Who Needs Meatballs!

Went shopping today... Look Ma, No Meatballs!

Cheated a little...

Wish I could say I had a total vegan experience today, but I cannot tell a lie...

I had almond granola with coconut milk for breakfast, for lunch, I had about a quarter of a can of tuna (low mercury tuna from Whole Foods) mixed with veggies and veganaise, and a bowel of lentel soup and coffee with soy milk.

Nature's Fireworks Show - Dill

Growing Dill and who knew I would be so entertained by it when it went to seed. Now what do I do with Dill since I no longer eat fish? Hmmmmm...watch some fireworks?

What do I know about vegetables anyway? People are sometimes said to be in a vegetative state, mother's coax their children to eat their vegetables, in grade school, brussel sprouts made me barf when I couldn't stuff them all in my milk carton and was forced to eat a few. Meat now meat is a different memory...meat is juicy and tender, meat is succulant and flavorful. Meat is "finger licking good" and it's byproducts "do a body good", and I did "deserve that break today". What's to NOT like about MEAT? What's to LIKE about VEGETABLES?

No More Meatballs

I really wanted to title this blog "Becoming Vegan" or "Becoming Human" but both have already been taken so the next best way to describe this journey I am about to embrace, and since I happen to be Italian, is to simply state the facts...

"No More Meatballs".

No More Meatballs! No more indulging in the habit of devouring those succulent little balls on top of a sprawling plate of piping hot pasta covered in homemade tomato sauce that has been cooking for hours and sprinkled with hand grated parmesan and Romano cheeses. No more cow, no more pig, no more chicken, no more fish. I am resigning from the Butter of the Month Club for good!

Why, why you may ask? Is it for health, is it for humanity, is it for animal rights, is it to protect the environment, is it to become one with unity consciousness? Why would I embark on such an arduous task, knowing as I do, that I never stick to anything?

I'm doing this for all of the above and because something is changing inside me. Somehow a light bulb has gone off and illuminated certain truths, awakening an awareness I've never known, and now that I know, I can never go back.

This is a journey and I make no promises. This will be a process, an adventure down a an uncharted path I have never traveled.