B: about 1/3 of a loaf of good Italian bread with avocado
L: rice, microwaved with fresh broccoli, and I added 1/2 can of low-salt white beans (I think that was about 5-7 ounces of beans).
D: a BIG serving of my home-grown butternut squash, with roasted unsalted sunflower seeds and some roasted squash seeds.

Water to drink with all of this.

I think I need more variety, although I'd say that what I eat is usually quite healthy... and I'm all out of oats, my most favorite breakfast food.

B: baked potato topped with half an avocado, salt, and pepper

L: Gardein mandarin orange chicken tossed with yellow and green bell peppers over rice (this was really tasty)

D: split pea soup

S: Boca vegan burger on whole wheat sandwich thin, apple


@Tom your Italian bread breakfast sounds divine! @Spudulika was the Wellington something you purchased or something you made?

@AspiringBuddha

I made it, this is the recipe I use (we like this one quite a bit). It is a bit of a faff to make, so I don't make it all that frequently, but like a lot of the stuff I cook, it serves the two of us for four weeks (I cut it into 8 slices, serve two and then freeze the rest in three two slice portions to reheat on Sundays. It's also quite calorific (nuts and pastry!) but I work it out by including plenty of veg and keeping supper light.

https://pennyveguk.wordpress.com/201...osemary-vegan/

Day before yesterday:

B - Fruit & Fibre cereal with soya milk
L - 2 x Jam sandwiches on wholemeal bread
D - soya based sausages baked, new potatoes, steamed cabbage, steamed carrots, onion gravy


Yesterday:

B - Fruit & Fibre cereal with soya milk
L - Jam sandwich on wholemeal bread
D - wholewheat spaghetti with tomato sauce and soya meat balls


Today:

B - banana with coconut yogurt and agave syrup
D - Italian peasant stew with pasta and borlotti beans (yum yum yum!!)
S - muesli bars / not sure yet

Yesterday:

B: baked potato topped with canned chili beans and tomato salsa
L: 2 boca spicy chicken patties on whole wheat sandwich thins, an apple
D: minestrone soup, homemade whole wheat bread from the freezer, baby carrots
S: "banana drink" with vanilla soy milk and nutritional yeast

Today (planned):

B: oatmeal with almond milk, cinnamon, apple, and walnuts
L: curried chickpeas and onions, sliced cucumbers
D: split pea soup, sliced red bell peppers
S: "banana drink"

18 Nov:
B - Banana, coconut yogurt, maple syrup
L - Jam sandwich on wholemeal bread
D - Pasta e Fagioli (yum)
S - Muesli bar
S - Date nectar on bread

19 Nov:
B - Bran cereal with soya milk
L - [vegetarian lunch out]
S - muesli bar
D - Cranberry nut loaf en croute, peas, potatoes, vegetable gravy
S - fizzy drink

20 Nov:
B - bran cereal with soya milk
L - sage & onion slices and salad sandwich on wholemeal bread
S - muesli bar
D - butternut squash and apricot tagine served with wholewheat couscous

21 Nov:
B - bran cereal / soya milk
L - Jam sandwich on wholemeal
D - vegetable fingers, mashed potatoes with parsley, baked beans
S - muesli bar and elderflower presse

22 Nov:
B - bran cereal / soy milk
L - jam sandwich
D - [vegetarian take out]
S - muesli bar and fizzy drink

23 Nov:
B - a banana and an apple
L - two oranges
D - homemade low fat hummus with crudites

24 Nov:
B - banana, coconut yogurt, maple syrup
L - a banana, two oranges and an apple
D - soya burger (wholewheat roll, jalapenos, coconut cheese slice, lettuce, onion, tomato) and oven chips
S - muesli bar and sparkling grape juice

25 Nov:
B - Bran cereal and soy milk
D/S - [vegetarian meal out]

26 Nov:
Water fasted all day

27 Nov:
B - bran cereal and soy milk
L - date nectar on wholemeal bread
D - soya meat balls in tomato sauce with wholemeal spaghetti

Yesterday:
B - banana, two oranges, apple
L - vegetable fingers, baked beans, mashed potatoes
D - several muesli bars

Today:
B/L - [vegetarian work lunch]
D - Cajun black-eyed peas with brown rice, baked sweet potato and greens (yum yum yum!)
S - bottle of sparkling red grape juice

My times are all backwards now because I've started working overnights, so I group things by time of day instead of meal.

7-11 am: an apple
2-5 pm: banana blended with soy milk, nutritional yeast, and flaxseed
5-9 pm: boca chick'n patty on whole wheat sandwich thin with avocado, a clementine
11 pm-7 am: salad of whole wheat angel hair pasta, cabbage, baked tofu, and peanut dressing, banana, orange, coke zero

Also the Cajun black eyed peas sound delicious. I never think to eat blackeyed peas except at New Year's.

I LOVE them, I do a big batch once every few months and freeze in portions. This is the recipe I use (it states it serves eight but probably does more):

https://pennyveguk.wordpress.com/201...d-slow-cooker/

Home made muesli (Adopted from famous Bircher-Benner clinic)
Soaked overnight: 1 tablespoon chia seeds, 1 tablespoon hemp seeds, 3 tablespoons regular (not quick) rolled oats and 2 tablespoons raisins. Cover with water.

Add in the morning one piece of ripe, diced fruit and two tablespoons of pumpkin seeds ground in a coffee bean grinder. You will not be hungry until lunch. Tastes good but looks ugly.

Finally donating blood today! (I tried one day and the bloodmobile had a problem and didn't show up, and then I rescheduled and woke up with a cold so had to cancel myself. Third time's the charm!) So I'm eating high iron foods today and getting lots of water.

7-11 am: tofu scramble with nutritional yeast, grape tomatoes, and lots of spinach, an orange
11 am (post donation): gala apple
2-5 pm: drink of soy milk, banana, nutritional yeast, and flaxseed
5-9 pm: lentil stew, whole wheat sandwich thin spread with avocado
9-11 pm: oatmeal with brown sugar, walnuts, and soy milk
11 pm-7 am: african peanut soup (made this last night and it's DELICIOUS: it's high calorie with the coconut milk and peanut butter, but completely worth it...I'll link the recipe in the recipe thread), 2 clementines, radishes, coke zero

Dinner: A favorite of George Bernard Shaw.
Brown rice with chopped nuts, vegan cheese, couple tablespoons tomato sauce and fried tomatoes on top. Whole wheat toast with mint chutney. (Of course Shaw used dairy cheese.) Getting some interesting ideas here, even after twenty years vegan. All look pretty well balanced.

@georgemetesky ,

your dinner sounds delicious!

And, yes, that's one of the reasons I like this thread. I'm a newer vegan but I always find something to inspire me. I'm going to make the cajun blackeyed peas in the next couple of weeks, and I never thought of topping toast with chutney, but I think it's a great idea.

Yesterday:

7-11 am: whole wheat sandwich thin with peanut butter
2 pm-5pm: aldi winternacht cookies, 7 layer burrito no sour cream or cheese, add jalapenos
5-9 pm: romaine spinach salad with an olive oil and red wine vinaigrette
9-11 pm: gardein fishless filets, baked potato wedges, ketchup

Not nearly enough fruit/veg and light on the protein, but every so often that won't kill me.

Today (planned):

7-11 am: oatmeal with diced apple, brown sugar, cinnamon, and soy milk
2-5 pm: mushroom stew with onions, carrots, and red wine over garlic mashed potatoes, 2 clementines
5-9 pm: slow cooker white bean chili
11 pm-7 am: black bean chipotle burger on whole wheat sandwich thin with tomato salsa, celery with peanut butter

30th Nov
B - Bran cereal and soya milk
L - Blueberry jam sandwich on wholemeal bread
S - Apple pie
D - [vegetarian take out]
S - Fruit drink

1st Dec
B - Bran cereal and soya milk
L - 2 bananas
D - Brown lentil, potato and mushroom stew with bread & butter (soya)
S - bread and jam, muesli bar

2nd Dec
L - Vegetable burger and chips
S - Oatmeal biscuits (lots!)

3rd Dec
Water fasted all day

4th Dec
B - banana
L - 'Fully English': tinned plum tomatoes, baked beans, buttered (soya) wholemeal toast, scrambled tofu, sauted mushrooms, grilled polony 'bacon'
S - granola and soya milk

Yesterday
B - banana
L - jam sandwich
D - cranberry nut roast, roasted potatoes, cauliflower with parsley sauce, baby broad beans, stuffing balls
S - presse drink

Today
B - fruit & fibre bran cereal and soya milk
L - sage and onion slices with salad on wholemeal bread
D - mushroom and red bean goulash over mashed potatoes
S - grape sparkling rose

Today:

B - banana, coconut yogurt, maple syrup
L - Blueberry pure fruit jam sandwich on wholemeal bread
D - Leek & butterbean patties, new potatoes, cauliflower, peas, parsley sauce
S - Sparkling rose grape presse

You always make me hungry!

Ha! My evil plan

Today:

B - banana, coconut yogurt, maple syrup
L - Pure fruit seville orange jam sandwich on chunky wholemeal bread
D - baked potato, corn on the cob, boston baked beans, mustardy slaw (carrots, cabbage, red onion, rapeseed oil, wholegrain mustard, cider vinegar)
S- not sure yet..

Not feeling so well today.

I ate:

Amy's Tofu Pad Thai
lentil stew
potato chips
apple
orange

Today:

B - Porridge with wholegrain Scots porridge oats, soya milk and brown sugar
L - Hummus and oat crackers
D - Fajita wraps: 2 x wholemeal wraps, pepper-onion-garlic-mushroom-red bean stir fry in fajita seasoning mix, simple salsa, pickled jalapenos, lime dressed shredded lettuce

Didn't make a good job of recording my meals this weekend.

Today

B
- Black coffee without sugar

L
- Whole pasta
- Walnuts
- Flaxseed
- Olive oil

S
- Oats
- Peanut Butter
- Kiwi
- Flaxseed
- Cinnamon

D
- Rice
- Lentils
- Walnuts

Meat is death:

B - Bananas
L - Blueberry jam sandwich
D - Cajun black-eyed beans with brown rice, steamed cabbage and baked sweet potato
S - Apple pie

Still sick.

First meal: 2 apples
Second meal: bananas, soy milk, and nutritional yeast
Third meal: better than bouillon no chicken soup base, cooked with water, carrots, celery, onions, and garlic, saltine crackers
Fourth meal: baked rice with mushrooms stir-fried with garlic, ginger, and soy sauce

B - wholewheat toast, soya butter, pure fruit orange spread
L - vegan cheese and tomato sandwich on wholemeal bread with soya butter
D - brown lentil, mushroom and potato stew with wholemeal bread and soya butter
S - unsure..

A lot of bread today *hugs bread*

B - FAST
L - Whole pasta, walnuts, flaxseeds and a coffee without sugar
S - Yogurt, Oats, Walnuts, Sunflower seeds and a coffee without sugar
D - Rice and olive oil, turmeric

*.*

I could hug bread every day...

This thread is always pretty full of healthy eating, but I thought it might be useful for transitioners to show a less healthy day, and I have one planned for tomorrow, so here goes:

11-2: peanut butter and pickle sandwich, orange juice, baby carrots
2 - 5: chili dog made with Smart hot dogs, buns, and canned vegetable chili, topped with Go Veggie American cheese slices and red onions
5 - 9: shredded spaghetti squash tossed with homemade pizza sauce and boca imitation meat crumbles, spinach salad with mandarin orange olive oil dressing
9-11: drink of soy milk, nutritional yeast, and banana

B-Leftover pizza from last night
L-Trader Joe's canned grape leaves.
D-A stuffed mushroom with caramelized onions, garlic, and mushroom stems.
De-Vanilla Rice Cream with So delicious whipped cream, Chocolate cashew cream, and chocolate syrup.