While driving home I was starving since
I'd missed a couple of meals during the course of my day at work.
Since rejoining the world of vegetarians I get to eat like a hobbit.
You know, first breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, first lunch,
second lunch, etc. Anyway, I was on my way to the grocery store to
pick up food for dinner that night and was trying to decide if I
should pick up a quick snack or just wait until I got home.
As I was working all this out in my
head I passed no less than 9 fast food restaurants in about a 1.5
mile stretch of the fourlane I was driving on. Around here we only
have one highway so we call it the
fourlane. It sounds cool and confuses the hell out of the
tourists. Each one of those fast food establishments tried to worm
its way into my consciousness and get me to turn my steering wheel
and pull in for a quick pass through the drive-thru. It stuck me that
this is one of the big problems with our culture. Since we've become
an instant gratification, gotta have it now, hell no I can't wait
kind of society no one debates whether or not to have a snack right
this instant even if it's a non-nutritious, unhealthy, grease bomb
of a heart attack waiting to happen. Being a vegetarian is a big
enough challenge by itself without having to survive a gauntlet of
“eat me” every time I drive down the fourlane.
This little episode of mind games with
myself has prompted me to really focus on how I plan my daily
plethora of meals. I'm still fairly new to returning to this whole
vegetarian thing so I'm relearning a large amount of lost lore from
the last time I did this in the 80's. Having leftovers never seems to
be a problem since my family is still a carnivorous band of cavemen
and women (my kids look at my meticulously crafted vegetarian meals
with an expression akin to seeing a train wreck on their faces). My
daily work musette contains assorted veggies, fruits, energy bars,
and great quickie meals like hummus on tortillas with kalamata
olives. That kind of selection lets me grab a quick snack or meal on
the run. At my job I rarely get to sit down and eat, I usually eat
while on the run. I still freak out my co-workers when I eat tomatoes
and peppers like apples while on the job.
If you're vegetarian, how do you
plan your meals?
Do you eat like a hobbit?
What veggies do you eat like an
apple?
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