Week's meals & sprouting alfalfa

This week was hot hot hot.

It made me wanna avoid cooking with all seriousness lol.

Groceries bought for the upcoming week:
I feel like we are pretty stocked up so just one store this week.

Kroger:
Bag of vidalia onions - 4.99
Kroger sour dough english muffin - 1
Corn on the cob - 1.99
cilantro - .50
Kroger spinach - 1
avocado - 1.25
Lemon - .53
cucumber - .67
*Ling vegan potstickers - 2.00
*4 diet soda 12 packs - 10.00
total - 23.93 + tax

*- sale items


This week's meals:


































Quinoa Kitchari - I used red cabbage & red onion with spinach. It gave it a pretty purpley color.This made 6 servings, and that goes a long way with two people. Was very flavorful, will make again.
Tofu stir fry - marinated in an organic simmer sauce, on top of basmati, with a side of veggies.
Tofu scramble - I like the ppk tofu scramble and usually make it once a week. Dear Pookie doesn't like those spices for breakfast so I went on the hunt for something more.. plain jane. This is it. It was nice and simple. Will make again. Had mine on a sour dough english muffin.
Eccentric sushi - Again. This time I made half with alfalfa sprouts, avocado, spinach, orange bell pepper, red onion. The other half was the same + Spicy Tempeh recipe from the spicy tempeh roll link.
Steam baked Seitan Cutlets - served with an ear of corn, 1/2 sweet potato, 1/2c cantaloupe. yum. I am not quite used to seitan, so I dipped mine in 2T of Heinz 57 sauce to give it more flavor. The recipe turned out pretty good. It wasn't squeaky (first time I tried making seitan it squeaked on my teeth, ick), and the texture was pretty good. Made a double batch of these and put some in the freezer.
We also had a taco salad one night for movie night (Men who stare at Goats).

Sprouting:

This week I made sprouts again. I used all my last ones up in the eccentric sushi. I made more this week, so I will be starting another batch tonight. First time I used 3T alfalfa. Second Time I used 2T alfalfa. I think next time I will try it with just 1T seed.


Soak 6-8 hours. I usually set it out before bed.
Rinse 2-3 times a day. I do it right before I eat a meal.
I keep it in my kitchen cabinet for 5 days, then for the 6th day I pop it into the window to get a little green.



























Isn't that pretty?