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Vegan whole grain lasagna just out of the oven

I haven't had lasagna in ages. It used to be one of my favorites. Thing is, it's a pain in the ass to make sometimes. Then, a couple years ago after going vegan, I just ruled out eating lasagna ever again...

...until tonight. Look at this. I made it. Whole wheat lasagna noodles, broccoli, corn, carrots, onions, garlic, mushrooms, sweet potato, tomatoes, tofu, spinach, cashews (more on that later), spices, and two jars of sauce later and we were in business.

On the plate

So, on the top of it is what looks like cheese, for those in the know with me, it's not. It's ground cashews. You put it on the top of the pan for the last 15 minutes. It gets a little toasty, but it doesn't smell burnt. It tasted like what I remember to be cheese.

 The tofu served as a type of ricotta in here. I used extra firm and just crumbled it up. Up at the top is a sweet potato mash that seemed to hold everything together. 

Next time, I think I need to make a bigger batch. All in all, this took about two and a half hours to get done. It was well worth it. I have leftovers for a while now.

Om nom nom nom.

I wanted more like NOW, but I know I'll just get over full.

Food and exercise log - 2-11-12

Exercise: early morning yoga!

Food:

Breakfast: big bowl of cereal with fruit

Lunch: Totally missed lunch due to falling asleep and waking up too close to dinner.

Dinner: Loaded Veggie burgers with home made rosemary/dill potato puff fries.
Snack: baked corn chips. Berry and OJ smoothie.

Food and exercise log - 2-10-12

Exercise: Cleaning the storage room at work - 6 hours.

Food:

Breakfast: Banana and some orange juice (ran late that day)
Lunch: my usual favorite salad.
Dinner: Veggie fried rice ad buddhist delight.
Snack: chex mix

Food and exercise log - 2-9-12

Day 2 - 2/9/2012

Food :

• Awesome breakfast as stated here
• Big salad for lunch with assorted greens, carrots, cucumbers, baby corn, broccoli, red and green peppers, sunflower seeds and pepper
• Dinner: pasta with chicken substitute and minimal amount of sauce.
• Snack: Chex mix/mint cookies

Exercise : Didn't hit the gym today. My body needed the night off as my knees are not all that great. They still burn. Today (Friday) I'm kicking it in to gear again.

Note: I get that some of you probably don't care what I'm posting here. This is for me. I need to keep track of this and it makes me feel better.

Food and exercise log - 2-8-12 - day 1

Today was the start of the food and exercise change over.

Food :

• Awesome breakfast as stated here
• Big salad for lunch with assorted greens, carrots, cucumbers, baby corn, broccoli, red and green peppers, sunflower seeds and pepper
• Dinner: pizza.

I know what you're thinking. Pizza? Awesome dairy free crust, we put some meat substitutes on here and a very conservative amount of cheese alternative. It was nice. Plus, it's not like I ate a whole one like I used to.

Thanks to school work I didn't get to hit the gym until almost 9.

Workout : 

• 25 minutes on the elliptical. It's was the most my knee could handle.
• leg lifts/crunches/back extensions/curls on the matrix machines
• 6 lengths of the pool.

All of that took me just over an hour.

It was a good day. I completely forgot to weigh myself. I will get that tomorrow.

Tomorrow is yoga day followed by 30 minutes in the cardio theater.

...there was an end to the madness.

I'm on vacation in a couple days. I have a lot of school work to get done, but there is always something about those last few days prior to a vacation. You have to get everything in order, and set for you to go. It is quite hectic actually. So much to prepare for, what if something goes wrong?

At least I know will have done everything I could to prepare and then some.

I also have a very loving lady in my life and friends who are fantastic. Tonight, after class, they told me to get my ass over to the place where they were doing food night and sit and eat with all of them so I didn't have to do my usual "Monday night fasting" that usually happens thanks to the schedule. It was really nice. I didn't think I'd get to see my girl until around this time NEXT week because of everything that is going on at home. But I got to see her tonight. She's also been keeping tabs on how my knee is doing. I tweaked it pretty bad yesterday to the point of having to get out the old Rebel99 brace (see picture on the side for reference on what this brace looks like). She's looking out for me. Her dad went through some pretty rough stuff with his knees, so she knows what I am possibly heading towards. I want to be able to run around and keep dancing with her. If this knee of mine gives me any more problems, I won't be able to. And that will upset me greatly.

BUT! Today was better, tomorrow should be fantastic as well... and that's the bottom line...