Comments on: Making Mondays Meatless

By: Laurel

Laurel — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:54:10 +0000

My husband’s vegetarian, and I was for a long time, so I’m so used to cooking veg that meat meals seem much more outlandish to me. In fact it’s a bit of a struggle to incorporate more meat into my cooking–something I’m trying to do because I believe it’s best for my children’s nutrition.

Anyway, one nice thing about eating less meat is that it’s so much cheaper! Every time I go to buy meat my eyes bug out at the price. Especially if you do try to buy local, grass-fed, etc.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:09:49 +0000

About 1 1/2 yrs ago I decided thatour meals were going on a rotation–1 beef or otherwise “unhealthy meat”, 1 chicken, pork tenderloin or vegetarian meal, and then the 3rd meal would have to be vegetarian (or only use chicken stock). As with many plans I certainly did not stick to it perfectly but I can definitely say 30-50% of our meals are vegetarian. I agree completely with everything you have written here.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:54:58 +0000

Just this evening while preparing dinner I was thinking of how easy it is to adhere to Pollan’s “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” at this time of year. Today my household consumed eggplant, beet greens, rutabaga, green garlic, cucumbers, tomatoes, blueberries, cherries, parsley, carrots, cauliflower, and one peach, all from the farmers market. We threw a few other food groups into our meals, but the base of each of our meals today was veggies. Such abundance!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:27:45 +0000

MMMM.

Home made mac and cheese—one of my very, very favorite foods. Like ever.

Elizabeth–I forgot about that pasta sauce recipe–I should have added it to the post. It is a great one, you are right. I love all the vegetables in it and it is simple and ever so tasty!

Diane–I haven’t gotten tiffy comments yet, but it may yet happen. We’ll see.

By: Patrice Hudson

Patrice Hudson — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:20:13 +0000

I guess my parent’s and grandparent’s had it right all along. Except in our house it was Meatless Fridays as we were Catholic and it was back in the days of no meat on Friday. Funny because now I still try not to eat meat on Friday. My Mom always had the BEST non-meat food, usually fish, but sometimes not…no one could beat her tuna casserole or her salmon patties or her mac and cheese (home made, no boxed stuff).