I think I started this blog in days rather than weeks unsure if I’d get past a day, and also every detail felt significant. Before January 2023, and without thinking much about it, I consumed things that were not vegan virtually every time I ate or drank anything, so to change that meant constant thought. … Continue reading Veganuary – weeks 2-3 →

Sunday - another day of great food. Breakfast was avocado on toast with a bell or two on. V good. Avocado on toast breakfast Lunch was tomato soup made from some of the leftover melanzane tomato sauce with baba ganoush on the side. So the morning’s fun was making that baba ganoush - it’s something … Continue reading Veganuary Day 8 →

Day 6 - more of them quality leftovers (not the Bolognese - leftovers of that are in the bin). All good. Day 7 (Saturday) was brilliant. I ate like a King (and ways I wouldn’t have done were I not doing Veganuary), used some great new products and discovered a wonderful vegan chef. So a … Continue reading Veganuary Day 6 and 7 →

Days 4 and 5 were a mixed bag. Two very nice vegan lunches out. One at a Chinese restaurant (Your Kitchen, Queens Road) who were kindly willing to change a dish to vegan - an old classic ‘Home Style Tofu’ (which normally contains meat). And a second at Tiffins, St Michael’s Hill - where everything … Continue reading Veganuary Days 4&5 →

Breakfast - usual. Lunch - more leftovers. (High quality lunching leftovers produced by this diet so far, I must say…) Dinner - vegan melanzane - which involves doing the usual thing for a favourite dish but putting tahini sauce where the mozzarella would interleave with the aubergine and tomato sauce. And then some also on … Continue reading Veganuary Day 3 →

Usual breakfast this morning - toast, Flora and marmite. Leftover felafel for lunch. Dinner - Tex Mex fajitas. A favourite of my wife - easy to do with a little chicken on the side for the meat eaters in the house. Delicious for all. Vegan Tex Mex (non vegan side for others!) Pudding - rediscovered … Continue reading Veganuary Day 2 →

Morning - Making first cup of tea. Big moment. How will oat milk be in enabling one of the staples of life? (By common consent oat milk is the best of the non dairy milks.) Major moment - oak milk tea… Sorry to say - not good. A drink of oat milk itself is fine … Continue reading Veganuary day one →

I’m doing Veganuary. As a huge lover of cheese, eggs, meat, fish this is as much for the challenge as anything else. Masochism, if you will. Also interesting to see what it’s like, in all senses. What are the good (and bad) vegan food products? Do you want or need them? How easy is it … Continue reading Veganuary 2023 →