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I really can’t say that I miss meat all that much. Granted it does make deciding what to order at restaurants a bit more difficult, but not so much that it’s impossible. I have done really well in avoiding all things that contain meat, and cutting down on milk/dairy products. I still need to find some soy milk, and I think that is going to take a trip over to Sunflower Market.

I have only screwed up once this week, and I had a slice of pizza that had a bit of pepperoni and sausage on it. Overall, I would say that this is turning into a big success.

I had a tough time at Dennys tonight. I went with a bunch of friends from work. Since I’m trying to save some money, I thought it would be a good idea to get two, two dollar items, instead of one six dollar item. It was definitely a good idea on the saving money part, but my I guess my menu reading wasn’t quite adequate. My biscuits came out covered in gravy, with shredded sausage on top of the gravy. I ended up scraping off all of the sausage, and most of the gravy and just eating the biscuits. It was still decent (although I am feeling a little sick now).

Cravings for meat haven’t been bad at all. I had the urge for a double whopper with cheese earlier in the week, but I was just hungry at the time, and then it passed. What I have had a huge craving for is peanut butter. It is so amazing on everything. I’m going to pick some up that doesn’t have trans-fat in it when I get the soy milk.

Here is some meatless deliciousness that I made a few days ago. I called it ‘eggs in a basket with peanut butter and syrup’ It was seriously amazing:

Ingredients List:

• Small bit of butter for the pan.
• 2 pieces of wheat bread.
• 2 Eggs
• Peanut butter for spread.
• As much syrup as you would like.
• A Fry Pan
• About 10 minutes.

Cooking Instructions:

1. Cut a 3″(ish) hole in each piece of bread, with a knife.
2. Heat butter in pan. Coat evenly.
3. Add bread to pan.
4. Crack 1 egg in each piece of bread.
5. Wait for bread to toast on one side, then flip.
6. Toast other side of bread, egg should be finishing up about now as well.
7. Remove from heat, slather with peanut butter. coat in syrup.
8. Eat!

There it is, all done. This meal was SUPER filling, so if you aren’t very hungry consider making this amount for two, or just cooking one for yourself.

Another successful day of Vegetarianism. I watched some very disturbing videos last night about the meat industry. These just re-affirmed my decision to go without meat. The Conklin Farms video makes me want to drop dairy as well though. I can’t stand the thought of contributing to that type of torture and abuse. The video was seriously hard to stomach, in fact I didn’t make it all the way through it. Never will I understand what possesses someone to abuse animals in that fashion. I do feel a little bit better knowing that my quiet, passive protest will go towards stopping abuse like that. I only wish I could see the difference that we are making. Some statistics or numbers about animals saved due to vegetarians would be VERY re-assuring.

Todays Eats.

Breakfast: Captain Crunch w/Cruncberries and milk (I’m buying soy milk tomorrow. It’s on my list of things to do). The usual coffee, which from here on out, I will call ‘the shot in the dark’ because that is what it is called at my beloved coffeeshop, coffeepod. Medium coffee, w/2 shots of espresso and 1 raw sugar.

Lunch: Peanut butter / jelly, water to drink.

Dinner: Bajio chimichanga w/o meat. It was mostly just black beans, mexican rice in a tortilla, deep fried. black beans on the side as well. Lemonade to drink.

Weirdly today, I didn’t have any snacks, I just had the above food and a lot of water. Also forgot to take my multivitamin today.

Today was good! I successfully avoided dairy entirely for one of my meals, and yes I consider this an improvement. Today was also interesting because I had two separate cravings, one at about mid-day for a chicago style hot dog (which still sounds delicious.. i’m going to need to look into veggie dogs), and one for alaskan king crab at about 7pm. I think the crab craving was mostly just because I was hungry, and someone in the office was eating some sort of delicious smelling fish, oh well.

I remembered to take my multi-vitamin this morning, so things are already looking better. I can see myself starting to lose weight too.. schwing!

Today’s Eats.

Breakfast: Bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch (the last of it. *sadface ), and milk. (I really need to find some soy milk); and a medium coffee with two shots of espresso and one packet of raw sugar (mmm delicious.. i love coffeepod in provo!)

Lunch: Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich, String Cheese, and Fresca.

Dinner: 6″ Veggie Delight with no cheese on honey oat. That tasted pretty good, I was actually pretty surprised. It had:  Lettuce, red onions, banana peppers, cucumbers, jalepenos, and deli mustard. I also had water with this meal.

The veggie delight left me hungry 2 hrs later, so i had to have 2nd dinner: 1 small bowl of instant oatmeal (2 packets), of cinnamon/spice. with water to drink.

I also had some cheez-its when i got home, which I found out do NOT contain animal lard. The only animal product there is the cheese.

This really hasn’t been too hard.. then again it’s too early to tell, i’m just wrapping up day three. One of the major benefits I’m starting to see is that I am forced to make a conscious decision about what I eat, once I start thinking about it, I make better choices.

Todays Eats:

Breakfast: A bowl of cinnamon toast crunch with dairy milk (i haven’t been to the store yet to get some soy milk), and coffee with two shots of espresso, a dash of cream and some raw sugar.

Lunch: Small Peanut-butter and jelly sandwich, string cheese, and fresca.

Dinner: Bowl of easy-mac, and water.

I also had some cheez-its later on in the day. Man, this would be REALLY hard to do if I was also giving up all things dairy. I had dairy in every single one of my meals today. That is gong to be tough to cut if the time comes.

I have been meaning to get back on my multi-vitamin, but my morning routine as far as eating goes is usually second nature. I’m going to try hard to remember that tomorrow though. As far as ‘how I feel’ goes, I feel pretty good, but I can’t say that I feel significantly better than when I was eating meat. Are you even supposed to feel better after you stop eating meat? I guess we’ll see.