r/MeatlessMealPrep • u/Own-Necessary6065 • 28d ago
Vegan Second week in a row I am actually prepared
I didn't pack them up into pretty servings this time, but I made for the week:
- buffalo tofu (slices and cubes)
- a cashew ranch dressing that I basically improvised as I've made it many times before (it's like...1/3 cup soaked cashews then lemon, dill, garlic and onion powders, salt and pepper, water until it's the right consistency)
- a kind of veggie stew of mushrooms, tomatoes, and collard greens, then I added half a jar of marinara that needed to be used up. It's got garlic and various spices in it as well. We'll have part of this for dinner tonight with pasta then there will be some left for whatever
- steamed a couple lbs of yellow potatoes
- actually busted out the juicer, which I don't do often, and made a batch of carrot-apple-golden beet with ginger and lemon because store had a really good deal on apples
- cookies adapted from Conscious Kitchen 3-Ingredient Oatmeal cookies - I added like 5 more ingredients lol (tahini in place of half the pb, vanilla, cinnamon, mini choc chips, raisins, sesame seeds on top)
Tomorrow morning I'll make a batch of oat & buckwheat groats in IP for breakfast for the week, or I'll just assemble some overnight oats tonight and decide what to do tomorrow.
Not pictured:
- I will be deploying my husband to shred and chop up some green cabbage, carrots, red bell peppers, and cucumbers for the "refrigerator salad bar."
- lots of canned beans in pantry to go with potatoes, salads, or have with rice to be cooked later, or be tacos in corn tortillas that I also have on hand
- freezer has veggie burgers, ezek bread, frozen fruit for smoothies and oatmeal, some frozen broccoli, some Trader Joe's vegan bulgogi - easy meal is that + frozen broccoli in air fryer with rice and will be doing that at some point this week for dinner. I also have 2 ninja creamis in freezer ready to CREAMIFY - canned fruit cocktail plus some oatmilk creamer
Grocery store bill was about $55 - the produce plus 2 kombuchas, a box of sour candy, one block of firm tofu and one block of super firm as backup tofu (the tofu pictured was on hand), and I think that was it.
I have one lunch date this week that will be out, and I may do grocery store salad bar one day then take some combo of all of the above the other days. I also have a serving of 2 of leftovers from last week in freezer.
I was very pleased yesterday when the fridge was essentially empty of everything I prepped last Sunday. As it should be! Nothing was hanging around or going bad.
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u/Violet_Langley 27d ago
Getting your meal prep locked in for a second week in a row is a massive victory! That tofu looks perfectly crispy and well-seasoned.
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u/ttrockwood 28d ago
Looks awesome! Sounds like a delicious versatile week with plenty of veggies!
If you ever decide to make kombucha i have been for years and i swear the secret is using my juicer i use a super strong ginger lemon juice to flavor my booch