day 12 & 13

So for the last two weeks I have had all my meals at home, which is practical and easy.  I have everything I need, and none of the evil temptations I don't.  This weekend I went to visit a friend several hours away.  This meant relying on others for my meals, or worse finding something to eat while out.  Up until now I have been pleasantly surprised by my lack of cravings.  I totally consider myself a cheesaholic but I haven't really missed it in any major way.  This weekend offered me a different challenge, the proximity to chocolate, good store bought, full of milk chocolate, delicious and easy access chocolate.  I was strong and kept away from it all.

Saturday breakfast I had a pumpkin mini loaf.  Which was yummy

Lunch I ate some cut up veggies, and ginger crackers.

Luckily I have awesome friends and Jacq made me an awesome vegan dinner.  Her favourite salad, which involved mixed greens with avocado, tomato, walnuts, cranberries, and a homemade vinaigrette.   Yes thats right a homemade dressing, with olive oil, some sort of vinegar and raspberry jam.  Very impressive and very yummy.  She also made some cooked root veggies, potatoes, carrots, beets, and asparagus in a garlic sauce.  Also impressive and yummy.  So without doing anything myself Voila dinner!

Conclusion, very tasty, and extra great because I had to do nothing to prepare it.

Later in the evening I resisted the urge to eat snickers, or twix bars which were happily finding their way into Jacq's mouth and had a peanut butter wrap.  It hit the spot and kept me on track to resist evil beautiful chocolate.

Sunday morning I ate some fried zucchini with left over root veggies for breakfast.

Sunday lunch we ate out.  Now this poses a different challenge because it is difficult to know whether things contain dairy, or if "fast food" places even offer a vegetarian option let alone a vegan one.  However a very nice worker at a greek restaurant gave me my options and I had a nice greek pita with some of the tastiest fries ever.  It was nice to have such a helpful server, and great to find good and great tasting food.

Sunday dinner.  I arrived back home to no plan and no groceries, so I had leftovers, which were fine, and good to use up but not to exciting to write about. 

This week's menu is not planned and I didn't make it out to get groceries so we shall see how the rest of the week goes.