Shopping
We just got home from grocery shopping and ended up spending 200 bucks! Actually that is pretty good considering we bought some other things as well as food. I took pictures (click on picture to enlarge)!
We also bought a slice of berry cheesecake for Darren, and my dinner (you’ll that down bellow) and soy chocolate mint ice cream (Darren loves the stuff!). It was a lot of money but I sacrifice other things to buy organically.
I had a few walnuts before I made lunch (more than in the picture).
For lunch today I had an open face sandwich w/ mashed up butter beans mixed with olive oil and spices. I topped it with cucumber slices. I also had some mixed green salad w/ Annie’s Cesar dressing (which does have dairy- I’m going to try and cut down but not eliminate… yet).
I also had a serving of organic vegetable crackers (Darren was eating them..).
And 1 slice of grapefruit.
For dinner I had vegan lentil loaf with roasted vegetables and roasted potatoes from Planet Organic. I ate about half the loaf, all the veg and 2 potato wedges.
And of course I had dessert! I got a vegan apricot/nut cookie from planet and paired it with a glass of hempmilk.
I also had a homemade mocha a little bit later in the night (we used chocolate soymilk instead of milk).
It was a yummy day!
Wow, what a grocery load! I am beyond jealous. Your open face sandwich is really creative and delicious-sounding - I really need to try butter beans for the first time.
Red Ruby Vegan- I could buy sooo much more if I had the money to do it… I’m jealous of people that can buy anything and everything! We don’t always spend that much but it is so fun when we do! I really like butter beans… they have a really mild taste, you must try them! Did you see I made your oatmeal “rice” pudding? It was really good!
wonderful grocery load, indeed!! I see hempmilk :0D
your lunch and dinner look divine - I love butter beans!!
Hi Brianne!
I was just wondering if I missed this..but why have you decided to give up dairy? If this is a personal question, I apologize and you don’t have to answer. I was just curious if it was for medical, digestive, or preference reasons.
Caryee- I’ve decided to give up dairy for preference reasons- the more I read about dairy the less appetizing it is. Humans aren’t meant to drink cows milk (obviously is is for calves) and the dairy industry really disturbs me (injects hormones, antibiotics, keeping cows pregnant for their whole lives..). They also make is sound like we *need* dairy to survive.. we don’t. Me and Darren do buy milk, eggs, cheese but it is all organic. I just wanted to see if it made me feel any different when I don’t consume dairy. Its just an experiment really, and I probably wont be totally perfect but it makes sense to me not to have dairy in my diet- it is just difficult to do when it is the normal way to eat! At the very least I’m going to try and reduce to amount I consume. =)
i need to a do a big sweeping grocery trip like this, its worth it right?
Ive tried making lentil loaf and its always a disaster. its either burnt and hard or just a mushy mess. maybe i should just give up and buy it.
Your blog is so fabu, and your little angel=T0 DIE F0R! soooooo precious =] I L0VE Turkey Meatloaf…I can’t handle red meat for some reason…always have a strange after-taste in my mouth. Recently I’ve been eating S0 much less meat in general and I didn’t even realize it! Aaannnyyywayyy, I was wondering if you would mind posting the recipe for the vegan lentil loaf…it looks DEEEELISH! The fact that you can put ketchup on it proves that it’s dynamite…but then again, at least in my world, Ketchup goes with EVERYTHING! Happy Tasting =]