I'm thinking about becoming a pescetarian, but I'm not sure I could commit (especially at school with the somewhat limited foodage options) to a restrictive diet like that. So I guess I'll start at flexitarian and work my way up. Never fear, though, dear readers: I could never stand to be vegan.
For now, though, I think I'll be a sleepitarian, since it's pretty flippin' late. And I had every intention of waking up early to go to the gym pre-classes. Pshaw. Maybe Tuesday.
Thoughts? (On part A, not the sleeping part)
what is a pescetarian?
ReplyDeleteIf you are looking at a flexitarian diet then the you should check out the book The Flexitarian Diet by Registered Dietitian Dawn Jackson Blatner http://dawnjacksonblatner.com/books/index.php
ReplyDeleteYou can get the book at any major book retailer and amazon.com . It has helped me tremendously.
I think you should stick to regular food. Too much education is what is effecting you I suspect. Take a break !!!!
ReplyDeleteLove, Grandma T
Katie, that's a person who doesn't eat "meat" (chicken, pork, beef, etc) but will eat fish.
ReplyDeleteZeke, I'd have to ask you what your motivation is before giving you my thoughts. Is it for health reasons? For moral or ethical reasons? (*I love vegetarians, myself. They taste great with ketchup.) Dietary reasons? Other? There are lots of different diets that address various concerns, some of them goofy as all get out.
I'm glad to hear you won't be a vegan. My eyes roll back in my head when someone tells me they are vegan.
oops, posted too soon.
ReplyDeleteI meant to say that Rice can hear and some plants have been recorded screaming when they are pulled from the ground, so nothing is safe. :)
My main motivation is really for health reasons. I have no moral qualm with meat. As Dad so loves to recant: "Meat is murder ... tasty, tasty murder." I want to be more health conscious, and really, it's more of a simplicity thing than anything else. Most of the bad foods, especially around campus, have red meat involved somewhere. If I can narrow my acceptable meat intake, it's a lot easier to just cut all of it out. Plus, I know I don't eat enough fish, so it's kind of a way for me to force myself to start.
ReplyDeleteI've always wanted to become vegetarian, honestly, because it seems like an all-around healthier lifestyle. There's something "clean" about vegetarianism, if that makes sense. I know I'm making sweeping generalizations about it, I recognize that, but from my perspective, if I were to restrict my diet like that — to just fish or to no-meat, or something similar — that's the easiest and most effective way for me to eat much more sensibly than I used to. Truthfully, though, I very very seriously doubt I'll ever be able to give up meat entirely. Unless I use the easy-out "Fish is not a meat, says the Church" excuse. =)
My problem, though, is that because I live in a dorm, I don't have the capacity to make my own fishy dishes, really. My ability to make my own food is seriously limited. My snack foods are all very sensible (carrot sticks, pure orange juice, celery, apples, and one square of 70% cacao dark chocolate a day), but that's unfortunately all I can really fit into my minifridge/dorm lifestyle. I have a hard time finding fish at ALL outside of the main cafeteria, so in practice, I've honestly been a pollopescetarian. I know it's not vegetarianism (I nearly had my head bit off by a truly vegan friend of mine who thought that I thought I was a vegetarian—I quickly reassured her I thought no such thing), but it IS an overall healthier take on my diet, I think.
And there's absolutely NO way I'd become a vegan. I know some vegans, and I respect the dedication it takes to live a truly vegan lifestyle, but I have neither the time, money, nor motivation to do something that extreme. Besides, I like cheese too much. =)
WOW. That was a long comment. =)
ReplyDeleteSo you don't want to eat my Plaza III Soup or my Spaghetti and Meatballs any more?
ReplyDeleteEating all fish isn't necessarily healthy either. You have to think of the food chain, and which fish are at the bottom and the top. Avoid swordfish at all costs. I've not eaten one for years, since I had to clean them and saw all the worms so common to them. If sword isn't cooked properly, those worms will go to work in your own gut, unless you've chewed them up pretty well. The top of the food chain has a lot of mercury, so you would avoid eating only one type of fish. Then there is the whole ecological farmed fish vs wild fish thing, and the taste issue. If you really like vegetarian, a great cookbook is the greens cookbook. Check some books out from the library and read them. Something you could do is perhaps find a friend with an apartment and do a one day cooking jag, where you make a weeks' worth of menus in one day and store them in your fridge. Or you could get a slow cooker. Uncle Todd just made some fabulous ratatouille in a slow cooker. You should ask him for the recipe. Red meat isn't necessarily bad for you. I'm sort of against anything that says cut out ALL of one type of food or another. God designed this world in balance and we simply don't eat in balance. Since there are more plants than animals, we should be eating more plants than animals. So, for example, you should consider meat a condiment, as in Asian cooking with it's quick stir frys, intense flavorings, and smidgens of meat in with all the veggies.
ReplyDeletealso, if you have the money, but they are a bit pricey, Amy's frozen meals are awesome. Vegetarian, some vegan, and all incredibly delicious.
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