Meat Free Mondays is a movement that encourages people to eat a meatless meal one day per week (you can guess which day that is :). It’s time to revamp your Monday meals and make them filling, tasty and delicious with a touch of creativity. Whether you’re a seasoned vegetarian or just getting started, we’ve gone through the effort to round-up some of the best Meat-Free Monday meal ideas for you to choose from in Johannesburg:
TRY GLUTEN-FREE VEGGIEWORS
You don’t have to be a vegetarian or vegan to love Veggiewors. It’s a simply good, plant-based food the way mother-nature intended.
Whether you’re tired, busy or hungry, sometimes making bad food choices becomes the easy option. That’s exactly why Veggiewors was started – with their range of quick and easy to prepare fresh-frozen food, they’ve done the hard work so you don’t have to.
Made from a base of lentils, butternut, oats, onions and extra virgin olive oil, Veggiewors is a perfect balance of plant-based protein, fresh vegetables and healthy fats. With Veggiewors you can rustle up a healthy and nutritious meal all the family can enjoy.
Veggiewors range of sausages, burgers and balls are soy-free, gluten-free and packed full of flavour. Five different spices are blended together for their special traditional flavour; the mild chilli warms your mouth without any sweating or burn! The addition of beetroot roasted with balsamic vinegar and wild foraged rosemary or butternut roasted in smoked paprika and turmeric in our premium range make them a firm family favourite.
Website: www.veggiewors.co.za/stockists | Email: [email protected]
Facebook: @veggiewors | Instagram: @veggiewors_sa
VEGGIE MEALS FOR THE ON-THE-GO PERSON
Outcast Foods creates easy-to-prepare healthy and yummy plant-based meals. They’ve created instant whole-food pre-mixes, but without any shortcuts – maintaining the highest quality in preparation and ingredients. In particular, their foods focus on an increase of nutrient absorption and the use of only whole foods.
That means no gluten, fillers, preservatives or additives. Just pure quality ingredients where natural flavours are brought to life.
Outcast Foods is based on four principles (1) Delicious (2) Healthy (3) Easy to prepare (4) Plant based. And here is the best part – to prepare their products you simply add water and heat! And then all you have to do is devour them!
The products are loved by vegans, the health conscious and the lazy who are looking to include more plant based meals into their diet. It’s excellent for camping as well because it requires no refrigeration.
Their four products include:
- Classic Falafel – Often referred to by people as the best falafel in town!
- Crazy Falafel – A wild take on falafel with beetroot, cardamom, poppy seeds and hint of chilli to flavour them.
- Activated Burger mix – Make you own patties, choose the size and even customise.
- Flapjack mix – Replacing our current pancake mix, they’re naturally fluffy and scrumptious and nutrient rich.
To order, get in contact on the channels below.
Website: www.outcastfoods.co.za | Email: [email protected]
Facebook: @outcastfoods | Instagram: @outcastfoods
GET HOME-STYLE MEALS DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR DOOR
A quick browse to the We are Food website will instantly make you want to order their range of delicious food. As their catchphrase says “marvellous food for your freezer”. That’s their aim – to revolutionise the way you cook and entertain, allowing you the freedom to do it in your own kitchen.
Their vegetarian packs include a hearty veggie soup (x2), a mushroom lasagne, Gourmet Macaroni Cheese, Peanut Satay Mini Meal and Double Choc Brownies – just to name a few. Their vegan packs consists of Butternut Laksa Vegan Bowl, Thai Red Veggie Curry, Peanut Satay Mini Meal and much more which can be found on their website. All of their meals only require you to heat it from frozen in your microwave or oven and voila – supper is served!
For their vegetarian pack, please see:
https://wearefood.co.za/collections/value-packs/products/essentials-vegetarian-value-pack
For their Vegan Pack pack, please see:
https://wearefood.co.za/collections/value-packs/products/vegan-value-pack
Furthermore, the full range e of vegetarian options can be found at: https://wearefood.co.za/collections/vegetarian-range
Website: www.wearefood.co.za | Email: [email protected]
Facebook: @wearefood | Instagram: @wearefood_sa
TRY INDIGENOUS AFRICAN INGREDIENTS TO SPICE UP YOUR MEALS
Local Village Foods was founded on the vision to build a network of vibrant, local agri-prenuers across the African continent supplying equitably sourced and sustainability grown ingredients.
That’s exactly the look, feel and taste you’ll get when you try out their products. They have a variety of flours, nuts and grains that you can use across various meals. Some of the popular meals made with their ingredients are pistachio cookies made with their Tiger Nut Flour.
You can also try out their Moringa Powder as a nice booster in your protein shake. And as we’re moving into the heart of winter, their Local Village cacao powder makes the perfect ingredient for a cup of hot chocolate.
That’s the basis behind their ideas – it can be used across a variety of baking, cooking and also in your favourite drinks. You’ll also be supporting a broader African community as they source ingredients from Lagos to Limpopo, Malawi to Benin, KwaBulawayo to KwaZulu Natal.
Website: www.localvillagefoods.com | Email: [email protected]
Facebook: @localvillagefoods | Instagram: @localvillagefoods
ENJOY DELICIOUS PLANT-BASED ‘MEATS’
HERBI VŌHR is a Johannesburg based company producing popular plant-based ‘meats’. The team believes that veganism or a plant-based lifestyle is the only one that makes sense – for our own health, for the environment, and for our fellow earthlings. They realise, however, that transitioning to this kinder, healthier but perhaps unfamiliar lifestyle can be challenging, so they’ve created delicious replacement products to smooth the way.
And if you’ve been plant-based or vegan for a while, but you still miss some of the remembered tastes you grew up with, these are for you too!
The HERBI VŌHR offering includes vegan ‘bacon’, ‘biltong’ (in 3 flavours), ‘steak’ (barbecue, prego and braai), ‘spare ribs’, ‘boerewors’, ‘patties’ (boerewors and chilli flavour), pulled ‘chicken’ and ‘pork’, ‘chorizo’, ‘pastrami’, ‘pepperoni’ and more.
The products are available in a number of stores, especially in Johannesburg but increasingly in other provinces too. You can also order online by mailing [email protected].
Website: www.herbivohr.wixsite.com/herbivohr | Email: [email protected]
Facebook: @herbivohr | Instagram: @herbivohr | Contact: 087 808 2139
Every meal that you eat deserves to taste great; whether that is breakfast, lunch or supper. And having the right spices to do so is the difference between a meal tasting bland or delicious!
That’s exactly philosophy at Spice and All Things Nice – to make cooking healthy, fun and convenient. All ingredients they provide are gluten-free and Kosher certified as well.
For breakfast, you can try their range of gluten-free muesli across a variety of flavors including cranberry, chocolate and cinnamon and coconut. They also offer crunchy granola and oats.
For Lunch, they have cous-cous to add to your meal in flavours you may not even heard of before! Such as cashew and apricot, pumpkin and sesame seed and parsley and onion.
For Supper, you can try out all inclusive curry kits – which include a 125g packet of basmati rice, a 35g sachet of curry paste and 4 plain poppadums. They come in flavours of Balti, Thai and Dhal.
Finally, you may just want to have a snack in between. So you can try out their Chai or Chocolate SuperFood Smoothie Mix. Or indulge on their range of roasted almond nuts and cashews.
Website: www.spice.co.za | Email: [email protected]
Facebook: @SpiceAndAllThingsNiceSA | Instagram: @spice_andallthingsnice
Contact: 021 448 2601