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Posted by Dawnee on October 1st, 2009 in Articles, News

veganmofo2009

My Vegan Mofo challenge this month is to feed my family three square meals a day. I’ve been wanting to create a monthly menu and shopping list for ages, since I believe doing so would simplify things around here at mealtime, not to mention save us a lot of money and time in the process. (Pssst – Ultimately, I want to get so organized that I can do a weekend of Cook For the Month, and have a deep freeze full of vegan goodness to heat up and serve. This month of blogging will be a test run of recipes for this unrealized and heady dream).

The rest of this challenge for me is making food for my vegan toddler, who will be loving pea soup one day and flinging it against the walls the next. If she had it her way, she’d subsist on dried cranberries and breastmilk until kindergarten.

Luckily, I have help! Isa Chandra, Jennifer, and Cathe will be joining me in the kitchen (in spirit), not to mention my vast archive of Vegetarian Times magazines. And there will even be a little Iron Chef-type action, since the veggies are delivered weekly from New Roots Organics. So not only will I be cooking, baking, steaming and blanching daily, but I’ll be planning meals with new-to-us vegetables. (I recently met parsnips through New Roots Organics and we are very much in love).

Is it 3:30pm already? Time to figure out some dinner while my baby is napping. I’m thinking:

Mini Veggie Burgers (Vegan Lunch Box Around the World) with Oven Fries (The Vegetarian Mother’s Cookbook). And I gotta do something with all the green beans and fingerling potatoes that came in this week’s bin, maybe a Green Bean and Fingerling Potato Salad with Mustard Vinaigrette? And what are we having for breakfast, lunch and dinner tomorrow?

Gotta go raid the fridge. And pantry. And get cooking. Vegan Mofo 2009 is on!

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