Non-Traditional Breakfast Out

I have mentioned before that there are not a ton of plant based restaurants in our town.  We
sometimes are able to find a meal in a nontraditional setting when we are out and about.  One such case was this Saturday.

We had many errands to run that morning, so we decided to treat ourselves to a rare breakfast out.  One of our local Whole Foods supermarkets has an actual café inside the store, plus a hot food bar. 

We checked out the hot food bar.  We could have put together a plant based breakfast from the hot food bar, but there weren't many choices there at all. 

We moved on to the café inside the grocery store.  We had more than enough options there.  I had a smothered burrito, which contained a tofu scramble, (a substitute for scrambled eggs), and sautéed veggies wrapped in a whole wheat tortilla and covered with vegan green chili.  It was delicious. 

The spouse had whole grain maple pecan banana  pancakes, (vegetarian, not vegan- contained eggs and possibly milk) and a vegan sausage patty, served with pure maple syrup.  I tasted it, and it was great. 

We had one extra bonus from this experience.  Neither of us had ever tried vegan sausage, and we both loved it.  We asked an employee in the grocery store if they sell that sausage in their store.  She was kind enough to go to the kitchen in the café and find out the name of the sausage.  Sure enough, the store sells it, so now we can have it at home.  It is made by a company named Gardein, available in the frozen food aisle.  We mostly eat whole foods, but we both agreed that we would like to have some of it in our freezer for an occasional meal of pancakes and sausage.

I haven't eaten sausage for years, after too many times of chewing it and getting some gristly texture in my mouth.   That would just totally freak me out.  With this plant based sausage that will never happen.  Double score!  (I hope I didn't gross anyone out.)