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shiredancerA quiet afternoon and I've been working very hard, so I think I've earned a little sneak into LJ.
Had a nice lunch (frozen vegetarian spring rolls, 1 point for two for you Weight Watchers, so the whole box was a 4-point lunch), nice and light and tasty, accompanied by iced Moroccan mint tea brought in by my fellow tea-loving co-worker. What a great change from the fake-meat sandwiches! I'm so sick of them -- I've got to find something else to bring in. What I really want is to get back to eating real, whole foods again -- being a vegetarian is terribly conducive to so much processed food. I know, that sounds like a contradiction! But for a lifelong meat-eater who lives with two hardcore carnivores, meat-substitutes are a major defense. When they eat barbecued chicken, I can at least eat my fake buffalo wings.
Sometiimes I think I should stop the vegetarian thing. We're eating completely separately now -- the concept of family meals died about a year ago. Kidlet is living on Starbucks frappucinos, hard-boiled eggs, and fruit, with the occasional chicken or pizza or burger/fries/shake meal thrown in. Oh, and lots of chocolate. *Sigh* I guess a lifetime of hearing Mommy declare that she "needs chocolate" because it's this time of month or that hormonal thing has rubbed off. Peter is all meat, all the time. And I love basics like beans and rice and vegetables and ethnic foods that are spicy -- so we all do our own thing. I still make them things like meatloaf or spaghetti with meat sauce, but it spoils in the refrigerator before they eat it. Meh. Kidlet doesn't want much to do with us these days anyway, so I just sneakily leave lots of washed and cut fruit available and make little snack things, and don't say a word if she actually eats them. La la la.
So nahhhh, guess I'll stick with my vegetarian -- okay, pescetarian -- ways. Funny, it started out more as an aesthetic ideal, but now that I'm in some LJ veggie (or pesky) communities, I've seen the odd rant or three about the animals, and now I've got the whole "feeling sorry for them" thing going on.
Tonight I have a white bean, butternut squash, tomato and sage soup going in the crockpot, so I'll get to feel all virtuous *polishes halo*. Must be about dinner-time, right? *g*
Had a nice lunch (frozen vegetarian spring rolls, 1 point for two for you Weight Watchers, so the whole box was a 4-point lunch), nice and light and tasty, accompanied by iced Moroccan mint tea brought in by my fellow tea-loving co-worker. What a great change from the fake-meat sandwiches! I'm so sick of them -- I've got to find something else to bring in. What I really want is to get back to eating real, whole foods again -- being a vegetarian is terribly conducive to so much processed food. I know, that sounds like a contradiction! But for a lifelong meat-eater who lives with two hardcore carnivores, meat-substitutes are a major defense. When they eat barbecued chicken, I can at least eat my fake buffalo wings.
Sometiimes I think I should stop the vegetarian thing. We're eating completely separately now -- the concept of family meals died about a year ago. Kidlet is living on Starbucks frappucinos, hard-boiled eggs, and fruit, with the occasional chicken or pizza or burger/fries/shake meal thrown in. Oh, and lots of chocolate. *Sigh* I guess a lifetime of hearing Mommy declare that she "needs chocolate" because it's this time of month or that hormonal thing has rubbed off. Peter is all meat, all the time. And I love basics like beans and rice and vegetables and ethnic foods that are spicy -- so we all do our own thing. I still make them things like meatloaf or spaghetti with meat sauce, but it spoils in the refrigerator before they eat it. Meh. Kidlet doesn't want much to do with us these days anyway, so I just sneakily leave lots of washed and cut fruit available and make little snack things, and don't say a word if she actually eats them. La la la.
So nahhhh, guess I'll stick with my vegetarian -- okay, pescetarian -- ways. Funny, it started out more as an aesthetic ideal, but now that I'm in some LJ veggie (or pesky) communities, I've seen the odd rant or three about the animals, and now I've got the whole "feeling sorry for them" thing going on.
Tonight I have a white bean, butternut squash, tomato and sage soup going in the crockpot, so I'll get to feel all virtuous *polishes halo*. Must be about dinner-time, right? *g*
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Date: October 21st, 2006 12:18 am (UTC)If I knew the farmer and bought half a steer, or chickens or whatever I'd feel better than eating cloned antibioticized irradiated or whatever meat. I also don't like the idea of eating fish shipped from Vietnam or the like. So that leaves pretty much food grown by local farmers or ourselves, which is the goal. Whether that includes meat or not remains to be seen. of course A is such a foodie she can come up with a good recipe for most anything, and I can bake- so we won't starve. Damn, now I'm hungry.
Good tactic for kidlet. I'll have to remember it. When I was growing up I had to forage for food, because my parents didn't make any dinners or the like for us. But I do know how to cook, so it paid off.
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Date: November 28th, 2006 09:22 pm (UTC)Oddly enough, even though I'd have a hard time eating an animal I'd actually met, I do agree with you. I think it's the best, healthiest way, and under those circumstances I'd bet the animals are killed as humanely as possible. It's the mass production, slaughterhouse thing that I have so much trouble with. And yes, you're right, the way animals are fed and grown and treated and harvested -- who knows what we're getting with commercial meat products? A lot of badness all around.
We pay a lot of money to buy only organic meat at the health-food store -- we started that when Kidlet was getting puberty-symptoms *way* too early for our comfort (age 7). It paid off, I think, especially with the organic milk -- things slowed down to a more "normal" progression for her. I know that's entirely subjective, but I guess I have some old-fashioned ideals for that. And since I do eat fish, I look for wild-caught and hope for the best.
I see vegetarianiasm as an aesthetic luxury of a well-fed civilization, really. If it was down to the wire, and hunting animals in what's left of any forestland were the only option? Yeah, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
And just since I posted this a month ago, I've learned that there might be some health problems with all the meat substitute soy-based products I've been living off of, so it looks like a cosmic push toward the whole-grain ideal I mentioned above anyway. *Le sigh*