Vegetarian Challenge, Day 7
Breakfast: muesli
Lunch: leftover pumpkin pasta
Dinner: vegetarian Indian, at 2 Fat Indians in Mount Lawley.
For our last night, we wanted to go out to a nice restaurant that served vegetarian food. Some of the places in Perth are cafes that don’t open in the evening, so our choices were limited. We loved the food we had at 2 Fat Indians: stuffed mushrooms, black lentils, dum aloo, and nine vegetables in a korma sauce, with saffron rice and paratha. If you’re into Indian food, vego or not, I highly recommend it!
I’m glad we did the challenge - I’ve learned new recipes that will become part of my regular cooking, felt healthier, tried new Indian foods, shopped differently. It would still have been vegetarian if we’d eaten nothing but hot chips and chocolate all week, but we made an effort to eat healthy foods instead 
What made it difficult was remembering not to eat meat after I got sick - because I had lower energy than usual, it was tempting to stick with meals I already knew, or to get take away instead. Other than that, it really wasn’t a problem at all.
It felt strange to be eating meat again today. We’d run out of milk, so had breakfast in a cafe before doing our grocery shopping - I had bacon and eggs and toast with juice. I’m not sure I’m ready to eat more than that; even in just one week I adjusted to doing without meat.
I’d like to try the challenge again sometime, only for 2 weeks instead of just one. I might wait until the weather gets cooler, as I think it would be harder. I already eat a lot of salads in summer, but in winter I rely on casseroles and roasts so it’ll be a challenge to replace those.