Say Cheese

So in case you don't follow me on other social networks, here's the latest on our vegan diet:

In case you can't tell that's a crap-load of cheese. We feel off the wagon yesterday at around 10:00 AM

We were waiting for a table for brunch yesterday morning and I told Drew he would be responsible for planning meals the rest of the month so he made the call (thankfully before brunch) to finish out the month as vegetarians instead of vegans. I didn't object because I knew what awaited me at brunch: French toast!!!

This was our last vegan meal the night before:

Saturday we did this:

2 full laundry baskets of potatoes. I was so sore the next day but it was a good haul and we had some good size taters.

Other weekend news:
-I finished my book.
-Girls night watching Nashville was a success I was skeptical of the show but ended up really liking it
-Cleaned out the spare bedroom upstairs and got rid of a ridiculous number of movies and other misc. items

-Had a bonfire
- And got our Mumford tickets in the mail!

 

Vegan Update

Like SNL's "Weekend Update" but much less exciting and humorous.

So, vegan lifestyle has been good to us so far. It helps that all of this came from our backyard (minus the bread, we don't grow much wheat in these parts). Mere minutes before this was eaten all of that food looked like this:

 

So that's pretty cool. Walking out our back door to go grocery shopping for free has been a nice perk.

 

Otherwise a lot of my lunches have looked like this:

 



Hummus, guac, and salsa which is delicious. We tried the Mediterranean restaurant in town a couple of nights ago because they had some options we thought we might like but it was a bust. So really Chipotle and the Vegetarian restaurant in town are our only outlets if we want something we didn't have to fix.

And in the interest of full disclosure we totally cheated last night. It wasn't an accident and we're not sorry. It was planned well in advance. As soon as we decided to go to a baseball game with friends I knew I'd be having a cheeseburger and Drew would be having a hot dog and we'd be sharing some dippin' dots. So judge us if you like but it was goooood.

But we're back on the wagon today. Breakfast has proven to be the hardest meal for me. We've run out of fruit (time for another grocery run) and I don't care for what almond milk does to cereal...it's odd.

Other than that minor difficulty, cheese is the thing I miss most. And hot meals. I feel like most things we've eaten (salad, pasta salad, fruit, salsa, hummus, etc.) have all been cold and I have sensitive teeth insert Drew's eye roll here

After Drew's hot dog last night he was ready to jump off the wagon altogether but we will see it through. After all, it's only 3 more weeks, right?? actually that sounds terrible

I doubt this post inspired anyone to go vegan. It's a difficult lifestyle, especially when you are used to ordering pizza 1-2 times a week. But I'm glad we're doing it, it's teaching us discipline which we normally have very little of.

Changing Tastes... we hope

Another example of my photog skillz: I didn't even bother moving our Christmas napkins or my antibiotics before snapping this beaut'

But, you get the point, right? This picture screams: We're going vegan!!!!

Before you call some sort of police force to have Drew taken away from me, we're just trying it for a month. And what better month than the one where we have tomatoes coming out of our ears??

Anyone who knows us can tell you that Drew and I aren't the healthiest eaters. We normally grocery shop once a month because that's how often Drew gets paid which prompts questions form our friends like "What do you do about fresh fruits and veggies?" To which I respond "We eat a lot of Dorito's."

This isn't going to become the norm for us but we are definitely looking forward to our tastes changing this month and looking at other options than animal products to get our protein. We were inspired by this documentary. And we have a whole bunch of others in our Netflix queue to watch as we battle through this month.

Don't worry, I won't be journaling my every meal. Mostly because there probably won't be tons of variation: peanut butter, tomatoes, corn, apples, repeat.

I can just tell you cheese will be the thing I miss in all this, not meat, milk or eggs. Any vegan recipes you'd like to share would be greatly appreciated.

Look for a post on about Saturday where I say "Nevermind, Drew made deer jerky."