Steakhouse Success

My second big lunch meeting since going vegan, and the challenge was a little daunting...Lone Star Steakhouse. I'd only been there once before, when Husband and I were dating. The food was delicious (this was WAY before I went veg), but the waitress sat down at our table to take our order (always a restaurant turn-off, in my opinion) and the service was slower than slow. So I was looking forward to seeing if I'd have a better experience the second time around and how I would fare.

It was easier than I thought. When we sat down, they had little buckets of peanuts in the shell set out for snacking. Protein - check! For lunch I ordered a dinner salad minus the cheese with balsamic vinaigrette and a plain baked sweet potato. Success! At a steakhouse, even!

A Small Victory

Today, my co-workers and I went to a pizza buffet for lunch. This was my first experience dining out since the first of the year when I decided to really focus on eating vegan. I was a little worried about what I might be able to eat.

I consider the lunch a success. I started with a big salad (lettuce, tomato, peas, cucumber and sunflower seeds with light Italian dressing). My second plate was corn and three (very large) potato wedges. That's it. Now, the corn very likely had butter on it (I didn't ask) and I have no idea what was really in the batter/breading on the potatoes...but I didn't have any cheese pizza or cheese breadsticks! That is a major deal for me. I actually, successfully avoided cheese!!