European Vacation

My whole family went on a vacation to Portugal and France. I knew it was going to be difficult to maintain the VEGAN lifestyle. Earlier in the summer I went to Toronto for a month and stayed VEGAN the whole time, besides that one chicken dinner at The Q (it’s really special chicken). It was easy in Toronto. Firstly I was staying at my sister’s house, so I could cook for myself and the restaurants all had vegetarian choices, if not VEGAN. Plus I went to a great RAW restaurant called Rawlicious. Anyway, I was sure that Europe was going to be harder, especially since I was either cooking for two families at the villa in Portugal or eating out. I came prepared with an over-the-counter drug called Cholest-off that supposedly blocks Cholesterol from being absorbed. I took two of these pills before any meals that I knew were going to contain cholesterol. In Portugal, the worst of it was the pastries and I had to have some of that dried ham, like a prosciutto. But I didn’t have any meat besides that and had cod fish three times. In Paris as well, besides some chocolates, I really didn’t slip up too badly except for one overpriced shrimp salad at the Café de la Paix. I really do not want to eat any eggs, dairy or seafood. They are the worst in cholesterol. Of course I don’t eat meat either. I think a reasonable amount of salmon once a week is probably good.