Week 2 Summarized

It's the second week of our blog! Time has really gone by quickly... This week, Amber and I have been vegetarian for 2 weeks now. We cooked 2 different tofu recipes that we invented ourselves, and they both turned out surprisingly deliciously!

• For our first official tofu meal attempt, we cut extra firm tofu into strips, soaked it in a little bit of Bragg's and thai seasoning and then fried it. We served it with curry quinoa. A delicious dish, that we will definitely try again. 
• Our second tofu dinner was tofu and rice stuffed bell peppers. We seasoned the tofu with Bragg's again and added some red pepper flakes. After about 45 minutes in the oven at 350, we had a very good dinner.

Over all, we have had a lot of fun being vegetarian. I haven't really missed eating meat, and while the rest of our family ate pot roast the other day, I was happy eating a cheese quesadilla. The only meat that we still seem to miss is fish sticks! I cannot believe that we are already half way done with our vegetarian challenge, I think that after this month is over, we will continue to not eat meat nearly as often. The idea of wasting all of that water and food on just a little hamburger is ridiculous, and fresh local fruit tastes better anyways.

In other news, our phantom power challenge was not nearly as eventful as I would have thought. Since we live on the bottom floor of our house, we just kept the lights off when they were not in use. Other than the fact that I fell asleep with the iHome on one night, we did pretty good. The rest of our family likes to keep lights on at night, or forgets to turn them off. We have taken to going behind them and turning off the lights in the empty rooms.

Also, our 5 minute showers have gotten a little lax. We haven't enforced a time frame, and honestly, 5 minutes is cutting it close to how much time is needed for one to get sufficiently clean. But, we have been cutting our shower time down to under 10 minutes, which is saving us a lot of water.

-Morgan

p.s. I am very excited for the Superbowl tomorrow. I cannot wait to see the Who at halftime! Go Saints!