Hello from Toronto (my home city!) — I took the red-eye two nights ago from San Francisco. My flight was delayed by almost 4 hours, so we left my connection at 2:30am instead of 10:30am and I was so tired during my connection at LAX.
I passed the time by catching Pokemon and reading magazines, one of which was Veg News. I had never picked it up before, and ended up really liking it. I got a lot of ideas and inspiration, and I also like seeing ads for new vegan products 😛
This week I only made breakfast, a morning snack, and dinner. For breakfast, I made vegetable soup. I cut up all the veggies (tomato, mushroom, spinach, and avocado) and put them into jars beforehand, with a spoonful of veggie broth. Then in the morning I’d just add water and microwave it for 3-4 minutes until the mushrooms got soft. It’s really warm and filling, which is nice because it’s cold right now in SF.
There wasn’t much protein in the veggie soup, so as a morning snack I made a protein smoothie which I’d take to work. I adapted this recipe from Chocolate Covered Katie. It has a huge block of tofu (about 1 cup) instead of protein powder. You can’t taste it though because the cocoa powder and peanut butter masks the tofu taste really well. I highly recommend it if you don’t like using protein powder.
I didn’t make lunch because I just decided to eat the lunch we get at work. I normally don’t, because there aren’t many vegan options that are also healthy, so I end up eating the same thing on consecutive days.
For dinner, I made burrito bowls with Beyond Beef meatless crumbles, black beans, store-bought salsa, quinoa, and home-made guacamole. The guac did start turning brown on Thursday, but it still tasted perfectly fine on Friday. I ended up sprinkling some Daya shredded cheese on the beans because they were a little bland (I didn’t add any seasoning).
I decided I should start rating my meals based on:
- taste
- how much effort and time were required to make them
- cost-effectiveness
- how long they stayed good
So here it is!
Veggie soup
- Taste: 5/5
- Prep: 5/5
- Cost: 5/5
- Longevity: 5/5
Burrito bowl
- Taste: 4.5/5
- Prep: 4.5/5
- Cost: 4/5
- Longevity: 5/5
I’m about to head off to a very early family dinner / combined birthday celebration. I ordered a vegan birthday cake from a vegan bakery called Bunners. I’m debating whether or not I’m going to tell my family that it is vegan until they taste it, because I don’t think they’ll suspect that it is.
Anyway, have a wonderful week!
