Vegan ~ Day 1

Breakfast:

This morning I whipped up some blueberry oatmeal. I’m not a fan of oatmeal… but real oatmeal (that takes more than 90 seconds to cook in the microwave) actually tastes pretty good!

I added blueberries to the water while it was boiling, then added the oatmeal.

I also added a couple pieces of dates to it to sweeten it up a little bit.

And topped it with a little bit of coconut milk ~ which I generally use in my coffee (but skipped the coffee this morning)

Cooked it for 15 minutes, let it sit for a couple more. Yum.

However… my instant oatmeal girl wasn’t too happy about it. She didn’t like it at all. I guess there wasn’t enough (any) sugar in there lol.

Lunch:

I had an ENORMOUS salad. Really, Hanna looked at me and said “are you really going to eat all that”, like I was out of my ever lovin’ mind. Dr. Furhman says to eat BIG salads, so I did. It had a bunch of different kinds of lettuce, tons of veggies as well as a few strawberries, and blueberries and just a little bit of balsamic vinegrette on it.

It was delicious… Hanna again, did not really like hers. Which is surprising because she normally loves salads. She did sneak a huge bowl of wheat things and triscuits just before lunch while I was working ~ so she may just not have been hungry.

Problem:

3pm. I’m starving. I don’t think this is the “toxic hunger” Furhman refers to…. I’m hungry. So is Hanna. We had just got back from running errands.

I put together a refried bean burrito on whole wheat tortillas for us. I added a little cheese to hers, but stayed true on mine. I did add some salsa to mine for some extra flavor. Quite good.

Dinner:

I made a mess of some cabbage and tomatoes the other night. I added way too much Mrs. Dash. I had no idea it was so spicy. So I threw it a container and saved it for a soup base. This wasn’t on the meal plan, but since Hanna’s at dance class I just threw something really easy together.

I made super veggies/bean soup. (Eating it now as I write this post!)

Started with the cabbage and diced (no salt) tomatoes I messed up, added some veggie stock, carrots, black beans, cannelini beans, mushrooms, zuchhini and just let it all cook.

YUMMO.

I have no clue how to cook a little bit of soup, so there’s plenty left over, which is going to be great for lunch. I can have a smaller salad and a bowl of soup, and I think that will be much more satisfying.

So there you have it… not sure if it’s on the plan or not, but I’m having a glass of wine tonight too. To celebrate the silence of my house whilst Hanna is at dance class, and maybe to scream at the Bachelorette (again).

I love salads, but I can see quickly becoming sick of them for lunch every day… what’s you favorite vegan lunch?

(trying to stick with as much whole food as possible)