Yesterday the hubbs and I decided to check out the Sunflower Market in Orem (mostly because we received an ad in the mail and were both hungry while looking at it). Though you won't find me saying this very often, it is nice to live in a place that has multiple vegetarian friendly supermarkets. Sunflower is one of them and it was definitely a surprise to us--we'll be making a few more trips there more often. After getting some corn on the cob and other "necessities" we left with our goodies in hand but empty stomachs. Not only were we hungry but the last thing either of us wanted to do was go home and cook (read: LAZY). Then we spotted Panda Express. 

I'm not usually a fan of PE, in fact I think that their rice smells a lot like the food I used to feed my dogs back home (uh, gross?) but I really wanted some rice (maybe if hubbs would stop promising me that one day he'll actually use that rice cooker we got for our wedding gift and actually dust it off then I wouldn't want rice so badly..maybe). Enter PE. It's hard to go into a restaurant that "specializes" in meat and ask for their veggies--not because it's embarrassing but because you wonder how fresh the veggies really are. Lucky us, we got special treatment. PE made up some fresh veggies right on the spot and gave us some sweet & sour sauce to go. When we got home with our rice, veggies, and sweet & sour you would've thought we had just won a million bucks--or, maybe that we had stolen it. We were pretty excited (clearly it does not take much to excite us). When we sat down to eat our dinner we quickly realized that our previous thoughts (the ones about veggies not tasting so hot  from places that serve a lot of meat) were becoming a reality that we had paid for. YUCK! The hubbs is usually one to put on a good face and say "oh, this is great" and he generally means it--I however am the one that looks for ways to hide the fact that I haven't finished my food or just say "I'm full" (and I usually am). This time Gar just put his bowl down and went to find those organic oreos we had just bought. I was still munching my dinner wondering how he had finished so quickly because we had quite a few helpings of veggies in each of our bowls only to discover that Gar had only eaten the rice (and a few bites of his veggies)! Ha. Cheater.

Here I am chomping down on these horrible veggies (because we paid for them and he was already "finished" and I didn't want to seem like I was ungrateful for our dinner) and mr. man is eating cookies because the rice he had just scarfed down just wasn't filling enough. When I called him out on it we simultaneously called him a "rice-a-tarian" and laughed about it. We now know where not to go for our veggie dinners--lesson learned. Also, another alternative meal: rice and oreos. I'll have to stash that one away for when we have kids...I'm sure they'd love it. 

Yesterday the hubbs and I decided to check out the Sunflower Market in Orem (mostly because we received an ad in the mail and were both hungry while looking at it). Though you won't find me saying this very often, it is nice to live in a place that has multiple vegetarian friendly supermarkets. Sunflower is one of them and it was definitely a surprise to us--we'll be making a few more trips there more often. After getting some corn on the cob and other "necessities" we left with our goodies in hand but empty stomachs. Not only were we hungry but the last thing either of us wanted to do was go home and cook (read: LAZY). Then we spotted Panda Express. 

I'm not usually a fan of PE, in fact I think that their rice smells a lot like the food I used to feed my dogs back home (uh, gross?) but I really wanted some rice (maybe if hubbs would stop promising me that one day he'll actually use that rice cooker we got for our wedding gift and actually dust it off then I wouldn't want rice so badly..maybe). Enter PE. It's hard to go into a restaurant that "specializes" in meat and ask for their veggies--not because it's embarrassing but because you wonder how fresh the veggies really are. Lucky us, we got special treatment. PE made up some fresh veggies right on the spot and gave us some sweet & sour sauce to go. When we got home with our rice, veggies, and sweet & sour you would've thought we had just won a million bucks--or, maybe that we had stolen it. We were pretty excited (clearly it does not take much to excite us). When we sat down to eat our dinner we quickly realized that our previous thoughts (the ones about veggies not tasting so hot  from places that serve a lot of meat) were becoming a reality that we had paid for. YUCK! The hubbs is usually one to put on a good face and say "oh, this is great" and he generally means it--I however am the one that looks for ways to hide the fact that I haven't finished my food or just say "I'm full" (and I usually am). This time Gar just put his bowl down and went to find those organic oreos we had just bought. I was still munching my dinner wondering how he had finished so quickly because we had quite a few helpings of veggies in each of our bowls only to discover that Gar had only eaten the rice (and a few bites of his veggies)! Ha. Cheater.

Here I am chomping down on these horrible veggies (because we paid for them and he was already "finished" and I didn't want to seem like I was ungrateful for our dinner) and mr. man is eating cookies because the rice he had just scarfed down just wasn't filling enough. When I called him out on it we simultaneously called him a "rice-a-tarian" and laughed about it. We now know where not to go for our veggie dinners--lesson learned. Also, another alternative meal: rice and oreos. I'll have to stash that one away for when we have kids...I'm sure they'd love it.