Vegan Fast Food

Well on my way to work yesterday, I decided to stop at McDonalds to get some orange juice and while I was there I went ahead and ordered a hashbrown, only to find out later that this food item is not vegan. These are the ingredients I found when I looked it up online (after I ate it, of course):

Hash Brown: Potatoes, vegetable oil (canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, natural beef flavor [wheat and milk derivatives]*), citric acid (preservative), salt, corn flour, dehydrated potato, dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain color), extractives of black pepper. Prepared in vegetable oil ((may contain one of the following: Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness), dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent). *CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK. (Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients).

All this for a hashbrown!?! Then, this morning on the radio, NPR had a report saying that McDonalds is finally getting rid of trans fat. So on top of the fact that the supposed hashbrown, it was probably cooked in hydrogenated oil. Sigh. The first two months of my veganism were awesome. I was super strict. I pretty much only ate things that I made. I've gotten a little more relaxed lately, and, based on the hashborwn, I'm not sure it's a good thing.

Conclusion: No more fast food. I can make my own hasbrowns with a potato.

Exercise for today: Spin Class (I skipped running, I actually hid from my running group by staying in my car for 10 minutes waiting for them to leave. Then I just drank a couple of sips of coffee and waited for spin to start. So I just sat around the gym for about 45 mintues. What's wrong with me?)