Part 3 -Big Life updates

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My mom passed away on October 16, 2022. She had pancreatic cancer so I was prepared for this but it still hard. My dad also passed away from cancer so I was already familiar with the process of what happens after a parent passes this time is different because my mom and I did everything together before. My mom and I were each other’s bubble during the pandemic and we were each other’s social life for a long time. It is a tough adjustment now living in a different city where I don’t know many people without the person that I spent most of my free time with. My moms last words to me were be strong you are strong I will hold on to that. My mom also wrote a goodbye letter to my brother and me. I’m not sure if my brother has read it yet but I want to say if you are going to write a goodbye letter don’t wait until you are heavily medicated and in lots of pain to do it or just don’t do it. I’m holding on to the actual memories I had with my mom the letter has been given to my brother to do wh
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I tried more meal kits from Vegano

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Vegano is the first company I have ordered a second meal kit from. I even have credits with other companies but I can’t find anything I like. It’s amazing I found a vegan company I like. The meal kit is $70 including delivery for 3 meals for two people. The price is good for what you get I usually get three or four big portions out of each kit even though they are meant to be two portions. 

The first meal I made this week is grilled zucchini spaghetti it came with big pieces of grilled zucchini that the instructions say to put in the oven for 15 minutes. I cut the zucchini into pieces. The spaghetti was brown rice and the kit had cashew spinach dip, arugula, and a lemon vinaigrette. This one is easy to put together. It’s delicious I would order it again. 


The second meal was an Indian butter cauliflower. This is meant to be a vegan version of butter chicken. It came with garlic naan and rice. I had leftover khichari which is rice and lentils. I didn’t cook the rice in the kit I will use it another time. The cauliflower was cut up and it was easy to cook with the sauce.I also added soy curls and vegan butter to this dish. There was green chutney that was meant to be plated on top I marinated the soy curls in it. I was expecting the garlic naan to be more like garlic bread with parsley and butter but it was just bread that had a garlic flavour in it. It was a good dish. Before I became vegan I would buy those vegetarian canned butter chicken sauces from Costco the flavour of this dish was similar. It was good but because I am not a big fan of cauliflower I’m not sure if I would order this dish again. 


The third dish was vegan southwest polenta cakes. I had a lot of other food this week. The instructions say cook within 5 days, I didn’t cook it until 7 days but it was fine. The polenta was very tasty and the portion is huge. I have leftovers for a couple days. I was only able to salvage half the avocado and I think it was because someone was not gentle with it but it could be because I left it so long. The instructions says to cook the polenta in a pan and then the peppers. I wish I had thought to heat the polenta in the air fryer because I think it would have gotten nice and crisp. The black bean and corn salsa was meant to be added cold on top but I sautéed it with the peppers. The peppers had a nice spice to them and matched nicely with the dish. This dish also came with cilantro for garnish and it was still fresh after 7 days. This dish was easy to prepare and tasty. I might order it again in the future. 

I have already ordered another set of meals from Vegano for next week. I will definitely be reviewing more of the meals in the future. 

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