Vegan Lunch Inspo and Recipe:

There was a severe lack of food in the house today, so I leaned into it and made what i have decided to call 'The Spare Bowl'. Something that i don't believe i was told before undertaking a vegetarian diet was how the quantity of vegetable you had to consume in order to fulfil the required daily kJ intake. I definitely struggled with this for a while a few years ago, keeping my portion sizes the same despite the dishes consisting of mainly vegetables. However, this has obviously changed, so expect to see some major dish portions posted!

The recipe included the following. Feel free to alter the quantities of each feature depending on preference :)

• Enough spinach to fill the bottom of the bowl
• Chopped cherry tomatoes, cucumber and chives
• Spiced lentils:
  - around 1/2 cup lentils rinsed and cooked over high heat with 1 tbsp tomato
  paste, 1/2 tsp cumin, 1/2 tsp turmeric and 1/2 clove minced garlic
• Zucchini and sweet potato chips
  - Chop zucchini into small wedge slices. Peel and chop sweet potato into small wedge
  slices. Combine in a bowl with 1 tbsp olive oil, pepper and salt and place on a lined
  baking tray and bake on 180'C for 15-20 minutes. Switch to grill for the last 2-5
  minutes to really crisp them up :)
  Once all ingredients are prepared, lay out in a similar manner shown in the picture (or however the hell you want! ) Top with nutritional yeast (optional), soy sauce, sweet chilli sauce and tahini.

For a throw together this was actually really good. Feel free to try it whenever you feel like it, and change it in whatever way you like.

Milly x