Great Vegan Adventure: Day 3

Leftover Pad Thai (no egg, meat) and dark chocolate non nonpareils for breakfast...breakfast of champions? Works for me!

Yesterday, Pep and I went to Whole Foods to check out the vegan selections. I gotta tell you, vegan desserts are not the most appetizing looking but we'll see how the blueberry "cheesecake" and the "cupcake" is. We tried a sample of vegan curry "chicken" salad and, after tasting it, I thought "what's the point?" It doesn't taste like chicken and the consistency of the "chicken" was kind of rubbery. Not great. But we did get a bunch of other interesting things like beet salad with fennel, broccoli salad with garlic and red peppers and garden burgers. I actually like the garden burgers...we had them for lunch today with the beet salad, hummus, toasted pine nuts (which make a good snack), kalamata olives, etc.

Blatant plug alert:

We also bought the vegan tamales from Whole Foods made by my in-laws tamale company, Mexifeast. They distribute them locally to Whole Foods in the Chicago area. I actually have always preferred the vegan tamales over the veggie and cheese ones. So, America, vegan tamales do exist!! And, none of their tamales have lard!

End of blatant plug.

Don't worry...I'll only be paid in kisses from Pep.

Anyway, I was having a hard time seeing everything as I'm getting over this eye malady so we left with our myriad vegan things...which included spicy thai potato chips.

I'm not perfect, OK??

Today, so far so good! Honestly, it's not that big a deal...yet. I'm sure that at some point I'll be missing meat but for now, we're good. It's definitely good to do it together.

I had a voiceover audition today after being housebound with this eye thing. It was great to get out of the house, finally and it's always great to see the other actors I've been auditioning with for over 13 years. Good God...has it been that long? Wow...

My friend Darren asked me "So, what's up with this vegan thing? Come on, your family makes the best tamales...just eat tamales!" (He really did say that, I promise.) "Ooohh..." He lamented, "I always hate to see friends go to the Green side..."

"Don't worry" I assured him. "We make vegan tamales too! Besides, it's only for 40 days."

That seemed to soothe him.

So, after showing my crazy eye around and getting a few laughs out of it, we went and got a ton of vegetables. Tomorrow I'm finally going to make that roasted pepper stuffed with spinach, garlic, raisins and brown rice...or wild rice...mmmm!

I'll let you know how it is...

Cheers!