Day Seven

No pictures again today. It's been a very busy day of running errands and doing some housework. I had my favorite banana peanut butter toast this morning with a cup of coffee. I ended up just eating a handful of cashews in the afternoon while I made the family's dinner (corned beef with all the trimmings). When I was done making their dinner, I cleaned up that mess and made my dinner. I found a recipe in a vegan cookbook that I own for Kung Pow! Tofu. I liked it but it was a little too spicy for my taste. If I make it again I may eliminate the red pepper flakes all together. I also used maple syrup, real maple syrup, in place of the hickory syrup since I was unable to find hickory syrup locally. I made some Trader Joe's vegetable fried rice to have with it. That ended up being my lunch and dinner today since I was so busy. I still had to clean up all the mess from my dinner. On top of that the guys in the house asked me to make them a chocolate cake, which I did. The smell of it baking drove me nuts! But I was good and didn't cave in and eat any. Thankfully I had bought Trader Joe's chocolate coconut milk ice cream and I snacked on a little of that. It was delicious! I will definitely buy that again, whether I end up staying a vegan or not. So I survived another day of eating vegan and this brings an end to my first complete week. Yay me! Only five more weeks to go.....