As promised from nearly 3 months ago, I have redone the website. Of course this was just a promise to myself, but I wanted to make sure to live up to it. After all, a broken promise to ones self is the worse kind. No longer will it eat at me every night as I am up watching Downton with Mary. The site is redone and ready for posts.
I’ll get to those later though…
After spending three years in North Carolina, seeing an autumn like this really takes me back. There is something so incredibly nostalgic about the sun setting over bright yellow, red, and orange trees with the faint smell of dried leaves gently flowing through the air.
In my early days of being a vegetarian I tended to eat bread at every meal. I would eat some form of bread, whether it was a bagel, a roll, or slices at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It was the perfect delivery mechanism for my rudimentary veggie dishes. On any given day, bread could end up accounting for nearly a third of my total caloric intake. This is an awful lot of calories for a food that was not really adding anything to my meals, it was just helping me get the other food down. Fortunately, another one of my main motivations for becoming a vegetarian helped me cut this crazy intake down to a healthy level. I started reading the ingredients on the backs of packages. Continue reading