So...what "do" you eat?

That is a question I have been getting the past few weeks from my friends.

One of my wonderful friends asked me one day what I was having for dinner.

I said something like "lentils with onions and roasted broccoli on the side"

She looked at me and said "that's just a bunch of sides"

Well...yeah.  But that really is all about perspective and changing up your thinking a bit.

So what do I eat?

• Fruit
• Veggies
• Legumes
• Nuts
• Seeds
• Oil (in the form of extra virgin olive oil)
• Water
• Coconut Water
• Tea
• Coffee
• Soy Creamer
• Vegan Sugar

I eat organic where I can - I try really hard to keep it organic - I try really hard to stay way from those pesticides and GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) products.

I also prefer to eat as close to the Earth as I can - I could very easily go into the faux meat/cheese/frozen foods and live perfectly Vegan.  But part of the Vegan lifestyle I am enjoying is the fresh produce.  

This week's groceries include:

• bananas
• apples
• 1 grapefruit
• 1 avocado
• porcini mushrooms
• 1 onion
• 1 sweet potato
• organic raw trail mix
• dried beans
• coconut water
• butternut squash
• Hillary's Eat Well Veggie Bites from the frozen food dept 
• watermelon
• cantaloupe
• carrots
• hummus

The mushrooms and onion will be sauteed sometime this weekend and put into a soup that will include butternut squash and beans.  A big pot of that will keep me fed all week.

I haven't got into a lot of recipes yet .... when first starting out on this Vegan adventure I knew that to make it "stick" I needed to make it simple for myself and not try to cook every night.  That may very well change - I do have a couple of cookbooks arriving next week from Amazon.