Vegans Of Faith

By McDonald, T.   |  Date 10th of February 2021 You have completed Veganuary and now you want to continue as a vegan.   Take The Time To Look At These Websites NHS Live Well Gives first rate information on your dietary needs.  The Eat Well section of the website will give you expert advice on achieving a well balanced diet including how to get your 5 a day.  It also covers vegan diets, so this is diffidently not one to miss. The Association Of British Dietitians  (BDA) A magnificent website with the sole prepose of delivering top quality nutritional information.  Very good for those wanting to delve a little bit deeper into nutrition. The Vegan Society Beautiful website that will give you an outline of deferent areas of nutritional needs.  It is tailor made for vegans and has expert advice from Heather Russell The Vegan Society's resident dietitian.  If you visit only one site for vegan nutrition, please make sure it is this one! Useful Apps To Help You On Your Way Cronometer   Cr

Written by McDonald, T.   |  Date 8th of February 2021    When you just need a burger, but want to keep it vegan, this is a classic that never fails. Easy to whip up and so tasty! Yes I love this burger because it's a proper man's burger with lashings of spicy BBQ sauce.  What to do A vegan roll Your favourite vegan burger (I like plant Chef)   Vegan onion rings (i used free from) Vegan mayo French brown mustard Jalapeno peppers  Vegan cheese Cook the burger in you favourite way, which for me is in the frying pan. I also like the fry the roll for a bit too.  I find it is a good idea to add the vegan cheese to the top of the burger once it is almost ready and still in the pan so the vegan cheese melts nice. Bake the onion rings in the oven with your favourite chips.  I like to spread the French mustard on the bottom part of the roll and put the BBQ sauce and vegan mayo on the top part of the roll.  Put everything in the roll and serve with chip and some salad. Please share, lik

By McDonald, T.   |  Updated 8th of February 2021    Many people allow their subconscious to bully them around, making demands and expecting those demands to be met immediately.  It will fill the mind with sensations and images in order to manipulate the conscious mind into action.  If we allow the body to control the mind and be at the whim of the body, we are said to be impulsive. The body only knows it has needs. Sometimes it's useful for a person to respond to instincts say when reflex reactions save a person from harm.  However, we hear all the time about impulse buying and eating on impulse and they are never linked to anything positive.  People get into debt and lose control of their weight.  It can get worse if people give into other temptations leading to wrecked marriages or relationships and even addictions.  The Body Wants Gratification Without Thinking Of Consequences With this in mind, and if we continue with the mind and body as two separate entities analogy, the mi

By McDonald, T.   |  Date 5th of February 2021  I love being a vegan because it gets me trying new things and this is definitely different.  It makes a great snack or side dish to support your main meal.  The apple is juicy and succulent going perfectly with the tender leak.  Just look at that apple, so tenter and sweet.  I feel that garnishing with basil really complements the flavours of this unusual dish.  Being a vegan is one of the best things you can do for yourself and this planet so why not give this dish a try and share it with your friends. Ingredients Apple Tempeh Leak Chilli pepper Sultanas  For marinade  Olive oil Cider vinegar Teriyaki Garlic granules Water   Method Cut the tempeh into slices and put into of tub with a lid.  Add the marinade and leave for 2 hours of more.  Heat up a frying pan and fry the marinaded tempeh with the sliced apple and sliced leak until the tempeh starts to golden.  Add some of the marinade to create steam and add the sultanas and chipped c

By McDonald, T.   |  Date 1st of February 2021 There are no pigs in these blankets, but there is a lot of taste in this easy to make fun dinner.  It is easily adjustable to suit your needs since many of the sauce ingredients are optional or tradable for something else, hence, its name, freedom sauce.  Ingredients Grated vegan cheese alternative of your choice for topping For the escaped pigs in blankets Mock sausages of your choice x 2 Facon of your choice.  Enough to wrap around the mock meat sausages. Olive or rapeseed oil For the freedom sauce Chopped tomato x 2 tbsp Coconut milk x 2 tbsp Paprika x 1 tsp Turmeric x 1/2 tsp White cider vinegar Method Fry the mock sausages for about 2 minutes on each side to give them that browned look.  Roll the mock sausages in the facon to make the escaped pigs. Mix the sauce ingredients together.  Add the escaped pigs in blankets to a baking dish and poor the freedom sauce on top. Add the grated cheese and cover the dish. Bake in the oven for 15

  Written by McDonald, T.   |  Date 31st of January 2021 What is the Divine Mercy? The Divine Mercy chaplet is a Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy of God.  St Faustina was visited by Jesus in visions and He gave her instructions for a painting and the chaplet of Divine Mercy.  The painting is of Christ with rays of light emitting from his heart and the words, 'Trust in Jesus' at the bottom.  The Divine Mercy chaplet is an extremely powerful prayer used to combat the evil in the world. It is easy to learn since it uses some well known prayers. What is the Chaplet for? According to the University of Glasgow (n.d.),  " ...the main purpose of Chaplet of Divine Mercy is to appease the Just Anger of the Holy Trinity. " The chaplet is a prayer we can say to ask God to forgive us and heal us.  It shows that God unlike us is willing to forgive.  We can use this prayer to pray for others and not just those in our families: we can use it to pray for the forgiveness of the w

By McDonald, T.   |  Updated 25th of March 2022 I used to love a good sausage roll for a snack or for my dinner, so when i saw these vegan sausage rolls from Birds Eye's Green Cuisine range I had to give them a go.  On first inspection I noted minimal packaging: just a cardboard box, which is great.  Thankfully, they cooked beautifully in the oven and tasted fantastic!  The pastry was perfect too, so light and flaky.  Subsequently, I will definitely be having them again in the future.  I had mine with chips and some veg.  Since writing this blog, I have tried many different sausage rolls both frozen and ready to eat.  All of them tasted great to me, for me at least, sausage rolls have become a regular in diet. Gregg's also has a vegan sausage roll,  I tried this with a friend at work and we both loved them.  The Gregg's one was definitely better hot than cold, but it was great for a snack at work.  Again the pastry was fine and i would have one in the future.   With yet

Written by McDonald, T.   |  Date 29 of January 2021  This is a blast from the past.  I remember people telling me about a nut roast when I was in my 20s and still eating meat.  I have put off trying it for decades, but today I tried it and I liked it.  It is very different from any mock meats I have tried, but it stood its ground.   This was very easy to prepare. All I had to do was add some cold water to the mix and let it soak.  Then I had to put it in the provided baking try and bake it for 40 minutes.  I had it with some roasted and boiled vegetables with some gravy over the top.  Today I tried the Cashew And Cranberry Nut Roast, but I have another as well, which Is called Country Vegetable And Cashew Nut Roast.  These where from Artisan grains and are both gluten free.      Please like and subscribe to my blog.  Thanks.

Written by McDonald, T.   |  Date 28th of January 2021 This is a simple little stir fry that is great as a side dish or as a snack.  Marinaded tempeh with mushroom, bell pepper, kidney beans and chilli.  It's relatively quick and easy. Ingredients Tempeh  Mushroom Kidney beans Yellow bell pepper Red chilli pepper Carrot Nutritional yeast Marinade  Olive oil x 1 tsp White cider vinegar x 1 tbsp BBQ sauce 1 tsp Garlic granules 1 tsp Method Cut the tempeh into bit size pieces and put in a bowel or jar then add the marinade ingredients.  Give the whole thing a jolly good stir. Leave in the fridge for two hours or more.  Fry the tempeh pieces in a frying pan with the kidney beans and carrot until the tempeh starts to go a light brown.  The marinade should provide enough oil for frying. Add the mushrooms.  Towards the end, add the yellow bell pepper and the red chilli. You will know when it is nearly reddy by the colour of the tempeh, which should be a golden brown.  Serve with some gar

By McDonald, T.   |  Date 27th of January 2021  Hunters Cabbage is a vegan's Hunters Chicken and not like German Hunter's Stew.  A nice succulent chunk of cabbage topped with facon and vegan cheese alternative.  This dish goes great with mash, new or roasted potatoes and most kinds of veg.  Ingredients Thick slice of white cabbage about 200g. 2 rashers of Naked without the oink facon or some similar facon. Vegan cheese. Oil  For Marinade/sauce  4 tbsp of chopped tomatoes 2 tbsp of coconut milk (optional) 3 tsp of BBQ sauce (I used Levi's ) 1 tbsp of tomato paste 2 tsp of cider vinegar  2 tsp of teriyaki sauce Method  Make the marinade by mixing all the marinade ingredients together in a bowl.   Add the cabbage steaks and cover with a little olive oil and salt.  I find it easier to cut a big thick slice of cabbage from the middle and then trim the stalk off and cut the slice down the centre of the stalk in order to keep it together. Lay the facon rashers on top.  Cut the r