Week One Summary

The daily blog has failed somewhat as I was away from home from Friday until Monday evening and too much has happened in those days for me to recall enough to catch up on some daily blog writing.

I had a few days where I wasn't really enjoying my food, but this was mainly due to it being bad food. I had one meal with browning vegetables (which I hate) that I binned followed by several asian meals that didn't quite get it right. I mostly disliked the choice of vegetables (I would have replaced most of the crunchy vegetables in my thai green curry with sweet potato).

Things got better at the beer festival where I had the choice of wonderful cheeses and falafels again. I also went to some parties where lots of vegetarian food was on offer which was great.

The morning after the party my friends cooked me a vegetarian fry-up with Quorn Bacon and some kind of vegetarian sausages. The Quorn Bacon was nice enough, tasted a lot like the bacon flavour you get on crisps and the sausage was almost like a cheap sausage anyway (they are made with lots of wheat, like cheap sausages) – I don't like cheap sausages, but this food was nice enough.

I grabbed some pasta and a tomato sauce for dinner that night, been there and done this many times before.

My next day took me to a Chiquitos where I had bruchetta with sweetcorn and black beans and a vegetable chilli burrito. This food was very average, but the same was said by the meat eaters at the table.

I am getting more and more annoyed at restaurants that don't mark what food is vegetarian on their menus. There are many foods where it is very ambiguous if something will be vegetarian or not, a caesar salad as an example. It may have chicken in it and the sauce may or may not contain fish.

Dear restaurants, please please please put some damn Vs on your menus, it can't be that hard?

Overall things are going well, I'd like to do some more cooking and eat in some more vegetarian restaurants so it doesn't just feel like I am eating the same things. I want this to be an opportunity to learn to love vege food, not just live with it.

I have agreed to another week as my flatmate wants to join me for a while but ha been eating his supply of frozen meats.

My most amusing part of the week was when I was shopping for cheese, ticked the vegetarian box and watched over two thirds of the list vanish.