Vegan Junk Food

Two nights ago I had my first experience with vegan-sanctioned junk food. I went out to a local vegan restaurant with Grace and Brooke that I've always wanted to try. The menu was amazing and varied and I’m super excited to go back. However, I made the mistake of ordering junk food. I ordered the mega nacho plate, which the menu described as corn chips with black beans, pico de gallo, peppers, avocado, vegan cheese & sour cream, and olives. Yum! I pictured it loaded with beans and veggies, but “sprinkled” would be a better descriptor. Turns out that this dish was about 80% corn chips, 20% other stuff. I really had to dig around to find the black beans I’d been craving and vegan cheese is still greasy.

I’ll order something different next time. “Next time” should be in the near future, because I discovered yesterday that this restaurant has a Groupon special and said special was ON SALE. Score!

I’ve been having lots of fun with smoothies all week. Avocados errrrrywhere. Today on the TODAY show they said that an avocado a day keeps the doctor away. I am thinking about getting this tattooed on my body. I also ordered a big bag of chia seeds off Amazon (they’re like half the price of the grocery store, kids!) and made the mistake of trying to blend them into a smoothie. Since chia seeds expand and get sticky when wet, this just caused them all to glue onto the blender blade which was wasteful and hard to clean. I explained this to Joe and he then explained to me that you always put the chia seeds in AFTER you blend the smoothie, ya dingus. Right. Got it.

Today we had an all staff cleaning day at the museum, complete with pizza lunch. I decided to have the pizza becaaaaaause my plan had been to come home and use up some cheese for lunch anyway. Might as well eat it there. No harm, no foul.

But I still have a giant bag of cheese to get rid of.