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You know the things you do just because you can? Just because you want to see if you can?
I cut all my hair off after college--it got down to as little as about an inch all over (I never really wanted to shave my head). When the changeover to digital television happened, I didn't follow because I was tired of watching bad TV just because it was there.. Nothing big, of course, but a personal dare, you know?
Well, I've decided to give up meat for the year. Don't call it a resolution, please.
I did some research and I thought about this for nearly two months and I've narrowed my rules down to two basics:
1. If something has to die for me to eat it, I can't.
2. Thanksgiving doesn't count. I don't care if it's cheating.
What this is not: A moral stand; a diet; permanent.
What this should be: An expansion of my recipe collection; a personal test.
For the record, I'm pretty sure the money falls on my not lasting past the second week of the month. Well, except purple_spark who claims she has complete faith in my ability to rewrite the dictionary to classify steak as a vegetable. She's also on a much more impressive life-quest to go fifty years without eating brussels sprouts, apparently. I have no doubt of her ability in this regard.
I've spent the last week eating my favorite meals--a bacon cheeseburger at Red Robin on Tuesday, Hawaiian pizza and homemade chicken salad on Friday, and California rolls on Saturday. Actually, I was eating leftover chicken salad at 11:30 last night. That's a normal reaction to embarking on a vegetarian diet, right?
But then for lunch today I had a white cheddar and pear with rosemary panini and it was amazing. Thanks for the amazing apple butter, purple_spark!
Weigh ins, anyone?