Day 27 of the Vegan Challenge
Yesterday I ate:
– 1/2 red pear and 1 tbsp PB2
– 2 slices banana French toast topped with fresh raspberries and 1 tsp almond butter (I used unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze instead of soy milk, omitted the maple syrup and vegetable oil spray, increased the amount of cinnamon, and added a small handful of kale plus a tablespoon of green pea flour and a few drops of vanilla extract to the mixture before throwing it all in the blender. The result was slightly greenish bread with green flecks on it, but it was delicious and really filling).
– A few handfuls leftover air-popped popcorn, about a dozen pistachios, a few soy nuts, and some hummus with mushrooms/asparagus/cucumber slices
– 1 apple with 2 tbsp PB2
– Small bowl of homemade granola mixed with puffed wheat and topped with unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze, 1/2 banana, and a sprinkle of chocolate protein powder (more about the protein powder to come in a future post) as well as some raspberries and a few more pistachios
– Dinner at Delicious Vegetarian Restaurant: consomme soup and three kinds of vegetables in curry over brown rice.
– 1 glass red wine
My friends Brian, Jarred, and Will took me out for a birthday dinner, even though none of them are even close to being vegetarian, let alone vegan (and Delicious Vegetarian Restaurant is an all-vegan restaurant!). It was very sweet. When I picked them up they were all at Brian’s house and sang me “Happy Birthday” as soon as I opened the door and they presented me with a “vegan man”- squash and peppers and carrots and mushrooms held together with toothpicks in the shape of a person complete with eyes and nose and mouth and hair- with a candle sticking out of his spaghetti squash head for me to blow out. They figured that because I’m vegan, I can’t really eat cake, but that it’s fun to blow out the candle. So I got my candle in a pile of vegetables. I adore supportive friends.
Such a lovely birthday dinner outing! Friends are the best 🙂
There are vegan cakes out there! Heck, if I was a vegan I would have searched high and low for a vegan cake! You can always replace the egg with flax and water 🙂 Sorry, I’m a cake FREAK! I could never have a birthday without a cake, it makes me sad just thinking about it.
Love the idea of a veggie man, though, too funny. Good friends!
Supportive friends are worth a lot. That is pretty awesome that they went to that much trouble to be sure you had a great day. Once again, happy birthday Sagan!
You have great friends!
Ahahahaahahahahaa that’s amazing!!!!!!
Has VeggieMan been disassembled? Picture? Pretty please?
You have friends who are not only thoughtful but creative. : )
Gina- I had cake on Friday! So it’s all good 😀 They just don’t know very much about veganism, so that’s why.
Mary Anne- unfortunately he fell apart in the car. I’ll try to reassemble him 😉
Ha, ha! What a thoughtful idea. That restaurant sounds great!
haha, that’s awesome they did that. 🙂
That was sweet of them. You should try some of the Vegan cakes out there. They are really pretty good!http
Aw, your friends are great! Love it! Did you get a pic of the veggie man?