Happy Thursday.  Derek's friend James and I agree upon Thursday being our favorite day of the week.  As many of you already know, it's the night the vegans (and non-vegans) gather for our weekly feast.  Treated as the holiday it is, each and every week, we gather for a mostly vegan, mostly home-cooked meal, love and laughter.  As with most major holidays, for me, it now begins the eve before when Mitch, Kyle and I eat at some local venue where someone else does the cooking!

Trying to make vegan food healthy and tasty is always an effort.  I can make some really tasty vegan food and some really healthy vegan foods but combining to make for an entire meal is challenging so I always come back to what I believe the entire key to life is--BALANCE!

Tonight is pasta night, so I will balance that with a huge salad, a baked veggie casserole and anything else healthy and low fat/calorie that I can think of!  In the end, I realize, it doesn't matter what I feed them, it matters that I DO feed them a home-made meal.  After all, my friend/client Jane says she likes to come and it doesn't matter what's on the menu.  She likes to come for the single ingredient that is always added to the food--LOVE.

The payoff for me is always the hugest.  I trick em with the food, but what I get in return is a houseful of hungry, appreciative, youthful energy and a house filled with silly laughter and of course, LOVE.

What more could I ask for in this month that is dedicated to the heart and this week that is dedicated to LOVE?

I ALWAYS CREDIT MY FRIEND/CLIENT LESLEY WHO TAUGHT ME IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME!

Wishing you all a BALANCED day, filled with love and of course peaceandfitness.