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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*
