Yes, hunger has been an issue, especially during the week when I've been working hard in customers' gardens. In my former meat-eating existence I used to start the day with two eggs for breakfast, and I had been trying to replace these with porridge. I found however that porridge doesn't keep you filled up for very long. On Friday night I was up until late making experimental lentil burgers which I have stored in the freezer. I think this might have done the trick - I can easily put a couple under the grill when I get up, eat them with toast and HP sauce and feel well fed until almost lunch time.
The burgers themselves aren't a great success though. I was trying to bind them together using an egg-substitute mix I bought in Holland and Barrett. As always when I've tried to make veggi-burgers without a huge amount of egg in, I found as soon as I put the mixture in a frying pan they start to fall apart. It's disappointing because I had high hopes of the egg-substitute after I used it for pancakes on Pancake Day last week, with soya milk. Putting in 2 teaspoons of substitute, the pancake batter became far too thick, resulting in slab-like pancakes that were more like cakes. They were quite tossable though (no bad jokes please...) and tasted very good, if not quite like pancakes.
Last night I attempted a roast, using tofu and gram flour (that's a flour made of groud up chickpeas.) I followed a recipe for onion bhajis, and mixed in cubes of tofu at the last minute before putting it in the oven in a greased casserole dish. After an hour it came out solid enough and very tasty - there was lots of spice in it - but as usual the tofu cubes themselves tasted of nothing. Tofu is such a useful ingredient for vegans I would like to find some way of flavouring it that doesn't involve marinading overnight.
Just one question for experienced vegans - are we allowed honey? It only just occurred to me that it's an animal product, and I've been eating loads of it. Is that a fail?