meatless log...hee hee. that sounds gross, doesn't it?

i was all about posting this to my facebook notes area but then realized, why? it's frigging long. nobody wants to pretend to have that long of an attention span on facebook.


so then - i was like, "eureka. i have that blog thingie i've never used. brilliant!"


and also i can blog about other random stuff later on, like when owls try to attack me in my front yard or like when me and kris play rockband or like when the kids do and say amusing things. see how this all works out? huh? huh???!!!

anyway! for motivational sake, right now i'm going to document my fun with hiding from animal products! how fun is that?

i pledged to go 30 days vegetarian (which is roughly october the 10th) but i want to avoid dairy too, though i don't know exactly what to look for for hidden stuff in the ingredients of food. 

so i guess i could say that i'm avoiding the obvious dairy/animal products.  


oh, i made this pledge on peta's website and they are pretty hardcore. i'm afraid that they are spying on me and if they see me slip up they'll steal my dog guinness and my betta fish grampa bill. you know that they could, right? you could be being watched RIGHT NOW. i'll post the link after i write this so you can feel the magic.

let me know if you want to join me, it would be fun to have someone to share this with.

but i digress, i don't know how anybody wouldn't want to try doing this after seeing what commercial farming is about. i don't want to argue the politics of it all and i realize that the industry employs a great deal of people. let's leave that at that and call it a personal choice for me.

another quick note, i was afraid that doing this would increase my grocery bill but it actually reduced it only having to shop meat for my family. maybe after this the kids will be interested in joining me but i doubt ryan will. he's wayyyyy too southern. translation for those that don't understand: everything had a face at one time and needs to be fried.

it was neat posting that i was going to try to go vegetarian on facebook, i got a lot of feedback from my friends. thanks again, guys - you all are the bestest.

seeing that we are already a day behind on this let's get on to the food!  

9/11/09  

this day was pretty easy, surprisingly. i actually successfully made the kids cheese pizza and did NOT eat any. i was pretty full of other stuff, i guess - but i'm worried about pizza looking towards the future. yuuuuummmm, pizza.  

i saw a soy cheese pizza at sweetbay but i don't think i would feel ok spending almost $7 on a pizza just for me right now. that would make me feel like a jerkface. however, give me 10 more days or so without pizza. by then i just might be ready to drop mad bones on it.  

breakfast: salad. i heart salad. 

lunch: salad. did i mention i heart it? 

snack: some peanuts. peanuts are mad filling. totally. 

dinner: whole wheat wrap with bean sprouts, spinach leaves, sunflower seeds, and chopped candy tomatoes. these tomatoes are mad good, they are like regular ones but mini! 

snack: frozen red grapes. yum!  

9/12/09  

i have to take the kids to the library today to exhange books and also to target to get keegan's birthday candles. 

kailey also wants some chenille pipe cleaners to make fuzzy little animals out of. she made a butterfly the other day and if you moved it's wings, it's antenna moved too! it was cool.  

anyway, point being is that i plan on making veggie soup later and might not be able to because of prior plans. 

i bought leeks for the soup and i can't wait to cut them up. they are so big and weird looking. a big bonus of doing this is the chopping. you get to chop everything, slice everything, use big knives. muh ha ha.

but as far as the soup is concerened, we shall see if i've got time to make it. it's raining super hardcore right now and if it keeps up forget about battling my way to the library. it'll still be there tomorrow.  

you know, and i kinda hope ryan doesn't want to have any beers today because the last time i drank after eating salad all day was a hot mess. hawwwwt even. lettuce and tomatoes don't combat the drunkeness very well.  

breakfast: granola with vanilla soy milk. accidentally put vanilla soy milk into kid's cereal (whoops...hee hee). kids automatically demand that soy milk happens in cereal from now on. and so it begins!

the rest of my day is a mystery for now. 

you'll just have to hold tight, not freak out, and wait for the big reveal. 

kind of like watching project runway but i'm not heidi. 

you can pretend i have a german accent though if you want to, i won't judge.