The new lifestyle

Its been a whole five days. Whoa...

Haha, I've gone without meat for 5 days before. There was a week when I was living in London when I changed jobs and also changed pay days and I was living off packet soup and breadrolls for almost 2 weeks. And the occasional £1 Iceland frozen dinners. So going this long without any meat is nothing new to me. In fact, the only thing that has really changed in my life is telling people that I dont eat meat anymore. Everyone knows me as an omnivore - so on a few occasions this week, I have had to tell dinner hosts whom I have known for years that I wont be eating meat at dinner due to a lifestyle change.

I've found that intentionally cutting out meat from my diet has made me more concious of my food choices though. Being aware that my next big protein or iron ingestion isnt coming from a huge piece of steak or a chicken dish means that I am researching foods alternatives that provide these supplements. 

I had my second attempt of cooking tofu this week. The first time being a few years ago when it pretty much just fell apart when I put I put it in the fry pan. After that my tofu consumption either came in a restaurant / take away dish or from a ready-to-eat-packet.

Alas, taking some tips from various vegetarian blogs, my second attempt was a much bigger success!

Yummo! 

(I'm not being sarcastic. I actually really do like tofu)