About 6 years ago I got married a vegan girl. I knew before about the vegetarian movement and I was aware that there are people who don't like to eat meat to protect animals and I understood them. I was in a muslim country then and in this religion hurting animals is not allowed and not all animals could be eaten. So, I was familiar with rules set by people for some reasons. I mean that I was ready to accept a new style of living because I respect ideologies. Maybe also other christian movements I used to know in Russia made me accept a new way of living. As well being open minded and ready to learn new things allowed me to support such ethics.
Recently my wife visited the store and bought a lot of vegan food. So, I decided to take pictures of what we buy to share with this community. Such food can be also healthy for those people who don't like to eat a lot of fat and for those who have a fast. So, in case you didn't know that such things exist, welcome to this post to learn. I learned a lot during these 6 years living with my dear wife.
We usually eat a lot of nuts. Because this product is full of energy. I even remember at school we learned about the most rich products with healthy fat and nuts were among them. So, any kind of nuts are good and there are really a lot of them. For exmple: cashew, walnut, hazelnut, almond, brazilian nut, pine nut, macadamia and more. (peanuts are not technically nuts, they are beans, but I put them in the category)
There are many kinds of food that looks like meat, but that's not meat at all. So, in case someone is so addicted to meat and need to eat a healthy and tasty plant based food, you have to know that there is the alternative. Like falafel and other"meatballs" made from lentils, chickpeas, soya and other beans. We also make steaks and chicken breast imitation from gluten and beans, it's very satisfying.
There is also such thing as texturized soya meat (aka TVP), which acts like meat in different dishes. We usually buy dry TVP in different shapes, soak them in boiling water for 5 minutes, then drain and fry, then add vegetables over it, it becomes very rich and chewy.
TVP comes also in the form of minced meat, it can be used in various recipes, it can be even added to oatmeal for extra protein and calcium.
These are dates, which we often eat with tea insted of supermarket cookies (although we eat those as well), they are healthy, especially for kids. As an Algerian, I have a special taste for figs, which are imported from the country worldwide. Even in Islam such kind of food is praised a lot.
This is another type of dry fruit we love - dried apples, which are so soft and shewy, remind of some sweet as well. Other dry fruits we love are: plums, apricots, melon, raisins. We also buy for our kid fruit bars made from dried fruit, he loves it.
This is a traditional russian dish - vareniki, it's made from wheat dough and has a filling of potatoes and mushrooms. We buy these semi-prepared vareniki a lot, it's a good thing when there's no time/mood to cook.
Here is vegan pate, which can be smeared on bread, made from soya protein. There are also different kinds of vegan sausages made from wheat protein or soya.
This is vegan sour cream, made from coconut milk. I used to eat a lot of sour cream from cows' milk, now it's cool that I can eat the same thing. In Russian cuisine there are a lot of dishes where we put sour cream, like soups, vareniki, even pancakes.
These are vegan yoghurts (cherry and coconut) made from soya and coconut. There also drinkable yoghurts, we usually buy those from oats. Sometimes my wife prepares yoghurt at home from soya milk and lacto bacteria. She just adds a table spoon of coconut yoghurt to a liter of soya milk, puts in in the warm place for 12 hours, then 4 hours in the fridge, and it's ready, tastes just like any store bought yoghurt.
Also there are a lot of sweet goodies. Here is a caramel pudding. But a lot of other conventional confectionary things can be made wothout cows' milk or eggs, and they taste just the same. Sometimes we make our own at home, sometimes we buy ready ones at shops.
This is a Frech thing called julienne. This one is made from coconut milk, coconut oil and mushrooms. Most of thenational dishes in the world can be veganized, and we love tasting various ethnic dishes.
Pelmeni is also kind of Russian food. It's usually a dough with a meat filling, but this one has a filling of lentils and vegetables. We often make those at home with a mixture of soaked and then minced lentils with rice, minced onion and nutmeg. Totally delicious, especially with coconut sour cream.
This is kutab, it tastes like chebureki, both are Caucasian dishes, and Caucasian nations are either a part of Russia, or former USSR, that's why we have a lot of dishes from there. This one is a dough fried in oil with a filling of proccoli and spinach. It's already prepared, just need to warm up.
There are non-chicken nuggets! Absolutely delicious, just what you expect toget from nuggets, with a crunchy crumbs on the outside and chewy chicken-like inside, made from wheat and rice protein.
And finally, vegan pizza. It has a very tasty dough, but not to much of filling, so we added some shredded tofu and mayo on the top, it worked perfectly. We also make vegan pizza at home all the time, with vegetables, TVP, tofu and vegan cheeses.
I just wanted to say that vegan food is very various, interesting, tasty, and people can live healthily with only plant-based food, giving birth to babies, doing sports or really anything in life.
So I thing the vegan lifestyle is definitely worth trying.
Originally posted here: https://hive.blog/hive-120586/@clixmoney/our-recent-vegan-purchase
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