A Vegan Exploration: Vegan Lite or Freegan
By benjaminwallis
Tags: freegan, recipes, tofu scramble, vegan, vegetarian
Category: Food and Health
Is that scrambled eggs? In fact no! That would be my tofu scramble, the wonderful breakfast I whipped up this morning and enjoyed on my second day of eating vegan.
You might be wondering why I’m talking about this at all on my art blog, or when it is that I became a vegan. Here is some background information for you. First, I’ve been trying to mix health, fitness, and religion here into my blog because those are things very important to me as well as my art career. Also, art has been slow for me with my seminary life taking off, and since this vegan thing is at the front of my mind at the moment, I’m going to talk about it. So since when am I a vegan? Since yesterday! And I don’t know if I actually consider myself a vegan. Labels are a funny thing, especially eating labels. I know for certain I don’t eat any meat. I realized that for some time I had been eating almost vegan at home. Its particularly more difficult, or at least more tempting, to eat dairy products and eggs when eating out of the home, and so most of my non-vegan food consumption was at restaurants or at others’ hospitality.
So I decided for various reasons to see how eating vegan would go for me. I’m not going to share my reasons because they’re mine and mine alone, and the point here isn’t to evangelize other vegans. Instead lets call it a test, or an exploration, because that’s really what it is!
I’m going to blog on how it goes, and what I’ve been eating. I’ll share some recipes, and I’ll share what I’m enjoying. I’ll tell you what works and what doesn’t! Just as a note, the reason why I put vegan lite and freegan at the top is because I don’t plan on being exclusively vegan. I plan on not buying any animal products for the home (for myself, my wife is not vegan). However, I will eat anything other than meat given to me for free, so in that regard I’m freegan. Some freegans eat meat if its been given to them freely, but that is a step I won’t be taking.
So now that we’re clear let’s talk about tofu scramble! This is the second time we’ve tried tofu scramble. Today’s was a super success. I developed this recipe out of a recipe from Vegan Ronin, but I made some adjustments. I used extra firm tofu and it worked great. This was delicious, creamy, not spicy but flavorful.
Tofu Scramble with Curry
Ingredients:
1/2 a block extra tofu scramble
2 tablespoons soy breakfast meat or sausage
2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
1 teaspoon curry powder
2 teaspoons tumeric
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1/4 of a sweet onion diced
Saute the onions in light oil on low to medium heat till they begin to soften. At the same time, press and dry the tofu, then crumble into a bowl. Lightly mix together the rest of the ingredients, then add to the saute. Saute them on medium heat until the tofu begins to brown.
This dish is so easy and was completely delicious!
What else did I eat today? I had Punjab Eggplant for dinner with a banana. Last night we went out to the Trolley Car Diner in Mt. Airy. Was I tempted to eat non-vegan? Not at all! I had a summer vegetable quesadilla with a black bean hummus. On the menu it had white cheddar cheese, so I just removed the cheese and boom, it was vegan!
So it goes well so far. Enjoy the recipe and the pictures and keep checking back for updates. Thanks for your support!
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