Day Four

I've had a really busy week between two jobs, an impending illness which I happened to wake up with yesterday, and just life in general. However, when I made a commitment to being vegan for lent, I also made a commitment to this blog.

It's been a great few days in terms of food. I've had Pho Chay (vegetable pho with tofu and vegetable broth) TWICE, from Pho Horns in Pawtucket. I've had vegan (read: gelatin and animal broth-free) chow mein from Luke's in Warren, and I've tried out a few local coffee/breakfast places and some of the items from my last post.

We'll start with my favorite: Pho Chay. Crispy tofu, mushrooms, snap peas, baby corn, water chestnuts, carrots, celery, broccoli, zucchini and summer squash swimming in a delicious vegetable broth with vermicelli (rice noodles). I've eaten this twice in one week for a few reasons: 

1. YUM.

2. It's a serious comfort food for me.

3. This one bowl, the size of my head or larger, is $8 and I got two meals out of both of my trips to Pho Horns.

White Electric Coffee, I can't express how much I love you. You're in my neighborhood, you have some of the best bagels I've ever eaten, and offer Tofutti cream cheese and Earth Balance as toppings. AND you can add avocado. Holy moly, and not to mention they have some really killer soy lattes that save me a trip to Starbucks and make me feel like I'm contributing a bit to local shops.

I woke up to a nice surprise from my roommate yesterday. She made a green smoothie with spinach, kiwi, apples, avocado, bananas, and magic. It tasted like a little bit of green smoothie heaven.

I know, I know. I've mentioned my love for bagels a few times. This morning when I had somewhat of an appetite finally, I tested out a toasted everything bagel with one half Earth Balance, and one half Go Veggie chive and garlic cream cheese. I vote cream cheese, all the way. I could eat this every day.

SoDelicious Coconut Milk Fudge Bars Minis are just that: SO DELICIOUS. I've had two of the four in the box in just two days. I'll say that it's because of my sore throat, but let's be real. They taste like Caramel Delight Girl Scout cookies, or as some of my friends refer to them: Samoas. 

As of now, I'm working on feeling better and searching out a few vitamin supplements I can take to help balance out this pretty sudden shock to my diet.