What's for Lunch? FϋD!

The other day the wife and I went out to look at some prospective houses in the city. Saw a couple duds and then saw a really cool bungalow that I was excited about. Okay excited is kind of an understatement. I was more like the kind of excited a 18yr old guy gets kissing the incomparable 17yr old girl he knows is the love of his life for the very first time kind of excited! It had a lot of nice features, not much in the way of upgrades for us to do if we purchased the property and the price was right. It looked small inside only because the guy who owns the property at the moment has more shoes than me and Emelda Marcos combined and enough button down shirts and suits to start his own satellite "Men's Warehouse" (you're going to like the way you look, I guarantee it) and enough cologne to open his own counter at Macy's. The neighborhood is where we finally settled upon living when we move and so I thought all was well. I later discovered that wasn't quite the case. I think my wife just has this anxiety about  moving since where we are now is the longest she's lived in any one stretch of time in her entire life. I, on the other hand have moved more times than a high school freshman playing dodge ball with the school's baseball team pitching staff. (that's a lot).

Heidi in front of FϋD 

After a few hours of house hunting and coming to a sort of consensus on which house we wanted to make an offer, we decided to head to the West Side of Kansas City for lunch. I read in an indie newspaper about a vegan restaurant called FϋD. After being seated on the street (our choice) we ordered our food; my wife ordered an Avocado sandwich made with one half an Avocado with seasonal sliced vegetables & Greens topped with Dillanayz & Thrillanayz (not sure what all is in them) on Cracked Wheat Bread and I ordered a "Jack Reuben" made from seasoned green jack fruit paired with sauerkraut and their own sauce and I'm not entirely sure what was in the sauce but the sandwich was delicious. To drink, I had what they call a Red Cooler made from fresh apple juice mixed with cranberry juice and brewed rooibos tea. My wife had a chocolate cacao chip shake made with raw cacao powder, raw cacao nibs, agave-cashew milk and crushed ice. All of their foods are whole and organic so I was curious as to how my sandwich would taste. Without question it was the best lunch I've had since I left my own kitchen. This place was totally legit as far as strictly vegan fare. I mean I've been vegan for just over 2 months and I have eaten at 2 different vegan restaurants. One was not really strictly vegan but made a good attempt (what my PHC calls "transitional vegan) and though there were no animal protein items on their menu, they missed on being a "whole food/organic" vegan restaurant, whereas FϋD hit right in the bulls-eye dead center!

We met the owner/proprietor, Heidi (pictured above in front of the restaurant). She's what I would describe as ecclectic and very, very cool and told us she'd been vegan for 20 years. We told her I'd been vegan for 2 months and a few days. She took the time to talk to us for about a half hour and was kind of surprised at what I had learned thus far about being vegan and what stuff to eat and where it came from and so forth. I explained I had a great personal health coach who was teaching me via Skype from Houston and she thought that was awesome. My wife told her it was weird, (not in a bad way) but that I'd taken a trip to Utah for a week alone and came home and declared that I was vegan and quit drinking alcohol and eating animal protein etc and told her how much weight I'd lost in such a short time. What was not lost on me was that as Heidi and my wife were talking I thought I detected that she was kind of proud of me for the first time in months. So all in all a great day and maybe we bought a house but that remains to be seen!

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