10 Day Mini Vegan July 2012 Menu
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I’m so incredibly excited to introduce our very first VEGAN mini menu. While I know we have vegans converting our monthly vegetarian menus, it’s great to have a menu just for them! And the selections we were able to incorporate this month are delicious Summertime treats packed with flavor. My personal favorites for this menu are the Take-Out Fake-Out Vegan Orange Chicken (INCREDIBLE!) and the Vegan “Meat and Potatoes” (portabella ‘steaks’) … they really do have the texture of steak, crazy!
Take-Out Fake-Out Vegan Orange Chicken
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Vegan Meat and Potatoes
Dinners
- Vegan Pizza Polenta Stuffed Peppers
- Vegan “Meat and Potatoes” (portabella ‘steaks’)
- Brown Lentil Bake with Pineapple
- Pineapple Quinoa
- Vegan Orange Chicken
**Indicates meals that require NO COOKING on your OAMC BIG DAY aka “throw and go” meals, perfect for the family who needs to adjust to just do the quick meals!
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Are you a person that likes to see the menus visually? Perhaps you should check out the Vegan July 2012 10 Day Mini Menu via Pinterest to see the yummy goodness you will be cooking up on this menu. Not sure what Pinterest is all about, check out what Once A Month Mom has to say about it.
Test Cooks
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- Stacey Lorenz - I’m a stay-at-home mom to four great kids (9-year-old boy, 6-year-old girl and 17-month-old boy/girl twins). We are trying to remove ALL processed foods from our diet this year. You can read more about it (and check out some of our recipes) at SimpleintheSuburbs.com.
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thanks for doing a vegan menu!!! I would love to see more!!!
So glad to be able to get this for all the vegans! Thanks for letting us know you enjoy it!
Thank You!
Yes, PLEASE keep it up!!
Thank you for the vegan option! I’ve been wanting to try an OAMC menu for a while and now seems like the perfect time!
You are most welcome!
I am so excited to have found this site. We are vegan and wheat/gluten free. We have Celiac Disease and the kids have Autism. We live in Alaska (on an island) and we order a lot of our food in bulk. As it has to be barged in or brought in by plane. Our house is not large and storing bulk food is difficult. I also homeschool my kids and days seem short, I just run out of time in the day to get things done. I love to cook, but sometimes I am just too tired and frazzled at the end of the day. This is great! Ten days and vegan…not too much and not too little. Perfect! Now that I have found this…please don’t stop!
Welcome!
Is there going to be a vegan menu for August?
Sorry Keri we just did the mini 10 day for now. But share the site with others and stay tuned we could have more in the near future!
Thank you!
So for the polenta peppers… am I supposed to stuff the peppers and freeze them?
Yep! You could also freeze the stuffing on its own and stuff fresh peppers on your serving day if you prefer!
Thank you so much for the Vegan menu. :)
I’m going to do this mini menu this weekend, but there are a few things that are unclear or may be mistakes.
For the brown lentil bake, is the measurement referring to dried lentils that I am then going to cook, or is it the total amount of cooked lentils that will go into the casserole? Also, the OAMM recipe card has twice as many lentils compared to other ingredients as the original recipe called for.
For the pineapple quinoa recipe, I think that it is going to make twice as many servings as what it is labeled so I’m planning to half it. Also, in the freezing directions, it calls for freezing 8 servings in 8 pint freezer bags. Is there a reason that the servings need to be frozen individually, and it also refers to reheating contents of gallon bag, but I can’t tell what is supposed to go into the gallon bag.
Finally, the Vegan Orange Chicken also calls for freezing 8 servings of the the sauce and seitan into 8 quart and pint bags.
Sorry for so many questions, but this is my first attempt at bulk freezer cooking…which is why I’m starting with the mini menu. :)
1) The lentil bake is cooked lentils, as indicated on the recipe card.
2) Sorry about the container confusion. I have corrected the bags and wording.
3) Yes you want the sauce and seitan to be separate.
Thank you so much for Vegan menu….please don’t stop…KEEP THEM COMING!! =)
Are there any more vegan menus????
Hi Laura, not at this time. But we may consider doing another mini menu soon. Our vegetarian menus are easily adaptable to vegan though.
Thank you so much for this!!!