Any ideas for non-animal product foods?!
No animal products please (eggs, cheese, meat, butter, etc)
Answers: Basically, I'm fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays until the end of April and I can't have any animal products. Does anyone have any ideas of foods that are easy to make or portable that I can eat? I'd like to make my lunch or have something to eat, but theres not a lot I can think of. PB&J sandwiches... bread, margarine, and honey...what else?
No animal products please (eggs, cheese, meat, butter, etc)
sandwiches - its all up to you avocado and sprouts or avocado with cucumber and lettuce or peanut butter and salad or marinated vegetables, tomatoe sandwiches or lettuce, tomatoe and cucumber with onion.
Try making a spead from beans
Chickpea (Garbanzo Bean) Salad Sandwich Spread
1 medium-small carrot
1 stick celery
2 spring onions (green onion, scallion)
1 can (425g, 15oz) chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
2 tsp mustard
2 tbsp sweet pickle relish (I like Baxters' Tomato & Red Pepper Relish)
black pepper to taste
1. Peel and grate the carrot. Finely chop the celery and spring onions.
2. Drain and rinse the chickpeas; mash them with a fork, leaving some chunks.
3. Mix all ingredients together and season to taste. Keeps in the fridge for a week - nice in thinly-sliced brown bread sandwiches.
Hummous
x 400g (14oz) can chickpeas (garbanzo beans), rinsed and drained
2 Tbsp tahini
1 tsp pressed garlic
3 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
salt to taste
The most important thing is to skin the chickpeas before you start. If you do this then your hummous will be wonderfully creamy and tasty. If you don't, then it won't be half as good.
To skin the chickpeas: Put chickpeas in the bottom of a large bowl, and cover with a generous amount of water. Press down and rub fairly hard with the flat of your hand in a circular movement, massaging the skins off the chickpeas The skins should come off and float to the top of the water (see photo) - pouring off the water will then remove the skins. Repeat until you've got rid of most of the skins, and drain the skinned chickpeas well.
Put the skinned chickpeas in a blender or food processor with the tahini, garlic, lemon juice, and blend until smooth. If the mixture seems a little stiff, or too dry for your blender to cope with it, then just add a little water. Once blended, add salt to taste. Put this on bread with salad
Quick Cucumber Sandwich
From Sarah
pumpernickle bread
mayonaise substitute
thinly sliced cucumbers
lemon pepper (seasoning)
This is an EXTREMELY simple recipe, but is a fancy finger food.
1. Spread mayonaise subsitute all over the entire slice of pumpernickel bread.
2. Cut the bread into smaller slices {small enough to fit the sliced cucumber}
3. Add one slice of cucumber to every piece of bread.
4. Sprinkle the lemon pepper ontop. {be sure not to add too much}
Avocado Butter with Tomato Relish on Foccacia
Sandwiches - Sandwich - -
INGREDIENTS
For the tomato relish:
15 sun-blushed tomatoes
2 garlic cloves, crushed
Large handful of fresh basil leaves
Large handful of fresh thyme leaves, finely chopped
About 2 T extra virgin olive oil
For the avocado butter:
2 ripe avocados
Juice of 1/2 lime
1-2 dashes of Tabasco sauce
Salt and pepper to taste
4 small foccacia breads, halved
METHOD
Make the tomato relish:
Put the tomatoes and garlic into a bowl. Stack 6 basil leaves together, roll into a cigar shape and slice into thin strips. Repeat with the remaining basil leaves. Mix the basil and thyme into the tomatoes. Stir in enough oil to make a relish texture.
Make the avocado butter:
Slice the avocado in half lenghtwise and remove the stone. Peel the avocado, then chop the flesh and put in a food processor. Add the lime juice, Tabasco sauce to taste and season with salt and pepper. Process until smooth.
Cut each foccacia in half widthways. Spread a layer of avocado butter on the halves, top with tomato relish and cover with the remaining halves.
Here are some links
http://www.ivu.org/recipes/snacks/
http://www.earth.li/~kake/cookery/sandwi...
http://www.veganfamily.co.uk/sauces.html
http://www.vegan-food.net/recipe/1302/Av...
Hope these help you
veggie sandwich
You can have healthy salad. Mix of fruits, lettuce, egg, ect
Pasta
Salad
Fresh Vegetables
Fresh Fruits
Fruit Salad
Veggie Sandwich
Veggie Dog
Veggie Burger
(At local stores there are many frozen and fresh vegetarian options)
If you do a search on 'easy, vegan recipes' I'm sure that you'll find a lot of options. I hope this helps! :)
Honey is an animal product stupid it comes from bees. And yes bees are animals. You could get vegan pasta salad. Vegan microwave dinners. Just check whole foods or your local health food store or the healthy section of your grocery store. If you want no animal products you will have to buy the organic version of a food because many normal foods like cereal and stuff like that contain hidden animal ingredients. Heres the list of them in the link.
Honey is an animal product... I don't know if you want to just be a vegetarian, but you said "no animal products," not just no meat. Check your bread, because most typical breads have milk and eggs. Check your margarine, too, for milk or egg products.
here's an all natural vitamin supplement you can try
http://www.mymonavie.com/jolly/opportuni...
Stir fry with tofu! Put mixed vegies (frozen), and coriander (spice) to start off with! Yum!
read this:
http://www.essex.veginfo.org.uk/articles...
http://veganlunchbox.blogspot.com/
http://thevegandiet.blogspot.com/2006/08...
http://veganlunch.com/