Hey everyone, it's morgan yates
and today i'm doing another trader joe's haul today's is actually vegan because
For the entire month of september i'm taking on a little going vegan challenge i'm gonna do a whole youtube video about it
That's gonna be up on this channel in a month or so
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So everything you see here is vegan very healthy stuff going on. It's only a few days and actually well. It's been pretty easy
so far
But we have a while to go this
Adventure is requiring that I come up with a few different meal ideas and things like that
So as I go through the items that I got I will kind of talk you through some of those ideas
I'm excited to see where that goes
And before we get started with today's video, I want to thank today's sponsor which is ritual if you're not familiar with ritual
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Yeah, thanking it to them for sponsoring this we're going to hop on into the trader joe's hall
But i'm glad i'm now back on my vitamin game after so many years
It has been too too long for the groceries
I have two very full bags that I cannot pick up or I think the handles will rip at this moment. I guess we'll start
Perishables or non-perishables. Let's start with the non-perishables. First up a fun one. I repurchased these little matcha green tea powder packets
They just look like this. It's a single serving little matcha powder and sometimes in the afternoons
I like making a little like oat milk matcha latte with just a pack of this and some oat milk ice and then I
Sweeten it with a little bit of stevia
It's just a fun way to spice up like a little drink at home if you're craving something and don't want to buy it out
Next for some canned goods first. I just got some organic black beans. I got some kidney beans. I got some
Diced and fire roasted tomatoes with green chilies. I got some garbanzo beans, is that the same thing as chickpeas?
It has to be the same thing as chickpeas, but why are they called two things?
i'm
Unsure if anyone wants to let me know but I feel like a yummy
Vegan thing to make or just kind of like some little like grain veggie bowls or like throw some beans in there things like that
Just kind of a conglomeration of things in a bowl. I feel like is the route with me going
From time to time and I really love chickpeas even on like salads like it's sweet green. I get chicken pieces on my salad
So I thought that could be a fun addition these two if we ever have a chili day here in l.a, eventually
I think it'd be fun to make like a little vegan chili because I have a bomb chili recipe but it requires turkey
So I feel like i'll just swap that out for like another
Bean variety or something like that and I think that would be really yummy
So that's probably the vision for these speaking of grains
I just repurchased some quinoa. I always have this stocked up in my pantry and I was finally almost out so I just get
The tri-color kind and then in the spirit of trying things new I got a pack of red lentils
I've never made lentils. I don't know if i've had lentils
I don't know what they taste like, but again thought this could be good paired with a bunch of veggies in a bowl
Um with some fun flavors going on next I don't ever I feel like I haven't purchased nuts in a good year
Just not something I think to really eat. I don't really snack on them or anything
But I got these roasted and salted cashews. I thought these could be fun on a salad or you know
maybe as a snack, I don't know a fun snack that I could never really eat more than like a handful of because these have
like a very
Sour tangy taste it's very limey. It's these chili lime little twist up tortilla chips
They are so delicious. I didn't used to like these and then I don't know why they just keep you coming back
So these are usually something I keep in the pantry as well next. I just picked up a loaf of sourdough bread
Um, I eat this every morning for my avocado toast
although since I always make avocado toast with an egg on top i'm having to rethink like my
Varieties for breakfast um because I feel like without the egg. It's not gonna keep me very full
So we are spicing up our breakfast game
So if you have any other avocado toast ideas, I also picked up one sweet potato and one regular potato
Probably end up using the regular one in like a breakfast burrito type thing for the sweet potato
i'm
probably gonna do a meal that i've put in a previous easy one person meal ideas video or I
Cut up the sweet potato and roast them with a bunch of kind of spicy seasonings and then pair it in a bowl
With some quinoa and some broccoli or just other vegetables the spicy sweet potato really carries the flavor
It's very delicious next
I just got a pack of garlic for cooking and then I got my newest obsession has been
Sunflower seed spread which is kind of an alternative to peanut butter, but I think it tastes so good
It truly just tastes like sunflower seeds which makes sense. Of course
That's what it would taste like but I don't know having that flavor in this texture. I just thought was very remarkable
So so i've been enjoying having this on like a banana or throwing in a little bit of this in a smoothie
Just a fun little switch up. I only picked up two frozen things trader joe's has some awesome frozen staples that I really love
But they don't have two too many things. I don't think that are vegan or I could be wrong
Let me know if you have any wrecks
Um, so very not exciting but I just picked up some frozen strawberries for smoothies. And then this organic jasmine rice
I don't know why this stuff tastes
So good. I showed a meal idea of how to make this in my recent what I eat in a day video, so
I'll have that linked and then three kind of fun purchases first
I picked up this chocolate hummus because i'm someone who likes to have a little a little tiny dessert every day
I don't know why I just have such a sweet tooth and at the end of the day
It doesn't feel like the day's over until I have my little baby dessert since i'm vegan that rules out a lot of chocolate
Um, so I got this chocolate hummus. I think this tastes kind of like brownie batter and last night
I just ate like a big spoonful of this and it settled my craving
So if anyone has any good vegan dessert wrecks, I would love to hear and then lately i've been really into
Red pepper hummus as well just with some crackers trader joe's has these multi grain crackers that come in like a green and white box
Those are bomb but love this hummus as well as just the organic trader joe's hummus
So not the plain one that comes in the blue lid. I like just the organic kind they're fewer ingredients
I just think it tastes better. I don't know next kind of a fun
We're gonna try it out vegan item people swear by this on like vegan blog posts
I've read about vegan trader joe's items and it's just this cashew fiesta dip
it says it's a dairy free cheese dip alternative and I tried to bite cold and
It was good cold. I didn't like the texture of it cold. I wanted to kind of get a little melty
But I think that this would be good melted up either just like some tortilla chips
it's like a queso or over some nachos or I don't really know I
Just thought it'd be a fun thing to try out next. I just picked up a new carton of oat milk
Nothing really to explain there and then one thing I did run into target to get
I honestly haven't tried any of trader joe's cold brews
So let me know if you know they rival the competition. I ran to target and got this colifia farms black cold brew
I just like this with some oatmeal and again a little bit of stevia and that's my
Daily morning coffee and then next up. I got so so much produce. This might seem like so much food
This truly is so much food
This will last me like minimum two weeks honestly longer
and it's interesting too when you're not buying meat how much cheaper your grocery bill is too because
That's like a very expensive thing. I feel like are meats and cheeses
So, um, yeah
it's a lot of groceries, but I actually
Have like planned out how many things I can make from all of this and it's a lot
And it's gonna last me a very long time first up. I just got a little bushel of bananas
um that i'm just waiting to get ripe and then these are gonna go in a
Bag of frozen bananas that I constantly have in the freezer because that's always the base of my smoothies
So we are just waiting for those to age a little bit more some other fruits lately
I've been loving blueberries. I enjoy having a little handful on the side with breakfast and then I also picked up two peaches. Um,
Because I was loving putting peaches on a little salad. I also showed my what I eat in a day
It was like a little arugula balsamic grilled peach burrata salad, and it was so delicious, but now I can't have burrata
Oh and prosciutto is on it. I can't have that anymore
So i'm looking for other things to swap in there that I think would be good
With some grilled peaches and it makes the base of such a quick easy lunch
So any ideas there would be awesome as well next again since I have such a repeated obsession with avocado toast
I just got a lot of
Avocados as well because i'm gonna have some like tacoy recipes coming up soon next for some greens
I just got a bag of arugula again. It's like a salad base and then a bag of spinach
That is probably only going to go. I mean maybe I would saute up a little bit of this mostly
This is probably just going to go in smoothies next as more of a dessert thing
I got this idea from
taylor and ashley
And alicia one time they made
These dates that had like almond butter and some melted chocolate drizzled on top as a little dessert and it was really good
So again since i'm on a vegan hunt, well, what am I gonna do about the chocolate?
I didn't think that through hit me with any dairy-free chocolate brands because now i'm realizing that's an issue
but I thought that could be
I thought that could be a good dessert next also a little smoothie ingredient
I got some fresh mint
I like making kind of like a little mint chocolate smoothie where I throw in some banana that you end up
Not really. It ends up not really tasting like banana
I just use like a little chocolate protein powder some spinach
Mint somehow ends up tasting like a mint chocolate milkshake type thing and then next broccoli
Mushrooms are my favorite vegetables. I feel like I could craft up at dinner every single night using these two things
Yeah, just some good staples. And then I actually did all this grocery shopping yesterday
But the lighting wasn't good. So I was waiting till today to get it back out and film it but
Yesterday I did also buy a bag of cauliflower that I ended up making into some cauliflower tacos
Just using some taco seasoning and I also topped those tacos with this is open
But it's just this um shredded green and red cabbage with orange carrots
Mixed i've never thought about buying this but this was a really like easy
Taco topping. I had some tomatoes in there some lime juice
It was pretty straightforward and very quick and it was a yummy taco
So we're on the home stretch some other taco ingredients
Also, we'll go on salad. But first I just got this little mixed cherry tomato. Medley
My preferred little baby tomatoes are sugar plum tomatoes
Honestly, do they all taste any different? I can't confirm if they do or don't yeah
So I put some of these cooked in with the tacos as well last night. I also loved some fresh jalapeno
I just sliced that up into some little circles. I already had
A couple packs of trader joe's soy chorizo in my fridge because that stuff lasts so long
So that's gonna end up being the base of some of these additional tacos throughout the next couple of weeks
I'll cook a red pepper in with that as well that's coming up eventually
I also got an onion and then we are ending this grocery haul on a super random item
Which is just a lemon just to go in some water or like I don't know squeeze over
Normally, I put this on salmon which I guess I don't have right now
But who knows we'll add some flavor to something with this lemon
so so that is it for this grocery haul as always hit me with your trader joe's rex again i'm going to have
ritual linked below if you want to try out a new
Multivitamin and that is it. I will see all of you guys in my next video