Day 11: hmmmm bacon, almost

For lunch i was on an external provincial location, there was a restaurant and we had soup and a buffet.
Them soup was good, unfortunately there were lots of bacon-bits in it, afterward i found out there was a vegetarian option, so i could have succeeded but ddn't investigate enough.
The buffet had sufficient opportunities to eat cheese and vegetables, no problem there.

Day 10: Again meaty leftovers

For breakfast i had family-leftovers: spaghetti bolognese with 2 fish-sticks (don't ask)
Then for lunch all went well: vegetarian pizza
And for dinner a baguette with cheese and vegetables

10 days and i'm not dead (yet)
maybe eating a lot less meat is possible after all ;-)

Day 9 (part 2)

The rest of the day went well:
Vegetarian dish for lunch: stuffed paprika with something yummy, think tofu or quorn, unfortunately the rest of the dish wasn't great, green beans that were actually white, mashed potato and a tomato sauce that was too sour

For dinner i had a great tomato and mozarella sandwich with extra vegetables on top (cucumber, corn and carrots), yumyum!

Day 9: i will not waste good meat

Yesterday my family had the same dinner with chicken added on top.
There were leftovers so i pulled everything togehter, including a few pieces of chicken, and i'm eating that right now for breakfast.

So it won't be a veggie-dag but i won't have thrown away perfectly good pieces of chicken either, so no bad feelings, just no perfect score :-)

By the way, it's 10 o clock in the morning here, not whatever tim is attached to this post

Day 8: succes

Eggs on bread for breakfast, check!
Nothing veggie available at the restaurant for lunch so went out and bought a baguette with vegetables and cheese and a vegetarian pizetta, check!
For dinner some mozarella with cheese, mashed potatoes and omelette, check!

Soon i'll have to take a good look if i'm getting in all necessary nutrients, but i actually needed to do that before this quest so nothing new :-)

Day 6 & 7: The biggest meat-eating fest in history?!

One would think that after the first week of trying to eat vegetarian -that all things considered went well because very little meat was eaten- a binge meat-eating session would ensue!

Nothing of the kind, over the whole weekend actually nothing un-vegetarian was eaten!

These 2 days were actually the 2 first real vegetarian days!
So it can be done, onwards!

Day 5: Opportunity creates the criminal

Pistolets with cheese or speculoos-paste for reakfast, check
Salad-dish with cheese for lunch, check
Tiny piece of salmon on the cheese dish, fail

One colleague suggested fish doesn't count toward my quest.. i don't agree.
Meat or fish both need to eat something else before they're big and juicy, they're both on a higher trophic level than "plants" and in these times most fish is probably even more unsustainable than most types of meat.

Anyway, my truly vegetarian colleague even gave me her piece of salmon so i had 2 :-)
And another colleague offered to eat my salmon so i would succeed today yet i decided to eat it anyway to prove a point:

Oppurtunity creates the crime, being a weekday-vegetarian would be very easy for me if the choice was available!

First week: 0 / 5
Better luck next week!

Day 4: Between a rock and a hard place

When I opened the fridge in the morning there was a big bowl leftover pasta bolognese, you know, the accidental meat i ate yesterday.
I was torn ... I know from past discoveries in our fridge that this would most likely not be eaten by anyone else and thus would end up in the trash.

Given that i'm partly doing this to reduce my ecological footprint I decided the best choice would be to eat it and not eat some extra food while this would end up being thrown away.

So failed again yet with good reason.

Day 3: Old habits die hard

Today at lunch i did well!
Since there was no vegetarian meal available, i went out and bought a very nice vegetarian baguette with grilled courgettes, pesto and lots of other yummy stuff.
And in the afternoon i also got a fruit-salad from a colleague that wasn't hungry for it.

And then ...

Completely oblivious of my weekday-vegetarian adventure i ate a big plate of spaghetti bolognese (ground beef) for dinner and later at night in a bar i ordered a croque-monsieur (ham)... only to realise late at night when i got home again that ... OH DAMN i was trying to be a weekday vegetarian!!
So i started up this blog at that point to keep track of it all!

Better luck tomorrow!

Day 2: succes ... almost

Every tuesday, the pasta dish in the resataurant at work is a vegetarian one.
Sometimes that meant that the pasta with ham and cheese became pasta with cheese, not bad but not great.
Today it was an nice vegetable sauce with tomato, lots of variety in the sauce, it was yummy.

Unfortunately there were small meatballs in the tomato sauce ... failed again!
On to day 3!

Day 1: May 16, 2011, Monday

Day 1: oops, apparently i didn't feel like starting just yet
At lunch in the restaurant i chose te eat a "Cordon Bleu", you know, a schnitzel with ham and cheese inside.

Let's see what tomorrow brings!

Something that's worth doing ....

With something that's worth doing, is worth starting it slowly!

It hasn't been going great yet,
but i'm happy that i've started reducing my meat intake significantly.
Tonight I'll start posting about what happenend this week.

Ready ... set ... GO

A week or so ago i found this lecture on TED:
http://www.ted.com/talks/graham_hill_weekday_vegetarian.html

Graham describes my situation pretty good:
- wanting to eat less meat for health and environment
- not wanting to give up meat completely
- not getting around to it because of the abovementioned dilemma and the lack of a plan

But after seeing yet another mind-expanding TED-lecture, i once more have a new perspective on reality from which there is no return :-)

So gogogo! I kinda started 2 days ago on monday and will keep a diary here and add random but relevant stuff.