Week 5 Quentin

Quentin

Meatless Monday Week 5

4/7/14

            This week for meatless Monday I did something that I had not done for the first four weeks of meatless Monday. My girlfriend was also here on Monday so it only seems right that I blame her for what happened that night.  Lets start in the morning when we made breakfast and lunch together. It is always nice having someone else to cook or even prepare simpler meals with and it makes the whole experience more enjoyable and go by faster, which is exactly what you need when you are starving.  This week we also had to go shopping on Saturday so we made sure to get ingredients we would need for meals on Monday.  But what we did end up going out to eat dinner Monday night anyway. That was nice because neither of us were really feeling like cooking at all that night and some nights it is just nice to go out.  So here is the breakdown of how my meals went:

Breakfast: Apple cinnamon oatmeal with a side of strawberries and blueberries

Lunch: Egg Salad sandwiches on whole grain white bread

Snacks: Home made pretzels and red delicious apples

Dinner: We went to Applebee’s and I got the 4-cheese mac & cheese with honey pepper chicken tenders. I did not eat the bacon though that came with it.

            So there you go, I finally did it. I ate meat on meatless Monday.  Like I said before I have to blame it on my girlfriend because she was the one who chose Applebee’s.  And there is absolutely nothing good at Applebee’s that doesn’t have meat in it. (Keep in mind I don’t like any kind of leafy salad) But the 4-cheese mac & cheese with honey pepper chicken tenders only had 3 small chicken tenders on it so I kept in mind to not get anything that was meat driven. And I did not eat the bacon so I guess I was eating meat but trying to keep it to the minimum.

            For the meals that I did go meatless on this week my breakfast was the most affected from what I usually do. This is the first time in a couple years that I had eaten oatmeal and I have never been one to eat fruit with there breakfast much. I will continue to try and eat more fruits with my breakfast because fruit is one of my favorite foods and it is very good for you. If I can take anything from this week it is that even on days you try to go meatless sometimes it is almost impossible if you are accustomed to eating meat. I had never really looked at how much meat is in the meals on menus. I really did try and find something I would like that did not have meat in it and it was impossible, I mean almost everything has meat in it. We are just so accustomed to meat that it is hard to get away from and avoid. Anyway, this week was my first failure but I won’t give up on trying because of it. I might even try going meatless another day this week to make up for it, we’ll see.