I am a social diner. I love to eat with people. The problem is that this sometimes leads me to pay more attention to the people than my food choices and healthy eating gets derailed. So when I took on the 21-day vegan challenge, I figured that it would mean more planning upfront but I could still eat out with friends except my choices would have to be more selective since most things have meat, dairy, and/or eggs in them. For example, did you know the Burger King veggie burger is vegan in Canada and the UK but not in the US?
After an hour of jumping around in a giant trampoline warehouse, I ended up at Sweet Tomatoes last night which is a lot like Souplantation or Fresh Choice. Sweet Tomatoes has a menu book at the front of the restaurant listing what is vegan or vegetarian on the menu. That is super awesome! What was not super awesome is how despite having a number of vegan soup options in that book, none of the 8 soups being offered that day were vegan (and only one was even vegetarian!). All of the pre-made gourmet salad options had meat and cheese in them as well. So after getting super excited about the bounty of options, I ended up making my own giant salad (that was still delicious) and having a baked potato with salsa.
Day Three Menu (Friday was more of a grazing day with no set meal times)
* homemade vegan calzone
* "chicken" and peppers sandwich with nutritional yeast
* tangerine
* rice cake thins with peanut butter
* bean and "cheese" burrito on rice tortilla
* smoothie with hemp protein, soymilk, raspberries, and spinach
* dippin' dots rainbow ice
* gianormous salad with various veggies and raisins
* baked potato with salsa
* carob-rice square
After an hour of jumping around in a giant trampoline warehouse, I ended up at Sweet Tomatoes last night which is a lot like Souplantation or Fresh Choice. Sweet Tomatoes has a menu book at the front of the restaurant listing what is vegan or vegetarian on the menu. That is super awesome! What was not super awesome is how despite having a number of vegan soup options in that book, none of the 8 soups being offered that day were vegan (and only one was even vegetarian!). All of the pre-made gourmet salad options had meat and cheese in them as well. So after getting super excited about the bounty of options, I ended up making my own giant salad (that was still delicious) and having a baked potato with salsa.
Day Three Menu (Friday was more of a grazing day with no set meal times)
* homemade vegan calzone
* "chicken" and peppers sandwich with nutritional yeast
* tangerine
* rice cake thins with peanut butter
* bean and "cheese" burrito on rice tortilla
* smoothie with hemp protein, soymilk, raspberries, and spinach
* dippin' dots rainbow ice
* gianormous salad with various veggies and raisins
* baked potato with salsa
* carob-rice square