Challenge of the day: finding vegan choices at a restaurant. It is a lot more difficult than I had thought. I knew it would be hard but usually restaurants really offer options to cater to as many people as possible. The funky thing about vegan food, is that it's more than just no meat, it is no animal products what so ever - no eggs, cheese, cream, milk, etc.

As I've said before, I'm not 100% vegan yet. As made quite evident by my splurge of an iced espresso with a splash of half and half... yes milk is most definitely and obviously an animal product. I'm still sticking with 100% vegetarian but having some difficulties with the vegan part.

So back to the challenge of restaurants... Met a couple friends for lunch at a Sushi place, which is one of the kinds of places I think of a stereotypical restaurant choice for vegetarians, since there are so many options. But, I hate seafood, I hate seaweed, and therefore I can't stand sushi :D Hench my predicament.... Basically for lunch I had edemame!! Also I enjoyed a plate of veggies tempura which probably doesn't exactly fit in with my idea of 'whole foods' since it is friend... or something. To be honest I'm not entirely sure what tempura really is, but I can tell you it is really good! :) I love it!! But my point is, those two items are the best thing I can find on the menu that fit with my general diet restrictions and tastes... TWO ITEMS?!?! From an entire menu, I have found two items. Technically they do have vegetarian fried rice but I'm also not sure what all goes in to that or goes in to making that so I'm not sure if it's truly vegan.

Overall, The Sushi Place (at Freedom Crossing) is a great place and I love the atmosphere. I admit I really do love my two options, but at the same time I'm a bit bummed I only have two options. It is a challenge, but also one I'm going to rise to! I now feel the need to branch out of my comfort zone and really go out in to the town to find restaurants that have options that I can actually eat! Any suggestions?? :)