Not long ago we driving along and saw this bumper sticker on a car. It doesn't even make sense! Is it implying the persons driving this vehicle are in fact cannibals and if given a chance they would eat my family?! That's just dumb.But it does remind me of a question we hear all the time when someone finds out were vegetarians:
"What do you eat?"
They ask the question with scrunched face and in a way that implies it is simply not possible to eat a diet that does not involve meat. But the fact is since becoming vegetarians (nearly five years ago) we have never ate a more diverse diet. We have several cookbooks and it is pretty rare that we eat the second meal twice. Here is a recent menu:
Monday: Kasha Kupecheskaya with side salad
Tuesday: Potatoes, zucchini and mushroom casserole baked in a veggie broth
Wednesday: Black bean tacos and Spanish rice
Thursday: Buckwheat noodles with Thai peanut sauce and broccoli
Friday: Mediterranean couscous with pita bread and hummus
Saturday: Sushi with Miso soup
On average a menu this size lasts ten days or so and the ingredients cost sixty to seventy dollars. Truthfully we eat out a couple times a week as well...were pretty bad at that one.
Next to joining the army, serving an LDS mission, getting married and becoming a social worker becoming a vegetarian was one of the best decisions of my life and ironically it was one of the easier decisions as well. Doesn't work for all but it certainly works for us and it is a lifestyle we encourage all to at least partially adopt.
