A Little Bit of Cheating

I really shouldn't call it "cheating".  We agreed when we began a plant based diet that if we really wanted something other than a plant based food, we would have that item and then move on.  There was going to be no guilt involved.  We were going to be "mostly" plant based diet people.  We figured that probably a couple of times a week we would eat something that is not plant based.  As the weeks have gone by, we haven't really craved things that are not plant based.

Then it happened.  We were in a small suburb outside our small city to attend an event.  We only had about an hour between the time we drove there after work until the time of the event.  We agreed that we needed to scoot on across town to miss most of the rush hour and then we would find something to eat.  That was a bad plan. 

We ended up at an "upscale" pizza place.  We thought we should be able to find a vegetable pizza, but there was no such luck.  We could have just stuck with the salad bar, but it was a terrible salad bar, i.e. iceberg lettuce, cheeses, bacon, drippy potato salad, etc. 

We went ahead and ordered a pizza.  It was a barbecue chicken pizza, formerly my husband's favorite kind of pizza.  We were actually looking forward to it after we ordered it.  The first couple of bites were pretty good.  The more we ate of it, the less we were in love with it.  We ended up taking about 2/3 of the pizza home and putting it in our freezer.  (I have a really hard time throwing away food, and I need to get over that.)  

We had both been missing pizza.  I'm so glad we tried the pizza, because now it will push me to get back to making homemade pizzas, where we can control the ingredients.  In the past, I would make up to 10 crusts at a time, parbake them, and freeze for work nights for a quick dinner.  I would also make a large batch of pizza sauce and store it in the freezer for those nights, along with some pesto. 

My goal is to get these ingredients made and into the freezer in the next two weeks.  Then we can take care of our pizza cravings.