Theveganlicious Recipe Book

My recipe book is for everyone who's looking for Plant based recipes. It will include 25 pages of photo's of the recipes I've prepared, with easy to read large text instructions. This is a cover sample of Theveganlicious Series 1

Favorite Online Grocery Sites

Favorite Online Grocery Sites

MyGrocery Haul from Thrive Market

Thrive new members  click here
I enjoy grocery shopping online verses going to the supermarket and standing in long lines where’s there’s only a few people checking out groceries. I never understood why there are so many check out stands with nobody working at them when there's so many people waiting to get checked out.

During my extensive research shopping for vegan groceries online that has a delivery service, I found a company website called Thrive Market. They have a large selection of vegan Their prices are a lot more reasonable compare to what I paid at my local health food store and the big chain grocery stores in my area.

I thought I’d share my review of the service I received from Thrive Market with you. That way you can see if Thrive  is something you might want to try. Yes, there is a yearly membership fee but hey, what comes free nowadays? Thrive yearly membership is $59.95 and if your order is over $49.00 shipping is free.

The pros: about shopping online at Thrive  is that, I can help out a family because with my
membership, Thrive will sponsor a low-income family. Plus the fact I can shop right from my computer to search for my favorite organic vegan items on sale! Most of the products I shopped for were 20 to 40% discount compared to where I’d normally shop. I was able to track my package up to the delivery time. The free gifts I got with my order was a plus!

The Cons: The only one or two I can think of was the late delivery, no explanation but I did get an email stating there was a delay the following day. I placed my order on 11/12/15 and received my order today 11/19/15. It was worth the wait! I'm very pleased with my order everything was neatly wrapped and packed. I felt like I was receiving gifts! The second would be no manufacturer discount coupons. It would be nice if they were setup to except discount product coupons.

Also if you don’t want to become a member after your first order, you can cancel at anytime before your 30 day free trail offer.

 Thrive new members  Click Here to become a member and shop for vegan food

I almost forgot to tell you about the nice size Thrive Wholesale Product Magazine they added to my order. I'm looking forward to making some of the vegan recipes that was included in the magazine. Here a little glimpse of the photos I took from the magazine to show you below.

If you place an order with Thrive come back here and share your photo's and shopping experiences with them :)

My second order 1/07/16

Must have

Thinking about changing your diet to vegan and not sure what to buy? Take a look at my grocery hall.

Organic seasonings and spices. I find that they enhance the flavor of my recipes

Fresh Vegetables & Fruits

Try freezing bananas with the skin on. When you are ready to make a frozen smoothie, take one out of the freezer and peel them with a knife.

Nuts and dried fruits for quick snack. They are great for baking granola bars!

Whole grains = Protein

Betcha can't eat just one...

Once a month treat :)

I purchased these delicious Coconut Date Granola from a vegan bakery. (Wildflour Vegan Bakery, located in Providence, R.I)

 frozen Jackfruit, a good substitute for mocked meat

Condiments

                       Drink lots of water!

My Blue Apron

Last week I had an opportunity to try Blue Apron Recipe Meals delivery service. I read reviews about blue apron last year and didn't think this service would work for me because they are not vegan friendly but they do offer vegetarian recipe meals, so I thought I would give it a try.

This is what was delivered to me

They give you everything you need to make the meal (except olive oil) and  8x9" recipe cards with step by step instructions on the back of the cards.


I couldn't wait to get started cooking. My first meal, which was the barley soup in which I took a picture to compare to their photo. lol

The Barley soup was easy to make. My only complaint? They don't tell you to crush the whole spices that they've already included in the bag of Barley soup spice blend mixture. While I eating my soup I crunched on - fennel seeds, aleppo pepper and coriander seeds.  I'm on a vegan diet and couldn't use some of the ingredients they included for this particular recipe, for the instance the parmesan cheese and the cream fraiche. I did how-ever already have a vegan recipe for the cream fraiche and I always have on hand, vegan parmesan cheese.   This soup was plenty and enough to feed at least 5 people.

My next meal was the Stir Fried Rice Noodles, YUM!

I can honestly say that this recipe is vegan friendly! It was so delicious and my friends enjoyed it to! I've never had Gai Lan vegetable before which is included in this recipe. I had to google to find out what it was, only to find out it was just Chinese broccoli. I learn a few things about mixing different ingredients, I would never had thought about using together like, peanut butter with coconut milk which  the recipe called for in order to made a cream base to mix with the noodles. 

The last recipe I made last night was the Ramp & Snap Pea Fregola Sarda

Again there was a couple of food items I couldn't use for this recipe like the butter and parmesan cheese that blue apron included. I substituted some earth balance butter and vegan parmesan. This was an interesting dish, not one of my favorites but it wont go to waste. I found the fregola sarda pasta to be quite chewy.  I didn't care to add the walnuts to this dish that was included. The mint was a good choice for added flavor to this pasta dish, again, I would never thought to add such a combination. I had a lot leftover. This meal was enough to feed at least 4 people.

I wrote to Blue Apron last year, to request if they would create some vegan recipe meals for delivery services and they was kind enough to rely back stating that they will look into it in the near future.

I believe their meal plans are for two people, 3 meals per week $9.99 per person for a total of $59.94 and they have a family plan.

This recipe meal delivery service is good for those who like having their meals to cook delivered and it's good for those who are interested in expanding their cooking techniques in my opinion.

I hope this helps