Day Two- chocolate, crisps, and milk

All is not lost friends. I can still eat crisps.

Salt and vinegar ones anyway.

Yesterday morning was the start of day two on my vegantastic adventure and I must say, I haven't been tempted by any non vegan food- I'm not suffering. This diet doesn't make you crave food in the same way others might. You can still eat plenty and in a sort of sneaky way (not many sweets are vegan, and you're eating less of the saturated fat and cholesterol that comes with meat and dairy)you're eating good stuff.

I forgot to eat breakfast yesterday (I frequently do) so I snacked on my carrot sticks and nuts and raisins for the morning and polished off about half my cous cous at lunchtime. I mixed it up with a vegetarian pasta mix but it wasn't great to be honest- the cous cous had lumped together and the sauce was unevenly distributed for the most part, so maybe I'll give the cold cous cous a miss for the rest of the week. I inhaled about five cups of coffee during the day.

I finished off the rest of the cous cous later and ate some more nuts. I've been eating away at the same bag since last week (nuts are a sound investment). I was feeling pretty weak so next on the menu was some bruschetta (toasted bread) with coriander and oil, (toasted under the grill) complete with some chopped tomatoes, drizzling oil and thyme. NOM.

After that I mosied along to the boy's house and pigged on dark chocolate and black coffee with sugar while watching TV. I had a very filling day, to be honest.

I'm starting to wonder about how muc protein you actually need. Apparently it's not that much- I'm not lacking energy and I'm not hungry. I can still eat fun food (before I forget, I ate some salt and vinegar crisps yesterday, as well as that orange flavoured dark chocolate, which I've always loved, luckily). I have about four euro left- I'm still in college though and the gang is talking about getting dinner, so we'll see what kind of dinner a vegan with no money can get (hmmmm).

Today I discovered Alpro Soya Vanilla Yoghurt (well, the boy bought it for me, in what was a surprisingly lovely yoghurt related surprise) and yesterday I tried Soya milk. It was DELICIOUS. It genuinely tastes just as nice as milk (although different, a little sweeter and creamier)- I'd go so far as to say it tastes better. I've been considering its possibility as a mixer in milkshakes. Very excited altogether.