I wrote this in November. I'm putting up recipe reviews in the order I cooked and wrote them.
Enjoyed this recipe from Rukmini Iyer’s The Roasting Tin. Prep time should have been 15 mins; took me 30. My halloumi packet came in 25g lighter than recommended, but it was still the outstanding element of the meal.
How am I going to cope in Veganuary when I can’t have any dairy or meat?!
Well, here we go. Veganuary. A month of veganism. As the site describes, ‘Veganuary is a non-profit organisation that encourages people worldwide to try vegan for January and beyond.’
I saw it was happening last year, and made a plan to do it myself in 12 months’ time. Here we are. The aim: better fitness.
The metrics:
• Lose 7 kilos. (I’m 79kg. I was 72 when I last fitted into my suit trousers. And I was 76.2 4 days ago.)
• Beat my local running record, which is a hilly route of about 5.4km. (My record from April is 36:23. I just got 44:04 today.)
• Beat the overhand chinup record (23)
• Beat the underhand chinup record (20)
• Beat the dip record (160) I’ve already offloaded a supply of non-vegan food onto my parents’, so there’s nothing to go wrong with. Here’s the plan:
• Follow a ton of recipes in Rukmini Iyer’s The Green Roasting Tin, a vegan cookbook
• Make a lot of soup from the Aldi Super 6 range
• Visit a few Manchester-based vegan restaurants
• Work out as much as possible and whack through my Amazon watchlist and a few DVDs
• Eat the bread that I have, but not buy more
• No alcohol
31 days. I’m stopping in February and doing a different project, but hopefully by that time I should be a lot leaner. I can then tick of 2 of my ‘Before 43’ tasks too.
