Well in that case, why are Buddha statues fat?
Food today:
- Breakfast: Two slices of toast and mashed banana
- Lunch: “Buddha’s Delight” with steamed rice. What I want to know, though, is how come Buddha is portrayed as being fat if all he ate was this stuff?
- Snack: a chocolate cookie (from the E2D book). I couldn’t bear the thought of rice milk in tea, so I just drank some rice milk straight. Remember I said it was just like skimmed cow’s milk? Well it’s not. It’s not bad — but it’s sweeter and, well, more, rice-ish than cow’s milk
- Dinner: Mushroom fajita monstrosity from the book. Dessert was chocolate pudding from the book. Don’t be misled - it was neither chocolate, nor pudding, but not too bad.
- Snack (planned - not had yet): another cookie, with tea and soy milk. Let’s see how that does in the Most Manky Congealing Milk 2009 stakes.
One thing I’m noticing — witness the rice milk and the allegedly chocolate pudding — is that none of this food is that bad; the problem can be that I expect things to be like their non-veggie namesakes. Rice milk simply isn’t milk. Get over that and it’s not too bad. Likewise, the chocolate pudding thing was more like half-melted, grainy ice cream. So, not Ben and Jerry’s by any means, but not bad.
Not bad - that’s the order of the day. Food is not currently the pseudo-orgasmic experience that an Adam’s Peanut Butter Fudge Cup Ripple Cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory can be. But so what?
