u/VeganMyWay

We are going to a public pool and I’m not sure what to buy? Disposables? Reusable? They are 4 1/2 months so probably won’t be back in a pool before they size up.
Thanks.

Trader Joe’s Bulgogli
Mushroom and broccoli
Follow Your Heart Blue cheeze dressing and crumbles.

This was better than I expected!

Today is my birthday. ❤️

On my 21st birthday, I went vegan. Until I had my twins this year, it was the most important decision I’d ever made.
I’m incredibly grateful not only for the amazing vegan friends who have encouraged, taught, and inspired me over the years, and for the guys I’ve dated who made special “vegan only” shelves in their kitchens for me—and, on a few occasions, even went vegan with me—but also for my understanding, and honestly incredibly generous, family.
Especially my mom.

From day one, she was all in. It happened so quickly I never even had to ask. Every time I came home, she’d veganize whatever she could. At Thanksgiving that meant stuffing, mashed potatoes, mushroom gravy, pie…the list goes on. She never made me feel like an inconvenience.
Once, early on, she got into an argument at a health food store over whether vegans could eat the cocoa *butter in a candy bar she was buying for me. 😂 We’ve all learned so much!!
On random visits I’d find my favorite freezer foods, mayo, and other staples waiting in the fridge. She makes French onion dip with *my* sour cream and still reads ingredient labels almost as fast as we do.

I realize how uncommon that kind of support is. I know so many vegans have had very different experiences with the people closest to them.

It was a little different 2 decades ago. I honestly didn’t think I could make the jump from pescatarian (though I’d tell people I was vegetarian). It wasn’t until I met someone who had been vegan for over 10 years—and had all the things I wanted: a partner, a child, a career, and a life full of travel—that I realized it was possible and got the confidence to do the damn thing.

So on both my BIRTHDAY and my VEGAN ANNIVERSARY, I’m especially grateful—not just for the over half a life of being vegan, but for everyone who quietly made those years so much easier❣️

In the picture is a vegan version so bastardized we’ve turned it into a kind of southwestern cheezy dip. The recipe also makes a great omelette if you follow it more closely.
I put all kinds of things in it. Rice/beans/potatoes. Soycurls/tempeh.

It’s my birthday and I’ll pump when I want to…
Pump when I want to…
Pump when I want to…

Just kidding, I’ll pump when I’m supposed to.
LOL 😂

I turn 43 today. As a single mom I’m so incredibly happy to have these littles to celebrate with this year.

I was going to make this recipe but also had the crumbs at the bottom of a bag of soycurls and thought I’d just make twice the marinade and see if one was better than the other. Honestly the soycurls were better. I didn’t pre soak or coook them. I just made the marinade soupy enough to hydrate the curls and sprinkled on top of the pizza before baking. It’s very good.
The sheet pan has tofu blended and spread out to bake and I skipped cutting them into cute circles and crumbled instead.

https://minimalistbaker.com/vegan-pepperoni/

I froze some tofu because I opened too many tubs for something and panicked I wouldn’t use it in time… I then remembered I dislike the texture of thawed tofu. I don’t think I’ve used it in over ten years. I remember in the beginning people said that spongy consistency was like chix or something… idk. Yuck! But it does absorb flavor and I wanted a BLT and hate wasting food so… I marinated for a day the fried in coconut oil then put basically a whole cube of tofu on one sandwich.
It was ok.
Have you ever as a sandwich that got better as you ate it? That was this experience.

I had twins three months ago and as a single mom I rarely get to sit and eat.

Broccoli sautéed with Zhoug
Balsamic and olive oil toast
Chix with blue cheeze

I’m really loving this!

When my little want held they insist I stand. Often they want to be walked but always insist I don’t sit down. I can stand still, exactly where I was sitting, holding them in the same position and the difference in altitude calms them??? REALLY?!!! It’s the one thing that drives me crazy. I’ve figured out how to hold them both sitting but even wearing one I can’t hold two standing (when I do I look like I’m sacrificing him, it’s transport only, not for comfort).
I’m not just venting, single mother, any advice would be welcomed!

I use dishes like these to clean out the fridge.

Bottom layer - Meat-y - an open bag of meatless meatballs and an open bag of veggie burgers made into grounds and seasoned with herbs and chili flakes

Middle layer - Cheeze-y - tofu, nutritional yeast, a bag of shreds, and all the open cheese like spreads I use for snacking or baking… whatever works

Top layer - Veg-y - I had a ton of mushrooms in the fridge and some frozen chopped spinach

I had open jars of sun dried tomatoes, Kalamata olives and capers, I roughly blended those with their juice and stirred it into cheep sauce and a can of diced tomatoes for texture. It made the most ridiculously delicious pasta sauce. OMG.

The new Morning Star wings (mehh..) and TJ gyoza.

Anyone know good and widely available wings?

I change these up every time but the basics are tofu, breakfast sausage, veggies, quinoa, beans, and cheeze.
These have broccoli, mushrooms, and onion.

These succulents are sentimental and most have died. I was down to one plant but stuck a few leaves in the dirt and kept it wet and have two new plants but the last two times I’ve tried the start died. Is there a more full proof way to propagate succulents? A leaf has torn and I’d like to use it if possible, also can I cut the top of the big one with more luck (I don’t like how it’s taller than bushy), and under a bottom leaf there is a sprout I’m considering using as a start?? Is any of this a good idea? Thanks for any advice❣️ (I have twin newborns and very little time or I would research this on my own or go to a nursery but this plant will die before I get to those options.)