toasted homemade bread; fruit salad of banana and peach

leftover tofu lasagna; valencia orange

carrot; generic brand fig newtons from cvs

vegetarian burrito from chipotle (they started charging $1.75 for guacamole, so i brought it home and added my own avocado); belgian-style wheat beer that i helped brew a couple months ago; watermelon

gallo pinto with mango; banana

split pea soup and everything bread from freezer; valencia orange

sweet potato-carrot-guava muffin; carrot

steamed spinach, boiled potato, steamed green beans, pan-fried tofu, brown rice, instant peanut sauce from indonesia (a westernized version of gado-gado); session lager; dried pineapple

handful of chocolate chips; chocolate chip banana bread, recipe from ’1,000 vegan recipes’

cheerios with agave, ground flax, and soy milk (kind of tasted like honey nut cheerios)

cherries

cherry tomatoes; pb&j with skippy creamy peanut butter and strawberry jam; gala apple. i was babysitting, and between cooking/observing the consumption of delicious-looking buttermilk pancakes and chocolate cupcakes (both from mixes and definitely not vegan) i treated myself to a few extra spoonfuls of skippy. so processed… but so delicious

carrot; cherries

pizza from whole foods with marinara, daiya soy-free cheese, black olives, grilled portabellas; pumpkin bread with cranberries, made by a friend from ’1,000 vegan recipes’

cheerios and toasted Os with soy milk

1/2 vegetarian burrito from chipotle (all four salsas!); dried mango

other 1/2 of chipotle burrito; dogfish head 60 minute ipa

chocolate covered banana chips, cherries, medjool date at HEB

a crumb of a cupcake made from the spicy chocolate cake recipe in ’1,000 vegan recipes.’ they are goodbye cupcakes for a coworker whose last day of work is tomorrow. i refrained from eating a whole bunch of them straight out of the oven. the crumb was delicious

blueberry corn pancakes from ‘veganomicon,’ tofurkey sausage

creamy peanut butter, strawberry preserves, blueberry lime preserves in a whole wheat tortilla; strawberries

seasoned fries; goose island sophie, goose island matilda, budweiser at nevin’s irish pub in evanston (go hawks!)

dinner made by my mom: cornbread from ‘veganomicon’; salad with trader joe’s low fat balsamic vinaigrette; portabella stuffed with tofu, leek, and almond (recipe from ‘moosewood restaurant cooking for health’); sweet potato, apple, and chipotle soup (also from ‘moosewood’); fresh apricots; trader joe’s chocolate soy ice cream; one of each chocolate chip cookie from the cookie experiment of a few days ago

apple; graham crackers

toasted sesame bagel with tofutti cream cheese and raspberry preserves; mix of hazelnut and gingerbread black teas from adagio tea, with rice milk

all from trader joe’s: demi baguette, horseradish hummus, tomato, giant white beans in tomato sauce, kiwi, navel orange

half an abc ginger snappin’ raisin cookie (it’s the seasonal flavor and was very good but no rival to luscious lemon poppyseed); metropolis coffee from hallowed grounds

dinner made by my mom: quinoa and sweet potatoes with spinach and currants from ‘moosewood restaurant cooking for health’; fruit salad with pineapple, strawberries, mango, blackberries; red wine

a cookie experiment: whole wheat chocolate chip cookies from ‘vegan cookies invade your cookie jar’ but divided in two, half made according to the recipe and half made with a substitution of applesauce for most of the canola oil. both were satisfying, but the full fat version was definitely more satisfying; soy milk