The idea of a meat-free diet terrified me. Because, first and foremost, bacon is a form of meat, and i love my bacon. But also it's just been one of those things that has always been around and most of my favourite dishes - shepherds pie, roast chicken and roast potatoes, steak mash and peas, spaghetti bolognaise - all contain meat. The America Effect When we lived in America for three years though, [...]
A little while ago i wrote about a breakfast meeting i had with Brett [great name] from Frys. He gave me a bunch of their products and i said i'd attempt to cook some up and blog about the experience and invited a bunch of people to join me. While i didn't quite get up to speed with inviting people cos life is so rush-rush busy, tbV and i decided last night to try out [...]
i had breakfast with myself this morning. Well that's not entirely true, but the big bearded man who sat across me also goes by the name of Brett [Thompson] and he is a living legend. He also is a vegan, but wait, before you start throwing things, just hear me out for a little bit. i met Brett through my wild pink-haired You Tube legend of a friend Grant Hinds [go check out his stuff here, [...]
So let me begin by saying this, "I really LOVE meat!" For the last, wow, must be almost two years?, my wife tbV and i have been doing our best to do a week of normal eating [as in what we're used to, which is not a crazy amount of meat actually] followed by a meat-free week. But we were chatting last night and realised [or confessed] that we don't find it all that easy. [...]
With the Meat-Free challenge just a week away [Can you go ONE whole week without eating meat?] i posted a series of food plan ideas and recipes for those of you who were left shell-shocked by the mere suggestion… but on the off chance that that was not enough – and for those of us doing regular Meat-Free Mondays or like tbV and myself at the moment alternating weeks with meat on and meat off [...]
The other day i stuck up a short video clip on the net inviting people to the challenge of ONE week with no meat. And a lot of you put your hands up and said we can do this [one of you said he thought he could manage a week without veg!] So the challenge is to join us in a week’s time [Week of Monday 24th August] when tbV and i enter our 4th [...]
Can you go without meat for one week? Yesterday i posed the question on Facebook just to see what people’s response would be and it was interesting to see what people had to say [a number of people claiming they could but their spouse? No way. And one person who suggested he might be able to give up vegetables for a week]. But that’s really all this is. Check it out: […]
I used to be a vegetarian Back in 2013, I decided to become a vegetarian. I followed a meat-free diet for a solid year. I didn’t stick to it because I never had a good reason for becoming a vegetarian in the first place. There were circumstances that lead me to the decision, but none of them were strong convictions. 1. It was my fourth year in res and I was tired of figuring out [...]
so the beautiful val and i decided that we would join the rest of the planet (well, those doing it) and move meat-free thursdays to meat-free mondays and would like to invite you to do the same... why you ask? well a bunch of reasons - one is being aware of the impact that meat-eating has to the planet and that if everyone just took one day off eating it, the positive impact it would [...]
