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Try lentils to replace minced beef - a couple of tins of lentils into a ragu to make a bolognese, you can then use that in a lasagna as well, or could make it into a chilli. Love the texture from the lentils and if you make a good soffrito it will be really tasty.
Or pulses to make a veggie chilli, chickpeas have such good texture as well, they're essential.
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Agree but also mushrooms as meat replacers. You want something on the shittake end of the spectrum.
I also love turning them into ‘bacon’ with smoked paprika and baking in oven. -
Ah man I can't stand chickpeas in chili, I find them kind of mealy. Kidneys, black eyes and lentils for me. But then I've only used tinned ones so maybe that's it
I do vegetarian for lent each year but did vegan this year and found it much harder, having to cut out eggs and cheese :-(
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In a somewhat unprecedented move I've decided to try and eat Vegan for the next month or two to try and break my routine of eating the same unhealthy shit all the time and hopefully drop some weight at the same time by excluding myself from pretty much everything I would eat normally.
I'm not much for veg heavy meals thanks to a childhood of boiled to mush roast dinners such that the smell of boiled carrots is enough to turn my stomach to this day, so consider me firmly in the 'I want stuff that's vegan but pretends its not' camp until I get a bit more used to it and I'll supplement with the handful of veg that I do enjoy when cooked properly.
so really healthy processed food i guess is the step i'm looking to take first.
any good recommendations on places to shop and good brands/foodstuffs to try that I can get my hands on somewhere along my cs7 commute from clerkenwell to morden.
I basically went through every item in the vegan category on ocado for this weeks shop and have a handful of veggie burgers, sausages, chicken pieces, falafels and wraps and some fake bacon/ham/cheese. while everything has been palatable so far I think variety will be the only thing to keep me on track after a couple of weeks. so what are the buy this/not that top tips for a n00b like myself?