Making it up as I go....

As a Pre-K teacher, I am fortunate enough (fortunately for me, unfortunately for my kids) to have a group of kids that love their veggies, but dont do salads. They think its weird haha. So I take the un-served portions home and use it all week!




This week Ive been making quickie lunches with just a small pile of this mixed veggie salad (theres actually very little lettuce to it this time, its more veggies than anything) on a mini-tortilla. Very simple, and Ive been experimenting with different add-ons.
Here it is just plain salad:


I poured a little vinaigrette dressing and soy sauce on it. Pretty good! A 2-second lunch!
Here's one of my more favorite add-on experiments:


It has sesame seeds and walnuts on it. It added a great texture and taste. Here it is folded up:



For lunch today, I was really in the mood for a portabello burger, since I had just bought some for that purpose exactly. I almost didnt make it because we only had mini slider buns, but then I thought DUH, just cut the mushroom into a square!
I cooked it in a BBQ, soy, hoison sauce mix (which was stupid because hoison already is BBQ and soy sauce mixed, so it was like doubly hoison-y and a little too much), added lettuce and BAM!




It got a little messy at the end there...hahahah


SO, VEGAN UPDATE. I was two days in, going strong, when I went out to dinner with my friend and her little girl, and the kid tricked me into a bite of her ice cream. BLAST! -sigh- Then today I went out to eat with my boyfriend, Chris, and ate vegetarian, but not vegan......Daaaaamn you cheeeeeese. Granite City Brewery didn't leave me with alot of choices. Super fantastic Oktoberfest beer though. And possibly a little too heavy of a beer on an empty tummy....I was halfway in the bag by the time the food got there...hahahah

Back to vegan tomorrow...here's hopin`!


Addendum: I keep meaning to mention this, but I found a FANTASTIC alternative to turkey for those who don't want to feel left out at Thanksgiving. I myself have always been a "sides" girl myself, meaning even when I ate meat, I always just had a little turkey and 72 helpings of side dishes. I've found LightLife's Smart Stuffers!!! The Turk`y with Cranberry Stuffing was incredible. It tasted SO real. I can't wait to try it at Thanksgiving. They also have a cordon blue type stuffer and a Broccoli and Cheese stuffer. I wonder if the chicken ones are as good as my Turk`y one was. LightLife is so far my favorite brand of faux meats. I've already mentioned my affinity for their fake breakfast sausage, and I also prefer their ground meat to other brands such as MorningStar, whose, to me, has a very mushroomy texture, which is fine, but if I wanted mushrooms, I would have bought mushrooms. Dang Im mean about my fake meats. Haha.