Should be cleaning...

Well I should be cleaning, the floor is a mess, the little girl is napping and I have about 1 1/2 hours to myself.  But here I am on the computer writing my blog, sigh!  I thought I would write today on some frustrations I have been having with this journey.

1. One of my big frustrations is the lack of vegetarian options that are reasonably priced.  Sure I can shop at Planet Organic (my favourite store by the way) but my grocery budget would be blown to bits.  So I try carefully to pick and choose what I eat organically and vegetarian.  Now I am contemplating going Vegan, but will need to find alternatives to cheese (I love cheese), milk (I have tried Soy milk with the picky son, he hated it) and a few other random dairy products.  So do I buy two separate products?  that would break my grocery budget again.  This I am working through at the moment.
2. My second frustration is a lack of vegetarian options in restaurants.  Sure we can go to specific vegetarian restaurants in Calgary, few and far between by the way, but there are none near us.  So we go to a few fast food restaurants, some sit down restaurants and no options.  Sure I can have a salad, but do I want to pay $15 for a salad at a sit down restaurant when I can make one at home for about $3.  My favourite fast food place is Taco del Mar, as they have a vegetarian burrito, which is huge and very good, but other then that any other fast food place (McDonald's, we have kids) I just order french fries.  I did a quick google search this morning and found 6 vegetarian restaurants in Calgary, 6, for a population of 1 million people.  That is sad!
3. My third is my cravings for some meat dishes.  At the moment it's fish, we ordered chinese food this past weekend and had a few dishes with scallops and shrimp in them.  I was very hungry, ate quickly and then felt a terrible guilt afterwards.  I had a slip, not sure if this happens to everyone converting, but guilty none the less.
4. My fourth is cooking at night for the family, with my husband and son still eating meat and having a picky eater it has making dinners quite a challenge.  I am fine during the day, the daughter and I have vegetarian for lunch, she loves everything and breakfasts are usually waffles, cereal, toast, etc.  I am trying to make dishes that I can make my veggie choice seperate without causing me to have alot of extra work and then my poor husband has been eating a lot more veggie stuff then I think he likes.  Still finding a balance there.

So any ideas from anyone for guidance, suggestions or motivation, please send along.

Have a great day out there.