Introducing... well...me :)

[Guest guest]

Hmmm... what do I say about myself. I'm sure you've heard all this

many times before... but it's new to me. (that and I don't know any

vegetarians)

 

Hi, my name is Sojo. I have tried to be a vegetarian (lacto-ovo) a

few times over then years and it never seemed to work. Probably

because I was doing it for the wrong reasons. I had been seriously

thinking more about it over the past month when about two weeks ago

I sat there and looked at my cat Spike. I thought about his

intelligence, his attitude, his playfulness and the rare times when

he just wants to be loved. I realized that I would never harm him,

he's a part of me.

 

It sorta stuck to me then, about the cute little cows and pigs and

little yellow chicks. I could never kill them, but apparently I

could eat them. I think because we don't see a head or anything

gross with it in a supermarket we don't associate the sadness of it

all with it. We had had chicken salad that night and I looked to my

cat and I felt like throwing up.

 

It'll be two weeks on Friday and I think my family's in shock that

I'm still with it. Oddly enough, I don't see it as a hard thing at

all.

 

I am here because I love to cook, I love to eat, and I have never

eaten tofu (soy makes me a little ill). The more recipes I can find

(and share) that make the vegetarian way of life a pleasure then I'm

happy.

 

So... any hints, tricks or tips for the newbie? (I glanced at the

files, it's going to take me a while to go through them so I thought

I'd say hi first.)

 

Sojo