Additional Meal Planning

So far since the last meal plan we've made the spiced spinach tofu, the grilled cheese and tomato soup, the yellow rice (Sameer and I split it for lunch), waffles, and the cherry chocolate chia pudding. Yesterday I made a quadruple batch of breakfast sausage patties to use up some of the TVP and oat bran currently in my freezer, and I ended up making McDonald's style sausage egg and cheese biscuits for dinner. I used up some of the buttermilk leftover from the waffles to make biscuits. 

 

Today I made a double batch of pancakes to use up the last of the cashew yogurt. The extra sausages and pancakes can survive fine in ziploc bags in the freezer, and I'm sure they'll all be eaten before the new fridge arrives in a month.

I stopped by Pete's today and bought a few groceries because I needed fresh bread to go with the Shakshuka that I'm making for dinner tonight. Tomorrow Sim and I will eat various leftovers for dinner. Wednesday I'm planning to make French Onion Skillet Lasagna. Thursday (another fast day for Sameer) will either be more leftovers or breakfast burritos with the vegan breakfast sausage patties (I just need to buy potatoes) or some kind of sandwiches if I have bread to use up after today. I could make Tofu Pot Pie on Friday night. Sameer wants to make scrambled eggs and roasted tomatoes soon, so maybe I can get him to make that Saturday night since I hate cooking on Saturdays. We could have some of the pancakes or waffles with those too. Sunday could be Creole Red Beans & Rice since I have some diced bell pepper in the freezer to use up. Monday could potentially be my second attempt of the corn risotto (link is to post with my notes rather than the original recipe), which would use up the additional frozen corn I've unearthed (there was so much corn hidden in my freezer), some of the arborio rice in my pantry, and the last of the white wine in my fridge, which I opened the last time I made this risotto. I started making smoked paprika oil today, so theoretically it'll be ready next Monday. I just need a zucchini to make this. I also now have red kale, fresh avocado, cooked black beans, and date syrup leftover from making cherry chocolate chia pudding yesterday, so I need to make that kale salad recipe from The How Not to Die Cookbook, either for my lunch or to go with a dinner. Maybe tomorrow night.

The kale salad. I didn't love it. I added the last of my vegan blue cheese after I took this pic and that improved it, but now I'm out of vegan blue cheese. It's a really healthy salad though, especially without the vegan blue cheese. I have enough of the components leftover to make it at least twice more.

Friday night dessert after I made tofu pot pie. The base is just the leftover pie crust cut into cookie-sized triangles and baked. I melted some Justin's chocolate hazelnut spread (like Nutella but vegan and better quality) in the microwave and spooned some on, then topped with fresh raspberries. It's nothing special, but Sim loves it and it requires almost no additional effort.

Second attempt at corn risotto. You can see the smoked paprika oil. It didn't add as much as I expected it to, but I think using like half a cup of vegan parmesan was a good call, as was vastly increasing the amount of veg topping I made. I used one cup of arborio rice and all the corn in my freezer. I didn't even attempt to measure it. I'm eating the last of the leftovers for lunch now. I didn't even save the leftovers last time, so I think this means it was better.