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Last post's questions, answered!

Q. What do you usually have for breakfast on a work/school day? How about on a day off?
Well, I answered my weekday breakfast last post... muesli with nuts and coconut in rice milk or coconut/banana/cocoa/oatmeal smoothies. This morning, though, I had this organic peanut butter granola that I picked up on a whim yesterday... yum! With basmati rice milk which has a bit more rice flavour than the usual subtle rice milk I get.

On a day off I am a huge fan of a big tofu scramble with lots of veggies (broccoli, zucchini and peppers are my favourites). I flavour it with an assortment of spices depending on my mood. I've also had lentil and mushroom scrambles that are amazing. It's a pretty light breakfast - doesn't weigh you down like pancakes - and so much fun to make. With organic, fair-trade coffee. Black as my soul and twice as bitter!

I stopped sweetening my coffee about a year ago when Linds and I attempted (and failed) the Master Cleanse. I made it two days in, but when I quit I promised to myself that I'd eat macrobiotic for the rest of the month and I'd cut out refined sugar. To this day I very rarely eat sugar. Maybe once a week I will have something with sugar in it.

I used to have a HUGE sweet tooth and I would eat sweet things and candy all the time, even packets of sugar. I am a much more stable and levelheaded person now that I am not always on sugar highs!

Q. How many times a week do you eat at a restaurant or get takeout? How many of those are breakfast, lunch or dinner?
Way too many... the answers to this question confirmed it for me. I eat out way more than most people! I am very lucky to live in a city with many varied and healthy vegan options. I eat breakfast out generally once a week, lunch three to four times, and supper four to six times. I am really really bad for spending money on restaurant food.

It's so difficult in a city where there's excellent sushi on every street and there are five or more vegan-friendly restaurants within walking distance of my house - and that's not counting the ones within biking distance. I wish I cooked more often but I have a lot of trouble putting that much effort in if it's just for me. I'd much rather meet a friend for supper out.

Q. What is one really weird thing that you dislike that most people don't dislike?
I don't really dislike much of anything, but my least favourite vegetable is carrots! I used to love them but lately can only stomach them when they're really well prepared, seasoned well and are in a dish in a small ratio to the other items. I will eat them but I prefer not to.

As far as non-food items go, I don't like wearing long sleeves. Unless they go down almost to the ends of my hands.


Linds


Super old photo of me I found on a thought-it-was-lost memory card. This is from a few days after I shaved my head...


I wore this outfit to a dinner party and one of the hosts told me I looked like _____________ from BladeRunner... go!

Q. Do you wear glasses or contacts? Do you know your prescription, if you do?

Q. What is one very common skill that you don't know how to do?