Veg*ns: What are you eating for Christmas?!

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I'm going to cheat and dig into that ham. Nothing beats real pig. It'll sure be better than my tofu ham I had last year.

Taste buds.

Going to my parents, they want turkey this year, I'm doing dutch carrots, baked potato in the skins and asparagus and beans with garlic, chive butter to go with it. Plum pudding for sweets. Also going to make cheese balls for appetizers, some with paprika, some with chopped nuts, and the others with fresh herbs out of the garden. Merry Xmas

Avoid dairy products and meats, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol; high sodium, carbohydrate, sugar.

- Whole Wheat fortified Cereal
- Fortified Soy Milk
- Leafy, dark green vegetables
- Peanuts
- Beans
- Seeds
- Fruits and vegetables of all kinds: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, White
- Whole Grains

UNSATURATED FATS!!! Only unsaturated!

Field roast, mashed potatoes with vegan gravy, sweet potatoes with vegan marshmallows, soup (not sure about which kind yet) cranberries, green bean casserole, and a vegan pumpkin pie with soy cream. The entire Christmas dinner will be vegan, and everyone is fine with that. :)

I'm making Raw Vegan brownies! (Hope RAW vegans are allowed, heh heh ^_^ )

All it is is date fruits and fresh cocao powder all blended, then frozen (its still chewy while frozen) while pressed in a pan... so yummy and chewy!! :D

And raw vegan pies... yum.
http://www.living-foods.com/recipes/appl…
Really thinking about that raw apple pie to make!

Some sort of roast (Quorn maybe), boiled and roasted potatoes, roast carrots, parsnips, yorkshire puddings, onion gravy. Same as everyone else really, except veggie.

Tofurkey, watermelon and grape soda, yee haw!

Panetone de frutas :)

http://veganeasy.org/Christmas-Recipes

pasta(:

Check out www.vegweb.com for recipes.

Now, there are tons of grains out there. If you like rice, you might like quinoa (keen-wa) or barley, both of which are excellent in pilafs. Millet is also good (and it has been too long since I cooked it). If there is a Trader Joe's in your area, they have an awesome Harvest Blend of grains and beans. If you like stuffing, you can make a vegan dressing or a rice pilaf. You can make all sorts of vegetables. And cranberry sauce!

As for me, Gardein makes some awesome analogues, and they have a Stuffed Turk'y Roast that comes with gravy and is very good. It's a seasonal thing, so it probably won't be around after the new year. You can have that with mashed potatoes and green beans for a nice meal. My boyfriend and I are visiting his mom, and she got a Field Roast Celebration Roast, but I'm not a big fan of their stuff, which is why I'm bringing along the Gardein.

And yes, veg*an is shorthand for "vegetarian and vegan".

I'm 13 and I've been veg for two years now and when I made the decision my parents were NOT supportive and tryed to talk me out of it so I know what its like to feel limited in food but trust me you'll actulley become more open to ideas
i actulley have no idea what i'm eating. For brekfast were having omelettes,waffles and potatoes I'm guessing and for lunch we're gonna have Chinese vegetarian food at a resteraunt probably and eaven my parents don't know about dinner. I just asked my dad and he says he doesn't know but we might have Luna burgers (we have them in columbus but I don't know about where you live) wich are made of rice,beans and exotic flavors are made with different ingredients and rice and for dessert Christmas cookies my dads seceretary and co workers gave him

Merry Christmas!

Vegetarian

hmmm..... you can't live forever on fruit veg and brown rice.... i think introducing lentils, beans and pulses would be a good idea, they can be very tasty and nutritious.

i often just cook a load of random vegetables and add a three bean mix, bit of tomato puree, taste and keep adding things till it tastes really good, and eat it with potatoes
for christmas, i eat nut roast with cranberry sauce.
btw (reference to actual question) vegan is not censored you dont' have to say veg*n!!!! lol :D
good luck with your decision x

You make a nut roast? My family makes this recipe from Cranks cookbook every Christmas for the veggies:
Ingredients:
1 medium onion
25g (1oz) vegan margarine
Mixed nuts (preferably toasted not fried) peanuts, walnuts, almonds, cashews etc.
100g (4oz) wholemeal bread
300ml (1/4 pint) vegetable stock
2 tsp Marmite
Dried mixed herbs
Salt and freshly ground pepper

Method:
1. Chop the onion and sauté in the butter until transparent.
2. Grind the nuts and the bread together in a food processor until quite fine. Heat the stock and yeast to boiling point, then combine all the ingredients together and mix well. The mixture should be quite slack.
3. Turn into a greased shallow baking dish, level the surface.
4. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes until golden brown.

Then serve it with vegan stuffing (http://www.bodybabble.com/article/vegan-… just on the side - not stuffed into anything! And vegan gravy (http://www.bodybabble.com/article/vegan-… SO yummy!

http://www.bodybabble.com/

You can make walnut stuffing, and just put it into a casserole dish instead of in a turkey. That's what I do, and it's yummy.

Scalloped potatoes with soymilk and chopped cashews. In a casserole or lasagna pan, layer sliced potatoes with cashews in-between each layer. (maybe some nutritional yeast as well) then gently pour one cut of soymilk over tops and bake covered (covered with foil if no lid for dish) at like 350 for an hour -- or until ready, just trying to remember the recipe You can sprinkle rosemary on each layer as well, that'd be good.

Is lasagna too pasta-ish for you? I've never been a fan of turkey or ham, so even before I went vegan my mom would always make me a lasagna for events like Thanksgiving or Christmas. =)

There's a recipe in one of my cookbooks where you take tofu and blend it to make a ricotta cheese (a really convincing one at that, it's good!), and then you also put stuff like spinach in it. I think it must be online somewhere:
http://www.morningstarfarms.com/recipes_…

That's the recipe I use for the most part, just without the Morning Star Veggie Burgers.