October Update: Vegetarian

All of October I ate vegetarian.  It was actually really easy, a lot easier than I thought. I got some good recipes (thanks everybody), and most of the restaurants in GR are very vegetarian-friendly. One thing I noticed was that fast food, especially fast food you can eat in the car, was hard to find. The other thing that was awkward was big family/friend gatherings. Aside from having or not having something to eat it was always really awkward to tell a large group of people I couldn’t eat that because I was eating vegetarian. I think if I actually believed in being vegetarian for health/moral/whatever reasons maybe it would have been easier. As it was, I always felt a little hypocritical, so I just tried to fly under the radar.Another thing that was interesting is that a lot of people asked if I was doing it to lose weight. That was surprising to me because a ton of vegetarian food can also be very unhealthy (pizza, pasta etc). If anything it was harder to eat healthier because I eat a lot of chicken, and it was harder to find a good protein source that was as filling.

All in all it was an interesting month, definitely changed my prospective on vegetarian food a little.  I’ll never be a vegetarian, (sorry, animals are TASTY!) But now I don’t mind the occasional vegetarian meal, something I used to skip over without a thought.

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