It was definitely an interesting weekend. I won’t bore you with all the details, but it was crazy. The good part was seeing my grandparents and aunt’s and uncles. The downside, my poor grandparents were living in filth and we only got about half as much done as we would have liked to in cleaning it. At least my grandmother has enough room now to walk with her walker from her bedroom to her livingroom and is no longer looking at piles of dust filled trash in every corner of the livingroom.

Anyway, let me change the subject to food. It was very difficulty eating vegan on the road. I had my handy-dandy restaurant guide, which, unfortunately wasn’t much help. We stopped at Carl’s Jr. on the way to my grandparents. I thought great! I will get a salad bar and maybe a baked potato. Unfortunately, not every Carl’s Jr. has these items so I ended up eating crisscut fries (the only vegan item on the menu). We picked up dinner at Stater’s Brothers where I was able to get a veggie sandwich. It appeared that they had quite a few vegan options in their deli case, but I was too tired to inquire about everything so I got a side of fruit to go with my sandwich.

The hotel we stayed at (Super stated that they had a continental breakfast in the morning. I thought, well at least I should be able to get fresh fruit for breakfast. I was amazed that they did not have fresh fruit out in the morning. The only items they had were Otis Spunkmeier muffins (definitely not vegan) and raisin bagels. So I opted for the high sugar bagels because at least they didn’t have dairy products. For lunch I went to an old standby, Taco Bell, where I had my favorite, tostada no cheese add guac. And for dinner I went to Olive Garden and had the Capellini Pomodoro and Minestrone Soup. I was happy that the soup didn’t use vegetable broth and the breadsticks use are coated in margarine not butter. Unfortunately, their house salad dressing has cheese which is why I went with the soup.

The next more I got another lovely dry raisin bagel and for lunch had leftover Capellini Pomodoro. Last night we went to Denny’s for dinner and I figured I could have the spaghetti, but Denny’s revised their menu and no longer serve spaghetti as an option. So I went with the boca burger, which was hopefully vegan and the only item on the menu not dripping in animal products.

I am soooooo glad to be home and look forward to making a big healthy salad for dinner tonight. We got our first ripe tomato and a bunch more cucumber today. It is supposed to be 105 outside today so I doubt that I will be cooking much for a day or two. Just lot’s of fresh fruits, salads and veggie sandwiches.

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