{"id":366,"date":"2009-10-06T14:22:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T19:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2009-10-06T14:22:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T19:22:49","slug":"lunch-whats-a-vegan-mofo-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/lunch-whats-a-vegan-mofo-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch…. What’s a #Vegan Mofo to do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So… I eat at home a lot. A whole lot. I work from home and I have a family. So, on average, I eat 6 dinners, 5 lunches, 6 breakfasts, and a number of various snacks each week. <\/p>\n

Which is a huge change. Two years ago, I ate out for lunch six days a week. Dinner was eaten out six days, too. It’s almost funny, because although we’ve always made an effort to eat as a family, often it was in a restaurant. Often. We did hold Sunday night’s somewhat sacred, though. Those were always our “Family Dinner” nights. We’d cook. At home. From scratch. Every Sunday. <\/p>\n

Was a good plan for the times.<\/p>\n

Now? Nearly every night is “Family Dinner” night. <\/p>\n

And due to that, I often have the luxury (normally it’s a nice thing) to be able to eat leftovers for lunch. But not always. And not always what I have a “taste” for. <\/p>\n

And I know we all need variety. We need to change things up from time to time. I’m actually feeling a little self conscious becuase I sent Todd to work with the same lunch two days in a row. Working on changing THAT up, too. But for me, I’m here. So I can do more to be flexible. <\/p>\n

I might have some “Chicken” Salad<\/a>… on a piece of warm toast… and a salad. <\/p>\n

Or, I might heat up the pannini press and make a kick-ass wrap. My favorite? A BIG vegan wrap… whole wheat, tomato, jalapeno are among my favorites. Put a little veganaise on it… some mustard… maybe some pickles or relish… a slice of vegan cheese… some Tofurkey non-meat deli slices… and give it a few minutes on the paninni press. MMMMMMMM. Good stuff.<\/p>\n

But now I’m reading Vegan Dad’s blog<\/a>. Seems he doesn’t buy the Tofurkey brand stuff. And I know I’m TRYING to cut back… more whole foods, fewer (almost no) packaged ingredients… and steer as clear as I can away from things I can’t pronounce. I give myself a bye when it comes to Seitan and Tempeh… seems there are LOTS of ways to pronounce those words. I’m talking about mono-whatever-gluto-somineate-orbisol type things. And while my word is clearly fictional, the absurdity and incomprehensibility of many “ingredients” is just as absurd. <\/p>\n

So I normally make a salad. Four colors, every day. Cuke? Tomato? Great lettuce? Red onion? Check! Or whatever I’m feeling like that day. <\/p>\n

And then, some soup! Or leftovers! Or a wrap! <\/p>\n

There’s such a long list of great things to eat… Many of which are on this site, with still hundreds of recipe options on other great sites. <\/p>\n

Maybe I’ll do a “lunches” section on the blog… hmmm.<\/p>\n

It’s an idea worth looking into!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which is a huge change. Two years ago, I ate out for lunch six days a week. Dinner was eaten out six days, too. It’s almost funny, because although we’ve always made an effort to eat as a family, often it was in a restaurant. Often. We did hold Sunday night’s somewhat sacred, though. Those were always our “Family Dinner” nights. We’d cook. At home. From scratch. Every Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[180,31,170],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lunch","tag-vegan","tag-vegan-mofo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}