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Deltasquid
Apr 10, 2013

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My girlfriend has been going steady with some hosed up new diet for a month or so. I'm tired of her considering my cooking "cheat days" so if anybody knows how I can cook gluten-free vegan for her without killing us both, I'd appreciate it. At this point she's mostly been drinking straight up vegetable and fruit juices for a week, but now she's at least eating solid foods once per day.

I don't consider myself a picky eater but I'm drawing a blank. I could just throw vegetables into a pan every time but that's hardly a romantic meal.

Deltasquid fucked around with this message at 09:47 on May 9, 2016

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Deltasquid
Apr 10, 2013

awww...
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:

You could probably get some good mileage out of vegetable curry, I guess? Chana masala, aloo mattar, and saag aloo all taste pretty good and can be made vegan / gluten free.

Thanks. I'm going to try these once. I guess I could also make ratatouilles?

froglet posted:

If you're worried about B-vitamins (which you should be because most of the complex B-vitamins are only found in animal products) you could cook food with nutritional yeast since it's vegan and is often fortified with B12. Something like these black bean enchiladas - it looks palatable for both vegans and normals animal-murderers.

Thanks, I was wondering about B-vitamins actually. I had to look up what nutritional yeast even is. In typical Belgian tradition, this kind of bio stuff is barely available. Hopefully one of the two only bio stores in my university town have it.

EDIT: ^^ thanks, that does sound tasty! I barely even know what things are gluten-free but it's not a medical condition, so I have leeway.

Deltasquid fucked around with this message at 17:57 on May 9, 2016

Deltasquid
Apr 10, 2013

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ShadowCatboy posted:

Do either one of you have celiac disease? Otherwise what is with the gluten free thing.

No. the reason is


teenytinymouse posted:

Some people enjoy paying 3x the odds for staple food items in return for literally no health benefits.


Fragrag posted:

Which town do you live in? I can guess some places in Ghent that will have it but Ghent is like Flemish center of hipsters. Maybe at an Albert Heijn, they have a sizeable selection of bio/gluten-free poo poo.

Of course, you can just use gluten stuff and not tell your girlfriend. :v:

It's Leuven. After googling I found some bio stores here, but I haven't looked into nutritional yeast yet.


Helith posted:

Can you get Marmite in Belgium? That's a good source for B12 and should be available in a supermarket rather than a specialist shop. It's good to cook with, just bung a spoonful into a sauce and it'll add an umami saltiness. Also good as a spread on whatever bread or cracker substitute you use. Just go easy on it as it packs a punch.

Are you British? There is no market for marmite in Belgium the rest of the continent. If anything it's an oddity to prank your friends with. I have never seen it in stores, at least.

Thanks to the thread for recipes. I'm going to also cook full wheat for her because it's mostly the carbs thing. (And fat from animal products.) If I find the title of whatever book she's using as a guide I'll share with this thread, and you can all try to survive on nothing but mixed vegetable juices for a month. To the book's merit, they all have a fairly palatable flavour (usually because of the apples mixed in) but your body will actively revolt against it after a week of only liquid foods that all have the same taste.

EDIT: I found the book. It's written by a guy called Jason Vale and called the "Super Sappendieet" in Dutch, apparently "Superjuice Me" in English.

Deltasquid fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Jun 8, 2016

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