Cooking Vegan With Ruth

               Being limited ingredients and on a budget I have to find ways to create meals that will taste good and I don't mind having every once in awhile. We are homeless and rice and beans are out go to ingredients when we don't have a lot to spend so here are two ways of making rice and beans. They add flavor and creativity as to the types of ingredients you can use or mix up... Enjoy!                                  Ingredients  Box of rice check directions on how to cook for microwave. Average time is about 5 to 6 minutes for this brand. It's from Target and the cost is $1.39 We use tortillas from Target it's about $2.19 As of recently this was $.99 and now it's one of their top sellers again at Target for $1.19 Avocado prices vary depending on where you buy them from right now the price on these is $.89 at Target  Again at Target for $2.99. I ...

 I have been craving spaghetti 🍝 for a long time since being homeless now for over two years. The ONLY way of cooking at the moment is using a microwave when we have a night at the motel to recharge and get restoration. So there is a lot of improvising when it comes to making something to eat. Thankfully I found options to serve my vegan needs. Spaghetti for example you can never be too careful as to what ingredients they use to make the pasta. A couple weeks ago I found a vegan option for spaghetti at the dollar tree how about that. So without further ado I will start with the ingredients first.                                 Ingredients  Cauliflower Spaghetti 🍝 found at the dollar tree for $1.25 These are the plant based Meatballs that were from Target for $5.29 The sauce was also from target for $1.69 Ofcourse dollar tree had tomato sauce as well jars like this were about $2.50  Seasonin...

               These are the ingredients:           Sourdough bread Baguette 🥖   Banana Peppers and Tomato Sauce                      Plant based Meat Ball         Oat milk Mexican Blend Cheese  So I started off by soaking the bread a bit under water not too much and putting it in the microwave for 30 sec. This helped soften the bread so I can cut it easily. Next I cut it in half so I had two and sliced the side to make an opening for the meat balls to go in. Then it was time to cook the plant based meat balls in the microwave with the tomato sauce on top. I had to cook them for a total of 5 minutes turning them half way through. I then cut each meat balls in half so they will be able to stay in the Sub and not roll out. So after putting the meatballs in the bread I added the cheese which is very good at melting and I also added...

One of my favorite things to snack on is hummus and ever since I became Vegan it's been our go to food. Homemade is always BETTER but I have to work with what I have. There are so MANY different brands out there that only a couple have become my favorite. The flavors I love is the regular and roasted red pepper flavor. Not really a fan of the garlic one. I find it upsets my stomach no matter the brand. Hummus is amazing to eat with everything not just veggies. In a typical middle Eastern dish you would eat it home made ofcourse with a drizzle of olive oil and some pine nuts in the center and red pepper flakes sprinkled around. You would typically eat it with pita 🫓 bread but I don't always have the ability to get pita bread we use tortillas and we make hummus wraps out of them. Ingredients  Tortillas are just as good as pita bread  Sorry for the quality of the picture but this is the classic hummus and a target brand. 

 Welcome to Cooking Vegan With Ruth! Hi I'm Ruth I recently became Vegan I would say within the last year or so. I have to also mention that I am on a spiritual journey and while on this journey I discovered that Father has provided humanity all the food it needs to survive in nature. Animals in my personal opinion are ment to be enjoyable companions and we are to live in harmony with them. Because of this spiritual journey I am also homeless so I don't have the option of having a garden to grow my food but I try to work around what I do have in the moment. I get my food from the grocery store however I'm pretty positive you can make a lot of these things from scratch if you so choose...  This blog is here for ideas on a budget and first time cooks. Sometimes it's about making things fast and easy. At the moment I do not have a stove to cook on and use a microwave as a secondary option. I do always recommend using the stove top if you have access to it.  These recipes a...