After much deliberating I've decided to try a vegetarian lifestyle, well pescatarian actually, only eating fish. Fortunately, this is not much of a stretch for us as we already rarely eat red meat and cook mostly chicken and fish. There are many reasons for this challenge, there are some ethical reasons, thanks to some in your face reading, but mostly it is for health reasons. I suffer from what can only be described as "stomach pain with no identifiable cause" more commonly called "nonulcer dyspepsia" and I've read that not eating animal protein may minimize the amount of acid produced in the stomach. Not to mention the colon cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol that runs in my family. Anyway, I decided to give myself a 30 day window in an effort to minimize any guilt should I return to my meat eating ways. I've already posted my vegetarian meal plan and continually post new vegetarian recipes. Every week I will write an update documenting how I'm feeling, any new found recipes and anything else pertaining to this topic that I come across in my internet travels.
Here are some veggie links
http://www.helloveggie.org/
http://domesticobservances.blogspot.com/2009/12/weekly-meal-plan.html
http://domesticobservances.blogspot.com/2009/12/15-benefits-of-vegetarian-diet.html