Our trip to Fort Leonard Wood gave me an opportunity to try eating vegan on another person's pocketbook. Also an opportunity to blow off sensible eating for a few days, and I seized the opportunity. Stupid, I know, but I was in too big a hurry to care. On the way up--hurry, hurry, hurry--I stopped mid-afternoon for a quick McDonald's fish sandwich and forgot to ask them to leave the cheese off it. Recent research on foods and nutrition has convinced me to add a couple servings of fish to my weekly menu, so I can't call myself vegan anymore. In any event, a McDonald's fish sandwich doesn't qualify. McDonald's filet of fish compares to wild-caught salmon the way a candy bar compares to an apricot.
At some place called T's (or J's) steakhouse, in Lebanon, Missouri, I had fried catfish, a baked sweet potato, and onion rings. Fail on two out of three counts. The baked sweet potato was yummy--how do they get theirs so creamy inside? Mine always turn up stringy.
We won't mention breakfast--I went for the fastest protein serving I could hope to swallow in ten minutes with a mild hangover. Lunch was a supremely awful fast-food Chinese mixed vegetables. But supper, remember this--Colton's has a mixed greens salad with mandarin oranges, topped with baked salmon. Heavenly!
And for lunch, Schlotzsky's does a salad topped with strawberries, blueberries and pecans. Verry Berry--Verry Good..
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