Vegmom Moments

No Eat Out Challenge Revisited

Just realized I haven't updated on my quest to avoid eating out..  I can't say that I've been successful in a complete revolt to making the shift. 

But I have made a conscious effort to do it less.  I've also figured out how to make my own Frozen Coffee drinks, while adding greens and cacao to get that extra nutrient love!   

I've saved money and plastic waste from coffee stops.

At home I can use Glass Cups and Glass Straws, less waste, less guilt!

With having the Juicer now, I will no longer have to stop for Juice, saving money and waste = less guilt!

So I can't say I'm THERE.. but the past couple weeks have really made me realize how wasteful I was prior.  And I'm going to continue that effort to move away from convenience stops.

Except when traveling, when I have visitors, or when Hubby and I need a lunch date, or...... OK see how hard this is??

My thought is that with 2-3 new tries a week, I'll eventually have so many food choices at home, I won't even want to eat out.  And can tell you, I'm almost there...

So how are you doing?

 

 

New Tries for the Week

Some new things we've tried recently that I must share...

While visiting a local Gluten Free store, I found these awesome Pure Wrap Coconut Wraps:

You will notice that the bag is EMPTY!  Sadly, they only come with 4 per bag, and I used them pretty quickly. 

They had a slight coconut flavor, and I filled them with Veggie yummies topped with Choosing Raw's Sweet and Salty Avocado Dressing...  I found this to be the perfect combination of tastes, and now find my self craving them...

I also found these at the Gluten Free store for my two favorite Males......  How come no one told me that Justin's now had Peanut Butter Cups???.. The boys were in Heaven...

And THIS... This will change my eating life, I'm sure of it.....The Girls at Pure2raw have been posting about their Socca Love for a while now, and I finally decided to give it a try.  While at the GF store, I found some Garbanzo Flour... the rest is history!

I made mine rather plain with just a little bit of cinnamon, and pancake size on our electric Skillet:

I added a little mango salad and made the yummiest sandwich;

I also had Hummus on Socca, plain Socca and Dipped in dressing Socca.... it was a Socca Saturday!

For sure I will make more of these and add more tasty ingredients each time.  Thank You to the Twins at pure2raw for sharing such wonderful Yummies!

See... I told you, I was back!!  Even filled up the bulk section of my kitchen... Those jars were feeling empty and sad for a little too long.

As for my No-Eating out Challenge.... Well.. I decided not to wait until May.  I was going to make every effort to eat out Less this month too...

The weekend's test went fairly well, and then today came... I looked at my work calendar and Vavoom..

"Lunch Meeting off site" 

TODAY AND TOMORROW!!!  Ack!!! 

That put a Kabosh on my plans!   However, the choice of restaurants was mine, so I picked a Vegan friendly place, and got the biggest freshest salad with tons of greens and yummy veggies.  So I can't complain too badly!

Maybe I can start with that Conscious no eating out effort on Wednesday... *wink*  Hey.. I tried!!!

 

 

 

Thinking of a Challenge

Could I NOT eat out for 30 Days? Hmmm...Month of May... A Challenge...I'm just thinking...

Could you? Would you?