I had another convenience food dinner tonight. Cooking was involved, but not a single thing actually eaten was hand-made by me. I didn't even bother taking a picture because it was so simple and full of packaged goodness - a Redwood's quarterpound burger with a bit of smoked cheddar Sheese (made in Scotland!) between two pieces of store-bought bread (Alinson's batch baked wholemeal, in case you're interested) with mustard, Infinity Foods' smoked garlic mayo, and ketchup, with a side of microwave-steamed veggies (frozen 4-pack from Sainsbury's). Simple, but quick and delicious, though I feel a bit guilty writing about it. But it is Saturday, and I technically don't have to do an entry today, so whevs.
OK, so the guilt got to me and I did something. It's not much, but it'll serve me well in coming months - homemade hot chocolate mix.
I used the Go Dairy Free
recipe, which has always been decent. Another quick and easy thing
that will come in handy when Mike wants hot chocolate but I can't be
bothered standing over the stove to make it from scratch. I went with the plain recipe because I like to be able to customise my hot chocolate each time and don't want to be tied to a particular flavour.
I did end up putting a bit of cinnamon in this, and topped it off with vanilla soy milk to cool it faster and make up for using less-than-vanilla-y vanilla sugar.
BTW, do us a favour and check out PPKer Jen's blog, That Pain in the Ass Vegan, a couple of times a day. She's trying to get a million hits during MoFo so she can donate the money generated to her local food bank and animal shelters. Unfortunately I can't help (other than trying to get the word out) because only US hits count. Boo-urns. So click it, share it with your friends, and then just keep refreshing the page all day. That would be swell.
Saturday, 15 October 2011
Vegan MoFo - Another lazy dinner
Labels:
chocolate,
convenience foods,
Mike,
PPK,
sandwiches,
UK shopping,
VeganMoFo
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I've never thought of making my own hot cocoa mix -- I'll have to try that.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good idea, I usually have some store bought hot chocolate mix in the pantry but it's expensive, I bet it's much cheaper to make your own.
ReplyDeleteI think I need to make that hot chocolate mix.
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