Monday, February 7, 2011

My Vegan Mondays

Livestock production is responsible for a huge chunk of global green house gas emissions. The more meat we eat, the more we produce, and the carbon footprint gets bigger. As Meat Free Monday reports, a sustainable future demands that we cut this consumption and yet between 1961 and 2007, while the world population increased by a factor of 2.2, meat consumption quadrupled and poultry consumption increased 10-fold.

"To build a better world in the future we all need to make changes in our lifestyles now."


Morning
Coffee & soy milk
A supergreen smoothie: kale, celery, banana, apple and lemon juice and ice. Sound gnarly? En fet, c'est super!
Oatmeal

Afternoon
A mélange from Whole Foods' salad bar: quinoa with beets; spinach, fennel and orange; wild rice with cranberries and pecans; grilled eggplant, roasted sweet potatoes... oh, how I love Whole Foods

Evening
Whole wheat pasta with kale and pesto
Tea and honey (actually, can honey be considered vegan?!)

8 comments:

  1. Honey is not vegan, but have you tried stevia?:) Tastes weird in coffee but I love it in herbal tea:)

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  2. dear ms amy thomas

    would you be interested to exchange links with me?

    I have been following your blog for quite some time and this has actually inspired me to start a blog of my own.

    hoping for a favorable response.

    than you so much

    happy blogging!

    miss vargas

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  3. Kale. Wow, kale! I would totally eat that. I have heard it is marvelous as oven-baked chips! And the smoothie sounds delicious!

    Yeah, I am with Duchesse. My vegan friends agree honey is a no-no, but I am not reporting you to the vegan police, so I think you are okay. ;-)

    Stevia is nice in tea, but I use Vanilla Crème-flavored liquid stevia in coffee all the time (my friend's mom brought it to me from the States). It is pretty good in coffee, if the coffee is strong, I think. Also, try agave nectar/syrup. It's vegan, too.

    I need to start doing a meat-free day more consciously. I do about once a week as it is, but I need to be more purposeful about it.

    I'm glad you are still doing this. :)

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  4. You're on a roll lady!! getting rid of all the traces of Paris I see...mwah!

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  5. Those stats at the top of your blog...good grief. Makes me sick just thinking about it.

    It's one of the reasons I went vegetarian (but not vegan, because cheese is life) several years ago.

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  6. Morning:
    Coffee ( but blew it with the whole milk)

    Afternon:
    Cherries and plums

    Evening:
    Salad with brie and dried figs and pasta with sun dried tomato sauce.

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  7. PS.. we found peanut butter. That tastes like "back home" .. I am having a banana sandwich for dinner tomorrow lol..

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  8. You have inspired me to start vegan Mondays as well :)

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