Crudités.  Cheese cubes.  Pretzels.  Really? This is all we’re gonna offer our vegetarian friends come Sunday?! I don’t think so!

If you can chop 2 veggies, measure some spices, open cans, and toss everything into a CrockPot and walk away, you can have a delicious vegetarian/vegan Sloppy Joe on your Super Bowl table that will fool even the meatiest of meat eaters.

This weekend, Eric and I were in Santa Monica, so we stopped by Viva La Vegan to pick up a few new products to try.  I have heard that they often have Ronald’s Donuts (from Las Vegas) and was thrilled to see a stack of pink donut boxes near the register.  I ended up buying donuts from boxes that said “Sweet Thymes,” a bakery of which I had never heard, so I asked where it was located.  I was told that it was based in Studio City, which is incredibly close to home, so I was really excited.  After a little research, I am disappointed to say that it doesn’t look like they have a store front, but they can be ordered (minimum 12 donuts) for pickup or delivery.

I got two donuts to try and, of course, they were both chocolate.  I don’t think there’s any donut…

For the two bentos in this post, I used the only box of hard tofu left at my grocery store. Not because everyone around here is a trendy veggie-head, but because no one here eats tofu and I think they only get shipments in once every few months or something. Completely ridiculous. There are tons of great things you can do with tofu.

Don’t believe me?

Well here are two ideas.

Last Sunday night I made a super yummy veggie korma for dinner. It ended up being perfectly flavored. The left overs made it into this bento:

Bento 1: Veggie korma with tofu, peppers, onions, and mushrooms, basmati rice, cherries, and kiwi.

(Guest appearance by my t-rex shaped children’s chopsticks…his name is Churchill)

Later in the week I did not have time to cook and needed something quick to take to lunch. Ah! Still had some fried tofu left over!

Last night I was craving a chocolate peanut butter cup, but am sticking to a very low sugar lifestyle. So with that in mind, I set out to create something that I could consume quickly, that would taste amazing, but still be low in sugar. Enter, the peanut butter hot chocolate idea.

Peanut Butter Cup Hot Chocolate – No Sugar Added

Ingredients:

* 10 oz Almond Milk (I used my Quick & Easy Almond Milk)

* 3 tblsp dutch Cocoa

* 2 tblsp Peanut Butter

Instructions:

Add almond milk and cocoa to a small sauce pan. Heat through and add peanut butter. The PB I used had a small amount of sugar added to it when made, so it lightly sweetened my cocoa. You could add some liquid stevia or another type of natural sweetener to this instead, to give it a small amount of sweetness. Enjoy!