Vegan Eve Shopping Trip

World Go Vegan Week starts tomorrow, so I went on a vegan shopping trip today. I came home with a rainbow of food, but nothing so strange that it would be out of place in a salad at a nice chain restaurant like Earl's or Moxie's.

My rainbow:

Red: tomato
Orange: carrots, roasted pepper hummus, mandarin orange
Yellow: yellow pepper
Green: lettuce, alfalfa sprouts, spring onions
Blue: blue corn tortilla chips
Indigo: pomegranate juice, and maybe the avocado
Violet: some sort of purple lettuce in the spring mix

I also bought several different sort of nuts and some rice. Later in the week I will experimentally answer the question, "Can I cook rice in a coffee maker?"  I forgot to buy a can of chickpeas to go with the rice. I can get that when I go back to get more fresh ingredients in whichever town I'm in next.

I had a few surprises as I scrutinized the ingredients lists for animal products. I was wrong about potato chips being vegan: my favourite brand and flavour contains honey, and all the other kinds I liked contain whey. There may have been a flavour that didn't, but I bought tortilla chips instead. All the yummy-looking packaged olives contained lactic acid. I didn't know whether it was milk-derived or not, so I didn't buy any, but research shows me that lactic acid is produced commercially through fermentation of glucose, so the olives probably were vegan. The best surprise was a vegan 70% Dark Chocolate bar, containing only cocoa mass, cocoa butter, and natural bourbon vanilla beans.

It all came to $39.07.