today on apartment therapy los angeles there was this post: "simple green: go veggie one day and week". and when i saw it i thought, "whoa, do people eat meat everyday? like, everyday?" they wrote about their awe for a friend/coworker who went vegan for one month! and, "if we all centered our meals around grains and vegetables instead of meat just one day a week it would have a significant impact on the planet (not to mention your wallet)". I thought, did anyone ever read "diet for a new america?" i mean, i read that when i was 15 and was immediately a vegetarian (my mum told me about the book) and remained so until i was 22. but back then i was definitely the vegetarian police. and now i feel like i have to carry a "duh!" sign around.
i think more so than go vegetarian smart food choices are of the most important. this last year regular almonds have become $1more/100gm while organic almonds have dropped in price (!!). organic foods have stayed the same price or dropped in price and "regular" food is just getting more and more expensive. i mean, though i shop at slave-on where all vegetarian/vegan/wheatfree food is really expensive anyway, it's not going up that much (unlike value village where we greased on about the rising costs today). and dairy? how bad and hormonal is that stuff? and wheat's been killing me. my kidneys are a lo-grade sore again. i'm consuming too much sugar. white sugar. slurpees, treats, etc. and preservatives, don't get me started! and now i'm totally watching for parabens in all my bath products (of which parabens are in everything including my lush sea salt scrub, lush i love juicy shampoo, and body shop ginger shampoo).
i guess this is all just ranting because i've been thinking more and more about being a vegan. but being a wheat/gluten free vegan would be hard. the sugar free wouldn't be so bad. i mean when i can't have desert out or pasta at cimo i truly relish myself some goatcheese or yoghurt. maybe i can try to just be as vegan as possible? right now my inspiration is the urban housewife. i too am, since marrying stewart, an enamoured with being "hard core". and, for some reason see being a vegan as part of being hardcore. well, that and loving rob crow. (this is so good).
tomorrow i'm going to try and post my tutorial for my vegan wheat free chocolate banana cake (say that 10 times fast). but now i'm going to finish drinking my tea, plow myself through another chapter of "story house" by timothy taylor. i'm just over half way through the book and really got into graham's character right when taylor switched to elliot's character. and now it's getting to the point where they're going to meet (next chapter) and live out their past problems and what have you. it's been frustrating getting to this point. i guess that i've been waiting for it and the lead up has felt like a frustrating waste of time. but anyway, off i go! g'night! xoxo
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