Family Trip to Seattle

Our trip to Seattle last weekend started off on the right foot with me turning down a fast food lunch and opting instead for packing the kiddos and I some Pb&Js, bananas and Kashi cereal bars... That's where things started to go downhill... After a long car ride we said hello to my maternal grandparent's and then headed out to Red Robin for some food. The vegan options are not great there do I settled on the chophouse burger with a garden burger patty. Although I stuck to my vegetarian guns, I'm pretty sure I consumed every single last calorie allotted for me that day and then some in one sitting :/ Following dinner, we put the munchkins to bed and set out to have drinks with my long-lost cousin and his girlfriend. We had a great time catching up while visiting a couple local pubs and I consumed a coffee and Bailey's, a screwdriver AND a chocolate waffle topped with ice cream. Hey, it's vegetarian right? ;) Anyhow, the next day proved equally challenging when we met up with my Aunt Beki at Olive Garden and I ordered the soup, salad and breadsticks with minestrone soup. And as soon as I tasted my soup, I got to thinking... "Hmm, Is this soup made with a vegetable stock or chicken stock base?" And honestly, I haven't taken the time to find out because of what happened next... (Well, after the grande soy mocha from Starbucks)... We headed over to my other grandparent's house where my grandmother had prepared a lovely spread consisting of a roast, pasta salad, roasted veggies, rolls and fruit salad. I dished up my plate with all but the roast and scarfed it down lickety split only to discover that the veggies were prepared with the roast in a crockpot. So, I inadvertently consumed an animal... Oopsy :(
Well, after that we went out for drinks in Seattle's Fremont District where I yet again fell prey to the callings of a coffee and Bailey's. Then it was Sunday. By this point I saw absolutely no value in tracking what I was eating or staying within any sort of guideline other than staying vegetarian. Cue breakfast... Josh's mom and grandparents happend to be in Puyallup for a quilting show so we met up with them at a diner and I had a veggie omelet with hash browns and toast which filled me up about half way through, and did I stop? Absolutely not, are you kidding?! There was too much goodness to pass it up! From there we hit Seattle for a day of fun which included the Giant Wheel, Pike Place Market and an enormous vegan chocolate chip cookie, a veggie black bean burger and fries, and ended with a trip to climb on the huge troll residing under the Aurora Bridge back in the Fremont District. Then it came... the last day. On Monday I decided to make an attempt to be somewhat cognizant of my calorie consumption and started the day with some Pb&J toast while anticipating a veggie lasagna that my grandma told me she had bought just for me :) And in all honesty, it was d-lish! Just one little problem... It was basically an Alfredo dish layered with lasagna noodles and some carrots and broccoli tossed in. Definitely not allowed to label this a healthy choice... And, I had TWO helpings! :/ The drive home that evening served me a veggie sandwich and some Greek orzo pasta from Safeway for dinner. (I'm trying to forget about the other giant chocolate chip cookie that contained who knows what from a gas station coming over Snoqualmie Pass.)
So there you go, my partial successes and failures on our little get away to the big city :) One win that I will claim is the Saturday morning 30 Minute Shred workout that I did... It had to count for something right?

My next post will include my woes while attempting vegetarian jambalaya with vegan andouille sausage... Stay tuned!