End of the Summer

It is the end of August and the end of the summer.  It is time to evaluate how my vegetarian experiment went.  Over all it turned out to not be very hard to live a loosely vegetarian life style.  Once I got a core set of recipes, it was pretty easy to come up with tasty dinners.  A few recipes I tried were failures, but hey, that was bound to happen.  I wasn't terribly strict with my resolve either.  If I was at a restaurant, or visiting at someone's house, I just ate what was given to me. Maybe being strictly vegetarian would be harder.

So, did I notice any benefit to being a vegetarian?  I didn't really notice any improvement to my health.  I didn't lose weight or gain energy or anything.  My food bill went down.  I think we were spending maybe $50-$100 less on food a month.  The main thing I liked about the whole experience was the sense of non-harming.  It just seems good not to take another animal's life to support my own if I don't have to. 

Going forward, my husband and I have decided to start eating meat again, but not as much as we did before.  We were thinking maybe 70 % vegetarian, or one or two meals a week with meat. Since we are still going to be cooking a lot of vegetarian food, I will keep adding recipes as I try new ones.