Made This!

I made my own Vegan Shredded Cheese!!!

Life is sooooooooo good!

 

Making this was a trial and error thing...

More error than trial...lol

 

Vegan Cadbury Creme Style Eggs....

My life may very well be complete!!

I mean marrying my childhood sweetheart, having children...meh....

But homemade Vegan Cadbury Crème eggs...Come on.. That's tops in my book!!

 

 

 I mean don't these just look like heaven?!

Funny, not funny....

Really! Is that funny? No, no it isn't...

Now imagine this was two little kids playing together and then laying dead together, would you think it was funny then? I don’t think so…

Eggless salad sandwiches for dinner ✓

Awesome country run ✓

Amazing workout ✓

Some yard work with the fam ✓

Pretty productive day if I do say so my self…

Tomorrow is weigh in day at WW let’s hope it’s a good one…

Despicable

So my family and I went outta town and stopped at a Japanese restaurant…

 We ordered the vegetable fried rice. I made sure there was no dairy, and no chicken broth etc….

 We got this beautiful large yummy mess of rice and vegetables.

 About three bites in I was like “omg is that egg?” 

Yep….it was… I sent it back quick and complained to beat hell… 

That was awful but the worst of the worst was the guy came to do the hibachi show at our table for my brother in laws order. 

Well he got out some eggs and started frying them up and then threw one at my 

brother in law, sister, my husband and me as part of the show. 

Not only did my husband and I already made it clear that we were vegan

 but now they are throwing eggs around and on the floor. 

My kids who are also vegan were horrified.

What’s in your vegan lunchbox???

Lunch at work yesterday… 

Guess who decided she is having this for lunch again today… 

That’s right, this girl!!

Made my own tofu press :)

I looked online and couldn't see my self spending the kind of money they wanted for tofu presses. Plus I don't know how durable they are. Sooooo I decided it was time to make my own. Of course I am a cheapskate so it had to be inexpensive. I thought and thought of different ways to do it and make it easy and quick because I am a homeschool momma to 3 rowdy boys. I got it:

I went to the dollar deals and got 2 ordinary loaf pans... We are so far at $2 

They have to nest each other...Like so...

Then I took a sharpie marker and marked the bottom and sides where I need to drill my holes...

Now I drill...

If need be you can sand the holes smooth...Then you place your pan on a plate or whatever you want it to drain into...

Then if making homemade tofu now's the time to drape your cheesecloth into and over the edges of the pan then pour in your tofu wrap it in the pan or if store bought drain the water outta the pack and drop the tofu into the pan... I am using store bought here...

from here you place the other pan on top of the tofu and add weight, because it's a pan the weight just sits right down in the pan...add as much or as little as needed... I use a baked bean can for this demonstration...

As you can see the water drains into the plate. You may have to drain the plate to prevent overflow... I actually have a large sauce pan that I use. The press hangs perfectly on the sides of the sauce pan that way I don't have to drain it in case I need to leave.

Final cost $2 and about 5 minutes :) Enjoy

Plan Ahead...

One of the best things I have found to do when “dieting” and being vegan is to plan ahead… I only work on Saturday and Sunday and the place that I work has nothing but unhealthy, deep fried options. Not to mention extremely over priced. 

Sooooo knowing this I plan ahead. It’s funny how everyone around me gets something from the deep fried easy yet they always want “just one piece or bite” of whatever I am having. If I don’t finish my lunch they are all over it. lol. Any way tomorrows lunch is picture worthy so:

The layers are from bottom to top… watermelon, pineapple, canteloupe, banana, grape, strawberry, blueberry and yummy kiwi… :) My husband sure knows how to (earth balance) butter a girl up…

Mini Peach Cobbler- Vegan Yummyness

Mini Peach Cobbler Recipe

Preheat oven to 350˚F.
1 cup splenda
1 cup flour2 tsp baking powder
a dash of salt
3/4 cup unsweetened soy milk
1 stick of melted Earth Balance butter
brown sugar
cinnamon
1 can diced peaches (drained)

Put 1 tsp of melted Earth Balance butter into each regular size muffin tin.

Combine the first 5 ingredients by hand… splenda, flour, baking powder, salt and soy milk.

Put 2 tbsp of batter into each regular size muffin tin… on top of the melted Earth Balance butter.

Then put 1 tbsp diced peaches on top of the batter.

Sprinkle with brown sugar and then cinnamon. I do a pretty generous “sprinkle”.

Bake the regular size muffin tins for 12 minutes.

Let them cool almost completely before taking out of pan. 

Don't forget a dollop of vanilla soy ice cream...YUM!

3 whole (awesome) months...

Today is exactly 3 months that I have been “dieting”

I am down 39.4 pounds and never felt better… 

I have changed so much in the last 3 months

let’s see;;;hmmm

I am training for a marathon in May

I am currently in the middle of the extremely hard sqat challenge

I went complete Vegan, I was pescetarian…

I wore a skirt I hadn’t been able to put on since 2004…

Just a ton of awesome stuff happening in the Brown house… 

So any way the point is that the last three months have been nothing short

of ridiculously awesome!!!

So get out there  and do something. It’s spring, you are alive and don’t

forget to Live and Let Live!!!!

My boys new vegan shirts we made...

My boys got new shirts made today :)

Darth Vegan

Vegan Zombies Want GRAIINNNNSSSS

Vegan Second Generation

Mid-Afternoon Snack

This is one of my faves…. Roasted Cauliflower Nuggets :)

Popeye...The Original

I love this

I yam what I yam…..

The best totally vegan white lasagna...

This lasagna was so good… 

White Vegetable Lasagna

Ingredients:
2 t extra virgin olive oil
2 (10 oz) packages frozen chopped spinach leaves, defrosted, rinsed and drained 
1 medium zucchini, shredded
1 tub of  baby bella mushrooms sliced
Homemade vegan alfredo
8 oz tofutti cream cheese
1 c homemade vegan cottage cheese
1 T minced fresh parsley
½ c grated homemade vegan parmesan
6 lasagna noodles, cooked and drained
1 c homemade vegan italian cheese
3 teaspoons oregano, divided

Directions:
1.    Preheat the oven to 350.
2.    Pour the olive oil into a large skillet over medium heat. Add the spinach, zucchini and mushrooms and cook for 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally, to soften vegetables. Combine vegetables with alfredo sauce and mix thoroughly. Set aside.
3.    In a small saucepan, melt the cream cheese over medium heat. Once melted, remove from heat and stir in cottage cheese, parmesan and parsley.
4.    Spray a 9/13 baking dish with cooking spray and spread the vegetable-alfredo mixture evenly across the bottom. Top vegetable layer with 3 lasagna noodles, followed by the cream cheese mixture and 1 ½ t of oregano. Lay the 3 remaining lasagna noodles over the top and cover with the reserved 1 cup alfredo sauce. Sprinkle the Italian cheese over the top and the remaining oregano over that.
5.    Cover dish with aluminum foil and bake for 35 minutes. Remove cover and bake for an additional 10-15 minutes. Let stand for 15 minutes before cutting.

Yields 9 servings. Weight Watchers Points Plus:  8 per serving 

Have a Happy Healthy Easter

The Bull Who Wept...

Wow! Proud to be Vegan…

The Last (fish) Supper

Okay so up till today we were pescetarian (vegetarians that ate fish) 

Nope not anymore!!!!

I so a terrible, terrible documentary about how fish were caught and processed.

 Mind blowing stuff!!!

I knew about cows, pigs and chicken and how they were treated and processed 

but never heard or saw anything about the fish :(

 I guess I should have known it was no better but lesson learned

~*~