About my present diet

[kajarainbow]

I might as well make it officially known. Some of you know that I was a vegan. What you probably don't know is that I no longer am. I'll now eat animal products, but I tend to eat fairly little of it, and of that mostly just seafood (excepting octopi).

There're a number of reasons for this. One is that even after about a year, I still have omnivorous cravings. Another is that many staples eaten by vegans aren't really available in the grocery store I regularly go to, and any stores that would carry a decent supply of those are quite a way by bus ride, and my carrying capability would be limited (right now, I and my roommates catch a weekly ride to a local store to get our week's supply). And, finally, I'm tired of imposing socially upon people when I eat with them. If anything, that is possibly the biggest factor.

This doesn't mean that I'll go straight back into munching down on huge amounts of meat and dairy products. Hell, even before I went vegan, I tended to eat less of it than the rest of my family. This was partially moral concern and partially a matter of taste (a tendency not to like many meat products as much as other people do).

And I can't consume dairy products--I'm intolerant to it. Though not allergic--it won't set me off just by being present in small amounts in something I eat. But things comprised primarily of dairy tend to taste not so great to me and give me indigestion.

So, what do I eat? Pretty much large amounts of vegetable products, moderate amounts of seafood (I'd also eat insects without much guilt), and fairly little amounts of other animal products.

EDIT: to clarify, I pretty much just eat what my taste buds tell me. Which're mostly those things.

Comments

[xinjinmeng.livejournal.com]

I advocate more fruits and vegetables in a mammal's diet, because the body craves variety and because these foods are simpler to break down for better digestion.

Also, eating vegan for three days straight makes the meat on the fourth day taste so much better.

[kajarainbow.livejournal.com]

Plus fruits are the greatest foods ever. <3

Or maybe that's just my sweet tooth speaking.

[relee.livejournal.com]

The farmer's market has luscious yellow plums. I can't handle too much sweet anymore, except in my coffee.

[relee.livejournal.com]

Conscience is wierd eh? I have no problems eating beef but I felt really guilty when I stepped on a grasshopper once.

On the other hand if it wasn't for professional butchers I'd probably never eat meat. I'm way too squeamish to butcher animals, even fish.

I used to love Shrimp and Mussels when I was a kid but I can't stand them now, they're too gross.

[alfador-fox.livejournal.com]

My stance on voluntary diets is: "You eat what you like and I'll eat what I like and I won't think either of us is morally superior for it and I ask you to do the same thank you."

I'd have problems about stepping on a grasshopper too, because I don't want to eat the grasshopper. I chase the squirrels around the U District only in play, never to actually catch one, because I don't want to eat a squirrel. I've developed a taste for the animals we humans raise on farms then kill and chop up for their tasty flesh. I've got four 16-oz bags of dried cow in my dresser. It's peppered! =^_^=

I don't want to go hunting either because I don't NEED to. Cows and pigs and chickens and more are going to die whatever I do, so I may as well eat them instead of killing MORE, right?

I have killed in self-defense before, though. Frickin mosquitos, I'm a zillion times your size, I'm not going to be predated upon by the likes of you.


And I know what it is to dislike foods you liked before: I don't like marshmallowy cereals anymore; I like the berry/corn/honey nut crunchy stuff. My favorite cereals, though, have ALWAYS been the "grownup" type ones with actual honey nut clusters and honeyed flakes. Even when I was little, I loved those.

...and the reverse: I used to hate lima beans, and a few years later my mom was surprised to see me nomming them with delight.