Participating in Meatless Monday was surprisingly a lot less
difficult than I thought it was going to be. For the past couple of weeks I
have been going meatless (mostly) as my Lenten promise so not eating meat yesterday
wasn’t so bad. I started off the day with scrambled eggs and soymilk. For lunch
I had a sandwich with whole wheat bread, hummus, peppers. And for dinner my
friends wanted to go out so we went to Denny’s and I ordered a veggie burger on
a whole wheat bun and a side of steamed vegetables. Overall, it wasn’t a
difficult experience for me. I definitely see how it might have been an issue
though if Denny’s didn’t have an option of a veggie burger. My options would
have been limited to breakfast foods as many of their menu items consist of
meat. I definitely think that doing Meatless Monday will improve health of many
people (lower cholesterol or at least reduce the body’s constant exposure to
it), and also will benefit our environment because if you’re eating less meat,
you’re also having an impact on production by lowering it.
The other benefit of being meatless is that you compensate for the
lack of food (meat products) by eating other products, including more fruits,
grains, and vegetables which also benefit the body in many other nutritional ways
that maybe meat couldn’t do. Also, there are many other ways to get protein
other than eating meat and by doing Meatless Monday, people could be more
mindful of different kinds of food and sources of certain things such as
protein.
I really think that it was a great idea to give up meat for lent. Doing this would kinda of make you take this whole meatless thing a lot more serious. I don't know if I could have done that being the person that I am. So I really commend you for that. I do think it's would be great if people would try and eating lessmeat but in America where people love the steak. I don't know if it would happen . How was your food at Denny's did you enjoy it? I don't know if I can do a veggie burger with the vegetables visible still. Was it like that at Denny's? I found it to be very difficult to do meatless Monday, it's very good that you are doing well with it. For me the breakfast choices were limited as well. That is why I just went with Cereal. I was thinking for next week would look up some kind of omelette or something maybe even try an oatmeal. I don't really like oatmeal but Im guessing this is, suppose to open up our minds to different things. So I am going try my best . I do see where you are coming with your points of becoming a healthier person. Americans are by far one of the most unhealthy people. We are over weight and one of our major health issue are death because of food. We do need to not only work on this for ourselves but for our world. We are slowly killing the earth and I don't know what we are going to do with out it.
ReplyDeleteKareema Carley