A couple of times coz I had made the same promises to 观世音菩萨 for her blessings and protection to my loved ones (mom, bro, hubby, girls) health and my wishes were granted. So it’s not the first time I’m on this vegetarian route. But I have never documented this down. Was it easy? It is, I think I went vegetarian so often with mom’s so many operations that I think on average I spend a month plus on vegetarian in a year 😜. It’s 2 weeks now for fulfilling a safe operation for brother and I still need to do another 2 weeks for hubby’s safe return from his holiday. Muahaha! Or which comes first? Technically hubby returned home on Friday and Saturday my brother was admitted to hospital, on Monday he had an operation. I made the promise to guangyin for bro’s operation on Sunday. I can’t combine them into just 2 weeks right? I believe I should keep my promise lah!
So 4 weeks it will be. So this is for hubby or bro?
But I’m no angel lah! I will take a break eating all the 🥓🥩🍗 before I start the next one. I try my best!
* edit : looks like when I haven’t finished my promises, I still need to make new one for mom’s upcoming operation. Haha! 我好像很忙 leh. How come all spaced so closely from another? “And we start from the beginning” - speaking in squeaky lil’ one’s voice
I have better discipline and determination than hubby, so I will see it through. If only I put in that much effort for a proper healthy diet and go through the torturous PT and strict exercise regime to slim down 😜.
Here’s a record for this time.
24th Mar (Mon)
After my 推拿, I was famished so went Subway. Had mushroom soup and egg mayo sandwich for lunch. I think should be passable right? When I checked Cookidoo’s mushroom soup recipe they asked for vegetable stock. I checked for vegetarian food nearby but the nearest is a 6 mins drive away and no guarantee it’s still open at that time for lunch.
Kindda yummy. Makes me want to make たまごサンド at home
Dinner I cooked plain porridge. I was looking forward to a warm watery carbs as I think I was falling sick. I took 2 hard boil eggs, the preserved mushroom and 京 らー油ふりかけ which is basically sesame seeds, garlic and Kujo onions that have have been soaked in ra-yu (Japanese chili-oil)
I almost forgot, 嘴痒痒 wanted to finish my last bit of this snack. Ahh….prawn. Will just leave the packet of snack in the snack bowl for the time being.
25th Mar (Tue)
Lil’ one has been harping on Uncle wanton since the start of the school break after her last paper on 17th. So brought her there and thankfully he has a non-meat option. Ray was so kind and sweet to go to the back and fried three wanton skin for me. He often gives us free fried wanton with our order.
My SPML order. Heehee!
I was also greedy and ordered an Ipoh hor fun chee cheong fun without the chicken. So full to the neck.
It’s really yummy
Went to visit brother at SGH, so packed our dinner from the foodcourt. Thankfully there’s a vegetarian stall.
26th Mar (Wed)
Had a terrible headache today. Not sure if it’s from the awkward uncomfortable sleeping place for 3 consecutive days OR it’s my illness (flu) since Sunday OR from the body withdrawal without meat 😂. When I was on clean keto and accidentally ate sugar, I get a headache.
Hubby forgot that I mentioned I was on vegetarian and went to order cuttlefish cutlet for me. I gave that to him and only kept the fried egg. Fried bee hoon was so plain so I added some chilli sauce, but sometimes it’s nice to have just simple food. Heck! Sometimes I don’t even feel like eating.
Medicine so drowsy. I kept sleeping. At 2pm I couldn’t keep my eyes open and wanted to take a 30 mins nap. Off the alarm and next minute I knew I woke up at 4+. By then hubby had already gone out to pack dishes for dinner.
I took the eggplant and tofu. Had to take a double take to make sure that there were no minced pork with the eggplant.
After dinner, sat in sofa and dozed off many times. I didn’t even dare to take any medication in the morning or afternoon (maybe that’s why it’s a slow recovery) coz I needed to be functional at home. Housewives really pathetic life, sick also gotta work, about to die also cannot die 😂. Dozed on and off, during the short wakeful periods I was tired to move out and continued until 10+ pm (my nap by then makes about 2.5hrs of sleep). Lil’ one was making so much noise in kitchen and woke me up that I remembered I haven't washed my Thermomix
27th Mar (Thu)
Another truthful vegetarian food from a vegetarian stall. So really I wonder if those times I ate from non-vegetarian stalls count. Haha!
This vegetarian stall at Lor Ah Soo sells a lot of food. I should go there and take a look one day. This vegetarian kuey chap is really nice for a nice rainy day, I think I can have it for three consecutive days.
From same vegetarian stall - mee rebus. Yucks! Not nice. I thought it’ll be similar taste since the normal Mee Rebus don’t use any hae-bi. I know Mee Siam uses hae-bi so did avoid. But I’m wrong, seems like Mee Rebus not only uses beans but also beef stock. 😨 ! Lucky I never ask hubby to buy Qiji’s Mee rebus for me. And no wonder the taste is different.
28th Mar (Fri)
Actually I should have better excuses to stop now right? Coz I haven’t been feeling well since Sunday. 还是坚强地熬过去吧，otherwise all the days effort will be in vain, some more already 5 out of 7 days since I started.
From the same vegetarian stall, this is “Ipoh Hor fun”
Was so hungry before lil’ one’s therapy that I stopped for this. 好像一个在成长的孩子一样. I think usual meals the meat kept me full that I hardly snack. But this week I’ve been snacking every day. 😂 Had bread with kaya instead of my favourite Nutella. Having sore throat so keeping away from heaty food. First time ever we didn’t need to fridge the other half loaf, coz I was eating on average 2 slices of bread daily.
The half-boiled eggs simple yet so satisfying. With my milo-o-kosong. In days like today where I had to drag my tired body out for her therapy, I really needed a pak kiu drink. Did I feel more energised after that? No, I was even more tired and wanted to sleep. That girl wasn’t with me and it was so quiet …… I can sleep 😂.
Dinner is from the foodcourt in Centrepoint. I had packed the girls dinner from Donki but there’s no just 菜菜 bento there so bought 茶碗蒸し.
When I was driving on the way home I realised - Alamak! Dashi got fish fish so I cannot eat the 茶碗蒸し
Feeling so peckish but couldn’t eat my curry prawn cracker, couldn’t eat any snacks the girls bought from Japan. Dropped by NTUC and bought this. I think 我不要我的命 😂，am coughing away with runny nose and still dare to eat heaty snacks
Bought this from Donki
29th Mar (Sat)
Lunch from vegetarian stall
The girls wanted Sushiro for dinner. 🧐
I was thinking I have a small option there and I can’t possibly eat 5 plates of tamago sushi, it won’t be filling. Maybe I’ll need to standby some bread (which I did later, bought some あんパン) Che-che was telling me I can eat edamame. But how can I fill stomach up with all the beans?
I ordered this shoyu ramen thinking as long as I didn’t order tonkotsu. But now I realised there’s probably some pork broth in the shoyu soup. Silly me! Ok… I will probably need to do one or two more extra day after that 😂. I think guangyin will forgive me right? Trying to console myself.
This probably won’t count too coz I think they use dashi stock to make the tamagoyaki. Muahaha! Ok, today’s dinner don’t count 😜. Japanese is not really vegetarian friendly coz most food uses dashi and broth.
30th Mar (Sun)
Just when I was calculating how to spread my remaining ‘vegetarian’ weeks (another 5 more weeks to go), hubby told me at 12.10am (as in from Sat night into Sun) midnight that he is going for another long trip again in May. Huh? UNCLE! I gotta add another 2 more weeks?! 😭 Pls lah! I hope these people I’m praying for also take some responsibility in taking care of their health/themselves lah! Don’t make me go vegetarian in vain k?!
Lunch time : I realised I forgot to eat the chwee kueh I bought on Monday . So steamed all the 10 chwee kueh for lunch.
Forgot to take picture until I was into my 2nd last one 🤭
The girls wanted Lenu for dinner. So I searched online and was happy that I might have a choice there.
When I checked with the staff after that she told me they didn’t have any vegetarian option. Hmm….
Ordered a Dried shrimp & scallion dry noodle. In the customisation column I asked for no shrimp powder. Ehh….honestly don’t know if this count. I have no idea if they scoop a spoonful of broth or not. I mean from what I can see, I did avoid eating meat lor! 🤭
I found it funny that my noodle was so plain with no spring onion in sight at all. When I said that, hubby offered me some from his bowl and che-che gladly offered me the cucumbers in her pork cutlet plate 😂. I was so so tempted to take a bite of the yummy pork cutlet (che-che’s) and chicken cutlet from hubby’s meal. I stared at their plate looking for batter crumbs.
My plain dinner 😂
At home I also checked on their menu and thought I can eat the tofu but no…. there’s beef broth added to it. So is it more difficult to go vegetarian or keto especially when I need to dine out with the family? Both equally difficult, I have to watch out for the sauce.
At least there’s an attempt made. 自己安慰自己
Chilled silken tofu with century egg is a no-no but I did try to scoop the part without the gravy. Wah…. Now I’m tempted to take the tofu in our fridge to eat with black soy sauce.
Left the restaurant half full thought I finished the whole bowl of noodles clean, I even picked up the small strands from the bowl. When the girls went to pack their drinks at Compass One basement, I went to buy Shihlin assorted mushroom for myself.
Week 01 done!
