The Kosher Diaries - Days 7 and 8

This is essentially two blog posts in one.  Last night was so exhausting, for multiple reasons, that I just didn't have the energy to write.

August 7 

This day, foodwise, wasn't too bad.  It felt more "normal" than any other day yet.

Breakfast - Chocolate shake.  Simple.  It turned out not to be enough.  An energy bar helped round out this meal a couple hours later.

Lunch - After the previous day's Mac n Cheese debacle, I felt I deserved some of the real stuff.  Thankfully, Walmart sells frozen Mac n Cheese that turns out to be Kosher.  It tasted shockingly similar to Kraft's version.  I still prefer the non-Kosher kind, but this was a winner nonetheless.

Dinner - Bacon cheese fries.  What?  You say that bacon isn't Kosher?  True, but this is the "other exception" I alluded to all the way back in Day 1.  French fried potatoes loaded with melted cheese and Bacon Salt!  It was really good, and even better when I added ketchup to the mix.  However adding ketchup drowned out the bacon taste, so I just left that out of the rest of the meal.

August 8

Now today was an interesting day.  On Monday I had meat for the first time since going Kosher.  Today, I chose to eat meat all day.  That's right, I have not had any dairy products all day.  It's really weird to have such a reverse of the normal day.  I'm used to chocolate shakes, strawberry milk, protein bars, and all that good stuff.  But today I eschewed all that, and enjoyed plenty of meat.

Breakfast - Hot dogs.  Was some good stuff.

Lunch - Being off today, we went to the Kosher deli that was closed on Sunday.  I had my heart set on eating a chicken sandwich, but one of the servers comes up to me and offers some freshly sliced pastrami.  I have not had much pastrami before, but I can tell you that that was the best pastrami I've ever had.  It was so nice to have a sandwich, fries, and a soda.  Yet still be Kosher.  

Dinner - At the deli I decided to buy some turkey salami, and grilled up some sandwiches with lettuce and (pareve) barbecue sauce.  It would've been good, except the bread I used was absolutely disgusting.  I ended up just eating the salami by itself.  That salami, like the pastrami, was the best I'd ever had.

So now my teeth are brushed, I've stopped eating meat, and I'm ready to wake up tomorrow and enjoy all the dairy I didn't have today.