Vegetarian Update

Well, it's been four weeks since I stopped eating meat in general. I stilll don't miss it. I find that rather incredible, rather unbelievable and just plain whacky. Most people I talk to about this say that it would be impossible for them to stop eating meat. I usually say that is just because you have been doing it your whole life. You have to give yourself a reason to stop eating it.

I admit, I did cave one night so my wife and I could have sushi. I still haven't quite figured out how I feel about seafood.

Yesterday, we had a cookout and had to have the hamburgers and hot dogs everybody is used to having. I had smartdogs (tasted like a hot dog, grilled okay, but the texture isn't quite there,) portabella veggie burger (good, but better with cheddar and carmalized onions,) and veggie brats (these might go somewhere, I precooked them in beer and then grilled, the taste was good and with saurkraut even better.) A couple of people tried the veggie items, but no one was ready to say, "no more meat for me," oh well.

I've promised my wife that I wouldn't prostheletize to people when we are with them so I figure this blog is a good way to talk about this experiment. As a byproduct of these efforts I have dropped about 10 pounds in the past month, not too shabby.