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Breakfast
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Lunch
|
Dinner
|
Snack
|
|
1/1/19
|
Cucumber,
lettuce, dark chocolate bubka, chocolate almond milk, orange juice, apricots
|
Pita,
hummus, salsa, cabbage, falafel,
|
Mushroom
burger, croutons, tapenade, avocado
|
Pringles,
sunflower seeds,
|
|
2/1/19
|
X
|
Toast
and hummus
|
Tomato
soup, corned beef, rice
|
Homemade
vegan cupcake, raspberries, croutons
|
|
3/1/19
|
Toast
and hummus
|
Burrito
bowl (without cheese and sour cream)
|
Falafel,
hummus, miso soup, salad
|
Bubble
tea
|
|
4/1/19
|
Bagel
and hummus
|
Falafel
wrap, salad, nachos
|
Rice
cake, hummus, squash, roast potatoes
|
Miso
soup, homemade vegan cupcake, raspberries
|
|
5/1/19
|
Grapes
|
Meatless
cholent, lemonade
|
Avocado
maki, cucumber maki
|
Crisps,
vegan brownie, raspberries
|
|
6/1/19
|
X
|
Falafel
burger, salad
|
Vegan
pad ti, falafel
|
Blackberries,
vegan cupcake
|
|
7/1/19
|
X
|
Jacket
potato, baked beans, banana
|
Pasta,
tomato sauce, soya yogurt with lotus
|
Falafel,hummus,croutons
|
|
8/1/19
|
X
|
Miso
soup
|
X
|
Croutons
|
|
9/1/19
|
X
|
Pumpkin
Katsu, vegetable gyoza
|
Vegan
fish fingers, guacamole, tortilla
|
Bubble
tea
|
|
10/1/19
|
X
|
Jacket
potato, baked beans
|
Vegan
sausages, kale chips, Salad,
|
Lotus
with yoghurt
|
|
11/1/19
|
X
|
Spring
roll, lettuce
|
Aubergine,
beetroot, lotus soya ice cream
|
Croutons,
mini bagels
|
|
12/1/19
|
X
|
Lentils,
vegan sausages
|
Sushi
|
Vegan
Colin caterpillar
|
|
13/1/19
|
Blueberry
vegan pancakes, lotus
|
Avocado
on toast
|
Sushi
|
Croutons
|
|
14/1/19
|
X
|
Pasta
with tomato sauce
|
Fishless
fish tacos
|
❌
|
|
15/1/19
|
Bagel
|
Jacket
potato with baked beans
|
Stir
fry
|
Tomato
soup
|
|
16/1/19
|
X
|
Veggie
sausages, Peas, Apple
|
Salad,
jackfruit pastry
|
Nachos
with avocado and salsa, coconut
|
|
17/1/19
|
Bagel
|
Bruschetta
|
Salad,
vegan sausages
|
Avocado,
hummus,
|
|
18/1/19
|
X
|
Jacket
potato, baked beans
|
Jackfruit
pastry, hummus, challah, roast potatoes
|
Aquafarba
meringue, hummus, pita
|
|
19/1/19
|
Challah, hummus
|
Avocado
maki, cucumber maki, pumpkin katsu, aubergine salad. Avocado taco
|
Burrito
bowl, nachos guacamole, sweet potato Cubes
|
Popadom,
hummus
|
|
20/1/19
|
X
|
Avocado,
toast hummus, seeds
|
Mushrooms,
hummus, bean and sweet potato burger
|
X
|
|
21/1/19
|
X
|
Jacket
potato, beans
|
Cauliflower
and tahini
|
Coconut
chips, yoghurt
|
|
22/1/19
|
X
|
X
|
Soya
sausages
|
Apple
|
|
23/1/19
|
Bagel
|
Squash
soup, apple
|
Pasta
with quorn
|
Pancakes
|
|
24/1/19
|
X
|
X
|
Vegan
mac and cheese
|
Vegan
cookie
|
|
25/1/19
|
Bagel
|
Vegan
hot dog, apple
|
Vegetable
soup, pita, hummus
|
X
|
|
26/1/19
|
X
|
Soup,
salad, jackfruit pastry
|
Falafel
|
X
|
|
27/1/19
|
Pita,
hummus
|
Sushi
|
Veggie
burger
|
Olives
|
|
28/1/19
|
Pita,
hummus
|
Falafel,
flatbread
|
Noodles
|
Olives,
vegan cookie, hummus in pita
|
|
29/1/19
|
X
|
Banana,
salad
|
Jackfruit
pastry
|
Popcorn,
olives, smoothie
|
|
30/1/19
|
Vegan
cookie
|
Banana,
squash soup
|
Quorn
and rice
|
Toast,
hummus
|
|
31/1/19
|
Vegan
cookie
|
Celeriac
taco
|
Sushi
vegan based
|
Toast,
hummus
|
I’ve done it!!!!
I have completed vegan January. I said on my Instagram page I
would pot a table of all the foods I have eaten at the end of January and here
it is.
As you can see there is a huge amount of hummus, falafel and
olive (very Mediterranean, I’m aware.) however I have also enjoyed a range of
foods I would not have tried if it wasn’t for me being vegan. I now LOVE bean
curd after trying it at a sushi restaurant last week.
My best bake of Veganuary was definitely my vegan butterscotch
cookies. The recipe is below. I think I enjoyed the recipe because they genuinely
taste like normal cookies. I learnt that being vegan does not always mean
eating vegetables only.
Lottie’s vegan butterscotch cookies: (makes 20)
·
1/2 cup (112g) Vegan Butter
·
1/2 cup (100g) White Sugar
·
1/2 cup (100g) Brown Sugar
·
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
·
1 cup (125g) All Purpose Flour
·
2/3 cup (56g) Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
·
1 tsp Baking Soda
·
1/4 tsp Salt
·
1 Tbsp Soy Milk (or other non-dairy milk)
·
3.5 oz (100g) Vegan butterscotch chips
Method:
1.
Preheat the oven to 180°C.
2.
Add the vegan butter and brown and white sugar
to an electric mixing bowl and cream together. Add the vanilla and mix in.
3.
Sift the flour and cocoa powder into a mixing
bowl and mix in the baking soda and salt.
4.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet, mixing in by
hand until crumbly.
5.
Add the 1 Tbsp soy milk or other non-dairy milk
and mix into thick cookie dough.
6.
Add the butterscotch and mix in. Your cookie
dough will be very thick, but sticky enough to easily roll into balls.
7.
Roll into small balls and space evenly on a
parchment lined baking tray.
8.
Bake for 10 minutes.
9.
Enjoy!!!!
However as well as having some good bakes and foods to try
there were also some failures. We can safely say tofu is not my thing. Although
I enjoyed the “Waitrose fishless fish fingers” I do not think I would ever have
anything else containing tofu as the texture does not taste right for me I also
think the eggless spring rolls were not the best. They were a little dry and I would
be happy to not have them again.
I think the thing I missed
most was definitely the dairy products. I am used to having cheese and milk for
breakfast most days so to suddenly cut that out totally wasn’t the easiest. Although
I did not mind missing out on eggs most foods that you may not think about
actually contain eggs which limited me more than I would have otherwise
realised. Although I did not miss fish too much, it was difficult going into my
favourite sushi restaurant and not ordering salmon nigiri. For me Friday night
was also very difficult. We always sit together as a family and have chicken and
roast potatoes. Having to watch me family eat chicken whilst I could only have
the potatoes and vegetables was definitely a struggle.
However although it wasn’t the easiest of tasks I am very
proud of myself for managing. Therefore I have come up with 7 tips for becoming
and being vegan
1.
Don’t think about it- I planned 12 hours before I
would be vegan meaning I didn’t have chance to think about how crazy I was
being
2.
Plan meals in advanced- I planned all my dinners
for the week on a Sunday meaning I did not have to spend hours checking if food
was vegan or not
3.
Drink lots of water- because if you snack less
you will get very thirsty
4.
Eat different foods everyday- this way you won’t
get bored of the same food and won’t give up
5.
Apart from checking that it is vegan, don’t
worry about what you eat- you are already limiting so much food that it is not
important to count the fat or calories.
6.
Have an end in sight- if I had said I would go
vegan forever I wouldn’t have managed, an end in sight made me feel as though I
could do it.
7.
Enjoy it- being vegan and trying new foods is
actually one of the most enjoyable food challenges I have ever completed
If you have any ideas about a new food challenge I could do
then I would love to hear about it so please comment below.
Instagram- @Eat.Teen
Although I enjoy gourmet food from Michelin star restaurants
or very specific biscuits and cakes with the most unique or random of ingredients
(my friends call it being a “food snob”) I do enjoy the occasional simple snack
or processed junk. I may not like pizza or coke, but I still enjoy Oreo, Doritos
or S’mores. For anyone that is unaware s’mores are campfire treats which are
simply chocolate chunks and marshmallows sandwiched between two chocolate digestives.
One cannot even imagine the calories and if you don’t have a sweet tooth I would
highly recommend staying away from them. However they are a great combination
for a biscuit and when in biscuit form certainly not as messy and do not fall
apart as quickly. They are great after school snack and not to sweet or
calorific. 
