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*


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