Really hungry today, and thankfully, it was enough to nudge me into eating real salad today!  I had it with raspberry vinaigrette dressing which actually tasted good.  I don't have enough of the "new" foods at home yet to get a very varied diet, but I knew if I said to wait till I could go food shopping it would just be another excuse not to start yet.  I am truly inspired to see this through.  It's personal and yet at the same time I see it as something for everyone as well.  Something for all our benefit.  I know this journey for me is more spiritual that anything else.  For many it seems to be dietary.  I also admit this is dietary but only as far as reversing any physical illness within me. 

     I keep planning my next food shopping event, yes I have begun to refer to it as an event, so that I won't forget something I think I won't make it without.  I have decided that oatmeal is going to be a staple for me, a good backup and safe food that stays within my acceptable parameters.

     The kids are watching me in the initial stages and they seem bewildered because they have always known me as a dairy, cheese, pasta,& chicken person.  This for me is almost like giving up a food for fasting yet I am choosing for it to be a lifelong commitment rather than a day, a week, or lent.  I want to accomplish this for my own enlightenment.  I know this is already helping me refocus my thoughts to where they should be and to what really is important.  Our internal growth needs this piece of sanity and it will be exactly what has been missing from my family.

     This website has an exceptional list of items Vegan.  I have begun a list of items for order on here that I may or may not be able to find in the store.  Hoping that between Mother earth and Adams I shouldn't have to go broke going Vegan.