Simple easy meals one person for health

 For the health of myself and Earth and of animals, I try to minimise the use of utensils. Usually just one pot, one bowl. 

Usually I boiled water in low to medium heat in a glass which can stand up to 300 °C. 

Add a bit of good salt (Himalayan/ pink), 

and in goes the pasta. Frusili, mostly.

Organic is better. 

Other veg.  

Potatoes from my pot plant.

Usually I prepare in an other bowl other seasoning, freshly crushed rainbow peppercorn, sesame oil, extra virgin olive oil, etc.

Sometimes I also pre-soak wakame seaweed. Sometimes, I have my pasta serve with salted seasoned dried seaweed sheets.

Plant-based. 

There are so many international seasoning, spices, herbs, sauces to choose from international cuisines. 

Try fusion, too.

Apart from Italian sauces or Italian mixed spices, try variations of :

Shichimi powder, siracha sauce, Japanese dashi, mirin, soy sauces, Chinese 5 spices.... 

Organic pasta.

 Tricolor is nice for presentation, too.

Without egg, without milk.

Hence not egg noodle. 

Since rice grows in water paddy and odten polluted with heavy metal and harmful pollutants, I rarely have any varieties of rice products(米粉rice noodle, 河粉...) except very occasionally organic rice.

This is Japanese soba with broccoli , wakame seaweed. Cooked with crystalized ginger. Served with shichimi powder, Kikoman soya sauce, sesame oil, extra vigin olive oil, spring onion.

This one with crinkle-cut butternut squash.

Gro Incredible Burger. 

LindaMcCartney vegetarian meatballs.

Etc. 

Nowadays so many plant-based choices from Waitrose, Sainsburys, Marks & Spencer, Co-op ... 

Tips: 

I eat a lot of fruits & nuts besides cooked food.

Minimising cooked food in Summer. 

I varied and rotate my meals. Sometime just eat a good home made sandwich. I like M&S olive ciabatta rolls. Co-op olive bread and Sainsburys olive bread are also good. 

There are many variations and favour of vegan cheese  slices , 

vegan cheese spread , etc.

Not to mention organic peanut butter, other nut butter.

My Vitamin B12 come from

 Marmite💋, 

fortified non-dairy milk, 

and supplements.

A quick visit to a plant-based themed small expo in Brighton vegan festival

Personally I had been to art & craft expo, design expo, motor industry expo, pharmaceutical expo.  Often expo-goers can see /experience/ taste things way before the mass see them in high syrret shops/ supermarkets.  Nice😄

Since I may not be travelling to London for the big one mext month, so, on Saturday I went briefly to the small one organised by Viva!

Hilton Metropole Brighton.

 It has catering hall, talks and many different kinds of stalls in the large hall.

 Not too big - a comfortable size.  

I got some nice stuff.

I only managed to go there around 4 pm. Official entrance fee on the door is a fiver. But there were early birds tickets & other packages.  

(No need to walk all the way from hotel main entrance.  Use the side entrance from Cannon Street  to the exhibition hall.)

To avoid missing things out, and to prevent impulse buying, I started with a quick walk through. Then I got a mixed fruit juice before revisited some stalls. 

I could not buy everything I was interested in but good to see interesting things. 

The guy at the artisan green tea and macha stall  gave me 2 magazines😄 which he got from other stalls.  So as a recipocate gesture, I bought a pair of wooden chopsticks from his stall. (I could not drink tea that quick after the juice)  That stall sells nice glass tea pots, ceramic tea cups, too. And macha protein balls.

 In the 2 magazines,  and the official Viva magazine(not photoed), there are lots of recipes and useful informations.

I only bought a Spanish ceramic grating dish, and a natural hand-made shampoo soap bar.  Ha!

Another thing I surprisedyself is I only picked up a leaflet or two, plus, from the general area outside the hall a Great Taste Book 2017-18.

Many people have misconceptions about vegan "festivals" . They are basically another themed expositions (expo) , or  exhibitions ,  where products, services & talks , music, etc, took place. 

👫Who are interested in such event?

Those who care about
🌳Health, youth, beauty, healing.
🌳Animals
🌳 Envirnoment
🌳 Spiritual & religious purity,
virtues & integrity
🌳 Catering / beverage

Diary-free egg-free versions
of chocolate, cakes & desserts...
Kind products...

And naturally , related  businesses showcase their products & services under one roof. Handy, isn't it?
 
The first time I tried plant based and raw vegan stuff was about 9 or 10 years ago from a particulat pioneering group far away from where I live. Not much choices in where I lived.

Isn't it that such "festival",  or expo , a nice way to see things outside high street shops and see beyond the limitations of average supermarket? 💡

😄Good to see more plant-based food, drinks, snacks, etc , are reaching different supermarkets & shops this year.

❤May all people live a healthy life with plant-based food.
🌿🍒🍐🍓🍈🍇🍍🍎🍋🍉🍌🍅
🍏🍊🍑🌰🌻🌾🌽🌼🍃

confession of my diet about Seafood

I am learning to be
 & aspired to be a
 vegetarian, vegan,
raw vegan.

Not quite yet.☺
🍣🍤🐟🍥🍢🍌

I still love chocolate, cakes, seafood.

With all I have read about the problems with modern mass-produced meat,

it is easy to ditch flesh/meat
 with 4 legged animals which have
heart, brains, eyes, mouth, ears;
emotions, feelings,
mother-offspring-ties
& games/poultry/fowl.

I am saving myself from anti-biotics, growth hormones,
GMO & accumulated pesticides herbicides, toxins, & cruelty.

Ocassionally I also read about water pollution, too.

So, for the time being, I am trying to choose seafood
which are

not farmed,
not from Pacific Ocean,
not from known polluted rivers & deltas (eg, Vietnam, PRC China).
not frozen if possible,
not defrozed if possible.
not huge size fishes 
    which are higher up in food chain
not crayfish and those 
    which feed near polluted rubbish/debris. 
not turtoise or turtle types. 

For health.  

Not expensive.
Cheaper than getting fish & chips
when I buy relatively  fresh ones
and boil at home,
serve with noodle, etc.

Of course, when I eat out,
 there is not control over
 the sources or types of seafood
 in the shops or restaurants.

Not sure when I can get over
 this Pescetarianism stage.


I know that the 
evolve stages/levels
 more or less like this:

carni vore

omni vore

flexi tarian

Pesce tarian

ocasional vege tarian (twice a month / once a week etc etc)

vege tarian

vegan , and herbi vore

fruit arian

Liquid arian (juice, water)

super long term fasting / Breath arian

Basically I would like to respect the original design of the
design director as listed in the blue print
Genesis 1:29

(I do feel uneasy buying or eating seedless produce.
 There is no long term study on the effect of eating food with the
reproductive gene shut-down, that includes some GMO )