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Saturday 2 July 2016

Vegan Cooking for One

This is a design blog so I need to talk about the design of this book. Leah Leneman is the author. Published by Thorsons, a British publishing company in 2000 but originally published as The Single Vegan in 1989.
What I love is... the shopping lists. The book is broken into seasons: Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter. And there are 9 weeks in each season. So that's 18 weeks' worth of recipes.
The notes in the beginning explain that sometimes vegans live with other people who aren't vegans - so this recipe book is not for single people per se but in particular for vegans who cook for themselves. Clever!
There's one recipe per day except for Sunday when there's a lunch, dinner and dessert recipe provided!
One day, a recipe might require "half a cabbage" but one of the other days of the same week, the other half cabbage will be used up.
There's also a list of staples included - or store cupboard stock.
Personally, I am not a vegan. But I am single. I discovered I actually eat out a few nights in the week and therefore the shopping list actually lead to waste.
My favourite recipes were the indonesian noodles and the green curry. Some of the recipes were a bit odd - involving eggless mayonnaise but I suppose that's par for the course for a vegan... and I always replaced the tofu with sausages :)