Yesterday, I ate fruit, vegetables, legumes, grains, coffee, water--and that's it. No animals or animal byproducts. I'm a bit puzzled, because it wasn't a conscious experiment. I didn't plan it. I just ate the kinds of foods that I've been enjoying lately, the foods my body seems to want. Granted, it's just one day's worth of choices, but it's a radical change from how I used to eat.
Am I turning vegan? Ask the turkey bacon I have tomorrow.
Mmmm... turkey bacon.
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*shudders* I had a bad experience with turkey bacon so I'm not a big fan. I don't think I could ever be a vegetarian, let alone a vegan...I'm too much of an American :D
Posted by: Elizabeth | April 26, 2006 at 06:50 PM
Do you pronounce the word vegan as vay-gun? You should. That way, it would rhyme, and rhyming is cool.
Posted by: Sunshine, Lollipops & Rainbows | April 26, 2006 at 10:28 PM
You're not going to let that bacon sit out for 24 hours before you cook it, right?
Posted by: John Scalzi | April 27, 2006 at 08:45 AM
*immediately gets hunger pangs*
Posted by: jiko | April 27, 2006 at 11:15 AM
Did you cook all of those things?
I'm sympathizing with vegetarian lifestyle, but at the moment it's a bit dificult to achive that. Living with the family make it rough.
I've to wait till I get my own space.
best luck
Ângelo, Portugal
Posted by: Ângelo Fernandes | April 27, 2006 at 06:47 PM
The funny thing is I used to hate turkey bacon. I guess my tastes are changing.
About the rhyming: Rhyming *is* better. Now I typically say vee-gun, though I'd rather say vay-gun. Dig that "aliens from the star Vega" connontation. But apparently both pronunciations are wrong...
"VEGAN is not pronounced with a long 'e' and a hard 'g' and NOT "veggan, vaygun, vayjun, or veejun." Simply put, you take the first three letters and the last two of "vegetarian," and you have the pronunciation the way it was intended, "VEH-jan"."
So says http://www.innvista.com/HEALTH/nutrition/diet/vdefine.htm
About cooking: I'm still going out from time to time, but most often it's here at home. That's the only way I can be 100% sure of what I'm eating. Go to a restaurant and there's this whole, "Wait, did they cook this in oil? What kind of oil? How much did they use?" confusion that makes my brain explode.
Posted by: Nick Sagan | April 28, 2006 at 02:52 PM
There's a portuguese saying wich in english will sound something like this
eyes that won't see, heart that won't feel.
In portuguese sounds quite
better, must confess.
that's what we "said" when we're going to some dubious restaurant.
Posted by: Ângelo Fernandes | April 30, 2006 at 01:09 PM
Nick "SEH-jan"
Posted by: Sunshine, Lollipops & Rainbows | May 01, 2006 at 12:11 AM
Hi Nick,
Vegan is generally pronounced V-gun or V-gihn. Hard G. Hope you continue to try the healthier, more ecological eating. It's easier than people think. It just takes some time to learn how to eat other items that aren't even on our radar.
In a semi-related note here's the Utah Vegan gang hand gesture (making fun of the Utah Attorney General here) with James Burke. V-Gun. Get it? See the URL above for that pic.
Finally, i've stumbled onto yet another baby named for your father's family name. This time, it's an at-home birth by a vegan couple. How Ithaca is that!? Anyway here's the link:
http://www.vegfamily.com/vegan-pregnancy/birth-stories/sarah.htm
Posted by: Vegan Amigan | March 06, 2007 at 02:12 AM