Screw this vegan thing! Maybe. Sort of. Part 2: No really, screw it.

Day 111

Just to be clear about yesterday’s enrty; I am not wrestling with going back to meat. It’s dairy that I am being all of a sudden doubtful about. I still am meatless people and will be that way until at least November 2nd, 2010.

That being said, this is what I had for dinner last night:

I did not have this for dinner last night:

That was my friend Dave’s pizza. Again, this is what I ate:

And, yes I know, there is CHEESE on it!!!!

It was not a whole wheat crust and it was a processed food but it was a nice change from being a strict vegan. So much so that I think I will only be vegan when it comes to my grocery list. So from now on I will be vegan at home and just a regular normal vegetarian outside of the home. That way I can maintain control over my dairy intake yet still indulge in it when out with friends.

So sorry to the hardcore animal rights people but I think I can safely say that after almost two months of being vegan that I don’t think it is really all that cruel to our furry friends to eat products made from their milk. Yes, they are sometimes mistreated and fed hormones when they produce milk but what about organic dairy farmers? I think they treat their animals pretty good.

Though I will say, after having that personal pizza I was drowsy—something that hasn’t been happening with my healthy diet recently.

Still, it was pretty damn tasty.

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Screw this vegan thing! Maybe. Sort of.

Days 109 & 110

I was at Panera Bread the other day and got a medium roast coffee. As I approached the coffee stand to fill up my cup after paying I realized that I had not asked if they had any soy milk.

Being in a hurry and not wanting to pester them for any as they were getting pretty busy, I just said, “screw it” and put in some skim milk instead.

Being vegan is just being too picky so here’s how it will go for the rest of the year:

-If there is no dairy substitute when I need some in my coffee I will just go for the least fattening creamer on hand.

-I will still avoid buying and consuming yogurt, cheese, milk and etc. but if a social situation comes up where that is all there is (such as a friend buying you pizza after you help them move in) and I am hungry then I will eat what they give me.

-And like I already established with eggs, dairy is okay if it is a mixed in ingredient such as in baked goods.

I am still doing a perfect job of avoiding beef, pork, poultry, fish/seafood and whole eggs though.

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Three Months of Being Meatless!

Day 93

I have made it three months without eating meat!

But, when it comes to the vegan aspect of my diet, I have inadvertently cheated because so many products have egg and dairy ingredients hidden inside of them! I think I will apply the same qualification to my vegan rule that I do to my whole egg rule; if it is a mixed in ingredient it is okay. Sound fair?

That being said, I think I will probably not be continuing as a vegan when my first meatless year ends in November. I may stay veggie but being vegan is just being too picky. If one eats organic eggs and organic dairy products they are still being kind to animals so maybe that is a win-win situation. We shall see when that time comes what I will choose.

Today I feel so good. I haven’t felt bloated or drowsy after a meal in months. And I have lost—wait, let’s save that for an entry all its own later in the week.

Some friendly reminders:

- E-mail me your meatless recipes at meatlessman@yahoo.com. They don’t have to be vegan, just meatless. If you know me in the “real” world and live nearby and have a meatless recipe then e-mail me and maybe we can videotape you making that recipe and post it on YouTube! You don’t have to be a vegetarian to submit a recipe; you just have to have a meatless dish of your own!

- I am on Facebook and Twitter. Join me on there, won’t you?

- See something in one of my entries that doesn’t seem to ring true? Please call me out on it in the comments section. This blog is supposed to be informative and I try to present the information I pass on to the best of my knowledge but sometimes I do occasionally miss something. Please let me know so we can better enlighten others out there. It is a big help and very much appreciated.

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My New Year’s 2010 Resolution , Part 2: Moment of Clarity

Day 62

In yesterday’s entry I posted some links to a few short PETA films and announced that my meatless year now includes not eating dairy products in addition to the beef, pork, poultry, eggs, fish/seafood I gave up when I started this experiment on November 2nd.

Watching Meet your Meat on New Year’s Eve day made me fully realize just how much we make animals suffer when we raise them to grace our dinner plates. What I saw deeply saddened me, especially when I noticed that the cows in the video seemed to have sad eyes that have reminded me of many pets I’ve owned over the years.

I guess I now have more reasons to go meatless for the year. Maybe I will even be meatless for life now. I never thought I would go meatless until a few months ago and certainly not vegan!

Times change.

For those of you who are new readers to this blog and still don’t quite understand why I started going meatless in the first place please click here for the very first entry.

Lastly, today is officially the two month mark. Meatless for two months and so far I have shed 14 lbs. Let’s see if I can keep up the good work throughout 2010.

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My New Year's 2010 Resolution , Part 1

Day 61

This is probably the most important entry I have written in this space since I started this blog back on November 2nd. I think it’s going to be a lot to digest for most people so I’ve broken it into two parts.

The two below video links have changed my recently altered eating habits even further. Don’t worry, I am not turning into a radical activist but the short films below have prompted me to change my meatless diet even more.

WARNING: If you are easily upset by violence towards animals, other acts of animal cruelty or gore then please don’t go to the below video links as you will find them quite upsetting. Feel free to skip the videos at the links and scroll down to the text after them.

Click on the links below to see the short films:

Meet your Meat

Glass Walls

Starting today, in addition to the meats I have already cut out for my meatless year (beef, pork, poultry, eggs and fish/seafood), I am now cutting out all dairy products too. No more milk, cheese, yogurt and such. I guess I’m going full vegan now. I’ll tell you more on this decision in the upcoming second part of “My New Year's 2010 Resolution”. Other than that, I will just let the above videos speak for themselves today.

I still wish you all a Happy New Year, even though it begins on such a dour note for me in the world of food.