Sunday, January 18, 2009

An Almost-Vegetarian


A couple of weeks ago Jessie decided that she was going to be a vegetarian. Actually, she went grocery shopping with me and we bought all sorts of meat products. Maybe it was the trip to the grocery store - not sure, but something made her decide to become a vegetarian the very next day.

She tried to give it a go for a couple of days. It was hard. First of all, I hadn't planned for the switch. So there were several times we had casserole type meals with the meat mixed in. This made it very hard for my budding vegetarian. Jessie isn't a very picky eater, but she discovered that she doesn't like enough vegetables to make the vegetarian lifestyle a success.

However, she gave it a lot of thought and decided to go with Uncle Abie's method of thinking. She will refrain from eating any animals that walk on 4 legs. Two legs are fine, though. Grocery shopping has become much easier with that addendum. She has shown that she is very committed so I've decided to help her. So far, in the last two weeks, she only cheated once. Way to go, Jessie.

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