Eating vegan

I realised tonight that our meal was a vegan one. We went through a phase a while back where a lot of the meatless dinners I was making were vegan due to the fact that dairy prices were really high (still are, but I think I'm over the shock and it's become normal...). Since I do the grocery shopping once a fortnight, and we are one day out from shopping again, we've run out of a few things. Dinner would have contained cheese on top if I had it, but due to none in the fridge, we went without. We also had no onions arrive in the vege box (must be the off season coz we haven't had any for about a month now and have just been chopping up extra garlic) I had forgotten how *clean* these meals feel to eat when there is the absence of animal products. I'm sure if we were eating vegan long-term that it could have been better balanced (to include some protein for example) with something like sunflower seeds or similar.

Rice noodles with roasted potato and kumara chunks, topped with a tomato sauce which contained tinned tomatoes, garlic, broccoli, fresh herbs and seasonings and covered with some asparagus' that arrived in our vege box today.