02/15/21 Notable Meal - GREASE CITY

Today is the day that we were originally supposed come back from the campsite, but from what I have mentioned in the last post that was ended abruptly because of the issues caused by the custodians at Rivernook Campground. Rest assured, we are definitely not going back again.

After that horrendous camp at Rivernook, we came back home and since we missed valentines day because we were busy coming back home from Kern Valley. My mom wanted to take the family out to eat for valentines day as her treat for valentines day for us. Today was the day where I really saw how difficult it is to eat out as a vegetarian unless you are going to a specialty restaurant. The menu at Holiday Burger in the San Fernando Valley have a ton of meat options but only a handful of options as vegan or vegetarian meals. Of course a classic Diner caters a lot of its menu real estate to the meat eaters of the world but I made it work out. I was happy to see that they offered a loaded veggie omelette with tomatoes, peppers, onions, mushrooms and spinach with cheese! The Diner also brought sourdough bread with hash browns. I was also starving as the failure of a camping trip had me not entirely satiated in dinner time with my quesadilla. So I asked also for zucchini fries that I shared with my family as well. Over all the meal was very filling, wish the fries had more flavor but that was the first time I think I have ever ordered zucchini fries in my life and I wasn't disappointed.

It was in the afternoon when the dinner options started to become a struggle. My brothers wanted to get take out from Wing Stop that was just opened 5 miles away, and as their grand opening offer they offered 60 cent boneless wings. So when I was looking at the options for me, obviously there weren't any aha. The only real vegetarian or vegan options they had were their fries selection. Vegan if you just ate the bare fries, and vegetarian if you eat their loaded fries. At that time I felt bad because of my already expensive breakfast my mom got me in the morning. So I just ordered a plain side of fries. Strange eating fries with sugar on them, but it was pretty good nonetheless. I didn't really get much time to eat something healthier or fancier today as I also had a lot to catch up with a quiz I had due at midnight for a class. So again, was too stressed out to really make something healthier and just eating french fries for dinner. My family made it harder with the Wing Stop and Carne Asada dinner, so I just spent much of my time upstairs dealing with my studies.