You're so welcome Nicole. I make that gravy all the time too. It goes well with so many things!

The meatloaf recipe gets consistently good feedback and I've never had reports of it being doughy before.
Did you weigh the ingredients or use cups? I ask because cups aren't very accurate and it's easy to use way too much or too little of something. Every-time you fill a cup it weighs a different amount so it is absolutely impossible to be totally accurate. If you did use cups, you could have used too much flour and not enough of something else so the balance might have been off.
Overworking it could also have made it doughy. If you mix flour too much it activates the gluten (like when making bread) so it can affect texture.
Also be sure not to use overcooked lentils as they get too mushy and affect the texture.
I hope that helps!

I'm so pleased you enjoyed everything Rosa. That gravy recipe is so popular it's made it into my cookbook!

Oh Debbie, your message has made my day! You actually brought a tear to my eye. This is exactly why I do what I do. It makes me so happy to know that my recipes are a part of peoples lives and help make occasions like Thanksgiving easier and just as enjoyable as they used to be pre-vegan. Being a new vegan and having all of that to buy and make with unfamiliar ingredients was so brave of you, and I am really touched that you trusted my recipes and timeline for a special meal like Thanksgiving. I actually decided this week, after seeing how successful this menu has been both last year and this year, to create a Christmas one too. I'm going to start work on it very soon, so keep an eye out for it in a few weeks. If you use Facebook you can share pictures on my page there, or you can email them to me at mel@avirtualvegan.com I'd love to see and if you are ok with it, I could then share them on my social media. People love to see reader remakes! It makes the recipes seem much more approachable and do-able.
Oh and as you have white miso paste now, you just have to make my mac and cheese! https://avirtualvegan.com/baked-vegan-mac-and-cheese/ ;O)
Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by to leave feedback!

With that being said, your shopping list was a lifesaver as well as your detailed menus and the Timeline! Oh my goodness! I would not have been able to do all i did without that! Since I was missing a few essentials I made as many as I could on Tuesday night from the 3 and 2 Days Before Timeline. On Wednesday after work I ran to the "hardly a parking space Whole Food" store and squeezed myself in there to get the few but essential ingredients I needed. (Wonderful helpful people working there so since its all "vegan" to me, I didn't know what it was never mind know where to look, they were eager to assist me.) I got out fairly quickly considering the circumstances there.

When I got home I spent the evening playing catch up on my Timeline. Went to bed and got up at 5 to finish.

I enjoyed following the recipes and when i got to my aunt's we threw the pumpkin in the oven and started munching away on the Creamy Vegan Onion Garlic Dip. We loved it with the Organic White corn tortilla chips from Whole Food and we couldn't stop eating it. I'm so glad I found the white miso paste. The 2 of us ate half the dip and forced ourselves to put it away. I messed up with the timing due to my mistakes like thinking it said to cook the pumpkin 3 hours but don't worry I caught that in time since I wouldn't put my Timeline down.

Bottom line we BOTH loved it all. We were full but no feeling of overstuffed gut. (My aunt did a little but she had that before eating and has some health issues.) And cleanup was great with no greasy smelly turkey on the counters!)

I hope you have a full menu with Timeline, shopping list and menus again for Christmas and out soon because I'm flying to Denver to be with my sons and know there will be meat there but I want to introduce a lot of vegan on the table.

YOU ARE MY HERO FOR MAKING MY THANKSGIVING MEAL A SUCCESS. YOU ARE WHAT I'M GRATEFUL FOR!

I wanted to post pics but I'm not on Instagram or any of those really.

Yay! That's great Kristi. I'm so pleased everyone enjoyed it. Thank you for stopping by to let me know! Enjoy the rest of your Thanksgiving :O)