After much thought and encouragement from friends and family, I am officially a vegetarian for a week. Starting yesterday.
There are many reasons why someone would want to be a vegetarian, and I don’t necessarily want to have that discussion here, but I’ve been thinking about it long enough that it’s time to actually try it.
This is kind of a big deal to me, as I never thought that I would even ever try it. I grew up eating meat everyday (like most people, I think). But my wife is vegetarian, and so are some close friends. And living in Boulder (voted #7, on America’s Best Vegetarian-Friendly Small Cities) for 6 years certainly helped erase some of the stigma.
So, all and all I am pretty excited about it.
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I gave up meat for Lent as an experiment (I'm not even Catholic!) and have pretty much stuck with it since. I haven't had red meat since, I went back to white meat until Labor Day when I gave that up for good and now I only eat seafood. So, I guess that makes me pescatarian. Anyway, good luck! Also good to know that Boulder's a veggie-friendly city since I'm moving to there or Denver soon!
Pescatarian indeed.
Denver's a pretty veg friendly city too. There is a great veg restaurant not too far from where I live called Watercourse. There is also a new restaurant downtown that I haven't tried yet called Organixx.
Boulder just has a long history of veggie/hippie/progressive vibe to it.
I just put Watercourse and Organixx on my to-try list, thank you!
Awesome! Let me know when you are in town – we'll all go together!