Panera Bread

For a quick, easy, and pretty healthy lunch, I like to have a soup and salad sometimes. Panera, similar to Corner Bakery and Boudin type places, offers such combos.

Vegetarian CreamyTomato Soup and Classic Salad

I love a tomato soup, so ordered their Vegetarian Creamy Tomato soup. They also have a couple of other vegetarian friendly soups...the Garden Vegetable Soup with Pesto and Low-Fat Vegetarian Black Bean soup. I like that this tomato soup is creamier tasting rather than sour tasting as with many tomato soups. I like both types...so both are tasty to me. The Classic Salad has mixed greens, romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, and red onions tosseded with their reduced fat balsamic vinaigrette. I like that this is simple, not overly processed, and therefore pretty good for you. It comes with white bread...which is the not so healthy part...but I give that to someone else to eat and now I've got a pretty healthy meal. =)

Panera Bread

http://www.panerabread.com

Anjin - Costa Mesa, CA : What This Vegetarian Eats At This Yakiniku Place

So one time (should be usually) the meat eaters around me wanted to eat at this Japanese grilled meat place and assured me there were some veggie things I could eat. Okay...let's go. A vegetarian eating yakiniku? Is that possible? The food, as with most places, is limited but yes it is possible.

Vegetable Soup

Anjin's vegetable soup is quite tasty. It is light, filled with different vegetables and flavors from them all blend well together. The above picture is after the soup has been distributed into smaller bowls. I prefer a thin soup like this instead of a thicker creamier soup (generally speaking)...so that's why I liked this.

Vegetable Soup

The second time I went I just drank the whole humongous bowl by myself. Grilled what? This is enough for me! =) I can't even tell what all the ingredients are in there, but it looks like scallions, bean sprouts (two different kinds), spinach, carrots, some kind of daikon, and some Asian vegetables...I can't tell since the greens were all chopped up...but it was good.

Vegetable Plate

They did have a vegetable plate for grilling. The corn and some mushrooms are already on the grill. There's different mushrooms, carrots, yam, onions, and peppers. Sometimes the plate is a little different.

Grilling Veggies on the side

I made sure to keep just the veggies on 1/3 of the grill. The meat eaters can eat the veggies that have touched the meat. =) If you go with 6 people, I think those tables have 2 grills, so then you can have one veggie grill and one meat grill. The meat cooks pretty quickly so they shouldn't mind doing that. =) Either way, grilled veggies are always yummy.

This place usually has a wait, so if you want to get in and eat at 5:00PM, you should get there before 5:00PM for their first round. Otherwise you can probably get in about an hour or so later for their second round...but still put your name in early. I don't know what happens later on...but people have waited two hours if you go later in the evening! So try to get there early! Unless you don't mind waiting.

Anjin
3033 Bristol Street, Ste N
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
(714) 979-6700
Mon-Sun 5:00PM - 1:00AM

OC Fair 2011 - Orange County Fairgrounds, Costa Mesa, CA

So as a vegetarian that's trying to be kind of healthy, I ate something before I went to the OC Fair. There are the options of pizza and fried vegetables, but I didn't really want to eat that. I just had a couple of snacks along the way.

BBQ Corn

This corn was yummy, sweet and good for me plain like this. It's barbecued out in the open, not roasted in its husk. Both varieties are good. If the corn is good, it's nice and sweet...yum.

Fruit and Pretzel Mix (with Chocolate)

Now I didn't eat these, but they looked so good. Wasn't hungry enough to eat a plate of fruit, pretzels and chocolate.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries.

On the bottom shelf were plates of chocolate covered strawberries....yum...nom nom nom. Oh, I didn't eat these either. Instead I took pictures of the above food while waiting for...

Strawberry Banana Smoothie

My strawberry banana smoothie. This was good. Yummmm! All these fruits were at this fruit stand with caramel apples and chocolate strawberries and all things fruit. This was my favorite stand because I love fruit! Good smoothie...better than any chain smoothie place I've been at.

Funnel Cake

Last thing on this blog is funnel cake! Well I didn't eat this either, The Meat-eater did. If I were to pick something fried, I would've tried the Australian potatoes...those looked good...and heard they were good too. And something I was curious about would've been the fried Klondike bar. How to do that? Although I've tried Tempura Ice-Cream so...it's probably similar. Either way...oh so bad for you so I stayed away. Fried foods no longer sit too well in my tummy. (Well a little is ok.) ;-)