Veggie Vicki, Month One

I became a liberal vegetarian (as opposed to an orthodox vegetarian!) a month and four days ago and it’s been a fairly easy transition. I’ve had some fish (haddock at a restaurant and canned tuna a couple of times), and free-range, organic chicken from Whole Food twice (from their hot bar). My commitment was to eat vegetarian except when I felt I absolutely couldn’t do without meat, in which case I would only consume animals that had been farmed and “harvested” (ie, slaughtered) humanely.
Some surprises: I LOVE tofu and snack on baked squares of it (no one told me before that you have to thoroughly blot dry tofu — not just drain it — before cooking it, which makes a world of difference), and I don’t eat as many eggs as I expected to. I find that it’s fairly easy to cook up a batch of legumes or a […]