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monkey1973

Joined: 17 Jan 2005
Posts: 683
Location: Bonnie scotland

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 05 7:01 pm Post subject:
Tonight we will be mostly having vegetable casserole with some veggie sausages thrown in for good measure, potatties and cabbage. I am absolutely starvin' by the way

Quelly

Joined: 21 Jun 2005
Posts: 29

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 05 7:21 pm Post subject:
we have been doing this too... tonight is black bean chillie and tortillas bake.. This will be the third time this week..it's delicious!

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 05 7:34 pm Post subject:

monkey1973 wrote:

Tonight we will be mostly having vegetable casserole with some veggie sausages thrown in for good measure, potatties and cabbage.
I am absolutely starvin' by the way

I actually find it better when doing a veggie stint, to try and avoid playing the "meat substitute" game! how about others?

twoscoops

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1924
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Fri Aug 05, 05 8:17 am Post subject:

kittytips wrote:

we have been doing this too...

tonight is black bean chillie and tortillas bake..
This will be the third time this week..it's delicious!

Please, please, please can you post the recipe? I know I was a bit scathing of this idea way back on page one but now I need some veggie inspiration. OH is a vegetarian and we have been eating too much pasta and not enough fresh veg of late. I've got an idea for some tofu and buckwheat noodle soup next week so I also need something with pulses.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 05 11:54 am Post subject:

I haven't stuck to veggie all week, but I was on holiday and had others to consider, I have only had meat twice though.

Monday and tuesday at home I had baked poatoes with cheese and beans, and pizza with mushrooms, peppers onions and sweetcorn. After that I was at the big green gathering where there is no meat, with the excpetion of that produced on the farm. We had miscellaneous (unamed) vegetable curry most days, because its easy for people to produce and keep hot, although i did have a bean burrito and some fantastic barbequed sweetcorn. The best meals I have were spit roasted lamb rolls, and the bacon butty on sunday morning. Everything else was curry mush, and very over priced, I thought, although I am glad that the place wasn't full of the usual cheap burgers and rubbish (I'd rather have the vegan mush!) At home I'd have made much more interesting things, like rattatoile pancakes, or courgette souffles and pasta and things. Tonight i will be having steak

monkey1973

Joined: 17 Jan 2005
Posts: 683
Location: Bonnie scotland

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 05 12:08 pm Post subject:

Well, my challenge week went quite well. Other than a slip last Monday where I broke both challenges (Tesco's for a BLT!!) the rest of the week has been a relative success. We have avoided the big 4 completely, although we are resigned to using our local co-op for emergency items.

I have baked bread all week and we have started finding local deli's and grocers for other items. These, unfortunately, do involve a bit more travelling than our nearest Morrissons and Tescos. It does seem achievable in the long term, though, provided we apply the right amount of planning as we can no longer rely on being able to pop along to the supermarket for the odd thing or two when we please.

There's a few farmers markets coming up so we'll be making a point of going to these also.

We have become a pain to our friends and family, however, becasue when we do something, EVERYBODY has to do it

Mad Dad

Joined: 12 May 2005
Posts: 407
Location: Nowhere near where I want to be

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 05 1:57 pm Post subject:
I manged the no supermarket ok if you excuse the cheat ovewr buckwheat flour on day one. The veggie one was tougher but I'm sorry I failed on sunday...the smell of bacon sandwiches for everybody else was just too much...it was my only discretion though... Right. What can we give up next...

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45706
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 05 2:06 pm Post subject:

Mad Dad wrote:

Right. What can we give up next...

A week without telly?

monkey1973

Joined: 17 Jan 2005
Posts: 683
Location: Bonnie scotland

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 05 2:07 pm Post subject:

Mad Dad wrote:

Right. What can we give up next...

TV!

For my sins I watch Big Brother and it's so similar to smoking it's scary ..i.e. utterly addictive yet abhorrent at the same time (saying that, I smoke also).

I am proposing to cleanse myself of my sins by ritualistically torching my TV in the back garden whilst flogging myself with burning branches and poking myself in the eyes with locally bought organic carrots!

Anybody else care to participate

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 05 2:09 pm Post subject:
TV - too easy!

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 05 2:11 pm Post subject:
since we moved house I have weaned one wife and two daughters off all of the soaps and when Big brother finishes they will be at my mercy. We will be in the countryside every evening(me and kids anyway) and Tv will not get switched on except for cricket highlights!

monkey1973

Joined: 17 Jan 2005
Posts: 683
Location: Bonnie scotland

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 05 2:13 pm Post subject:

Bernie66 wrote:

..... on except for cricket highlights!

That's worse than Big Brother

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 05 2:14 pm Post subject:

monkey1973 wrote:

Bernie66 wrote:

..... on except for cricket highlights!

That's worse than Big Brother

behave yourself man

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 05 2:26 pm Post subject:

I tried to give up TV for the two weeks we were self-catering in Normandy. Failed miserably on day 4, when children (aged 4 and 8 ) were so utterly homesick that I had to do SOMETHING.

Not very proud of myself though!

If we gave up TV, I would also have to give up the computer.

Has anyone ever read a book called "The Artist's Way"? Long story - but there is a section in the book that encourages the reader to GIVE UP READING for an entire week, as well as telly and comp.

I actually did that! It was incredible. I got so much stuff done ...

monkey1973

Joined: 17 Jan 2005
Posts: 683
Location: Bonnie scotland

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 05 2:34 pm Post subject:
I've tried it before for a month. The trouble was, halfway through the month, Euro 2004 started so I was forced to allow myself some discretions Didn't watch anything else though. Curiously though, I remember the catalyst for that ban on TV was, again,.........Big Brother! Bit of a theme developing here

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