After watching the Vegan episode of Oprah a few weeks ago, I felt inspired to try to challenge myself.
One week of eating strictly a vegan diet.
Oprah's website had great ideas, as did a few of the blogs that I follow. My friend from Everyday Foodie tried it just over a week ago and had lots of neat ideas. I figured I knew enough to eat a healthy vegan diet for a week, plus I am on holidays so it is a great time to try a new diet challenge.
I started this challenge on Sunday at noon. I feel I need to mention that my 'last' non-vegan meal was a 6 piece chicken nugget meal from MacDonald's. It was so so good.
Day 1 was fairly easy as I had an early lunch and wasn't hungry until supper. For my first vegan meal I invited a friend over and made Tortilla Pizzas, a recipe I made in my cooking class. I used vegan wraps, soy cheese, and plenty of veggies. I also made Sweet Potato Fries, which I learned in my 3rd cooking class.
I had an ice cream craving after, but I munched on grapes instead and curbed that craving.
Day 1 was easy.
Day 2 was way harder.
I made Angela's Apple Pie Oatmea for brunchl. It was delicious and it made enough for breakfast on Day 3 too.
Lunch on Day 2 was leftover Tortilla Pizza.
Supper was....not vegan. We had supper at the BFs family's house and I could not resist the yummy home made pizza his mom made. So I took one meal off. I plan on being vegan for 1 meal more now to make up for it.
Day 3 I was back on track.
A Green Monster for breakfast.
Supper was at my folks, and I made them a Mexican meal. Mine was vegan, and theirs was vegetarian (they got to have cheese).
I made enchiladas, brown and wild rice, and home-made guacamole and chips.
The first 3 days of my vegan diet have been really hard. Some people find it easy, but staying away from cheese and ice cream has been really hard to me, and 3 days into this diet those food items have been on my mind. A lot.
I have many days left.
I have no clue how I will make it without cheating.
Again.
ADELLE
I saw this Oprah episode and wanted to try the vegan challenge too! I'm glad to see that you're trying it! I would have a really hard time with no eggs because I have usually one a day. When I had to go off of dairy last year because I thought that I was allergic to it, I had to have soy cheese and 'veggie cheese'. It was actually much better than I had thought, especially the jalepeno cheddar. Good luck with the rest of the week!
ReplyDeleteHow was the soy cheese? I was scared to try it because I hate soy milk ...
ReplyDeleteThe soy cheese was not bad actually and I am not a big soy fan either. I believe the cheese I got was called "veggie cheese" from SafeWay.
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