Flexitaniarism, or How to Stop Eating Meat Gradually
So I did a whole vegetarian week and then, for lack of time I succumbed to chicken.
I love chicken.
it is very hard to go vegetarian if you don't have everything you need in your power and that includes the ability to cook beans -not undercook them or overcook them, just plain old COOK 'EM!
I have burnt and undercooked beans three times so far, once achieving the feat of both undercooking and burning a batch at the same time.
It is still beyond me how this was managed, but the truth is simple: I have 0 time-managing skills and humans are creatures of habbits.
I tried avoiding meat but chicken breasts were already defrosted for my husband and my beans were undercooked and burnt.. it was easier to add a breast to the pan for me and eat it up with a salad.
For now I've decided that I want to be a flexitarean, which is really just a complicated word for "conscious omnivore"; I will eat less meat, more grains, more vegetables and fiber rich foods that don't have animal products in them (which includes reading the label of the bread loaf at the local super market) and the ocassional meat portion.
I will try to limit meat consumption only to lunches and will decrease amount of consumption gradually in order to one day achieve the vegetarian goal, but in a way that is, as the Buddha would say, not too tight that the string can't play, nor too loose that it can't make a sound.
Conscious eating is already a big step for humanity.
Here's to conscious eating habits and goal-keeping.
More green, more love, less pain.
Masha