The Sinful Vegan

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Bean Feast

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I'm starting SW on Tuesday. I've lost over a stone and a half on my own, but always seem to get to this point and put it back on again. Am hoping that going to a weekly class will keep me motivated.
I've been trying to muddle along with the program on my own for a few days, but am hopelessly confused so will wait until I have my books and access to the website.
I would love to find some other vegan diaries to follow, but I am disabled and using specialist software to be able to use the computer and finding the website a steep learning curve. So if anyone can point me in the direction of any such diaries, I'd be very grateful until I find my feet here.
Look forward to reporting on my first weigh in on Tuesday and then on food choices after that. It will be so much fun keeping the diary and reading everyone elses.
 
I went to my first SW class on Tuesday. I decided to go to the 12 O'clock class as the consultant said it was quieter than the others. Everyone was very friendly and I have a good idea of the plan now although I will have to wait till next week to get my starter pack in Braille. The class was very nice and we spoke about a couple who had won an SW award for losing loads of weight and we went through some recipes in the magazine. At the end I was weighed and came in at 11 stone and half a pound, which is a bit heavier than I thought. I set my goal weight for 8 stones, which will mean I've lost 5 stones in total.
After the class I made a veg and chickpea stir fry for tea and we had it with wholemeal pasta twists. Later I had a piece of toast and a sip of whiskey. Counting the bread as an extra and the whiskey as a sin. I was very pleased that I get 2 healthy B choices on a green day. I'm expecting to go out for chips this week, so will have to save my sins up.

Vegetable and Chickpea Stirfry.
Free on a green day.
2 carrots, grated
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 head broccoli, floretted
1 red and 1 green pepper, deseeded and chopped
1 tin chickpeas, drained
half veg stock cube
juice of 1 lemon
1 tsp ginger powder
1/2 tsp chili powder or as much as you like
Put all the veg, except the garlic in a pan with half a stock cube and enough water to get things moving. Just before they are cooked through, add the crushed garlic and keep stirring until everything is soft. Add the chickpeas, lemon juice, ginger and chili and enough water to make a nice sauce. Simmer for 5 minutes until everything is hot.
Serve over rice or pasta.
 
Yesterday was my first full day on the plan. I had no problems and had plenty to eat.
Breakfast: A bowl of melon balls.
Dinner: Huge bowl of sprout, cauliflower and lentil soup with potatoes in.
Tea: Cauliflower and these huge beans we buy from the Polish shop and some revolting Falafels.
Snacked on a couple of apples.
I made the soup in a hurry a while ago and stored it in the freezer. I just filled my pressure cooker with frozen cauliflower and sprouts, poured in about a third of a bag of lentils with a couple of onions and a stock cube and cooked it for about 20 minutes. I had some left over boiled potatoes, so added those after I'd given it a blitz with the hand blender. It was so scrummy! Adding brussel sprouts to soup makes it super tasty.
Next week at class,, Hillary, our consultant said we should bring a taster if we could, so I thought I'd try the Falafel recipe from the new SW cookbook I bought called World Of Flavours. I had to tweek it a bit to make it vegan. Both him indoors and I thought the crisp outsides were lovely, but the insides were very unpleasant and still seemed to taste of raw onion, even though they'd been cooked properly. So, thumbs down for my first effort from that book and I definitely won't be making them for class.
I made a big Sainsbury's order today to be delivered tomorrow with lots of nice free foods and healthy extras in.
I did manage to stay sinn-free today as, weather permitting, we are taking the dog for a long walk tomorrow which includes a stop off at the best chippy in the world.

Falafel, From World Of Flavours.
Serves 6, Free on a Green day.
8 oz dried chickpeas, soaked overnight
1 onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
2 eggs beaten, so I used tofu instead to replace
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1 small red chili chopped
1 tbsp chopped coriander
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley [which I didn't have]
1/4 tsp baking powder
salt and black pepper to taste
Low cal cooking spray
Boil the chickpeas in water for 45 minutes or in the pressure cooker for 20.
Drain and put in a food processor with everything else. Blend to a puree, then let rest for at least an hour. Roll into balls, put on a sprayed baking tray and spray the tops. Bake in an oven at 220degC/Gas 7 for about 15 minutes until crisp and golden.
Mine were in for more like 30 minutes, but they did feel all nice and crispy when they came out.
 
Hey Bean Feast

Good luck on your journey. I was vegan for 8 years or so .... probably the only fat vegan in the world! I'm a raving carnivore now though, and still fat ;)

P x
 
Yesterday was sin day. Before leaving the house I ate more of the dreaded Falafels as no one else is going to eat them and I'm not throwing them away. They taste better out of the fridge. I also had an orange. We had a day out in Chester where we visited the best chip shop in the whole World, The Chip O Dee. Had a small portion of chips and mushy peas, which we ate by the canal. It's hard to work out the sins of this because the peas are free, but I would guess the chips wouldn't be more than 20. Swilled down with half a fruity cider, which I also can't find sins for, but which tasted rather like another fruit cider, so I've based the sins on that at 5. Anyway, it works out at 26 sins over 3 days which should be acceptable. However, I'll be interested to see if I lose weight at the next weigh in, as I don't feel like this is much of a diet, but I have stuck to the plan.
I'm aware that I ate no speed foods today and this is highly unusual for me.
 
Friday is traditionally film night, which usually means lots of treats.
In the morning I snacked on the rest of the horrible falafels. They're all gone now thankfully.
Dinner was a smoothie of peaches, apricots, strawberries, banana, lettuce and flax seeds. The fruit came to about 5 sins and the seeds were my first hex B choice.
For tea we had the low fat chicken and herb supernoodles. We noted the packet had changed when we started cooking and once the smell wafted up from the pan it was obvious that everything was not right by the awful smell. On checking the packet, the ingredients have changed to now include milk and way powder in the sachet. So we had to bin that lot and start again, just using the noodles and making our own sauce. We had them with mashed cauliflower.
No beer tonight as I'm trying to save sins for a family buffet tomorrow, but I did have 3 sins of whiskey, so only managed to save 2 sins. Also had a lovely tangerine whilst watching the film and a piece of wholemeal toast for supper as a second hex B.
The film was rubbish and we turned it off, some sci-fi thing with Ben Kingsley in.
 
I had saved 2 sins from Friday as I wasn't sure what foods were going to be available for the family buffet yesterday. In the end I managed to load up my plate with plain salad and on the side I had an onion bhaji, which is free and a vegetable finger and a bite size veg sausage roll. A piece of wholemeal bread was a hex B choice. So only ate about 2 or 3 sins at the do.
In the morning I had an 8 oz pot of oat groats and red lentils, cooked in the rice cooker. I tend to cook up enough to go in 10 pots and then store them in the freezer.
Tea was one of my favourite meals, baked potato and beans, an amazingly filling free meal.
For supper I had an apple chopped up with 35 oz of Kelloggs Fruit N Fibre for a second hex B choice. Also had 2 sins worth of whiskey. So I've got 7 sins left over to use tomorrow if I need them.
I spent this evening going through all the various choices for the healthy extras. I hadn't realized that there were tinned soups on there or that 1 tbsp of olive oil can be counted too. There were a lot more foods there than I realized. I'm never going to eat the hex A choices, I just don't drink milk of any variety, nor eat fake cheeses, unless I make them myself from cashew nuts and that wouldn't count. So, I'll just skip those.
 
I made a mistake with my sins yesterday. After saving 7 from the day before I was rejoicing in having 17 to spend in one day. So for tea we had one of Sains new Indian lentil burgers, which the sins calculator worked out at 4 1/2 sins. About 10 sins of oven chips, which I had to guess at because my chips weren't on the list and then I noticed that they calculate them from raw chips, where as I weighed mine out cooked. Still I'll know in future. With garden peas and a sin of tomato sauce it all came to 15 1/2 sins. Then I suddenly remembered that I hadn't taken my smoothie at dinner time into consideration, which bumped the whole lot up to 20 1/2 sins. Sigh! The smoothie had apple, cherries, nectarines, banana, lettuce and linseeds in. The linseeds being my first hex B.
So, for tomorrow, after the smoothie, I'll only have a sin and a half to play with, which means I can rescue the situation before Tuesday by being extra frugal.
Also I had a pot of oatgroats and red lentils in the morning and a hex B of a bowl of Kelloggs fruit n fibre and an apple before bed.
No whiskey tonight I just didn't have the spare sins for it, which is a very bad situation to be in.
 
I was very good with my sins yesterday but ate quite a lot of food. Tofu on toast for breakfast, using 1 hex b.
Lentil, sprout and cauliflower soup for dinner and I made a veg and red kidney bean chili for tea with rice.
Finishing off the day with a second hex B of an apple and fruit n fibre before bed. Also had a couple of sins of whiskey. Got my first weigh in coming up, so glad to have made it through the week without going over my allowance.
 
My first weigh in at class and I lost 5 1/2 lbs, which I was very pleased and surprised with. The class was very nice this week, there were more people there and 2 of the ladies had been nominated for woman of the year. I didn't know either very well, but they both sounded like they deserved to win. There were also taster foods, non of which were vegan, but some gave me ideas on meals to make. I got my starter pack books today, so it will be nice to read the plan thoroughly and have the values for all the basic foods like flour, sugar and dried fruits etc. On opening my book, the first thing I noticed is that sins is spelt "syns". Using speech all the time on the computer, I was not aware of this, which made me smile and I will correct it in my future posts. I am already looking forward to next week's class and hope I can have a loss.
I didn't have any syns at all. Not really by saving them, I just didn't have cause to eat any. I had a bit of left over rice and chili for dinner and for tea I made a sort of veg and tofu stir fry and a sauce by blending garden peas with some water, basil, garlic powder and mint. It was supposed to be fresh mint but when I went out into the garden it was swelteringly hot and all the mint looked all dried up and crispy. So I used a bit of mint sauce instead. Just had one hex today, a piece of toast before bed. No whiskey either, so I am 10 syns up starting tomorrow.
 
First thing in the morning I filled half the slow cooker up with kale and the other half with whole green lentils and other vegetables. So we had a nice syn-free tea with a piece of bread as a hex B Choice.
At dinner time I had cooked up my big vat of oats and lentils, but I just felt so hungry that I ate about 3 portions. Syn free I know, but it isn't on to eat so much of the starchy foods without any veg or fruit with it. I just kept going back and eating a bit more. After it was cool I was glad to get it into little pots for the freezer, because if it had been left out I think I would have eaten the lot.
For supper I did have a piece of toast for a second hex B and 2 syns of whiskey. I've now got 18 syns in hand, so looking forward to a seriously good weekend.
 
Yesterday my veg man came. He pulls up outside the house in a huge van full of fruit and veg, which saves me carrying it home from the shops. I usually buy enough to last me a week with just a few fresh greens to pick up half way through.
Breakfast was oat groats and lentils.
Dinner, left over kale and lentil stew with a piece of bread as a hex B choice.
Tea, mashed cauliflower and red kidney beans.
Supper, Kelloggs F&F and an apple as a second Hex B and a couple of syns of whiskey.
Saving lots of syns this week, got 26 for the weekend now.
 
Hi bean feast. Well done on your first weight loss. What is the recipe for the oat groat and lentil please. Sounds tasty.
 
Hi Bean Feast! Very happy to find your diary as I am vegan too. Back on the wagon after a recent gain, but am finding that being vegan generally keeps my weight lower than being veggi/carnivore.

Appetite for Reduction is a really good low fat vegan cook book, and many of the recipes can be slightly tweaked, or just syn a couple of ingredients (i.e. light coconut milk) to make them SW friendly.
 
Usual oat groats and lentils for breakfast, these are really so filling and my favourite way to start the day.
I was quite hungry at dinner time, so I had a piece of wholemeal toast [hex B] with tofu on. Real comfort food.
In the afternoon I made 2 big batches of fairy cakes, one plain and one chocolate as the boys are watching the football here tonight and they love cakes. I can't make cakes without licking the bowl out afterwards. I can avoid the made cakes, no problem, but I just simply can't not clear out the bowl with my finger. I have no idea how many syns that would be, but it looked like about half a cakes-wort to me and as I've got 26 syns spare, I just enjoyed it and haven't eaten any of the actual cakes and won't either.
Comfort food again today as it's a bit cold and miserable. Baked potato and beans.
Supper Kellogg's F&F and 2 lovely little English apples which I had to share with the parrot. Oh, and not to forget the 2 syns of whiskey.
As I don't know how many syns the cake mix was, Ive just decided to write off the whole 26 and start a fresh tomorrow, won't do any harm and I don't need a s-load of syns for anything this week.
 
Hi pos bird,
I wouldn't say there is a recipe really. I just put the same amount of red split lentils and oat groats in my rice cooker and then put about 2 and a half as much water in as the 2 combined and a pinch of salt. So say a cup of lentils, cup of oat groats and 5 cups water. That's the basic, but after that the world's your oyster. Some times I put a stock cube in instead of the water and you can always make a bit less of the lentils and grains and put in veg cut up in small chunks. I like onions, garlic and grated carrots, but any veg will do. You can also put any amount of herbs and spices in there. A couple of teaspoons of curry powder or some chili powder. I suppose you could put fruit in, but I haven't tried that as I don't like fruit and oats. I would also imagine you could make this in the slow cooker too, which I might try soon but I'm a bit worried that it might make the groats too soft and I like to chew on them.
 
Hi FatGurlSlim,
It's lovely to meet other vegan's following the plan. I find the green days fit in very easily. Are you going to keep a diary?
I have got the book appetite for reduction, but I haven't tried anything yet. Can you recommend anything? I will have a look through it tomorrow and plan something to make during the week. I have to admit to being a cookbook junky.
 
Disaster struck yesterday. I got on the scales and they stayed silent. I changed all the batteries and gave them several thumps, but I'm afraid they have died. I have had them for a long time. Ordered some new ones straight away, but I don't suppose they will come till the end of next week.
I used all my syns yesterday.
Breakfast: oat groats and lentils.
Dinner: Fruit and greens smoothie with flax seeds. 5 syns and a hex B.
Tea: Veg and red kidney bean chili with rice and a piece of wholemeal bread. 4 Syns.
Supper: Kelloggs F&F and a syn of whiskey.
I didn't have an apple with my supper because the only one I had, had a suspicious hole running through it and it really put me off.
 
Bean Feast said:
Hi FatGurlSlim,
It's lovely to meet other vegan's following the plan. I find the green days fit in very easily. Are you going to keep a diary?
I have got the book appetite for reduction, but I haven't tried anything yet. Can you recommend anything? I will have a look through it tomorrow and plan something to make during the week. I have to admit to being a cookbook junky.
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Hi there! Sorry to hear about your scale malfunction.

I really like the vegetable korma, and the laksa. Both really tasty. I have the korma on top of a jacket potato instead of rice sometimes, so filling and proper stodgy comfort food!

I am also a cook book junky. I REALLY want the new Ms Cupcake one, but probably not the best idea while I'm trying to lose weight. Vegonomicon is also good, but would need more tweaking than AFR to make the recipes more SW friendly.

One thing I haven't tried making yet is tofu scramble - may attempt that for brunch on sunday.
 
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