AA, I try to dispel it, and over a year, I guess I'm soda free about five months. I limit myself to one 12 oz can or glass bottle (Mexican Coke, the real reason I can't give it up). I aim for one-two days a week with soda water and juice spritzers instead of cola. I've never had a kidney stone, but I've had infections, so the memory of that great joy keeps me on track. You have mentioned a few time about cost. I'm off to open a sticky for veg on the cheap. We need it. Today's awesome breakfast was two warm tortillas with red pepper hummus. To keep on topic and all. ;P
leftover homemade vegan tofurky soysage, spinach, vegan cheese, tomato sauce and mushroom pizza i have one slice left!
COOKIES! yeah! i'ma make cookies today too! peanutbutter oatmeal dried cranberries.. maybe i should take a pic!
i second this!! i made myself some tacos for breakfast. refried beans, daiya vegan 'cheese' and spinach.. :drool5: and hot sauce!
i did not make vegan pizza with my dough today, but rather pitas the first two didn't puff [impatient man not wait for oven to heat up] so i ate them flat, dunked in olive oil and minced garlic mmm [and plenty of pitas for later]
as befits my reawakened interest in japanese food, i had for breakfast: cold cucumber slices with a sauce of dashi [kelp water], rice vinegar, soy sauce, and sesame paste chickpeas [gotta finish the buggers off], carrot slices and kelp simmered in dashi, soy sauce, and mirin rice was very lucky to discover a cache of kelp from years back, stuff keeps forever . . .
2 large cucumbers, sliced...or 6 cups 2 cups onion, sliced 3 cups cider vinegar 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup water. Peeling cucumbers is optional. Slice cucumbers and onions. Dissolve sugar in vinegar and water. Pour over cucumbers. Serve cold. (More onions and cucumbers can be added to vinegar mixture later.)
am back to eating simple-stuff-in-a-bowl, the japanese thing was no fun w/o miso rice, chickpeas, daikon, cook together, a TB of tahini, TB of lemon juice, little salt that's the ticket . . .
right now eating cabbage & sweet potatoes cooked with tomato, onion, garlic, ginger, cumin, coriander, chiles and turmeric on rice with toasted sesame seeds, turmeric, chiles, mustard seeds oh, nice . . .
Made my first gravy from scratch, with veggie sausage and eaten with biscuits. Plotting and planning for a spinach lasagna recipe I got from a piece of PETA propaganda. Strange people, but good recipes.
My mum made some pasta and sauce, and we had it with grated cheese and vegetarian meatballs... it was so simple and easy but I liked it better than all the chocolate and crap I normally eat
I gave blood 2 days ago, and today I had an extreme craving in the grocery store. I wound up buying a big box of fresh spinaches that barely made it home. Munchmunchmunch... Yeah, my iron's low.