Where to find good vegan meal plans & shopping lists

This meal planner and shopping list, is ideal if you like a list to take the grocery, especially if you run a busy household. And need to keep to a budget.

Read up on food safety for people and pets. For tinned ingredients, rinse/remove lids (or pop ring-pulls over holes) then step on upper cans to pinch rims together, to stop wildlife getting trapped.

Unless you have food waste bins, just bin pepper and allium scraps (onion, leeks, garlic, shallot, chives), citrus/tomato/rhubarb scraps. To avoid acids harming compost creatures.

Know what you’re going to buy and make for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and find a shopping list with six sections:

Fruits and veggies
Bakery
Chilled and frozen
Canned and cupboard
Health, beauty and cleaning
Other

The 2 planner pads have cardboard backing, and are printed with vegetable inks.

Everything at Good Tuesday is printed on recycled paper, sent in plastic-free packaging, made in the UK and beautifully designed.

Choosing recycled paper is better than FSC-certified paper, as that still requires fast-growing trees with pesticides (instead these products ‘close the loop’ and use up unwanted waste that would otherwise end up at landfill, emitting methane gas).

Veggie meal plans for nursing homes & hospitals

Vegetarian for Life is a charity specifically created to help serve vegans and vegetarians in care homes, hospitals or independent living facilities.

Often those preparing meals don’t know how to make veggie options, and it’s also obviously important to ensure that guests or patients receive the right nutrients too with their meals.

Unless you have food waste bins, just bin pepper and allium scraps (onion, leeks, garlic, shallot, chives), citrus/tomato/rhubarb scraps. To avoid acids harming compost creatures.

The meal planners offer easy meals that most people will enjoy eating. Examples include:

Baked potato, baked beans, date & orange salad, fresh fruit
Lentil & spinach quiche, chips, mixed salad, stewed apple & raisins
Tomato & basil soup, vegan lemon meringue pie
Veggie roast, potatoes, jam sponge & custard
Cottage pie, cabbage, yoghurt & mixed berries
Chickpea croquettes, chips, salad, rice pudding
Macaroni soup, bread, banana split
Vegan ham & salad sandwiches, Victoria sponge
Pasta bolognese, sweetcorn & beetroot salad, ginger cake
Cauliflower cheeze, baked potato, peas, apricot blueberry crumble
Vegan cheese & tomato sandwich, cherry cake

You can also download a free 32-page catering guide and a guide to textured foods, for vegans and vegetarians who are no longer able to eat solid food. Plus grants to help vegans live independently.

The Cinnamon Trust holds a list of pet-friendly care homes. And also supplies volunteer dog walkers.