A while ago Goywonder whose blog I read set himself 2 targets, firstly to give up alcohol for 6 months and secondly to blog everyday, those targets/experiments have since finished however they got me thinking.
Alongside this thinking of blogs with challenges I seem to know more and more people who are vegetarians and I’m usually flippantly remarking to ‘just give them a carrot’ when it comes to feeding.
Finally the residential I was on a couple of weeks back fed us 3 meat-filled hot meals a day (although one day I did have 1 veggie meal!) and so the thought of meat has been on my mind.
In light of these thoughts and a little bit of curiosity I have decided to set myself a target: to give up meat for 30 days.
That’s right, until the 23rd November I shall not be eating meat, I shall be laying my carnivorous side to rest and seeing how easy it is to be a vegetarian, I’m not doing this for animal welfare or any of those ‘but it’s too cute to eat’ reasons but I’d like it to achieve a few things for me.
Firstly I hope that my experiment will make me more aware of what I eat and more aware of the choices we have when it comes to eating. I hope the experiment will encourage me to experiment more in the kitchen.
Secondly I expect this experiment to open my eyes to the challenges a vegetarian faces, how easy or hard it is to avoid meat in products…this means that the jelly will be staying on my top shelf for a few weeks!
Finally I wonder if I’ll find myself missing meat or not noticing, I wonder if this experiment will change my diet…we shall see!
As I start…
As I start today the target seems daunting, I don’t really know exactly what I’m going to be eating or how I’ll be approaching a sandwich without a dead animal between the slices of bread but we shall see (I’m being hardcore and giving up fish too!).
I’m confident that I can manage it but I think it’s going to be a challenge…tonight I shall be cooking vegetarian moussaka with the help of my Delia book and I’m thinking stuffed peppers sometime this week but other than that my mind is blank!
I shall keep blogging updates to let you know how I’m getting on and what I’m learning!
I seem to have a load of other things to blog at the moment so in the next few days expect blogs on:
- The BNP leader Nick Griffin on Questiontime
- Bowling for Soup, MC Lars, Zebrahead and the Leftovers: My gig experience