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I think I'm going to stop the anti-refined sugar part of my diet for the moment, and focus on going as much vegetarian/vegan as possible. Too much change at once, plus I ate like doughnuts and cakes last week.

I need some tasty but most importantly QUICK vegan dinners. I like stuff that cooks in one pot and doesn't use a blender so I don't have to wash up much stuff.

Tonight I am having spinach dahl. Nom. Dahl is so quick and easy. I never could get it to come out right, but since switching from green lentils to red lentils I managed to get that right texture (green lentils always seem to be really dry and bitty?)

How I make dahl

- Fry onion, garlic and ginger in oil/ghee/butter
- Add couple of handfuls of red lentils and some vegetable stock (1:4 ratio)
- Add cumin, garam masala, turmeric, cayenne etc (indian based spices, any variation)
- Add spinach (and tomatoes, peas, anything else you want)

It's basically finished now, but you can add coconut milk if you want at the end to make it creamier.

- Serve with rice

The best part of this is how cheap it is... if you have the spices anyway. It took me ages to collect decent amounts of spices. You can just swap in a basic curry powder I think?

I think I'm going to read my Krishna cookbook again, and get some ideas.