Day 10 - Days off are nice.

Today was the first day of my week long "time off" I decided to take in between continuing my internship and summer school. I also have seem to created a long list of errands to catch up on while I wasn't working. It was a nice day with minimal agrevations and would have been awesome if I didn't pull something in my lower back. According to the internet it's either kidney disease or will go away in about a month, so I am going with the later.
For dinner I made stir fried vegetables with tofu and buckwheat noodles. Some soy sauces, spices and ginger actually made the vegetables pretty tasty. Boyfriend also ate in the name of eating better and healthier. The bar was set pretty low since he was essentially expecting everything to taste bad. Lowered expectations worked well. Kinda burned, kinda gray looking but it ended up tasting ok.

I guess the hardest part of the day was not just being to grab any snack while running around doing errands. Everything had to be thought out and animal product free for me to eat it. Which I guess why I quit being a vegetarian in the first place. And yes, meat is way more filling as a protein. I have to work a bit harder to not want to eat all the time.

One thing did make me remember being excited about finding "skeptical vegans" online. Now it could mean that they are vegans who are atheists or that they are questioning some of the things that get lumped in with veganism. Just because someone is vegan doesn't mean that they are into yoga, crystal healing, raw food or believe that food has mystical energy. I found some great blogs questioning those ideas in a great ways. I had to also laugh myself when buying a bag of pop corn it declared that it was "Natural" and "Gluten Free". Well Natural means nothing - there are no standard for Natural and pop-corn, well it's kind of a no-brainer that it doesn't contain wheat, required for something to have gluten. Hilarious.