Sigh. Tonight was not a vegan night for me. I received an email invite to a Leadership Dinner (I'm the psych honor society president) and took next year's president with me. Little did I realize that this conference was sponsored by our campus Christian club. There were three speakers who stood up to talk about ways we can be successful leaders in our careers, and each talked about how how God had played a role in their success - the last one, the cheesiest speaker of all, even ended his little spiel with a Bible verse. This guy definitely looked like a typical Christian speaker - fake laugh, bright white teeth, pressed suit. We were so disgusted by the end of their speeches that we just up and left as soon as the dinner was done. There were little comment cards and I definitely left my mark, saying I felt a little insulted because there was so much religious stuff and I had no idea this was sponsored by a religious organization or I wouldn't have come. Now I respect the role that religion plays in others' lives, and am pretty fascinated by how and why, but for me this just wasn't what I needed. What advice would they have given me if I raised my hand and said I couldn't relate? It's just so lame that they assumed everyone there was Christian and relates to what they talked about. I need to read my emails more carefully.
But that's not what this blog is about. This blog is about food. So, the dinner was paid for in full by the three speakers and unfortunately there were no vegan options except the plain salad. Thankfully there was still vegetarian, which consisted of veggies slathered in butter over rice. My stomach is feeling a little gross from all that butter - I never top anything with butter so any amount just tossed over food is weird for me. I'm a little sad I couldn't follow my new diet tonight but I can't turn down a dinner in a conference that someone else paid for. At least I ate vegan for the rest of the day - a bowl of Peanut Butter Panda Puffs with coconut milk for breakfast, PBJ for lunch and some grapes, and then a banana. And now I'm just feeling gross from all that butter.
Anyway, tomorrow night I'm going home for the weekend so we'll see how well I can follow my vegan diet. My mom is going to make tofu stir-fry so hopefully I won't have a reaction to it like I did to the soymilk. I'm also planning to make vegan banana bread Saturday morning.
Did I mention I tried coconut yogurt? It was bad. Just bad all around. Looked weird, tasted weird... just bad.
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