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Hey everyone!\u00a0 Hope you enjoyed my little sis’ guest dessert post<\/a> yesterday.\u00a0 You can look forward to those for the next few Fridays.\u00a0 Today I’m coming at you live from the great state of Massachusetts.\u00a0 Go Red Sawks–NOT AT ALL!\u00a0 In fact, one might classify me as part of Red Sox Hation.\u00a0 But the people here are nice, so I won’t hate.<\/p>\n

\"ManI’m here for a wedding in which Erin is a bridesmaid, so here I sit in the hotel room, taking weird pictures of myself holding an Amazing Grass<\/a> Chocolate Green SuperFood bar, while she’s off doing whatever it is that girls in the bridal party do on wedding days.\u00a0 I hung out with some of the other estranged husbands for a little while, so as I write this I’m just a few beers deep, which means that for the first time I’m doing what is known in blog circles as drogging (drunk + blogging).\u00a0 Although I suppose a better word for me is buzzlogging, because surely I couldn’t craft such elegant prose if I were totally sauced.<\/p>\n

This is the first time since I became vegetarian that I’ve had to eat on the road–if you’re even a little bit of a conscious eater, you know how hard travel can be on your diet (remember the nasty Roy Rogers sandwich I was forced to eat on the way home from the Tony Robbins seminar that started it all?).\u00a0 I’m sure traveling has been the cause of countless blown diets for people.\u00a0 Thankfully, I’ll never again be on the type of diet capable of being blown by a weekend of bad eating; when you don’t eat meat, it’s sort of hard to stray too far from a healthy diet.\u00a0 But of course, traveling requires a certain amount of deviation from one’s normal eating routine.<\/p>\n

I was able to eat breakfast at home yesterday before I flew up here, and on the plane I just had a cup of decaf coffee and an Amazing Grass Green SuperFood bar.\u00a0 I’ve really enjoyed all of the Amazing Grass products I’ve sampled so far, but the bars have not been my favorite.\u00a0 I love that they’re made from organic whole foods and that I was able to get some greens up in me while on the plane, but the taste isn’t much better than the fake protein bars I used to eat when I was really into lifting weights.\u00a0 Imagine a spinach salad loaded up with nuts and too many dried sweetened cranberries, and you’ll be pretty close to the taste of the SuperFood bar.<\/p>\n

Breakfast is usually the hardest travel meal for me–I’m lost without my smoothie–but thankfully the people we stayed with last night had some cinnamon raisin bagels for us since they knew we wouldn’t want bacon and eggs.\u00a0 Nothing against eggs; I use them all the time in my cooking.\u00a0 I just have not been able to eat them by themselves ever since I ate too many dyed, hard-boiled ones in an Easter-morning fervor one year when I was a kid.<\/p>\n

For lunch both days I’ve had margherita pizza, with a salad yesterday and with two beers today.\u00a0 Definitely not something I feel great about eating, but one can do much worse than this when on the road, and as I said before, my relationship with food is such that a few days of less-than-perfect eating doesn’t mess anything up.<\/p>\n

At the rehearsal dinner yesterday, there was no vegetarian entree so I got by on sides.\u00a0 Green beans with almonds, salad, and some baked ziti filled me up.\u00a0 And half a slice of cheesecake.\u00a0 It’s funny that most people probably ate this same stuff, plus a big piece of meat!\u00a0 Skipping the meat has really become second nature already, and it feels great.<\/p>\n

As for tonight, the bride was kind enough to make sure there’s a vegetarian entree for us.\u00a0 When we specified two surf-with-no-turf’s on our RSVP card (we were still mostly pescetarian back then), I guess she realized something was up and scored us the veggie entree instead.\u00a0 My money is on pasta with veggies, and you won’t hear me complaining if that’s what it is.<\/p>\n

So you see, traveling doesn’t have to mean turning your meals into a free-for-all or being forced to eat the crap that fast-food places pawn off as healthy food.\u00a0 You can eat well, even if it’s not what you’d eat at home, without making too many special arrangements or bringing your whole kitchen on the road.\u00a0 And best of all, you can have fun while you do it and not look like a stick in the mud.\u00a0 I mean come on, what would the other husbands have thought if I’d have ordered a salad and a water instead of pizza and beer at lunch?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey everyone!\u00a0 Hope you enjoyed my little sis’ guest dessert post yesterday.\u00a0 You can look forward to those for the next few Fridays.\u00a0 Today I’m coming at you live from the great state of Massachusetts.\u00a0 Go Red Sawks–NOT AT ALL!\u00a0 In fact, one might classify me as part of Red Sox Hation.\u00a0 But the people 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