Vegan Cookbooks?/Low Calorie Vegan Ice Cream

Is'nt Artic Zero vegan? I thought it said that on the label but I could be wrong.

I'm not vegan but I have a lot of vegan cookbooks. Isa's Appetite for Reduction" is amazing and low cal. In fact, I usually up her 1 tsp of olive oil for sauteeing to 1 tbsp and still have low calorie meals. I also have her Veganomicon which is very tasty too but not as much on the low fat side.

Mediterranean Vegan Kitchen is nice as well, and you can cut back on the oil on the recipes and still get good results. I'll be making the butternut squash gnocchi from that again once it cools off here. The bottle beans are marvelous. All of these have a lot of recipes that utilize whole foods - fresh produce, grains, beans, tofu, and tempeh. I've been cooking from then quite a bit lately.

Had to edit this because I just thought of a few more. Chicago Diner is a wonderful vegetarian/vegan restaurant in, obviously Chicago, and they have a cookbook. It has the comfort foods like hash, biscuits and gravy, etc and I think mostly vegan. La Dolce Vegan is a good cookbook, and if you want to make treats now and then, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World.

For websites a current favorite is Peas and Thank You (peasandthankyou.com), the post punkk kitchen (theppk.com), and an oldie but goodie, ivu.org. (International Vegetarian Union) The recipe button is on the right for the last one and it has vegetarian and vegan recipes from around the world. Hope this helps.

I can't remember if they have calorie counts but it only takes about 5 minutes to input the ingredients into the recipe builder here. It's when you try to save to the community that you have to worry about typing in instructions. I've been adding them to my recipe catalog and sharing with the community, but I don't know if they are allowing us access to each others yet. If they are, then look for the Tamarind Lentils and the Caribbean Black-Eyed Peas by TechnoSwami. If you do get these cookbooks I can let you know what I have entered and get you the nutritional values.

My favorite Vegan cookbooks are Vegan with a vengence, How it all vegan by Tanya Barnard and Sarah Kramer and Garden of Vegan by Tanya Barnard and Sarah Kramer

Very simple recipes. . .I just put them in the recipe calculator on here and then viola. . I can use it from then on whenever I eat that item. .

Best of luck to you!

You can always make that one-ingredient ice "cream" from bananas!

1) peel banana
2) freeze banana
3) blend banana

It's pretty tasty, if you like bananas.

Agreed. Banana "ice cream" is fantastic. I eat it plain or with add ins like strawberries, peanut butter, cinnamon, vanilla extract, and cocoa powder. Great, healthy night time snack!

There is a local place called Scream. The best sorbet ever. they do nut flavors that have the best texture. They sell packed pints locally. If you come to the Bay Area check it out. Do you have any local people that make sorbet? I find those are better than any packages stuff.

Baring that, the mini ice cream sandwiches from SoDelicious are yummy. Especially in the coconut milk ice cream variety. It is better than the soy version. Each sandwich is 150 calories. They are available in Whole Foods. There is another brand I believe called cocobliss that also has a similar product.

http://www.turtlemountain.com/products/product.php?p=so_delicious_cm_minis_vanilla_sandwich

I have a STACK of vegan cookbooks and I still find better recipes at www.fatfreevegan.com.

Appetite for Reduction DOES have nutritional info listed for each recipe! Most of it can be made in a relatively short amount of time as well.

Fatfreevegan and Eating Well are both GREAT online resources for low fat vegan recipes! NutritionMD.org is another great site.

Good luck!

Jenn