Convenience Store Challenge Take 2
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All righty mates! We’re doing it again! Here’s your chance to enter – and maybe win – the convenience store challenge!
The rules:
1. Go into any convenience store with ten bucks.
2. Choose vegan food.
3. Take it back to your house or motel room, add water, spices, herbs, or nutritional yeast if you like, to make a meal that serves one or more.
4. Add nothing else.
That’s it. The meal does not have to be super-healthy, low-fat, low-sugar or anything like that. It does need to be something that most of us would recognize as a meal, not a snack.
Post your pictures or at least your description of what you got and what you made here and tell us what convenience store you bought from. OR post your meal on your blog and give us the link here. [edited Mar 2, 2009: can post your meal on your blog and put the link here]
Deadline: March 31, 2009
Winner gets choice of vegan cookbook from the soapbox store:
http://astore.amazon.com/vegansoapbox-20/105-7498549-0745209?_encoding=UTF8&node=1
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And just to get you thinking, here are two meals I made with ingredients from a local 7-11:
Meal no. 1:
The ingredients. Tomato sauce, spaghetti, canned corn.
I added some oregano and basil (dried as required) to the tomato sauce and sprinkled a bit of a seasoning mix on the corn and here you are:
Don’t ask me where’s the salad. We can only do so much.
Meal no. 2:
Ingredients: tomato soup, fried onion rings, freeze-dried strawberries and bananas.
I know. You want to see what those freeze-dried fruits look like. Here they are:
I added a bit of dried basil to the tomato soup. You’ll see wine here but that isn’t actually part of the meal. You might be lucky and find vegan wine at the 7-11. But in this case, assume it’s apple juice, which you can indeed buy at the 7-11.
Where do I post the meal, on my blog or send it to you? I can’t wait to create, I already have ideas!
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This contest and those meals make me smile. I like the idea.
If you want to post the meal on your blog and insert a comment here with the link, that’s fine! It might make it easier to include pictures, for example.
I’m really excited for this.
Is there any type of price limit?
Suzanne, the price limit is $10. Only spend $10 or less at the convenience store.
PS – here’s another cookbook giveaway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye6BX9O7Dwc
Would 7-11 or Quick Chek be considered a convenience store in this challenge? Or would you rather it be a smaller, local convenience store?
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Any convenience store. Doesn’t need to be “local”.
Here’s what my husband came up with: Shane’s Spicy Sweet Spaghetti. For $9.65 at Quik Trip, we bought 16 ounces of thin spaghetti; 16 ounces of medium salsa; a can of corn; some Spanish olives; and a small bag of Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos. We cooked the pasta, topped it with a “sauce” made of the salsa and some of the corn and olives, and the Doritos made a nice dessert. (The $9.65 was before taxes, though; after, the bill was $10.08, so I don’t know if this fully counts. Ditch the Doritos, maybe, or the olives?)
My idea, also from the same store, was pancakes (via Bisquick), with a fresh apple and some peanut butter blended with grape jelly for dessert. We weren’t sure whether the egg substitute would have counted as an allowed staple, though, so we ditched that dish pretty quickly.
Fun challenge!
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Hi Kelly g.,
Did you make either of these meals? I like the idea of the spicy sweet spaghetti! More interesting than my plain jane version.
I had not thought of egg replacer as a staple you might have on hand. Perhaps in the next challenge! But apple sauce can be used instead. Seems that would work for pancakes. If you try it let us know how it comes out.
Alright! Here’s my entry. Creamy Tomato Mac.
http://howtofeedavegan.blogspot.com/2009/03/convenience-store-challenge.html
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Convenient Vegan,
I was the one who actually cooked the meal Kelly G described (she’s my wife). The spicy sweet spaghetti came out really good. I actually got 3 meals out of it too, and I’ll definitely make it again sometime.
These are great! I am thrilled! Not many entries but quality beats quantity. I will be choosing a winner tomorrow – I am so sorry for the delay!
Also – for the third time we offer this challenge we will add dry egg replacer as an option to have in your cupboard. Any other suggestions for staples – dry, easy to carry with you – that one might have in the cupboard and can use in this challenge?