Day 15 of #veganuary2019 and it was a perfect dinner of lasagna for one ☺️💚 with some quickly stir fried veggies and spinach. Been slightly worried about having low haemoglobin levels for my blood donation attempt tomorrow but dunno.. fingers crossed it’ll be ok 🤞
It’s been quite a good Tuesday with a busy work day but now it’s a cosy evening at our warm home with Olive cat napping on the sofa.
Oh and of course quite anxious about the whole Brexit palaver that’s going down tonight but never mind 😑
But on a more positive note, I’ve just noticed how #veganuary2018 has about 27k posts and #veganuary2019 has done 22k in just half the month - how wonderful! 😚🙌
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Day 14 of #veganuary2019 dinner was a simple stir fry from Asda: rice noodles, bamboo veg and garlic sauce. I know, I know, it’s pretty damn wasteful with all the plastic packaging and all that 😕 but it is such a quick and easy dinner, which we haven’t had for quite a while. Topped with some cashew nuts and nutritional yeast to be extra delicious 😋
Had a pretty busy tech-y day at work day, with a house viewing (nice but too small), quick no-packaging shop from our local afghani boys’ street stall, and now cuddling up to watch one of the award films heh - what a pleasant start to the week 🥰
Oh and ps - the awkwz house viewing from Sat was due to the renters sabotaging the owner and pretending that the house wasn’t for sale 🤦🏼♀️ still worth a second viewing we think..
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Day 13 of #veganuary2019 dinner was @icelandfoods No Bull Burger in ciabatta bread, some fries and salad and a garlic bread. Topped the burger this time with @violife_foods cheese slice, @hellmannsuk #vegan mayo, some spinach and red onion, and it was a 10/10 combo 👌👌
It’s been a very lazy Sunday with some chores but also the film’s Blackkklansman, Wildlife and Old Man and a Gun. It’s the time of the year when we’re trying to catch up with all the awards films heh, and I feel pretty distant from the film world right now 🤷🏼♀️ the latter two were good but fuck, did Blackkklansman touch me! Really really hope we can do better as humans..
Got a ton of other films queued up as well but gotta make time for them somehow 🎞
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Day 12 dinner of #veganuary2019 was tortilla bread lasagna (not for one but two and more haha!) and it’s the first time I’ve properly cooked a meal for us both (be blesseth, my sweet husband!) 🙈 and even then I used the leftover kidney beans in tomato sauce for the red sauce 😗 it also had the #vegan mince from @icelandfoods and I made the béchamel sauce with almond milk from @aldiuk 😌 cheese was the grated one from @asda own brand and it melted nicely 👌 some @asda garlic bread and tomato-onion-balsamic vinegar salad on the side 😋
We had a lovely Saturday (after sleeping for about 10 hours) with a meh house viewing in the late morning, brunch at @ploughharborne (hadn’t been before, it was cute!) followed by the most awkward and weird house viewing where we were met by people currently renting who had no idea the house was on sale 🙃
Ok really need to pull myself together now and sort out the logistics of our NZ trip cuz it’s starting to stress me out that it’s still not sorted 👩🏼💻
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A third of the way through #veganuary2019 and day 11 dinner ended up as pasta with spinach and tomato sauce with split peas and mushrooms, and a side of garlic bread and salad as usual. Ruined the garlic-mint yoghurt sauce by making it with Alpro’s vanilla one - yea it already seemed to be a bad idea but they stupidly haven’t had plain #vegan yoghurt in Asda for like a week or more 🤷🏼♀️
Hope everyone has had the loveliest beginning of the year ☺️ since last weekend I’ve been feeling a growing sense of contentment and satisfaction with life, the world and myself 😌 so many things that seemed to bother or annoy me, seem just quite meaningless and in the end just fine 😌 and at the same time being more present in the moment.
Also woop woop for being married for 5 months today! 🥰
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Day 10 of #veganuary2019 brought the film Welcome to Marwen followed by a date at @pizzaexpress ☺️🍕 I went for the jackfruit pizza and of course had to have the tea and carrot cake combo afterwards as well.
Even though it was a hectic day at work, I’ve felt really inspired by feeling that today is the last Thursday like today, we will never have it and it will never happen again 😌 and it just feels great to experience every minute and aspect of it, and it really just makes me happy 🥰
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Day 9 of #veganuary was yesterday’s rice and kidney beans with salad and chutney. Wanted to get a pizza from Asda but their counter was closed. Almost ordered one from Mr Singh’s but then decided for a simple option of leftovers and I’m so glad we did 😋🍲
I’m also so happy that two of my lovely work friends said that I’ve influenced them in a good way to reduce meat and eat new nice things (one having tried the vegan jerky from Aldi before even I have! 😀).. and well I wholeheartedly believe that if we have a future, that future will be vegan! ☺️💚
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Day 8 of #veganuary was probably my most favourite home-cooked meal ever: rice (cooked with molasses for colour and nutritional value), kidney beans in tomato sauce (all the flavours from garlic, onion, olives and spies so perfectly balanced), tomato and onion salad (with some grape slices in the mix), garlic bread and homemade coriander chutney 🥰 I’m officially in a food coma and it’s beautiful! 😋 I helped but most of the cooking done again by my wonderful hubby who’s a wizard in the kitchen (messy, but still a wizard hehe). Very glad to have this as my lunch for a few days also but it will probably feature as another dinner as well.
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Day 7 of #veganuary was a super simple fish finger sandwich/burger with hummus, coriander, tomato and sriracha mayo, olives and microwaved frozen veggies. Again, a dinner prior to a food shop, so nothing that special, taking about 10min to prep but still absolutely delicious 😋
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Back to the regular food posts for #veganuary ✌️ Day 6 was spicy dahl with rice, some salad and garlic bread. Prepared by my most wonderful hubby ❤️ we still haven’t been properly food shopping since the start of the Christmas holidays, so it’s been a bit of a struggle to combine whatever we’ve got left to make proper meals but we’ve managed really nicely so far.
For a bit I was tempted to go and try that new #vegan McDonalds option but then thought that I don’t want to put that into my body right now. Homemade dahl was a million times better choice 😌
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Day 5 was my second ayahuasca ceremony, a completely different experience. When the first one was mellow and soft and warm, this one was full of energy, colours, visions and sound. Scary at first but very enjoyable in the end. I experienced/saw infinity without dimensions or time where even I didn’t exist but existed, joy was pain, laughter was crying, destruction was birth, and the only thing that carried on was music.
It is something I never could have imagined, but I really appreciated the experience.
(Both ceremonies were followed by delicious foods of soup, bread, water, jasmine tea and fruit salad, with bread with jam, hummus or avocado and more fruit salad for breakfast).
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Day 4 was my first ever ayahuasca experience and it was absolutely magical, good, pure and perfect
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Day 3 of #veganuary was just as much effort as I’d usually make when I’m just cooking for myself 🙈 we had some leftover turmeric rice in the freezer, so I added some frozen veg mix and called it paella 😬 also had some frozen #vegan fish fingers to add with mayo and sriracha mayo (cuz that shit’s da bomb!) 🤗
Very filling and enjoyable 😊
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Day 2 of #veganuary dinner: rice with molasses, tomato-onion-balsamic vinegar salad, @asda garlic bread, tomato sauce with soya cutlets (brought over from Estonia, so worth it), split peas, olives and coriander 🍲
Absolutely delicious 10/10 perfection👌
Ps - I am aware that the lighting situation is really sucky with the ceiling lap just over our table with a glass cover but I’ll do my best to avoid shadows and reflections 🤗
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Happy #veganuary also! 😚 I’ll try and post more of my #vegan dinners throughout the month to celebrate this lovely campaign, and to perhaps update my feed a bit more (yea ok good plan, like always), and maybe inspire someone to give this vegan thing a go? 🤷🏼♀️
Finally back from our travels, tonight we already ate at 5pm after unpacking and warming our flat back to normal temperature heh. It was a simple dinner of pasta and split pea and tomato sauce, topped with onion, coriander and nutritional yeast, and some garlic bread toast - everything we already had in the cupboards/fridge 🍝
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