Day 5,6,7.....woot woot! a whole week eating vegan!

Sorry for the lack of posting these past few days. I got lazy over the weekend plain and simple. Here is a recap of the past few days....

Day 5

I had a smoothie for breakfast, leftovers for lunch and for dinner I made what we call Squashed Squash. Squashed Squash is more like a squash soup or stew I suppose but it is an old family recipe that we often eat as a side dish but it is so good we like to eat it as our main with maybe a side of bread. To make Squashed Squash all you do is peel some yellow squash, cut it up into chunks and boil until soft. Next drain most of the water off then add a little salt, pepper, sugar non dairy milk and mash a little with potato masher. That's it. :)

Day 6

Saturday we slept in which was wonderful. By the time we woke up it was almost lunch but I made breakfast anyway. I used this recipe here for vegan pancakes. The only difference I made was that I used almond milk instead of soy and applesauce instead of oil. These were light and fluffy and really quiet yummy. I am thinking I may pre mix my dry ingredients and keep in a container so I can make this quickly in the future.

We ended up running some errands Saturday afternoon so we went out to eat. I was a little nervous about finding something on the menu that would actually  fill me up since I was starving by then. We choose Red Robin and I ordered their vegan burger with quacamole and substituted fruit for fries. I must say it was very tasty and satisfying. I was very thrilled once again that I could still go out with my family and eat at one of our favorite places.

Part of running errands included picking up this beauty!

I don't have a food processor, my blender is on the fritz and I don't have a stand mixer. A great deal of the vegan recipes I find include using one of these and this Ninja Kitchen System 1100 does it all. I made homemade dog food, smoothies and brownies in it already and it works perfect!

Day 7
I made breakfast burritos yesterday morning. They were not fancy burritos but they were still tasty. All I did was cook some onions and peppers, then added some crumbled extra firm tofu to act as my "eggs". When that was all cooked I moved them to the side and added my hash browns.

Once the hash browns were cooked I mixed it all together and heated up the whole grain tortillas by simply placing them on top of the mixture for about 30 seconds.

The rest of yesterday we just kind of snacked around all day. I had mostly fruit and leftovers.

So that brings us to today and I have been on a vegan diet for a whole week! I think I am pretty much over the detox and honestly I feel pretty good. I feel lighter and cleaner than I did before going vegan and my thyroid and insulin resistance side effects have been less than normal.

Today school was canceled due to it being too cold so I will be trying to get my Monday housework done while keeping the kids under control. lol

Have a marvelous Monday everyone!