Vegetarian Challenge, Day 1
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Breakfast: my usual cold Milo
Lunch: Chilled Tomato Soup, recipe from Fresh Food Fast by Peter Berley
Dinner: baked beans on toast! Not very exciting, but I felt like I’d made enough of a fuss with lunch, and Dave was too tired to cook (he’d been playing cricket all afternoon).
The soup was like a summer version of a minestrone, or a complicated vegie drink 
It was pretty tasty though, especially with all the trimmings like spring onions marinated in red wine vinegar. Lots of chopping, followed by more chopping, but less than a minute to whizz up in the blender after that.
This morning we did our grocery shopping for the week. Last night we made a rough meal plan for the week, which isn’t our usual style. But we wanted to make sure we didn’t get stuck one night with nothing to eat after the shops had shut. Our grocery bill was about $20 more than usual, but this is cancelled out by the money we saved by not buying any meat. Fresh vegies, fruit and meat have all gone up in price lately, due to the drought and increasing petrol costs. I feel like we came out even compared to our usual weekly shop.