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An authentic journal of my life in food. Vegan since 2016. foodfordissertating.blogspot.com

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · Apr 10

Hello, there! I've joined BlueSky at last! Are you interested in #veganfood? I'm looking for fellow #vegan folks here. If you want to know why I'm on the internet in general, this should explain it (as well as what dissertating is all about). foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/p/about.html

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So what, exactly, is dissertating? And why did it need special food? Food for Dissertating started when I actually was dissertating--that...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 4d

Some lunches are classic for a reason. #Vegan #VeganFood #FoodSky #VeganSky 🍜 foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/2025/10/monb...

Monbento Square #55 (Single Tier)

It's dark in the mornings this time of year. We're talking pitch black until 7:00. It's the darkest mornings we will have all year, thank...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 6d

I will always love every version of Mexican food I make. #vegan #VeganFood #VeganSky #FoodSky 🍜 foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/2025/10/dinn...

Dinner Plate #44

I was still feeling lethargic after my vaccine, but I managed to make a pretty great meal! Here we have refried black beans, an improvisat...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 7d

This was an unusual day. But it really reflects my experience! #vegan #VeganFood #VeganSky #FoodSky 🍜 foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/2025/10/what...

What I Ate in a Day #51

I got a COVID vaccine the day before this and found myself feeling pretty rotten, so this was a weird day. I started things off with a bowl...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 8d

Here are 10 new-to-me yogurts I tried over the course of recent years (I'm slow getting this to you, sorry)! I definitely found some bad ones, but there are some great ones, too. #vegan #VeganFood #FoodSky #VeganSky 🍜 foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-re...

A Review of New Things I've Tried #45 (Non-Dairy Yogurt Edition)

It's been a long time since I did a new things roundup! So long, in fact, that some of this post was languishing in my draft folder for year...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 9d

When I feel overwhelmed by cooking (it doesn't happen too often for me, to be fair), I gravitate toward things like dump-and-bake casserole, soup, curries with rice, stuff on bread, stuff on sweet potatoes, etc. It doesn't have to be hard!

Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 9d

Those are adorable!

Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 9d

But in winter, I'd gravitate more toward hot drinks, like atole, steamers, hot cocoa, etc. You can make some really substantial hot drinks. It's hard (for me) to start a day with a cold smoothie in cold weather.

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 9d

Smoothies are delicious! I like trying different combinations, but a good basic smoothie recipe for me is often soy milk + cashew butter + frozen banana + some other frozen fruit of choice +vanilla + cinnamon. That never fails me. You can try fancier things if you want variety.

Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 9d

They taste like a soft, sugary candy--it's kind of similar to marzipan, but without the almond flavor.

Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 9d

It's mellowcreme. Candy corn and mellowcreme pumpkins both use the same base. The difference is in texture, because the candy corn has a greater surface area to candy ratio. The candy corn is firmer overall.

The vegan ones are a bit softer and chewier than I recall the omnivore version being.

Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 12d

My favorite way to cook with eggplant is to make baba ganoush. Another great way is to put eggplant in African peanut stew, or to make Chinese-style eggplant & garlic. Just be sure you cook it long enough. Eggplant takes longer than most veggies and that's why a lot of people don't care for it.

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes, you just want Halloween candy. #Vegan #VeganFood #FoodSky #VeganSky 🍜 🍬 foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/2025/10/usin...

Using What I Have Journal Entry #12

For some reason, this October, I've been craving Halloween candy. I had the sense to buy myself another batch of vegan candy corn and mellow...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 13d

I've branched out from raid-the-fridge soup to raid-the-fridge curry--and I really succeeded! #Vegan #VeganFood #FoodSky #VeganSky 🍜 foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/2025/10/dinn...

Dinner Bowl #97

This was a surprising raid-the-fridge-and-freezer special, that turned out to be utterly amazing. I cooked some jasmine rice to have with ...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 13d

Are you avoiding cake because you need vegan cake, or are you avoiding cake because you need to avoid cake? If you need vegan cake, there are very easy ways to make your own!

Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 14d

Meatball sandwiches used to be something I thought of as something to grab on the go, so I had never made one for myself that I can recall--but I am happy to say my #vegan version does not disappoint. #VeganFood #FoodSky #VeganSky 🍜 foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/2025/10/dinn...

Dinner Plate #43

Somehow, the weeks I refuse to shop and force myself to figure out what to do at home instead end up looking intentional. So! I have here ...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 15d

Cooking can be so much easier when I get to use the oven! #vegan #VeganFood #FoodSky #VeganSky 🍜 foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/2025/10/dinn...

Dinner Bowl #96

Cooking is so much easier when I get to use the oven! Here we have spaghetti with roasted carrot and red pepper sauce (recipe from Eat wit...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 18d

I don't live a perfect life, but sometimes, I have a pretty great lunch! #vegan #VeganFood #VeganSky #FoodSky 🍜 foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/2025/10/lunc...

Lunchbots Quad #24

I was utterly exhausted on the morning I packed this, so I basically just assembled some snacks: Plum slices, a chocolate oat bar broken i...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 19d

Great to know! Incidentally, I ordered more for myself a while ago and it finally arrived today. I find it gets better as it ages--it's a bit chewy when it's fresh, but it gets that wonderful mellowcreme texture with time.

Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 20d

It's everybody's favorite series: Random meals, i.e., just the things I made with what I had on hand and usually no plan whatsoever. #vegan #VeganFood #FoodSky #VeganSky 🍜 foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/2025/10/rand...

Random Meals #15

We use stuff up around here! Even when it's weird! It's not always weird, of course. Only sometimes. My randomness this time involves more ...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 21d

I love colorful food. #vegan #VeganFood #VeganSky #FoodSky 🍜 foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/2025/09/dinn...

Dinner Bowl #95

Here we have red cabbage braised in red wine, green rice, and lentils with butternut squash. The cabbage and rice were recipes from Debora...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 22d

When life gives you pineapples and sweet rice flour, make savory mochi and sweet and sour meatballs. #Vegan #VeganFood #VeganSky #FoodSky 🍜 foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/2025/09/dinn...

Dinner Bowl #94

This was a fun using-things-I-had meal: Steamed Calrose rice, sweet and sour meatballs, a savory mochi pancake (recipe from Margo Drobi ),...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 25d

I don't know what it is about ribbon noodles that is just so comforting. #vegan #VeganFood #FoodSky #VeganSky 🍜 foodfordissertating.blogspot.com/2025/09/dinn...

Dinner Bowl #93

This was a relatively easy meal I made to use up my leftovers. That's part of my pantry utilization journey, I suppose--a ton of just usi...

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Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 26d

Maybe! But it requires more experimentation. :)

Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 26d

But it seems like they say it's vegan, and people say it tastes like the original Beyond Chicken (the kind that was shaped like French fries), and if ever I find anything like that again I will cry tears of joy.

Food for Dissertating Ⓥ @food4dissertating.bsky.social · 26d

After some internet research, it seems that yes, it's new, and yes, it's not available where I am, but also, it is not mentioned at all on the Just website. Also I fell down quite a rabbit hole about their "natural chicken flavor" in the ingredients list and I'm still confused.