Thursday, January 17, 2013

MY VEGAN PANTRY - STOCKING UP


WINTER KITCHEN PROJECT -- Stocking Up A Vegan Pantry

Vegan Pantry Shopping List
by Angela Liddon


Grains:
Pearled Barley 
Couscous 
Rolled, Old-Fashioned Oats 
Short-grain brown rice 
Millet 
Wild & brown rice 
Speltberries 
Farro 
Kamut, whole wheat, & brown rice pasta 
Raw Buckwheat Groats (technically a fruit seed or “pseudocereal”, but can be used as a grain) 
Some of my fav flours: whole wheat pastry flour, light spelt flour, brown rice flour, oat flour,
almond meal or flour, kamut flour


Beans & Legumes:
Quinoa (technically a pseudocereal, but since it’s a complete protein I list it here) 
Black Beluga Lentils 
Chickpeas 
Red Lentils
Black Beans 
Green Lentils 
Firm or Super firm organic, non-GMO tofu 
Red kidney beans 
navy beans 
black eyed peas 
split peas 
You might also want to try cooking your beans with a piece of kombu to aid digestion


Nuts: (all raw)
Macadamia 
Almonds 
Pecans 
Walnuts
Cashews


Seeds & Dried Fruit: (seeds are all raw)
Pepita Seeds 
Hemp Seeds 
Sunflower Seeds 
Chia Seeds 
Whole Flax Seed 
Dried & sweetened Tart Cherries 
Dried & Sweetened Cranberries 
Raisins


Vinegars:
Raw Apple Cider Vinegar 
Rice Vinegar 
Organic Balsamic Vinegar 
Organic Red Wine Vinegar


Oils:
Spectrum Spray Olive Oil 
Extra Virgin Olive Oil 
Unrefined Safflower Oil 
Occasionally, I use soy-free Earth Balance in the red tub. 
cold-pressed organic extra virgin coconut oil


Sweeteners:
Raw Agave 
Organic Molasses 
Pure Maple Syrup 
Brown Rice Syrup (unfortunately controversial right now, due to discoveries of arsenic in this
and other brown rice products) 
Raw Coconut Sugar 
Organic Dark Brown Sugar 
Organic Sucanat 
Organic Cane Sugar 
Medjool Dates


Chocolate
Camino Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips 
Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips (I enjoy the mini chips much more than the chunks actually) 
Cacao nibs 
Carob Powder 
Camino Cocoa Powder.


Odds & Ends:
Sweetened sunflower seed butter, raw almond butter, roasted natural PB 
Almond Milk (I usually buy “unsweetened, original” for ease of use in recipes) 
Unsweetened applesauce 
Full fat coconut milk 
Light coconut milk 
Coconut Butter (I often make my own)


Odds & Ends Part II
Nutritional Yeast 
BP A free Canned Beans 
Strained Tomatoes 
White Linen Collection Marinara Sauce from Costco 
Low-Sodium Veggie Broth 
Low-sodium organic Tamari 
Aluminum-free baking powder 
Cornstarch or arrowroot flour


My spice collection:
(I put a star beside the ones I use most frequently)
anise seed 
allspice 
basil* 
bay leaves* 
caraway
cayenne* 
celery seed 
chili powder* 
Chinese 5 spice 
cinnamon* 
cream of tartar 
cumin*
curry masala* 
dill* 
dry mustard 
Fine and coarse sea salt* 
garam masala*
garlic powder* 
ginger* 
ground cardamom 
ground cloves 
ground coriander seed 
ground nutmeg* 
Herbamare* 
kelp granules 
Kosher salt* (unbleached, better flavour than regular table salt) 
marjoram 
mustard seeds 
nutmeg* 
onion powder* 
oregano* 
paprika* 
red pepper flakes* 
rosemary 
sage leaves* 
smoked paprika* 
star anise 
thyme leaves* 
turmeric 
Whole Black pepper*