Anyone who knows me at all knows I have no philosophical argument
against eating meat. Beef fajitas from Lupe’s Tortilla is pure
heaven in your mouth. My favorite go to
meal to cook for guest is cheese ravioli with chicken in a cream sauce sprinkled
with bacon bits. However, one thing I’ve
noticed is the more I run the less I desire to eat meat. I crave veggies. When I go to the grocery store, as I walk
through the produce section, random veggies seem like must have items. Couple this with reading Scott Jurek’s book Eat
and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness and I decided for the
month of October to give being a vegan a try.
I’ll confess up front I was going to try in August, even
buying a few vegan cookbooks. I then realized
I had a ton of meat in my freezer. So
the plan was to stop buying animal products and use up what I had. September was the month-o-vacations. Between going back a week to Charlottesville,
Va for my friend’s wedding and going to Colorado for 10 days, I knew I would be
going out to eat most days. That was not
going to be a recipe for success.
I also know I won’t be able to go 100% vegan this
month. I still have several non-vegan
items that I’ll use up but most of them are things like chicken broth, milk
chocolate, and evidently Worcestershire sauce has anchovies in it and is
non-vegan. The only real meat I have is
8 chicken wings in the freezer, and a half a quart of whole milk leftover
from some recipe.
So this month I stocked up on various bean, lentils, and
grains. Bought tofu, tempeh, hemp and
soy milk, nutritional yeast, and all other kinds of items for the first time
ever. We will see how it goes and how
long I last. I’m pretty good at the
grocery store as I already eat very little processed food, but going out to
dinner is going to be rough. That is when
I usually get all the great grilled meat items I don’t cook in my condo. We’ll see how it goes and in a month I’ll
update with how it has affected my running and such.
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