I love to cook but I rarely have a nice chunk of quality alone time to spend in the kitchen getting creative with my veggies (heh!), so we keep stuff on hand that's easy to prepare. Fortunately our favorite meals are also relatively simple to whip together. Baked potato night, Mexican night, Vegan Dagwood sandwich-so-good-it'll-make-you-cry night, spaghetti night, and the ever popular I'm too tired to care bowl of cereal or top ramen night!
Vegan convenience foods (meat-replacement protein sources, generally) can get a little pricey, but I've found some bargains in the most bizarre place...that funky rainbow grocery place, Grocery Outlet! Shopping there makes me feel like a kid again in that I hope no one I know will see me there...but some of the prices are amazing and its always like going on a treasure hunt! They never have the same stuff...its an ever-changing landscape of equal parts quality and crap.
I scored BIG on my last visit! They had some Kiss My Face products (no animal ingredients and no animal testing, plus its just a good quality skin care line), lots of Amy's frozen meals and salad dressings, Barbara's cereals (Peanut Butter Puffins are an excellent dinner cereal), and last but certainly not least TONS of Yves veggie products! I paid less than half what I would at Fred Meyer or Whole Foods and I only had to feel slightly dirty. The produce section is hit or miss so I did head to a regular store afterward.
One thing I always wish I had with me is a little travel soy milk for coffee emergencies and such, so I was exxxtra excited to find these sexy little things...
Purse-sized and ready for action!
xoxo or socks if you have a blackberry ;)
