Be Prepared!

This morning was a good lesson for me. Like the proverbial scout--I should be prepared! I left for work, forgetting my cereal, but figured it was okay because I was going to stop at Fresh Plus and get an Amy's frozen dinner for lunch. But Fresh Plus wasn't open yet. I am starving...where to go that has vegan offerings? That's right someone told me about a vegan bakery, supposedly wonderful, just off Guadalupe on 29th St. So I head that way. In the maze of the little businesses jumbled together on 29th St., I finally spy it (after turning around once) but it is closed and from the looks of things maybe for good. That leaves my breakfast option oatmeal at Starbucks, which I'm sort of tired of. It has been a standby breakfast for a couple of years now, even before I started this diet. When I get to desk after checking email and voicemail, I google Starbucks trying to find other vegan offerings. The Vivanno can be made with soymilk so it could be vegan only the Starbucks on campus doesn't offer it. By now it is nearly 9 a.m. and I'm really really hungry. And not even lunch in sight because I've got a meeting from 10-noon and another from noon-1:30. Despair. I should keep nuts at my desk, a Lara bar, ANYTHING. Coworker Erica suggests Jamba Juice--yeah Erica. Berry workout boost made with soy milk--yes! It is perfect and wonderful and maybe I'll survive 85 degrees at 9:30 a.m. after all.