Chapter 10: Comfort Foods: Veganizing Meat, Dairy, and Other Old Favorites
Taking Comfort in Your Vegan Food: Why Veganizing Is Helpful and Fun
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Chapter 9: Planning Your Meals to Stay on Track Making Sure You Have Healthy Snacks On Hand Between tweeting your every move and posting your new vegan recipe demonstrations on YouTube, a busy vegan doesn’t always have time for a sit-down meal Don’t worry new vegans — healthy snacking isn’t difficult and options abound! You probably won’t find many vending machines with healthy vegan choices, but you can find vegan snacks in almost every grocery store, deli, or convenience store Plan for your day by thinking ahead — will you be near a health food store in between meals? Do you have access to a refrigerator at school or work where you can store perishable snacks? Many nonperishable snacks are easy to just slip into your purse, backpack, messenger bag, or briefcase Staving off hunger with a well-timed nibble can prevent overeating at mealtimes In fact, some people better with several small meals a day rather than three squares Any of the healthy snacks listed in the following sections can be expanded to create a substantial picnic plate of variety If you need to eat your snack on the run or won’t have access to water for washing up, choose simple, cleaner foods Bananas, mixed nuts, or an individual box of soymilk are easy to consume quickly without fuss or muss On the other hand, if you can sit down on a “coffee break” in your staff room, you may be able to snack on something slightly more elegant like a soy yogurt with berries, or some carrot sticks with a small container of hummus Use the lists in the following sections to choose a variety of healthy snacks that will satisfy any kind of food craving you may have Sweet treats To satisfy your sweet tooth, try the following: ✓ Carrot sticks ✓ Coconut date rolls ✓ Dried fruit like banana chips, mango slices, or apple slices ✓ Edy’s Fruit Bars or Edy’s No-Sugar Bars ✓ Frozen grapes ✓ Fruit salad ✓ Homemade apple juice popsicles ✓ Homemade oatmeal cookies with a glass of hemp, soy, or rice milk 119 120 Part III: Sticking to Your Guns: Staying Vegan ✓ Lärabars ✓ Leftover cornbread muffin spread with apple butter ✓ Mixed melon cubes ✓ Raisins and sliced almonds ✓ Soy yogurt mixed with 100 percent fruit jam or jelly ✓ Soy yogurt with blueberries and crushed pineapple ✓ Stretch Island Fruit Company Original Fruit Leather ✓ Trail mix made of vegan chocolate chips, raisins, and raw almonds ✓ Whole-grain bagel spread with almond butter and jelly ✓ Whole-grain tortillas spread with vegan margarine and sprinkled with cinnamon and agave or brown rice syrup Heretofore nonvegan treats like marshmallows were a luxury of the past No longer! The good ladies from Sweet and Sara have now concocted several lovely flavors of marshmallows that hold up to roasting over a fire and mixing into veganized Rice Krispies Treats recipes Find their mallow goodness online at www.sweetandsara.com For other professional-quality sweet treats like truffles, brownies, cookies, and fudge, check out Allison’s Gourmet online at www.alisonsgourmet.com You also can flip to Chapter 15 to experiment with some tasty vegan dessert recipes, such as Fruit Kanten and Chocolate Peanut Butter Bombs Salty and savory snacks When sweet just won’t do, try these snacks instead: ✓ Dried, seasoned peas ✓ Grape leaves stuffed with spiced rice (also known as dolmas) ✓ Pickles and olives ✓ Rice Balls with Sesame Salt (see Chapter 13) ✓ Roasted, salted nuts ✓ Tamari-baked pumpkin seeds Chapter 9: Planning Your Meals to Stay on Track Crunchy morsels For whatever reason, a bit of something crunchy can really hit the spot Here are some ideas to try: ✓ Air-popped popcorn drizzled with olive oil, salt, and nutritional yeast ✓ Blue, white, yellow, or red corn tortilla chips dipped in fresh salsa or bean dip ✓ Carrot and celery sticks or red bell pepper spears ✓ Celery sticks filled with almond or peanut butter ✓ Celery sticks filled with tofu cream cheese and raisins ✓ Kale Chips (recipe shown in Chapter 13) ✓ Mixed raw nuts ✓ Nabisco Saltine Crackers ✓ Original Triscuit Crackers ✓ Original Wheat Thins Crackers ✓ Raw sunflower and pumpkin seeds ✓ Rye crackers ✓ Sesame Melba Toast ✓ Soy crisps 121 122 Part III: Sticking to Your Guns: Staying Vegan Chapter 10 Comfort Foods: Veganizing Meat, Dairy, and Other Old Favorites In This Chapter ▶ Creating vegan-friendly meals based on old favorite recipes ▶ Getting the scoop on vegan substitutions for meat, dairy, and eggs F ood is often an important part of family history Certain dishes make an appearance at holiday tables year after year, and they often have a story or fond memory stirred in with the ingredients Veganizing, or re-creating a recipe with vegan ingredients, can be a nice way to keep an old family recipe in the fold of your new vegan lifestyle Your tweaks will add a layer of family lore to Grandma’s apple pie so that the original stories attached to it can continue to be shared at the table In this chapter, you find new ways to use vegan ingredients for creating menus that remind you of your old favorites If you’re a baker looking to transform some old recipes, you’ll enjoy the tips for cooking without eggs, dairy, or butter Later tips can help you thicken, gel, and bulk up recipes with cruelty-free ingredients for delicious vegan meals Taking Comfort in Your Vegan Food: Why Veganizing Is Helpful and Fun Stepping into a new style of eating can feel uncomfortable at first Your normal daily routines get shaken up Going to the grocery store involves more planning than ever before Favorite meals that you relied on contain ingredients that you want to avoid — but they were delicious and you miss them Thankfully, you can veganize recipes so they don’t include dairy, meat, fish, or eggs but still taste and look a lot like the dishes Mom or Dad used to make ... cruelty-free ingredients for delicious vegan meals Taking Comfort in Your Vegan Food: Why Veganizing Is Helpful and Fun Stepping into a new style of eating can feel uncomfortable at first Your... Staying Vegan Chapter 10 Comfort Foods: Veganizing Meat, Dairy, and Other Old Favorites In This Chapter ▶ Creating vegan- friendly meals based on old favorite recipes ▶ Getting the scoop on vegan. .. find new ways to use vegan ingredients for creating menus that remind you of your old favorites If you’re a baker looking to transform some old recipes, you’ll enjoy the tips for cooking without