On Friday, I waited at the Edible Insect Banquet as part of the Adult Swim: Sustainability Sideshow fundraiser at the museum. I'm not one to pass up on eating insects and we had a professional chef come and make all the meals soooo that meant trying lots of non-vegan foods (although I do think insects fit well into vegan philosophies - they're so so so sustainable to raise/eat. Everyone go read Edible by Daniella Martin - I am serious.) The insects were the least of my concerns - I think the bigger faux-pas was the traditional vegan no-nos. The chef disguised the insects in several dishes with lots of dairy and, of course, bacon. So, Friday was a very not vegan day but lots of fun eating all around! Please read this article about the event.
On Saturday, Joe went with me to sell some clothes at Plato's Closet. When you sell clothes at Plato's Closet you have to wait like an hour for them to sort through your stuff and give you an offer (I made a wopping $4.80 from this endeavor, FYI). So what were we supposed to do for an hour? Go get a cookie. Well, actually, this all started because being in this part of town was the perfect excuse to FINALLY try out a french bakery I've been meaning to check out for like a year, vegan or not. Joe and I picked out this awesome almond croissant to split and we were checking out, debit card in hand, when the cashier informed us that they only take cash. Womp womp. They had an ATM but that would turn a $3 croissant into a $6 dollar croissant and is that worth it? No. We were disappointed and revved up about sugar so we were bad and went to Barnes & Noble for a s'mores cookie. IT WAS AWESOME.
It's Monday now and I am back on the vegan train. Justin's nut butters were a whole FOUR dollars off at Hy-Vee on Sunday (making the $12 jars $8 - still not cheap, but cheap enough for a treat)!!! Please try their butters if you have not. So good! And much less sugar than other nut butters (i.e. Nutella, which is basically frosting).They're just way too expensive to get without some sort of sale. We stocked up on the chocolate hazelnut butter and the maple almond.
We'll see if these jars make it through the week.
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