Breakfast: Wheat pancakes with real maple syrup and some juice.
Lunch: A banana, an apple, and some cashews.
Dinner: A veggie burger, potato pancakes, and lima beans.
Snacks: Those delicious peppermint cookies from Trader Joe’s.
Challenges today: none to speak of (but it is only 6:30PM…I guess there’s still time…)
Today I felt: energized despite the fact that the dog was up at 5:45 this morning (and of course I had to get her since the huz *ahem* didn’t manage to hear her…if you believe that one). I wasn’t sleepy or run down feeling at all.
Breakfast: Banana Coconut Muffin and an apple
Lunch: Veggie Fajitas with rice and beans…and chips and salsa, of course
Dinner: Red Robin. I had the kids spaghetti (with marinara sauce) and fries.
Snacks: Two cookies from Trader Joe’s. They’re like Oreos but have crushed peppermint in the cream. Boy was I a happy camper to find that they’re vegan. At least I think they are (about 99.9% sure). I read the ingredients three times and didn’t see anything on the no-no list.
Challenges today: resisting the urge to get my all time favorite Red Robin sandwich (the Crispy Chicken Burger)
Today I felt: really good. I am definitely noticing that I have more energy. I don’t feel that 3PM lag and desire for a nap everyday. Not that I don’t enjoy a nice nap…but I don’t feel horribly tired by 5PM if I don’t have a nap. That’s gotta be a good sign, right?
An amazing thing I read today regarding animal treatment and use of animals for food was this:
We can’t stop all suffering, but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t stop any.
This is true. I can’t stop all animal suffering. I can’t make my family and friends adopt a vegan (or vegetarian) lifestyle. I can’t stop all of the suffering that happens at factory farms and slaughterhouses. But I can stop some by helping to educate others. I can stop some suffering quite easily by choosing not to eat animal products. The passing temptation of a cookie quickly fades. The suffering of the chicken that was (likely) housed in horrible conditions and forced to overproduce eggs for those cookies to be made is surely worse than my desire to eat one. A vegan (and vegetarian) saves approximately 90 animals a year by not eating them. The huz and I together makes for a savings of 180 lives per year. So while we cannot stop it all, we can do our part.
Breakfast: homemade wheat pancakes (with soy milk and egg replacer) and a banana.
Lunch: Taco Bell: a bean burrito with no cheese but adding rice and a Mexican pizza with no meat and cheese. They goofed the pizza the first time and put the cheese on, but luckily we checked it before we left the parking lot and had them correct it. They are great about substitutions and special orders (like no cheese but add rice in the burritos)…and it turns out they’ll quickly correct their errors as well.
Dinner: a garlic mushroom pasta dish from Allie (recipe link here). I recently found her blog and am so thrilled to have done so!
Snacks: two lemon cutout cookies (from my new cookbook)
Challenges today: drinking water. The weekends tend to bring more soda drinking than water drinking.
Today I felt: proud of the fact that I have not consumed any animal products for a full 9 days. I feel like I am making a difference.
Breakfast: Dennys. I had oatmeal, hashbrowns, toast with grape jelly, and I shared a fruit cup with Nora. Glass of OJ to drink.
Lunch: Grilled cheese sandwich (Vegan Gourmet cheddar cheese and wheat bread), pasta salad, and frozen peas. Glass of cherry juice to drink.
Dinner: Morningstar Farms Vegan Burgers with potato pancakes. Soda to drink.
Challenges today: resisting the urge to eat one of Nora’s tiny baby sized Mrs. Fields cookies. Because…it’s just one little nibbler…can’t bee too much egg in it, right? Nonetheless, I resisted. But I did let her eat two so they’d be gone sooner.
Today I felt: disgusted at the Meijer grocery store when I saw the meat counter. Something that previously looked…I don’t know, appetizing…now causes me to turn my head.
Breakfast: PB wheat toast with a banana and glass of OJ
Lunch: Bean burrito with mushrooms and onion and pasta salad
Dinner: Ruby Tuesday’s veggie burger (hold the mayo, cheese, and grilled bun), fries, and a salad with balsamic dressing
Late Night Snack: Coldstone Raspberry Sorbet with fresh raspberries
Challenges today: passing up Mrs. Fields cookies in the mall
Today I felt: good about my food choices. I made healthy choices and avoided the ‘in the moment’ wanting of a cookie at the mall…the urge passed and the sorbet was a much better snack option. It still felt like a treat.
Breakfast today was a PB and banana tortilla with a glass of OJ. Lunch consisted of a veggie sub from Subway and some homemade pasta salad. Dinner ended up being some fresh steamed green beans with cranberry sauce and stuffed acorn squash. The squash took longer than the recipe indicated it would, but it was worth the wait. The stuffing was: wheat bread cubes and dried cranberries mixed with sauteed green onion, red onion, apple, celery, and garlic. Very yummy! Snacks today were a bean burrito (homemade) and some apple crisp.
Challenges today: drinking enough water and laying off the soda.
Today I felt: very tired. I think I haven’t yet caught up from election night. Add that to the facts that Nora was up this morning at 4:30 and managed to skip her afternoon nap…those things make for a cranky baby and a sleepy mommy.
Well the alarm clock went off way to early for me this morning. Too much late night election results watching went on! Of course waiting for the California polls to close kept us up about two hours past our normal bed time…but it was totally worth it to witness history! Today’s breakfast consisted of PB toast and a banana with OJ…for it’s quickness factor! Lunch was a PB and banana sandwich on wheat bread with some grapes. Dinner required a tad bit of effort put into the homemade potato pancakes (which the huz had never had before), however minimal effort was involved in heating up some frozen peas and a few Boca Vegan Burgers to round out the meal. The potato pancakes were completely and totally worth the effort and time. They were just like I remember my Grandma making ‘back in the day’. Evening snack is going to consist of some apple crisp if I can motivate myself enough to go peel and slice the apples.
Challenges today: water consumption.
Today I felt: Tired. Although I’m sure it’s from my lack of sleep and being a little busy at work today. I did feel good about digging in to my veggie burger instead of going the animal route. The huz is surprised at my “compassion towards the animals”. He says it’s very Buddhist of me.
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