Days 2: vegan != healthy

I decided for Wednesday to be my "vegan day" - both this week and last.

I kind of messed it up, though, because I had gum and I don't think that's vegan. Although after reading the following on PETA's website, I feel much better:

"People who have made the compassionate decision to stop eating animal flesh, eggs, and dairy products may wonder if they need to read every ingredient to check for tiny amounts of obscure animal products. Our general advice is not to worry too much about doing this. ..."

PETA's stance is less hardcore and a lot more reasonable than I would have thought. Basically they believe that refusing to eat foods just because they have like... 0.00001% animal stuff is kind of extreme. I mean, people do it, and I have nothing against that; however, I am speaking for myself. Making efforts to avoid animal derived products sounds while not worrying about trace amounts is a good approach, and I am going to take that approach on my vegan days.

(it also will make ordering at restaurants much easier!)

Anyway, on vegan day last week I gorged on vegan "junk food" - apple chips and snapeas crips. Both are SO good and I finished the whole bag, which amounts to FIVE apples and I don't even know how many snapeas. But those things did NOT taste healthy. According to the snapea site it's 12% dv of fat per serving. Yikes.

Needless to say, vegan does not equal healthy. Not necessarily. For dinner I made Simple Sesame Noodles, courtesy of The Pioneer Woman Cooks, since I wasn't too hungry after my peanut butter & banana breakfast and junk food crisis lunch!