It was Chris’ birthday and we went out for dinner. I think I did pretty good actually. I even managed to make him carrot cupcakes without licking the bowl or trying any! (I did freeze one to have another day!)

Yay!! Birthdays!!

Breakfast was especially pretty today, love when I get all the colors

Since we were heading out to dinner I ate my “dinner” for lunch and planned on having a salad at dinner. I was really looking forward to trying the fennel but sad to say I wasn’t overly impressed. I have a few more recipes from the Forks Over Knives cookbook to try so I’ll definitely try those next week.

There were some options at dinner that would “work”, meaning they were vegan and grain free. I opted for two small salads, a grilled kale salad and a roasted beet salad. I say this will “do” as I’m sure the dressings that were used (a papaya “relish” probably had more sugar than any of my dinners the past two 1/2 weeks.) Honestly, I like my beets better :)

Roasted beets, tomato and onion

Not drinking is not hard for me, although it would have been nice to have a glass of wine! What I missed the most was trying the fresh bread and tasting the fish Chris ordered.
I didn’t end up prepping anything for Day 19 at all as we were out later than normal.