Going Cold Tofurkey

I'm afraid my blog is going to become an eating journal :) I always have a lot to talk about, so I'll just have to try and keep it interesting...Today marks day 4 of the vegan life. I have been 100% true to the no animal product rule...I will admit, however, that I have been much more lenient with Alana...having let her eat Sun Chips today, as well as buying her donuts. The donuts were more to get out of the store without causing any more of a scene :) I hid them away, and hopefully she will forget about them--and so will I. Justin is doing really well at home, although he has eaten turkey (a definite animal) and lasagna (who could resist a grandma's version of your favorite meal ever?) on the ship...but he's still super excited about it, because he's eating more fruits and veggies...I went to bed last night wanting some ice cream, but I woke up feeling more energetic than I have in a while. Maybe it's my body talking me into sticking with this. Who knows? Justin said we definitely need to find a soy ice cream or something, because we are both in love with it. I still have 2 cans of Coke in my refrigerator. Justin said we need to pour them out...I say it's good for me to see them and be able to reach for the water instead. He says that I'm crazy. I'm sure he's right. I'd rather give them away than pour them out. Remember, I can't bear to pay more than $3 for a 12-pack?! The headaches have seemingly subsided...I'm becoming more creative with what we can eat. It's getting to that place where if I'm not creative, I will get bored and give up. I even got on the treadmill...only for 30 minutes, but I keep telling myself to take baby steps. I did have some ketchup and mustard that were not organic today...and I was frustrated, but they didn't have the organics at Walmart and I didn't want to go to the place that does. (Flashback to Alana and the donuts). Ketchup and mustard do not have animal products in them, but they do have other things I don't need in full force. Luckily I didn't use more than a drop of each. And Melanie is right about "veggie" burgers and other kind of meat substitutes...You have to read and re-read every ingredient because most of them have milk or dairy of some sort in them. I have been buying the vegan Boca burgers...they aren't bad. Did I mention today was our church's chili cook-off? Yeah, I didn't go. I thought the chili, the cornbread and desserts would probably send me overboard. Baby steps.