Monday, May 25, 2009

camping on vegan food

we took the girls camping last night. it went well. we were going to just drive until we found an opening and the first place we stopped they had some people leave with out telling them. yeah last minute opening! the girls had never had s'mores before. i said "what did you do last time you went camping?" they said they roasted carrots and bananas over the fire. what the? they even have marshmellows they are allowed to have that are made of fish oil. i know-normally that would be taboo to vegans but they do fish. so we had dark cocoa chocolate, fish oil marshmellows and graham crackers. they LOVED them and loved camping. they also loved the ENTIRE bag of marshmellows. then this morning we rigged up the camp stove and made vegan pancakes with strawberries. they loved those too, which is shocking since they are pretty picky in the pancake arena. we took their bikes so they rode in circles - it wasn't a big campground. but, all in all, camping was a hit. i forgot the camera, and the paper towels, and the normal mac-n-cheese so me and paul had vegan mac-n-cheese for dinner. it was a learning experience for sure. next time i won't forget as much stuff. i hope.
**Edited to answer**the fish oil marshmellows can be found at Whole Foods. They are a brand called Elyon.

4 comments:

Del Angelo said...

These have to be the luckiest kids in the whole foster system! You are unbelieveable!!!!

The Accidental Mommy said...

Hey- where do you get fish oil marshmellows? I have a kid who might benefit from the omega 3's but no way can she swallow those pills.
Hi, my lucky day. Just clicking other peoples blogrolls and landed here.

The Accidental Mommy said...

THANKS!

aunt carrie said...

so fun! camping is great. that's cool that you found a way to make vegan s'mores. you're great.