Does a vegan or vegetarian diet make you more spiritual?
I don’t think so.
But it makes you more mindful about what you eat.
In this blog I’m continuing my story about how I became a vegetarian.
And then a pescatarian.
It was called “Do You Have To Be Vegan To Be Spiritual?”
And you can read or re-read it HERE.
Anyway – I still have a hard time facing pasta primavera, which seemed to be the only vegetarian main course option available at the numerous conferences and conventions I attended over the years as part of my job.
By the way, my last “meat meal” was steak tartare served at a high-end steakhouse in London, Ontario.
I loved it, as I did blue steak, bacon, chicken and anything with ground beef in it.
I was quite the carnivore!
It was a tough journey to vegetarianism at times, given that my daughter decided to start eating chicken and shrimp again after a few months.
And no one else in our household of six [including cat and dog] was willing to give up “meat”.
Being the chief barbequer [is that a word?] and assistant cook for the family meant that I was regularly frying for and serving meat to pretty well everyone but myself.
I usually gave a blessing and expressed gratitude to the dead creature that I was cooking, thanking it for sacrificing its life for our nutrition.
I must admit that often the smell of burning meat made me somewhat nauseous.
And still does.
Eventually the kids grew up and left home, my wife continued her omnivore lifestyle, and I my vegetarian one.
Admittedly she ate “meat” only rarely and pretty well gave up pork after seeing the movie “Babe”.
She also became the primary cook in our home.
But it wasn’t easy for my wife to make two separate proteins at dinner whenever she chose to eat “meat”.
One for me and one for her.
And it wasn’t that easy to split an appetizer or entrée at a restaurant if she decided to select a non-vegetarian option.
So, a number of years ago I began to occasionally eat fish and seafood.
After all, we live on the lake where fish are abundant.
So I guess that made me a pescatarian.
Have I ever cheated and eaten meat?
Yep, a couple of times.
I tried alligator fritters in Florida [I rationalized it as a type of seafood], and once at a Thanksgiving dinner I surreptitiously tasted a piece of dark turkey meat.
It left a greasy, unpleasant taste in my mouth.
OOPs- I’m running out of time again, so I’ll continue this blog in a couple of weeks.
Stay tuned :-).
Keep manifesting only good things 🙂
Tony
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