Freakin' MEAT!

ARGH! I could scream!

Today my Mom and I went to a nice baby shower for a friend that I adore. We were up in Fort Collins and so we stopped at a great restaurant to get some yummy to-go after the shower ... since we were in the neighborhood ... Asian food ... really great (loaded with sodium I'm sure!).

I ordered 2 tofu dishes and 2 veggie dishes. The green bean dish was just that ... green beans and sauce ...

oh ...

and MEAT!

What the #$@%

It was supposed to be just green beans and I was so bummed to see a fatty nub of some dead animal sitting in my styrofoam container! I even specified when I ordered that everything was to be made vegetarian! No chicken juice or other gross cooking juice ... the receipt even had 100% Vegetarian in big red letters on it ... clearly someone thought a few fried crumbles of carcass wouldn't matter!

IT MATTERS PEOPLE!

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't need anymore "issues" in my life, shoot is that ever an understatement ... but I think dealing with restaurants and eating out is quickly becoming one. I am so easily grossed out by how and what other people eat.

Last night I went to Hooters, yes, the boobies and wings place for a friend's birthday. This was the birthday girls choice ... and lemme just say, this was my 1st Hooters experience and my last.

It was all I could do to sit there and watch people, grown people, not infants ... although that is what they looked like with sauce spread all over their lips, cheeks and chins ... suck chicken wing bits off their fingers after they have licked a bone clean. It was horrible ... besides the women wearing orange shiny shorts from 1978 and shirts that showed off their boobies ... which weren't big boobies anyhow! After nursing 2 children I surely have a different perspective on boobs ... what God made them for ... and certainly Hooters wasn't in the original design plan.

I have been a vegetarian for nearly 14 years ... I have been a vegan on and off ... but most recently since January and it's been really great for me.

Vegans shouldn't go to Hooters or eat Asian take out.

Thank you Lord for providing amazing food for me to eat. Food that is organic and made from plants ... there is a glorious abundance of options for which I am so thankful, none of which are at Hooters. Lord help me to continue to make healthy food choices and avoid take home food that is supposed to be vegetarian and is disappointingly not. Amen.