausages were also brilliant - until they started adding egg white!
I've never got on with tofu - although I occasionally treat myself to Cauldron smoked tofu - it's expensive, though.
Alpro choc desserts - Provamel soya cream. Montezuma chilli chocolate. Lidl Fair Trade dark chocolate. Also their chocolate covered marzipan and chocolate liqueurs (although we won't see them again until Xmas). Swedish Glace chocolate ice cream.
Ginger nuts are generally vegan - Oaties (Lidl's answer to Hobnobs - not as sweet, which I like). I make my own choccie biscuits by melting a square of chocolate and spreading it over 3 Oaties. Takes 30 seconds in the freezer and then you're away!
'Eat food - not too much - mainly plants' should be the mantra (except we would say, '...only plants'!
Here we could swap ideas, talk about what vegan ingredients we use, what's in our store cupboards - and, of course, all our tasty 5:2 dishes!
If we post a recipe, perhaps it might be best if that was done on a separate thread - with the word 'vegan' in the title - and then linked to back here.
Here's what I've got in my cupboard:
Pateole yeast & mushroom spread - I use this virtually every day. If I couldn't get it at my local HFS I'd send for it online.
Meridian green pesto - I've tried other versions, but they're all a bit 'gritty' IMO
Nutritional yeast (nooch)
Vital wheat gluten - for making seitan. I love the stuff!
Free and easy cheese sauce powder - I don't often make the sauce, but I do use the powder in things like seitan, and flavouring mashed potato
Parmazano - grated hard cheese replacement. I've only got a little bit left, and I don't think it's produced anymore. I use it in combination with F&E cheese sauce powder and nooch to make a replacement for parmesan on spag bol, etc.
Alpro custard - lovely stuff
Fridge/freezer:
Usual things like hummus
Linda Mac's sausages - also Fry's, which I prefer, I think (and they're only 58 calories a sausage!). Redwood's non-soya cheese, their bacon (but only for flavour in stews/curries, etc). Morrison's own mince - which I think is the best soya mince I've come across (since Quorn, TBH!). Their sausages were also brilliant - until they started adding egg white!
I've never got on with tofu - although I occasionally treat myself to Cauldron smoked tofu - it's expensive, though.
Alpro choc desserts - Provamel soya cream. Montezuma chilli chocolate. Lidl Fair Trade dark chocolate. Also their chocolate covered marzipan and chocolate liqueurs (although we won't see them again until Xmas). Swedish Glace chocolate ice cream.
Ginger nuts are generally vegan - Oaties (Lidl's answer to Hobnobs - not as sweet, which I like). I make my own choccie biscuits by melting a square of chocolate and spreading it over 3 Oaties. Takes 30 seconds in the freezer and then you're away!
'Eat food - not too much - mainly plants' should be the mantra (except we would say, '...only plants'!
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