Need some ideas for Veganuary?

Dec 31, 2017 | 23 comments

Are you doing Veganuary 2019?

Or perhaps you are a new vegan and haven’t really got to grips with what it means yet, many people are turning to plant based eating, not just for veganuary. Do you need or want some ideas of what to eat? I did this post a couple of years ago, and have updated it with new recipes posted since then.This isn’t a veganuary meal plan, but an accumulation of ideas to create your own.

Trawling through the Thrifty Lesley archives, where I knew there were loads of ideas that just happened to be vegan, I extracted some in the hopes that you might like them, or maybe give you inspiration.

My host had major problems with his server and it ended up meaning that the blog was restored to the November 2017 version. This means that some links in this post may not be available yet, until I can get time to get them all back up.They’ll be there eventually!

Breakfasts

Bean and Spicy Katjan Sauce Sandwich Paste on 2 x toast, or use in a sandwich for lunch. Or use the drained baked beans and flavour them with many other things eg brinjal pickle, any pesto that is vegan, horseradish, miso paste, jaggery and dates. See the post for more ideas.

Fruit & Nut Case Paste, made using nuts and raisins, use a vegan spread for the butter

use a non-dairy milk

I love these! Substitute a vegan spread for the butter

replace the butter with coconut spread or other vegan spread

using nut milks, soya milk or fruit juice

a good grab it and go breakfast. Any jam can be used in the middle, or value marmalade or lemon curd. Or a paste made from dried fruit or dates.

many other ideas on the Recipes tab under Breakfasts are also vegan

Lunches

Most of the soups on the Recipes tab are vegan.

A chunk of this Tomato and Chive Soda Bread would be lovely with a warming bowl of soup.

change the honey to another sweetener

this was one of the favourite lunches of my girls

use a vegan cheese instead of Parmesan

some Stuffing Rolls would go very well with a lovely, warming bowl of soup

A hummus can be made very cheaply using drained basics baked beans and flavoured with a great many things, giving loads of options for sandwiches, toasty lunches or breakfasts, or with veggie dippers

Dinners

Omit the cheese in the topping)

https://www.thriftylesley.com/something-different-savoury-christmas-crumble/    post not re-loaded yet

Christmas crumble which uses stuffing mix in the topping for something different    post not re-loaded yet

Beetroot Burgers, omit the egg

omit the egg. Very, very cheap!

Goan Curry, add a vegan protein

Stuffed potato cakes, the perfect example of ordinary vegetables made into something interesting

https://www.thriftylesley.com/vegetable-hummus-pie/      post not re-loaded yet

Vegetable and hummus pie 

use a vegan yogurt or cream

use vegan yogurt

Tapas – Patatas Bravas, Spinach Dumplings in Tomato Sauce, Lemony Butter Beans with a touch of Honey.

This is an absolute cracker. I’ve had it hot with hot veg or salad, cold in toast and in a sandwich. Very variable, change the veg to whatever you have.

To liven up something plain, try

You can make many bready things very cheaply using Magic dough – pizza dough, flatbreads and wraps, pittas

A good hollow leg filler

Nut butters can be made with any nuts or mixture of nuts you have available and can be flavoured with things like raisins or miso

Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding, because we all like a cheeky pudding now and again

Got any mulled wine leftover? Try Mulled Wine Apple Crumble

Home made Nutella is divine, much healthier than shop bought, without any palm oil, and can be made vegan

Tomato scones, a very popular recipe

Muffins can be made vegan by simply leaving out the egg, using vegan spread or oil and using a vegan milk. No other adjustments are necessary

There are lots of other vegan ideas too on the Recipes tab. I’m not vegetarian or vegan, although my sister is, it’s just that meat, fish and dairy are the expensive ingredients quite often and when I twiddle a recipe, or find one that prices up, it often works out to be vegan.

So there’s a sample of delicious (I hope you think so too) food, that just happens to be vegan. If you aren’t normally vegan, it might be proving a bit difficult to do Veganuary and these recipes might just help you get through

I’m linking up with the UK Vegan Bloggers for the Veganuary linky.

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I’m a perpetual dieter, and to help with that endeavour, there is now also a Thrifty Lesley dieting group, a lovely, growing community

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