Day 1-Lunch and Dinner (and Snacks)

Almost 22 hours into the Vegan for a Week Challenge and I am still alive.  I found out tonight that Jillian asked me off the cuff not expecting I would say yes. Well HA!

Lunch was a SW Style Salad.  It had romaine, grape tomatoes, cilantro, avocado and salsa dressing, and RAW corn.  It was white corn and luckily it was very sweet, because it was not cooked.  It was yummy.  We has some flax seed tortilla chips from Trader Joe's with it, and I had some cherries.  The cute thing about the cherries was I had lunch with my friend Eric and his kids. The little boy wanted to have a cherry, one for each hand or else he would not have been happy.  I was very surprised at how well he handled the pits, for a two year old.

Before dinner, I had some more pretzels, a piece of dried papaya, and a couple of triangles of pita. 

Dinner Jillian made an Indian Feast and we were joined by our friend Penny.  We started with one of our South Beach favs, Indian Tomato Soup. I would bore you with the recipe, but I found this link on the internet for it, so click it and make it.

http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hollingk/recipes/indian-tomato-soup.txt

For our main dish we had Indian-Spiced Vegetable Stew from the Kashi website.

http://www.kashi.com/recipes/124

This was very flavorful even without the mustard seed (thanks honey-I do not like mustard). I could see having it again, but adding some more veggies like zucchini and carrots.

We had a yummy Mango Lhasa to help cool the pallet from the heat. This came from a colorful cookbook we bought at the Half Price Bookstore on Thursday night, The Ultimate Book of Vegan Cooking.  Page 97.

1 Mango
1.25 cups of soy milk
Zest of 1 lime (green only the white is bitter)
1 TB of fresh lime juice
1-2 TB of Agave Nectar/Syrup (remember no honey)

Cut up the mango, and place all of the ingredients in a blender and run until smooth.
Some fresh mint would have been a nice addition and I would have it again.

Dessert, as if there was room. Was a tofutti "ice cream" sandwich, http://www.tofutti.com/. These are good either as a Vegan or not.

So with day one almost behind us, we are looking forward to day 2 and special pancakes.

Veg Out!