Another Successful Day!

Hello again!

Today was a pretty good day - physically I was feeling pretty good - feeling pretty energetic and happy actually (hmm is this a trend? On the third day of vegan eating the system gets cleared out and energy levels start to rise?)

For breakfast I had my granola with banana and soymilk. I actually didn't have time for lunch today, and so just had my seed/granola/nut/raisin mixture while running around to meetings.
I wasn't able to eat my lunch (stir fryed greens with almonds and kidney beans) until about 4pm!

For dinner we had the casserole I put together last night: brown rice rotini mixed with Annette's Vegan spaghetti sauce (ground kidney beans, carrots and onions as the base) topped with veggie mozza. I must say that I am pretty impressed with how nicely that veggie mozza melts as a topping to some of these casseroles and things!

I am now eating a piece of my pumpkin pie which was still in the freezer from the other day. I still haven't decided if I really like it or not - to me it is just not quite sweet enough.

Also, those crackers that I made out of the leftover pizza "dough" from Sunday night - really taste great the next day!

I can't wait to weigh myself this Friday - I hope the numbers were as good as they were last time.

Finally, I put on a pot of chili for my lunches for the rest of the week:

Annette's Vegan Chili

1 tbsp olive oil
1 chopped onion
1 can red kidney beans drained
1 can pinto beans drained
1 can tomato sauce
1/4 cup red lentils
1/4 cup pearl barley
2 tbsp McCormicks cajun seasoning
1 tbsp chili powder
1tbsp onion powder
1 tsp celery salt
fresh ground black pepper

I usually put some Kraft BBQ sauce in my chili as my mom always used to do, but I
don't really trust it to be used in this regimen. I think it probably has too much sugar.

See you tomorrow!