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Holiday Chaos Starts for the List

November 26, 2017 by christine

Happy Sunday! Kind of feels like it’s already Christmas with the shopping madness and house decorations up, I guess the weeks between Thanksgiving and actual Christmas is the new Christmas. The pups sheltered themselves from the chaos all snug in their warm beds this weekend.

And Miko made sure he’s ready at the table to share food.

It’s been oddly warmer in the 60s and 70s here, but still foggy, overcast, and gorgeous with the fall leaves for a festive, wintery feeling.

I always try to make a fun breakfast too on holidays and we tried our new Cuisinart Griddler to make pancakes using the simple recipe on the Egg Replacer box.

They came out okay, but didn’t golden as much and were a little dense. I will be experimenting with more pancake recipes instead of trying that one again.

Then it was into a storm of food prep for Thanksgiving where we made too much food for just 3 people and are still eating leftovers. I prepared this raw vegan pumpkin pie recipe and did some food prep for the rest of the recipes and hubby did the rest of the cooking!

Can you believe it was nearly impossible to find a vegan “turkey” roast in this area a few days before Thanksgiving? A couple of weeks before, hubby and I saw tons of the Trader Joe’s vegan roast in stock and figured we’d wait to buy until closer to Thanksgiving, but they were all gone by the Sunday before Thanksgiving! Whole Foods, Sprouts, and Raley’s were picked through as well and that was the same story in the regional Sacramento area. I was a little bummed, but also thrilled that there is such a huge demand for them now! Because there were just three of us, we grabbed two packages of the Gardein Savory Stuffed Turk’y and topped with Tofurky gravy.

For only 290 calories per stuffed turk’y loaf, these were very satisfying and hearty and delicious with a stuffing center and breaded outside. Thumbs up and glad we got them instead.

Hubby also found a new product to try at Sprouts – Lightlife Vegan Mushroom Ravioli.

He is a fan of ravioli, but we’ve never seen a ready made vegan option before this. Cooking was simple and fast and they paired perfectly with Trader Joe’s Organic Mushroom pasta sauce. Mostly thumbs up on the flavor, they’re a little plain and maybe a tofu “ricotta” version would be great. But would buy again and exciting to see more of these options.

Last weekend I found a great deal for frozen Beyond Meat burgers at Grocery Outlet and grabbed one of each flavor for hubby. He is a huge fan of them!

For being frozen, he says the flavor and texture is a lot like the much pricier Beyond Meat Beyond Burger and we ended up buying 4 more boxes at Grocery Outlet yesterday.

After days of rich eating, I tried to balance it out a bit with a simple collard greens and potato saute for dinner Friday.

And a huge salad with hummus dressing for dinner last night.

The long holiday weekend has been great with a few leisurely trips to the gym, playing games, shopping, and we got the house lights up and Christmas tree yesterday. Maybe I’ll actually get the tree decorated today – we’ll see. Tonight we’re having Thanksgiving 2 with family we could not get together with, but changing the menu up with a Forks Over Knives sweet potato chili recipe to continue getting to a healthier place. A little sad about going back to work tomorrow, but getting back to that routine will be nice too. And back to the good news, or short list this week!

Is Tyler Perry going vegan?

Lewis Hamilton discuses veganism on CNN.

The most shocking side-effects of a vegan diet.

Think I’ll try to visit the best vegan restaurants in the USA in 2018.

17 vegan stocking stuffers.

Filed Under: General, Product Reviews Tagged With: beyond meat, lightlife, plant based news, plant based products, plant based thanksgiving, plant-based, vegan, vegan news, vegan products, vegan Thanksgiving

Comments

  1. Laura ~ RYG says

    November 27, 2017 at 6:14 am

    Really want to try your raw vegan pumpkin pie recipe. Love it. Wow! So warm where you are. That leaf picture is so pretty =)

    • christine says

      November 28, 2017 at 6:10 am

      It’s really good and easy with no baking required, one of my favorite holiday recipes.

  2. Linda from Veganosity says

    November 27, 2017 at 1:10 pm

    You’re so far ahead of me in the Christmas decorating/shopping game. I’ve ordered some gifts, but that’s it.

    It sounds like you had a great Thanksgiving. Thanks for sharing the ravioli with us, a must try!

    • christine says

      November 28, 2017 at 6:11 am

      Haha, we’re getting there, I tired out last night when it came to finishing the tree – maybe tonight. :-)

  3. Hannah says

    November 28, 2017 at 4:56 am

    Oh yes, I’m feeling the holiday hustle! I’m just trying to embrace it rather than fight it.

    Gotta say, those pancakes look pretty darned perfect to me. The shapes and even brownness are on point!

    • christine says

      November 28, 2017 at 6:12 am

      Me too and trying to not absorb the stress of it!

      Thanks, I love trying new pancake recipes and have an excuse now for more with the griddle.

  4. Mary Ellen | VNutrition says

    November 29, 2017 at 6:40 am

    Sounds like you had a lovely Thanksgiving. I’m glad you were able to get a turkey roast. I guess that goes to show more people want them which is always a good thing. :)

    I’m still looking for a good pancake recipe too.

    • christine says

      November 30, 2017 at 5:59 am

      Yes and agreed, glad to see more demand for them. Hope we can track down the Tofurky Ham for Christmas.

  5. Julie says

    November 30, 2017 at 5:54 pm

    Your Thanksgiving dinner looks great! I’ll have to keep an eye out for the Lightlife mushroom ravioli!

    • christine says

      December 1, 2017 at 6:08 am

      Thanks and it’s great, I’ve seen it at Sprouts and specialty vegan stores – but not Whole Foods yet.

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