Veggie-ness

OK I have decided...after 27 years of eating meat, I'm going to make a serious effort to seriously cut out and eventually end my consumption of meat.

The reason behind this is two-fold. Firstly, i am an animal lover, i love wildlife and love animals, id sooner trust most animals than a lot people i meet. They are amazing things, with feelings, emotions, everything we have, but yet we as a race treat them as some sort of inferior species, we have this arrogant attitude that we are somehow above them and that we can do what we like with them. I do NOT agree with this at all, we are all on the same level, we all are part of the giant circle of life, and i just don't think we should farm and kill animals just cos we like the taste of them, so how can i eat meat if i don't like seeing animals killed..exactly why I'm cutting it out.

Second, environmental issues, farming obviously affects the environment, raising cattle produces more Co2 than transportation! So I'd like to lessen the effect I'm having on this aspect of things. Livestock farming, the world over, is responsible for habitat loss and conflict with animals such as Tigers, Leopards, the list goes on, they live and hunt in areas where livestock is kept, maybe to be used my local people, but maybe used to satisfy the large demand of meat.

However...there is a flaw in this great plan...i don't really like vegetables! Yes that's right, i really don't like them. Actually, that's not strictly true, i do like them, but only cooked in a particular way, I'm sooo awkward! I hate boiled veg, all of it, its all minging. Its all stodgy and slimy and doesn't really taste of much, its got a horrid consistency, and is just generally not nice. Now roasted veg, stir-fried veg, that i do like. I like a bit of crunch there and a bit of bite and flavour.

So my plan, at first, I'm not, not going to eat any meat, i don't want to just stop all of a sudden, as i don't think its a healthy way of doing it. Instead, I'm going to set myself some goals to reach and try and improve along the way. I am very excited by this prospect as I like a challenge and this will be one of those, and a challenge which is doing some good for my fellow animals in this world. I'm sure I'll fall off a few times on the veggie cart to veggieness so PLEASE encourage me lol

My first step is this weekend, i always spend the weekends with the Vixster (my girlfriend of Bristol fame!) we always go out and have food out, which costs a bomb. So this weekend, no going out for food, we are headed to the supermarket tonight and hopefully to the local farmers market on the weekend to buy some things. So. this weekend, no meat, none at all, nothing, not even a smidgen! I might even try some Quorn and see what that tastes of.

I'm thinking of some meals already, now i LOVE pasta and rarely have meat with that, so I'm thinking a couple of pasta meals with veg sauce, homemade veg sauce as well hopefully. I'm thinking a nice stir-fry with some nice veg and some rice together with a sauce. And now I'm stuck...I'm going to have to look for inspiration! I need to basically buy for 4 meals, tonight, Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday night, snacks i can rely on fruit and cereal bars as always.

So the challenge is set, my first meat free weekend...ever...ever...im SO excited :)

Ill let you know how i do, if anyone is interested and if anyone is actually reading this lol