Day 6: Aladdins Eatery
Almost a week in and still no meat. Still no real cooking either, but I did however dine out again with great success. My mother and I went out to Aladdin's (the Pittsford one) for dinner and I had a very good lentil soup and eggplant pita. At this point I really think I'm starting to get the hang of this vegetarian eatting thing.
It hasn't been without its drawbacks though. This morning I had a hard time slicing up the wafer section at the deli. The problem is that the honey ham and bavarian ham look very similar when sliced up, and I couldn't tell which was which. Normally I'd just taste them and it'd be rather obvious (one's smoked, the other tastes kind of like honey), but that would be a big no-no on my diet. However I employed my other senses of smell (rather useless as they both smelled like the container they had been in), touch (not much help either as most hams feel the same), and hearing (most succesful of all as I listened as someone else told me which was which) and solved the mystery.
And in other deli news I was proud that I helped a recent sufferer of lactose intolerance by showing her the lactose free swiss we had, as well as guiding her to the soy cheeses in the Nature's Marketplace (not quite the same, but better than nothing). Always good to help out recent converties.
And as a final note, tomorrow I am off to Ithaca to meet up with Bri and see how her Italian trip turned out (still trying to figure out why she would choose Italy of all European countries...). However I don't know how I shall be able to survive on my vegetarian diet in a place like Ithaca. How will I possibly find something to eat there?