Vegan Challenge - Days 1-5

Day 1 - We stopped off at a Pizza Hut for lunch. This was OK, because I checked their website and their Italian style pizza bases are vegan, as are many of their sides. So I had a vegetarian hot one pizza (no cheese), breaded mushrooms and a salad bowl. Easy. We didn’t have an evening meal as we were still full of pizza (HTB had a vanilla slice and a latte for an afternoon snack. I just had an espresso).

Day 2 - Breakfast - had bran flakes with orange juice on them and beans on toast with tomato and mushrooms on the side. Lunch - HTB wanted Fish and Chips since we were in Blackpool. So I just had chips and mushy peas. The chips weren’t that great, but I guess we have very high standards, being from Grimsby In the afternoon, HTB had an ice cream and I had a fruit lolly.

Day 3 - Breakfast - same as day 2. Today we headed up from Blackpool to the Lake District. We stopped at Lancaster which has a great Holland and Barrett store. I stocked up on soya desserts. For lunch I had vegetable soup and a roll. In the evening I had a black bean vegetable stir fry with rice, which was yummy. HTB had this really gross looking lamb. Normally, I don’t care about people eating meat around me, but watching him perform micro surgery to remove the fat made me feel a bit queasy.

Day 4 - Breakfast - as before, but with museli instead of bran flakes. Lunch - apple, dried fruit, almonds (we went on a walk which took most of the afternoon, so I took my emergency rations). Evening meal - minestrone soup, Mushroom pizza (no cheese), mixed salad. I have a nasty feeling that the salad dressing had honey in it, even though it didn’t say anything on the menu. I am not very good at sending things back, so I ate it anyway In future I will take care to quiz the staff about dressings.

Day 5 - Breakfast - as yesterday. Lunch was a roasted vegetable panini with no cheese. By evening we had got home, so I just had a hummous and salad sandwich. It was total bliss to be able to prepare my own food, and I thought eating out was meant to be a luxury!