Not average
and proud of it!
Today’s post is somewhat of a combination of the previous three:
What Do You Eat
Stay on Target
Creatures of Habit
I say that because what I want to talk about here involves what you eat, the steps needed to stay on target, and our meal habits.
If you would be able to look at the meals of everyone you [...]
Here’s a common exchange I used to have somewhat often:
“Oh, so you’re vegan?”
”Yep.”
“Must be hard.”
”Not really.”
“Well, I couldn’t do it.”
We are creatures of habit. Look at what you’ve done today. Probably 80% of it was what you did - and around the same time as what you did - the day before, and the day [...]
Welcome to day six of Vegetarian Awareness Month. And if you’re wondering what happened to yesterday’s post, I’ll be taking Sundays off.
Here’s a tip that can - and should - be applied to many areas of your life. If you’re looking to improve your way of eating and are attempting to move toward [...]
Quite often when someone finds out that a seemingly “normal” person they know is actually vegetarian or vegan, the only thing that can come out is “What do you eat?” For me, after explaining that I don’t eat meat, dairy, or eggs, and I get that question, I’m tempted to reply with “everything else!”
People used [...]
We’ll round off some of the history for now with what was probably the first intentional “vegetarian society” of sorts.
Think back to high school geometry and you may recall Pythagoras. Yes, the a2 + b2 = c2 guy. Well, back around the end of the 6th century BC he and his inner circle of scholars [...]
“If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?” goes the old joke. Hopefully those humanitarians are eating fruits and vegetables too as they are a great food for humans.
But this (bad) joke wants you to believe that the word vegetarian came out of the word vegetable when, in fact, it comes from the Latin word [...]
To start off this series of posts for Vegetarian Awareness Month I thought I’d give some basic definitions of different “stages” of vegetarianism as they are viewed today. Keep in mind these are simply the most common types of vegetarians you’ll meet. This isn’t meant to be a list of steps to follow, one after [...]