Make This the Year to Clean Your Plate

magnolia416

Happy New Year!

I've done this Veggie Challenge a couple times before, it's informative and interesting. And no junk email from them after the challenge is over.

Try vegetarian for 7 days with the free daily tips and recipes, sign up here:
veggiechallenge.com/

lemurcat12

I've gone vegetarian for more than 7 days at a time plenty of times. Not sure why one would need to sign up somewhere to do that.

AnvilHead

For me, "cleaning my plate" means using bread to sop up the leftover myoglobin after eating my ribeye steak.

fr33sia12

I've done it since April and didn't need to sign up for anything.

Gallowmere1984

I always accidentally go vegetarian for extended periods when I get lazy. Like today: nothing but a bunch of protein powder, nuts, fruit, some potatoes, and my pre and post-lifting brownies.

crzycatlady1

I've done the vegetarian thing before and gained weight while doing it

kgeyser

I think I have way too many food texture issues to be able to have a balanced vegetarian diet, but I think the idea sounds very interesting. Seven days is manageable for trying something out, and people might find some recipes they enjoy or try a new food they otherwise would not have if they didn't do the challenge.

It might also change the way someone thinks about vegetarian diets. I know I used to organize events and it would be incredibly frustrating when we had a vegetarian in the group, because invariably the vegetarian meal prepared would be "pasta with vegetables and some kind of sauce." They were always polite about it because they were used to people thinking "vegetarian means no meat, so anything without meat is ok," but seriously, some attempt to make the vegetarian meals as balanced as the meat offerings would have been nice.

GottaBurnEmAll

I'm already a vegetarian.

And there are beets in that picture.

Ewww. I can be a vegetarian without beets.

I do like the idea of a challenge to change perceptions, though. Like kgeyser said, a lot of people think all we eat are pasta and veggies, and that's far from the truth.

It's funny, my niece is getting married in June, and my sister told the place hosting the event that they'll need a gluten free vegetarian entree. They sort of fumbled a little bit when given that tidbit. It's really not that hard.

livingleanlivingclean

AnvilHead wrote: »

For me, "cleaning my plate" means using bread to sop up the leftover myoglobin after eating my ribeye steak.

I also clean my plate already .... Isn't that what your tongue is for?