First Day at 100%

Woot!  Today, Sunday October 6th 2013, was my first day eating WFPB 100%.  I consider 100% on plan right now to be in compliance with the McDougall regular (not MWL) plan.

To be sure, I was craving both honey-roasted cashews and coke today. But I persevered (mostly because its Sunday and I hadn't bought either ahead of time). 

My goals for this week are:

1. At least one day of 100% compliance (check!)
2. Try at least one new recipe (check!)
3. Be mindful about eating dinner before nuts, so that they don't substitute for dinner

For goal #1, I decided to make a recipe from Susan Voisin's blog Fat Free Vegan.  I made her Creamy Vegan Broccoli and Rice Casserole:

 

Unfortunately, it didn't taste as good as I had hoped. Lest you be turned off to Susan's awesome recipes though, I attribute this to two factors:

 

1. My taste buds have not yet changed sufficiently that I thoroughly enjoy WFPB foods.

 

2. I don't know how to spice foods for flavor, and I regularly leave spices out if I don't have them on hand or don't think I'll like them.... in this case I omitted salt, pepper and smoked paprika.

 

 

I also had a Yamburger on Dave's Goodseed Killer Bread, with lettuce, tomato, pickle & mustard. And frozen grapes...



 

 

...for breakfast and for dinner.

 

And I had dried apricots. And water. And nothing else.

 

 

So my friends, this is a momentous occasion! My first day of 100% WFPB eating. I can do this. I got this! Yeah!