From Garden To Plate! So Ecstatic To Finally Have The Space To Grow Some Of My Own Food! (Not Gonna Lie

From garden to plate! So ecstatic to finally have the space to grow some of my own food! (Not gonna lie to you the avocado came from a grocery store)

🎆 ENERGY OF THE STARS🎆

So, have you ever heard of grounding? If you did, then you’re gonna undertand this whole thing. It’s pretty simple.

• At night, lay down on the ground of your yard or any place where you can look at the sky ( choose one night that you can see a lot of stars )

• You’re gonna watch the sky. Notice the different colors, the stars, look at the moon. Watch it like it’s your favorite movie. Feel it. Recognize the feelings that it makes you feel. Happiness? Freedom? Fear? Feel it and accept it.

• Close your eyes and keep the image of the sky, the stars. Try to remember every detail.

• Now, imagine you living your body, imagine you’re the wind and you’re going to the sky.

• Once you’re there, imagine you’re a star but you’re still with no light.

• Now, imagine lines of white light living you and connecting to the next star. Feel you connecting with all the stars and all of you suddently shinning. You’re all connected now.

• Watch as the other stars send you a bright light and feel your body glowing more and more. Once you’re feeling full of energy, thanks the stars and the universe and slowly open your eyes.

• It’s done.

Stapled Broke Vegan

So the idea behind eating plant based while broke is staples. Luckily these things are usually pretty shelf stable and will be around next time you don’t have any $$ at all. Anyway here’s a lil breakdown of my grocery list and the things I do with what I buy. We’ll start with breakfast, get yourself some gram flour (also called besan, garbanzo bean flour, and a few other things) and learn how to use it to make scrambled eggs and omelettes. There’s lots of recipes but the basics are besan and water whipped really well, add turmeric for colour and kala namak (if you can find kala namak or Indian black salt you should grab that when you have some extra cash, otherwise order some from amazon it has a great eggy sulphuric taste) , you can add mushrooms and onions and daiya cheese or not and either fry it like an omelette or scrape it into scrambled eggy like curds. Anyway the besan cost me $4 for 4lbs at freshco. Peanut butter, and the cheap bread sold at the in store bakery for $1 a loaf. Oats are cheap, rolled or steal cut a lil $5 drum will last a long time. Cream of wheat is cheap, too. Oh and you can make a really nice fried ham with tofu.

For lunch and dinner I tend to make mono meals because that’s just the way I am. I do all the cooking so I try to do less of it. Usually I make enough dinner to feed 4 and we eat the rest at work for lunches. Anyway dried lentils are so cheap and so easy to use since they don’t have to soak for 8 hours and boil for 4 like dried beans, and they’re cheaper and come in less wasteful packaging than canned. You just boil green lentils for 45 minutes then drain and rinse and use them. At No Frills I think, they have 4lb bags of fried lentils for $3.77, that’s .94 a pound and a pound will make four of these four person meals so like .25 a serving and $1 a monomeal. Anyway I use them like ground beef, in shepherd’s pie, pasta, tacos, cabbage rolls, soups, burgers, sloppy joe’s, and lots of other stuff. So for example shepherd’s pie, I make it a lot. I’ll pick up the no name naturally imperfect mushrooms for $3.50 for 1.5 pounds and use half of them, a can of corn and a can of peas (.88 each) , maybe 2lbs of carrots for $2 but not if I don’t have $2 anyway they go a long way if I do. Same with potatoes, I can usually find a 10lb bag for $2 and soy milk on sale for $1.5 then I can make shepherds pie by frying the mushrooms and using flour to make mushroom gravy, mixing that with the mushroom pieces, lentils, corn, peas, and carrots and topping with mashed potatoes. If you can go to costco soy milk is extremely cheap at $7.50 for 6 cartons omfg.  Then maybe the next night I can make cabbage lentil soup with all that same stuff, mushrooms and carrots, potatoes. Cabbage is pretty cheap but at the market it’s usually even cheaper so I try to make it there to get one. I just made a cabbage soup that tasted like beef stew and lasted three days, used a few potatoes and half a bag of lentils and half a cabbage that cost me $1 at the market. Probably make cabbage rolls with a can of tomato sauce, some of my $9 20lb bag of rice, and lentils. Cans of manwich sloppy joes are vegan so some lentils, that, and bread makes a cheap quick comfort food dinner. 

Get extra firm tofu ($.99 a pound) and drain it really well, REALLY well, cube it and soak it in soy sauce and fry it till crispy on the corners, now use it for stir fry (onion, carrot, bok choy, cabbage rice vermicelli noodles) or fried rice (peas and corn and soy sauce) or even taco filling. Make your own taco filling or find a vegan packet and just follow the directions with lentils instead of beef, add whatever you like or can afford to your tacos. With my leftover potatoes and carrots I can make a vegan nacho cheese using those, 5 bulbs of roasted garlic, and half a cup of nutritional yeast or nooch which is a magical delicious yeast that tastes like cheese and dyes your pee hilighter yellow with b12. Oh I also use the potato based cheese with macaroni noodles for, mac and cheese. Vital wheat gluten is a really versatile high protein flour that you can knead the shit out of and use to seitan make meat substitutes. You can get this stuff in bulk stores or not for like $5 a pound and use 1 cup to make a seitan lunch meat loaf with umami flavourings like soy sauce, tamari, tomato paste. Baking Tips: When a recipe calls for (nondairy) milk, use your nondairy milk (i use soy or almond) and add 3 tbsp of apple cider vinegar or lemon (that’s better) to each cup of milk to curdle it, stir it and let it sit for like 5 minutes and stir it again and tada soy buttermilk that works real well in savoury mashed potatoes or rich baking recipes. Egg replacement: flax seeds are pretty cheap, get the ground kind if you can. Add 1tbsp of water to 3 tbsp of flax seeds, stir, cover, and refrigerate for 10 minutes. Remove from the fridge, it’s a gel-y goopy mess. This is 1 egg. Go bake your heart out. 

This was kind of unstructured and I’m not eloquent but hey.

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