name : wesage : 24
location : hoboken, nj
occupation : food
explain yourself:
i love to eat food.
i love the thought of eating food.
i love reading about people who are eating food.
this blog is to document every chew, gulp, sautee, and taste i encounter. there's plenty of food out there, and i want to experience all of it.
[featured photos and video were captured on my iphone 3gs. others will be fairly and rightfully credited to their proper owners.]
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Sam’s Journal - This Onmivore’s Dilemma
[This is a guest post from Sam, our resident culinary challenger, who set out to try vegetarianism for an entire month. Read about the experience here!]
Hello Food Community,
My name is Samantha and I am here to blog about my most recent food bet. As Wes’ girlfriend and partner in food crime, I have been given this special platform and hope not to disappoint.
To give you a little insight into my personality, I never back down from a challenge. You can know nothing else about me and that statement still sums it up pretty nicely. In 2006, I was challenged not to put mustard - my favorite condiment - on anything. It was difficult, but I was victorious. In 2007, I was challenged to abstain from gum for a week. While not exactly a food, I have considered it a food group for some time and thus I have included it here. Again, a win for yours truly.
However, this food bet - the one that brings me to you today - is by far the hardest I have encountered. Prompted by a food documentary, I was told by my friend Brian I could not NOT eat meat. That’s the last time you’ll challenge me Mr. Hardy!
What you need to know: I love bacon, steak, burgers, chili, chicken nuggets, chicken breast,pepperni, sausage, and pretty much anything else along these lines. For all intents and purposes, I am an omnivore…I will eat ANYTHING, as long as it’s served with mustard.
Getting back to the task at hand, I am to be a vegatarian for 1 month (30 days). This was the ORIGINAL bet. But, I felt it was lacking. So I decided to alter it. In addition to adhering to a meat-free diet, I will also try every vegetable I can get my mitts on.
The bet started on December 13,2009. I am now four days in and going strong. But there is definitely room for improvement.
The Good:
- I don’t miss meat as much as I thought I would.
- My salad intake has increased. My favorite dish of the past 4 days? My romaine lettuce, cheddar cheese, black olive, raw onion, italian dressing salad.
- I bought tofu to eat as a supplement to beef/chicken/pork
- I have been able to stave off mid-day hunger with two of my go-to snacks: apple slices and peanut butter (creamy) and carrot sticks and ranch dressing.
The Bad:
- I have not eaten the tofu yet
- I have noticed my intake of carbs to be increasing. Instead of having a turkey sandwich, I’ll eat toast with cream cheese. Not good…
- I have not yet expanded my mouthal cavity with a wide array of veggies. Quite the opposite actually.
- I have ritualized my eating to include the same salad every day for dinner.
The Ugly:
- Weight gain…yikes!
In the coming days, I will be keeping a chart of all veggie recipes I try, as well as a running tally of all the vegetables eaten. Stay tuned. I WILL NOT LOSE!
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Introducing Samantha Young, Resident Experimental Vegetarian
This is Sam. She is my girlfriend. I love her very much.
And I love meat. I love chicken and ribs very much. The two share a common trait: I cannot live without them. This is why she must shoulder this journey alone.
Sam is going to abandon eating meat for an entire month. 30 days without steak and bacon, the number one and two of her favorite foods respectively. Over the weekend, we watched Food, Inc., a documentary on the horrors plaguing the current general food industry. I highly recommend anyone who’s interested in learning about where the things on their plates came from go out and rent.
This weekend, we bought more organic foods, and made it a goal to improve our outlook on food. Part of this was her challenging herself to be a vegetarian for a month. She’s not a radical animal activist, but wants to cleanse herself of the guilt from carnivorous eating… for a short period of time.
Along the way, she’ll be documenting the experience in this blog. You’ll read the benefits, hardships, recipes, and thoughts of temporary vegetarian first hand. It should be an interesting month.
Oh, me? I’ll be busy bathing in beef stock, eating bacon wrapped bacon sandwiched between a porterhouse and chicken cordon bleu. I love meat. But, I assure you, it’ll be all grain fed, free range!
