Vegan with jam

Tag: Meals

  • And Some Veggies with Rice

    This was great! And so simple!
    beans and rice

  • Another Weekend – But Raining

    It is raining but otherwise not all that bad for January. The weather promises to be reasonably warm next week, approaching the mid fifties for most of it.

    Breakfast Thursday and Friday: Old Fashioned Oatmeal with Soy Milk and WW toast and jam. Bought some black raspberry for a change of pace.

    Lunch Thursday: Mostly three bean salad with some mixed greens and fruit (mellon).

    Lunch Friday: Baked potato with BBQ sauce and a salad with tomato and brocholli. Iced tea.

    Dinner Thursday: The vegatable soup Mary made the other day and some WW bread toasted with hummus. Very good.

    Dinner Yesterday: Spaghetti

    Breakfast Today: Pancakes made with 1/2 WW flour and 1/2 AP flour. Used “Plain” Soy milk (contains cane sugar) for fluid. These were the best pancakes I’ve had in a long time, if not ever. Very flavourful and nutty like. Served them up with Earth Balance spread and maple syrup. Great!

    Back to the rain. Went to the gym this morning. It is getting to be a fairly regular routine.

  • Continuation

    Lunch Yesterday: Six inch veggie sub from Planet Sub. Pepsi.
    Dinner Yesterday: Left over Rice, beans, tofu suprise with salsa on side. WW Toast with Earth Balance.

    It is now the Thursday morning. I’m on my first cup of coffee. Haven’t got anything else to add at the moment. Didn’t make it to the gym yet. Maybe later. I am off to the kitchen to put some dishes away and start the oatmeal. I hear Mary stirring on the second floor. Perhaps she’ll be down soon for coffee.

  • Home At Last But Alone

    It has been a while since I’ve made updates. It is now the evening of Monday and I see we have to cover all day Saturday and Sunday. I am looking forward to not making a comment about every meal, but only those that are worthy of comment. Another week or so and I’ll be to that point. Here we go:

    Breakfast Saturday: Started with more coffee than was probably required. And ultimately had some toast with hummus.

    Lunch Saturday: Sunny wanted to have me join her for showing of a car she had to sell, so I ended up eating a PB&J #3 – wow – and off we went around noon. She had spent an hour or so at the gym.

    Saturday Afternoon Snack: While Sunny was attempting to show the car, she had dropped me off in down town Glens Falls. It was a rather dismal afternoon weatherwise, however uncharacteristically warm for the season. I took some pictures but didn’t produce any exciting results. Sometimes that happens. After Sunny and I got back together, we went into a neat little bistro bakery type place and had tomato cous cous soup and salad. All vegan. Enormous portions.

    Saturday Dinner: Sunny went off to work and I had left over spaghet. See above somewhere about that. I also had way to much bread, but all vegan. So, in all the dinner was great, but not all that good in terms of nutrition. But good points for the vegan aspect.

    Sunday Breakfast: I cooked up the usual tofu scrambler and served it up wrapped in a WW tortilla with salsa on the side along with toasted French Batard slices.

    Sunday Snack: This was a travel day, so didn’t have a “formal” lunch per se. I bought a bag of trail mix and munched on some of that.

    Sunday Dinner: Had a nice Mediterranian meal in the same place in the Detroit airport as I did before. Pretty much the same thing. All vegan.

    Monday Breakfast: Hand full of mixed nuts. Very busy morning.

    Monday Lunch: Today was a Rotary day. Had a large heaping of salad with green beans, some corn, rice, and I think that is about it. Told my Rotary friends about my diet.

    Monday Dinner: Left over tofu/rice/bean mixture Mary and I had frozen sometime back. Had some 100% WW bread toasted and didn’t notice until afterword that it contains dairy. Didn’t see that coming. But should have. Lesson: Watch ingredient in your own home.

  • Traveling Veganman

    These past few days have been a whirlwind. Since Tuesday, I’ve been in Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia, and then back to Kansas through Missouri again. Then with 5 hours sleep continuing on to New Hampshire through Detroit and on to Vermont and my current location in Upstate New York by yesterday evening in time to make dinner. Spaghetti. The day’s meals:

    Breakfast: Beginning the day with coffee at 5 AM to create my presentation for the client meeting and on the nearly two hour drive north through the back roads of New Hampshire, I had one of the PB&Js. It did the trick. I nearly had peanut butter running down my chin, but managed to not make too much of a mess. It wasn’t a problem for me to avoid the bowls of available candy the agency had scattered about.

    Lunch: The agency hadn’t made any specific plans so we each ordered off a take-out menu. I selected the hot veggie sub with no cheese, dairy, eggs, or mayo. I was very specific and that turned out to be a successful strategy. The sub was good, and was very probably 100% vegan. It was “meaty” with mushrooms, broccoli, onions, peppers, and a light oil dressing. Much better than I expected. I had a few potato chips as well. Water to drink. That was about it.

    Dinner: Sunny and I went to Hannaford’s grocery store and failing to find any Earth Balance spread, settled on some 100% Organic Canola stuff to learn after later reading the fine print that it contains some (nearly insignificant amounts, I’m sure) dairy flavour extract… whatever that is. I had it on a slice of WW bread for dinner not knowing that. The WW spaghetti just had the usual onions, peppers, garlic and tomato paste sauce, pretty much my quick and easy standard.

    Breakfast Today:It wasn’t until after consuming the WW toast this morning that I learned about the dairy in the spread. Not a severe infraction and a good lesson in summary. When I get more time, I’m going to look for more available butter substitutes – maybe even SmartBalance would be OK. I’ll have to check. Casey and I also discussed this topic during a chat session later in the day. Last night I also couldn’t find the hummus, but Sunny managed to buy some during a break between classes and was nice enough to bring me some before lunch.

    Lunch: I decided to eat PB&J #2 even though they were beginning to look a little less appetizing. I didn’t want to waste them. There is one left. I don’t know about that one. We’ll see tomorrow.

    Afternoon Snack: Sunny and I went to an EMT banquet this evening where they made me a vegan meal. Not knowing in advance what I might find there, I thought a good snack might get me through anything that might come up. So, I had a sliced apple with garlic hummus dip. It was great.

    Dinner: The dinner surpassed my expectations. It was a vegan chili – all vegatables, but oddly no beans (this is especially odd from either a New York or Texan perspective. In NY all chili has beans, in Texas chile never contains beans and always meat. The flavours were definately chili pepper in the front and very tomatoful. And it was stuffed into a baked egg plant! Beautiful plate presentation. The chef did a great job. Vinegarette dressing side salad and a small par baked hard roll. It was about the size of a chicken egg. I chose to assume it was vegan and it probably was. Glass of wine and coffee for dessert. I by-passed the cheese cake with not a node in that direction. I’m going to have to try variations on this egg plant theme during the coming weeks, maybe with some grilled portabellas.

    During the social hour of the recognition banquet, ladies in pretty dresses and men with neck-ties, I was introduced as Sunny’s brother appropriately enough. And because Sunny has now taught nearly 3 generations of children going through her English classes, she knows just about everyone. Of course, I was the only one to have a “special” vegan meal, and this drew attention to everyone involved. So, I was Sunny’s brother and the vegan. Somehow I got a chuckle out of that thought. “Hi. I’m John. Sunny’s brother. I am Vegan. I am from planet Vega. The Veganman. Ha!” That’s funny. I wonder if I can get that like on my license plate, or maybe a T-shirt.

    During an on-line chat with Casey today, he suggested pizza made with hummus as a cheese substitute. We volleyed recipe suggestions back and forth for five minutes and I think both came away with some ideas. Then I read on the hummus container some of the same thoughts. I’m going to try these ideas also. Oh, and the hummus container said to use pita bread and cucumber slices for topping. Can’t get much simpler than that. Enough for now.