Trying vegan again

Back in September, I tried to be vegan.  I succeeded  for 2- 3 weeks and then I totally failed.  I had been a vegetarian since January 1 and knew I wanted to become vegan.  I had already given up eggs.  I had been eating cheese and sour cream and ice cream.  I thought I would be able to eliminate those items from my diet. I thought I was ready. Obviously, I wasn't.

My husband-he eats meat.  My daughter-she eats meat too.  My parents-meat eaters.  My co-workers-all meat eaters.  And my friends-they all eat meat too.  No one understood where I was coming from.  People tried to change my believes.  They tried to tell me I was being mean to my family by not cooking meat for them.  I honestly thought I was doing them a favor by not serving them meat.  I guess I still think that.

Enter today.  On Monday, I decided I would try being vegan again.  I have a friend who is giving something up for lent and need some support.  I am not religious at all, but I decided I would support my friend by giving something up also.  Being vegan is my way of supporting my friend through lent.

On Wednesday, I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a bowl of granola with soy milk.  I made it though the day without any animal products.  Obviously I didn't eat a lot, but still, no animals were harmed by my eating on that day.

Thursday--Another bowl of granola--that was lunch again.  Dinner, hmm, I don't remember.  Oh yeah, I has a stromboli without cheese and butter.  Just good ol' veggie and pizza dough.  Another day of vegan living.

Friday--Veggie burrito--no beans. Plus some tortilla chips with guacamole.  Yummy! Yummy! Yum!

Saturday--Left overs--stromboli for lunch and burrito for dinner.  Another vegan day.  And a day of not cooking.  What could be better!

So now my parents are visiting for the next 10 days.  I will have to survive my mother's judge of my eating habits.  She pretends to support me, but I know she secretly thinks I'm crazy.  She thinks I'm not getting the vitamins I need.  We will see how it goes.

So today we went to Sweet Tomatoes for lunch.  I had a salad with oil and vinager.  I also had this potato salad thing--it was with oil and viniger and dill.  It was pretty good.  For dinner everyone had sausage.  So gross!  I don't know how anyone can eat sausage knowing that the casing once had poop in it.  Not to mention all the other gross things that sauasge entails.  I made some sauted peppers and onions.  I had them on a roll.  I also had some salad.  It was pretty good. 

I've made it through 5 days and have had no desire to eat any animal product.

I am enjoying this new path my life is taking.