By Dieter
...PIZZA, SUSHI, and ICE CREAM!!
Since many people think vegans only eat salad, we're posting our favorite recipes to keep them handy and current and also to show that vegans eat just about everything!
Sunday, 24 May 2026
Teriyaki sauce
Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Plastic-free
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| Naiked Foamy Future dishwashing soap is so much easier to use than soap in plastic bottles! And it looks prettier, too :) |
Food
- Margarine - Veganer block at Locker & Lose (US: Trader Joe’s dairy free buttery spread)
- Flohsamen / psylium husks - Hit in glass
- Rice paper - Hit
- Fruit and veg from the Farmer's Market (US: Sprouts, Lazy Acres)
- Noodles - Barilla has lots that are packed only in paper (and is now LGBTQIA+ supportive)
- Chili powder - Unverpackt, Locker & Lose
- Cinnamon - Unverpackt, Locker & Lose (US: Sprouts bulk)
- Coriander powder - Unverpackt, Locker & Lose
- Vanilla extract - Unverpackt
- Black pepper corns - Unverpackt, Locker & Lose (US: Sprouts bulk)
- Smoked paprika - Unverpackt, Locker & Lose
- Baking powder - Unverpackt, Locker & Lose
- Yeast - Unverpackt, Locker & Lose
- Nutritional yeast - Unverpackt, Hit
- Sesame seeds - Unverpackt, Locker & Lose
- Pumpkin seeds - Unverpackt, Locker & Lose
- Dried fruit - Unverpackt, Locker & Lose
- Kaffir lime leaves - Hit glass
- Tofu - in bulk at China Markt
- Veganaise - Dieter's version is better than the store-bought in a glass (most of which have plastic lids)
- Miso - Unverpackt
- Curry Paste - Bamboo Garden yellow oder massaman at Rewe, Hit
- Fava beans - Chiemgaukorn (the 5kg bag has no plastic, but the 1kg bag does)
- Hemp protein powder - Naduria at DM
- Milk - Dieter's recipe is super easy and fast and tastes better than store bought. Also, it can be as high protein as you want
- Yogurt - Dieter's recipe is great (uses a store-bought yogurt as the starter)
Supplements
- B12 - in a glass eye dropper (the lid has some plastic), lasts 1-2 years, Shopapotheke, Rossman (Altapharma)
- D3 - in a glass eye dropper (the lid has some plastic), Shopapotheke, Rossman (Altapharma)
- Omega 3 - leinöl / linseed oil used for cooking. 2t has 100% of the RDA of omega 3
Household
- Cleaners for the toilet, general cleaner - Unverpackt, Locker & Lose
- Dish washing soap for hand washing - Naiked Foamy Future at Unverpackt
- Vinegar for cleaning - Unverpackt, DM
- Dish sponge - crochet one out of a scratchy 100% cotton material at the Art from Scrap store
- Toilet paper - Oecolife (US: Natural Value (get as single rolls at Lazy Acres) > Caboo)
- Hand sanitizer - Hofmann’s isopropyl alcohol 70% Löwen apotheke (plastic lid)
- Night guard deep cleaner - soak in salt water for at least 30 min
Pets
- Dog poo bags - PooPick (US: Wildebeest, Give a Sh!t)
- Dog collars and leashes - WAUDOG (recycled cotton with reflective material), MakeEco, buy second hand on Vinted (including leashes and collars made out of bamboo and cotton)
Body care
- Sunscreen - Corina wants to try Sun Butter next. Note that Villa Lavanda SPF 50 does NOT work at all!
- Hand soap bar - DM Balea sensitiv aloe. Dieter mag besser: Ross isana sensitiv kamillien
- Shampoo / body wash / hand soap bar with 5% urea - buy the Alverde Repair shampoo bar and urea crystals (there is some plastic in the urea package, but the bag should last like 20 years, not sure if this source is plastic free)
- Deodorant - add a few drops of water to baking soda, mix, apply to skin, let dry
- Toothpaste tabs sensitive with fluoride - Smyle (lathers great, gets teeth cleaner than toothpaste, good flavor). FYI: Potassium nitrate (Kaliumnitrat) / Zink-Karbonat-Hydroxylapatit (Hydroxylapatit) / Strontium-Salze (Strontium Chloride, Strontium Acetate) is for sensitive, sodium fluoride is fluoride
- Dental floss - Tio, Humble, EcoYou (US: Zero Waste + refill)
- Interdental sticks - Hydrophil at Locker & Lose, size 3 (0.5mm C), 2 (0.6mm D) (US). Note: the bristles are nylon - do you know of a 100% plastic-free option?
- Mouthwash - salt water wash
- Sonicare head - bamboo by Hydrophil
- Razors - Wilkinson Sword Intuition at DM (US: list of 7). Note: recycle everything as metal scrap (but put the razor blades in a metal container to protect people from getting cut.
How to make 5% urea shampoo/soap
- Calculate 5% urea for a shampoo bar that weighs X g plus the 4g water (Z) that gets added to melt the urea (harnstoff) crystals. 0.05*(X+Z) = Y g urea: Shampoo box says 50g=2.7g urea, 60=3.2, 70=3.7, 75=4.0.
- Cut the shampoo bar into crumbs with a knife
- Tare a stainless steel bowl and add 3g (5%) urea crystals
- Put the bowl in a pot with boiling water and keep it boiling
- Add 2 teaspoons boiling water to the urea crystals and stir with a fork until crystals dissolve
- Add the shampoo crumbs to the bowl and stir until they melt. Mash the crumbs into the liquid to make sure everything gets coated
- Remove from heat, wait for it to solidify a bit, then take the mixture out of the bowl and shape it into a ball with your hands (a spoon can help)
- Let sit for 3 days to solidify
Recycled plastic
- Dog collars and leashes (and when you are done with them, send them back to the company and they will recycle them) - Siccaro Sealines
- Socks - Polartec
Monday, 2 June 2025
Fachos (fava nachos)
by Dieter and Corina
- Put a thick layer of cooked fava beans (with salt and oil) in a baking pan
- Place fun things on top like jalapeños and olives (things you would put on nachos)
- Put cheese on the very top
- Bake for 15 min or until the cheese is melted and the exposed fava are starting to turn brown
Müsli mix / overnight oats
by Dieter and Corina
- Quick: dish some out, add milk, enjoy :-)
- Overnight oats: dish some out, add milk, put in fridge overnight
- Oatmeal: put some in a pot, add water and cinnamon, bring to a boil until it is the preferred consistency. Add maple syrup
Sunday, 6 April 2025
Potato chips / Kartoffelchips
2 table spoons sunflower oil / Esslöffel Sonnenblumenöl
2 tea spoons salt / 2 Teelöffel Salz
4 tea spoons black pepper / 4 Teelöffel schwarzer Pfeffer
Slice 3 medium sized potatoes with a slicer into a bowl. Fill cold water into the bowl to cover the slices, wash the potatoes (the water will get cloudy from the starch), and rinse. Repeat the washing until the water doesn't get as cloudy anymore. Drip off any excess water. Pour in 4T of sunflower oil, plus 2t of salt and 4t of black pepper. Mix everything, so that all slices are coated in oil and spices. Spread out evenly on a large oven pan, ideally without slices being on top of it each. Bake at 200C/425F for 12 mins, turn over the slices, and bake for another 12 mins or until the chips have turned crispy.
Drei mittelgroße Kartoffeln mit einer Reibe in eine Schüssel schneiden. altes Wasser in die Schüssel hinzugeben, bis die Scheiben bedeckt sind. Dann die Kartoffeln waschen (das Wasser wird durch die Stärke trüb) und das Wasser abgiessen Den Waschvorgang wiederholen, bis das Wasser nicht mehr so trüb ist. Überschüssiges Wasser abtropfen lassen. 4 EL Sonnenblumenöl, 2 TL Salz und 4 TL schwarzen Pfeffer hinzugeben. Alles mischen, so dass alle Scheiben mit Öl und Gewürzen bedeckt sind. Gleichmäßig auf einem großen Backblech verteilen, am besten so dass keine Scheiben aufeinander liegen. Bei 200C/425F für 12 Min. backen, die Scheiben wenden und wieder für 12 Min. backen oder bis die Chips knusprig sind.
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Snack bars
from ROAR by Stacy Sims and modified by Corina
1/4C / 100g Almond butter (27g protein) or 150g whole almonds (roasted, 25.6g protein)
Sunday, 9 February 2025
Buttery spread
By Dieter
Monday, 27 January 2025
Cinnamon crunch cereal
Recipe from Nourishing Joy and modified by Corina
- Mix dry ingredients, then add the water and knead into a dough ball that sticks together
- Oil a large baking pan and press the dough onto it until it is a very thin
- Sprinkle powdered sugar or extra cinnamon on top
- Cut the dough into small squares
- Bake at 180C / 350F for 20 min or until it starts to brown (less time for thinner dough, like 10 min)
- Break apart the squares and put back into the oven at 150C / 300F for 10 min (more time for thicker dough, stirring every 10 min). They are done when they just start to taste like they are caramelizing
Saturday, 18 January 2025
Milk and yogurt
Oat milk
- Blend in blender. The milk is done, store in the fridge.
Mango yogurt
- Mix all ingredients in a blender
- Warm the oven so that it gets to 40C (if it is warm outside, you can put the containers outside)
- Use sealable glass containers and place them in the oven to get warmed up
- Let the pot cool to about 40C and then pour the pot contents into the containers
- Keep the containers in the warm oven for 24 hours (turn the oven on every so often to keep the temperature around 40C)
- VARIATIONS: replace sunflower oil with coconut butter and the yogurt will taste like a piña colada
High protein milk
- Mix all ingredients in a blender for ~45 secs
- Alle Zutaten im Mixer für ~45 Sekunden vermischen
- Mix all ingredients in a pot and boil for 5 min
- Alle Zutaten im Topf und für 5 min kochen
Thursday, 21 November 2024
Cookie dough
By Dieter, inspired by https://nutriciously.com/chickpea-cookie-dough/
Monday, 11 November 2024
Cheesy fried fava beans
Following this recipe of Becca Heyes. We ended up later making our Fachos recipe
- 1/2 Tasse Fava Bohnen in Wasser über Nacht einweichen lassen, dann 30 Minuten kochen
- Die gekochten Bohnen auf einem Ofenblech ausbreiten und mit etwas Olivenöl einreiben. Mit Salz und anderen Gewürzen bestreuen (z.B. Chili-Pulver). Für 20 Minuten bei 150C im Ofen rösten.
- Dann mit Käse bestreuen, und für weitere 15 Minuten im Ofen rösten.
Use vegan cheese: in the USA, the shredded Mexican blend from Trader Joe's works well. In Germany, Simply V Reibegenuss is nice
- 1/2C fava beans - soak in water overnight, then boil for 30 min
- Lay the beans in a layer in a pan and sprinkle olive oil, salt, and chili powder
- Bake for 20 min at 150C
- Put cheese on top and bake for another 15 min
Sunday, 10 November 2024
Loaded fava bean fries
Thursday, 31 October 2024
Sweet potato pie
modified by Corina from a recipe at Nora Cooks
- Cook the sweet potatoes either by cutting into pieces and boiling in a pan or by wrapping them in a wet paper towel and microwaving them for 10 min until soft all the way through
- In a bowl, mash the sweet potatoes with a fork until they have a smooth-ish consistency. I like to keep the skins on and in the pie for texture and probably nutrients as well.
- Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well
- Pour into your favorite pie crust. I used Wholly Gluten Free Pie Crust from Trader Joe's (it was great), and there are our recipes here and here and here, too.
- Bake on 350F for 50 minutes (in a gas oven).
- Garnish with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream (Oatley is great) and serve
Sunday, 7 July 2024
Favalafel
8T boiled Fava beans / gekochte Favabohnen (ideally without shells)
1t salt / 1 Teelöffel Salz
1t coriander powder / 1 Teelöffel Korianderpulver
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Salad dressings
Worcestershire sauce salad dressing
2 T apple vinegar
3 T sunflower oil
1/2t salt
1 T black pepper
Liquid gold from the First Mess
Strawberry vinaigrette
Modified by Corina from The Grand Tour Cookbook by Hannah Grant
Saturday, 1 June 2024
High-Protein Banana Bread / Bananenbrot
By Dieter, inspired by https://foodlovin.de/kiwi-banana-bread-mit-macadamia-nuessen/
4 Bananen / bananas
8EL Eiweisspulver (wir benutzen eine Mischung aus 4 Teilen Reisprotein, 4 Teilen Erbsenprotein, 1 Teil Hanfprotein) / protein powder (we use a mixture of 4 parts rice protein, 4 parts pea protein, 1 part hemp protein)
2TL Backpulver / baking powder
Alle festen Zutaten in einer großen Backform mischen. Die flüssigen Zutaten hinzufügen und mit einer Gabel umrühren, bis alles gut vermischt ist. 45 Minuten bei 180C/375F backen.
Sunday, 7 April 2024
Protein bars / Builder balls
Builder balls
- Melt the peanut butter and syrup in a saucepan
- Mix in the rest of the ingredients
- Heat at medium heat, constantly stirring until everything is mixed and smooth (don't need to boil, just warm up)
- Mix in other ingredients for flavour and texture if you want (e.g. breakfast cereals, chocolate). For chocolate, remove the pan from heat and mix in the chocolate so that there are chocolate chunks and it isn't all melted through
- Form into balls or bars (makes ~6 small bars, each has 16g of protein), and let cool.
Monday, 1 April 2024
Milk and yogurt / milch und jogurt
We are going to start trying to make our own high protein milk and high protein yogurt. Let the adventures begin!
Hemp milk/hanf milch
Yogurt
Sunday, 24 September 2023
Jalapeño poppers
by Corina
Friday, 8 September 2023
Fava Bean Hummus
By Dieter
2t black pepper / schwarzer Pfeffer
1t salt / Salz
2t lime or lemon juice / Limetten- oder Zitronensaft
5T olive oil / Olivenöl
10T water / Wasser
Alle Zutaten in den Mixer geben und mixen, bis eine glatte, dicke Paste entsteht. Möglicherweise muss die Pulsierfunktion des Mixers verwendet werden. Die Wassermenge kann angepasst werden, je nachdem wie dick der Hummus sein soll.













