Can you look over this vegan meal plan/menu?

[msmerymac]

Some friends and I and my husband are renting a cabin next weekend, and with 1 vegetarian, 1 semi-vegetarian, and 1 vegan we're just going to be doing vegan food. We will have dinner Friday night and Saturday night, and breakfast Saturday morning and Sunday morning. For lunch on Saturday, we'll be at an event and on our own.

Dinners:

Pasta e fagioli with a side of roasted butternut squash salad with cider vinaigrette (no parmesan): www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/roasted-butternut-squash-salad-with-warm-cider-vinaigrette-recipe/index.html

Stuffed tomatoes w/ italian bread, red onion, olive oil and balsamic, with a side of couscous/orzo (something like that).

Breakfast:

Coffee (vegan coffee creamer)
cereal or granola with non-dairy milk (almond or coconut)
bananas

Snacks:

chips with salsa and guacamole
hummus and baby carrots


I'm trying to make it not too expensive, plus not too difficult. I'll probably prep a few things at home and package them and bring them in the cooler. We'll have a full kitchen but I don't want to have to haul a ton of stuff up there.

If anyone has a good recipe for some kind of carb side dish (like couscous or orzo) I can use with the stuffed tomatoes, please let me know.

The pasta e fagioli and stuffed tomatoes I've made before, so no worries with those recipes.

[jennistarr1]

Sounds pretty good...the orzo/couscous I would just adds lots of herbs with some olive oil and lemon

[munkii]

If you have extra squash from the first meal and don't mind using a few more ingredients, you could make this salad this couscous salad: www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/1712. You know what to do to make it vegan.

Or you could make caramelized onion couscous like this without the tomatoes: 5secondrule.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/09/recipe-for-caramelized-onions-with-israeli-couscous-and-cherry-tomatoes.html.

With Orzo, I would probably just add pine nuts, spinach, lemon juice, and spices.