Day Twelve of The 30 Day Vegan Challenge

So after a weekend of indulgence it's a real struggle to get back onto the healthy eating train, and I'm failing to do so. My biggest downfall for unhealthy food has always been breakfast. I never ever just fancy cereal and especially as I'm currently out of work and out of routine why would I eat cereal when I have the time to throw together a sausage (vegan of course) sarnie or beans on toast. That's probably just me making excuses. I know I feel so much better if I avoid the bread in the morning and go for some nice fibre-ful cereal but less healthy food is so much more appealing. I know bread isn't unhealthy but personally, it's not good for me, I just can't help it!

So, yesterday, as I've been craving pizza and the other half had gone and bought a nice meaty pizza I got food envy and decided to make my own vegan pizza. When I cook I like to just throw things together and see what happens so my pizza was a bit of a mish-mash but I enjoyed it!

I used the vegan cheese I bought from Holland and Barrett and I have to say, I wasn't impressed. I could easily have done without it. There was nothing offensive about it but I wouldn't have noticed if it wasn't there. I don't think I'm going to get that cheesy satisfaction from anything other than cheese. Unless you can suggest something to help me? For now, until the end of this challenge, I'm just going to stop chasing the cheese or it'll haunt me until this is over!

Now, that sounded as though I was being negative about the challenge. This is not the case. I read an article by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (spelling ja ja), recommend to me by someone in The Great Vegan Challenge FB group, and it's inspired me to write another blog post about the satisfaction in vegetables and how I plan to live my life after the challenge. So keep your eyes open for that in the next couple of days.

Thanks for taking your time to read and let me know how you're getting on. 

Food Diary:
Brunch: Beans on Toast
Snack: Soya pate and crackers
Dinner: Vegan Pizza (recipe below)

Ingredients:
Two tortilla wraps
One clove of garlic
A pot of mexican salsa
Half a red onion
Half a red pepper
1.5cm slice of Tofu (that's a guestimate, don't get the tape measure out.)
Jalepenos
Frozen chopped spinach (use fresh if you like)


1. Using two tortilla wraps as the base I spread crushed garlic onto one of them covered by a layer or vegan cheese.

2. I then placed the second tortilla wrap on the top and put a thin layer of tomato puree on it and a layer of salsa on top of that. In hindsight, the puree was probably unnecessary.

3. I chopped some red onion and red pepper and sprinkled that over the salsa base.

4. I squeezed the moisture out of some tofu and coated it in curry paste - this was probably my biggest fail, I should have thrown some jalepenos on the pizza and left the tofu plain as the mix of indian and mexican wouldn't be to many peoples tastes ha! So if you intend to make this pizza, do as i say, not as i do.

5. I defrosted some chopped spinach, sprinkled vegan cheese onto my pizza and blobbed the spinach on the top.

6. Place your pizza in the over until the edges of the wrap brown and the "cheese" softens.


I did enjoy my pizza, but next week I'll make another one, just a bit more sensible...