Veggie and Vegan Team Anyone?

[agent44]

I could certainly do with some helpful buddies and of course would love to return the favour!

 

[missy1978]

I only just spotted this! I'm a veggie and I'll join in Any more? x

 

[Miss Lindsay]

I'm veggie, I'll join I have lots of recipes to share xx

 

[Harley Quinn]

I'm in! I made a delicious baked bean lasagne for dinner tonight, syn free (bit of low fat cheese on top as a Healthy Extra) and my meat-eating Joker loved it so much he went back for thirds. And if you swapped the cheese for Sheese or something similar, it'd even be vegan.

 

[missy1978]

Sounds lovely! I haven't made it in a while but did make vegan lasagne a while back using a mixture based on tofu and baked cauliflower as a ricotta substitute. It was absolutely gorgeous and so ingenious with ingredients

 

[ILoveCake]

Hi, I'm a veggie too. 8.5lb to target but it may take me a while. Then I'll have to maintain. I have a young family so I'm always looking for new ideas. Looking forward to chatting. xxx

 

[babytreetrunk89]

im a veggie too dont know many recipes as living on quorn and linda mccartney sausages determine to get off that route tho.... xx

 

[missy1978]

Hi all

So what is everyone cooking today then? I'm off to make the vegan lasagne I mentioned above in a bit. Last time I cooked it I lost 7lbs that week so you never know!

 

[babytreetrunk89]

have u got the recipe?? im debating getting rid of my pasta and sauce so tomo and i can start on fresh food.... will decide when i can get off the sofa

 

[Jenna88]

I made a lovely veggi pasta bake today, no good for vegans as it had cheese but really simple pasta, passata, chilli, sweetcorn, peppers, onion, mushroom and cheese!

 

[babytreetrunk89]

might be a stupid question but is pasta bake when ya put it in the oven? do you precook the pasta or not?? ive never made it but it sounds amazing

 

[missy1978]

have u got the recipe?? im debating getting rid of my pasta and sauce so tomo and i can start on fresh food.... will decide when i can get off the sofa

http://mobile.seriouseats.com/recip...d-cauliflower-ricotta-and-spinach-recipe.html

Here you go! I don't follow it exactly, I don't add the spinach and bulk up the tomato sauce with onion, mushroom and lentils to make a kind of spag bol sauce. It's only a couple of syns for the olives and the nutritional yeast, I don't use the oil.

Proper cooking should really help with SW! Although we all have days where pasta n sauce is all we can manage to cook I bet and I have a terrible mug shot habit! x

 

[babytreetrunk89]

thank you!!! if i can get time this week to go food shopping i will def give this a try xx

 

[Jenna88]

Yep pre cook pasta and fry veg in a dif pan. Sieve the pasta, add the veg and passata and chilli. Heat in the pot for a few minutes then put in an oven proof dish and top with cheese. Cook til the cheese is melted.

 

[babytreetrunk89]

thank you will def be giving that a try this week too

 

[ILoveCake]

Sunday dinner here today so nothing too exciting but I do a lot of batch cooking of curry's, lasagne's, bakes, cannelloni etc. It helps to be able to pull a ready made healthy meal out of the freezer to defrost and shove in the oven. No idea what to eat tonight. I may just have some scan bran with cheese spread and a yogurt.

 

[missy1978]

I really need to start batch cooking again as soon as we get a freezer sorted out! Since we moved house we only have an ice box which is useless for storing much more than some quorn mince and frozen peas lol

The lasagne came out well! Pic attached

 

[babytreetrunk89]

mmm that looks lovely, except the olives (cant stand them)
my freezer needs defrosted but just is soo much effort haha

 

[alibee]

I am finding the extra healthy B a real bonus on the Green Plan. I cook mainly from scratch and have adapted lots of veggie recipes. I am going to try the Cheeseless Lasagne sounds really yummy!

 

[ILoveCake]

I really need to start batch cooking again as soon as we get a freezer sorted out! Since we moved house we only have an ice box which is useless for storing much more than some quorn mince and frozen peas lol

The lasagne came out well! Pic attached

Looks lovely! I'm not an olive fan either but I'd give that a try.

Chicken pox in my house so I have no time but I'm going to do my best to eat as well as I can.