Gray 2 Green

I skipped another day, but I have a good excuse this time. I went shopping! Not very green of me considering we drove my Rogue 30 minutes away. Plus I bought non organic clothes, bad! The shirt I have on is 95% rayon and 5% spandex. Not green at all! We made this trip so I could get some food since the stores around here have a very small selection of organic and vegetarian food. So there was my green for the day. I stocked up on healthy food and spent lots of green. As much as I wanted, we did not eat in a restuarant. We came home for dinner, we made tofu and vegetable lo mein. It was very tasty tasty!

Last night I searched online for decently priced organic clothes. This was not an easy task, but I won’t give up. I’m hoping that next time I have a little extra money I will be able to find some eco-friendly clothes to replace the pieces that I have gotten rid of. No one wants clothes that are too small hanging around in their closet. I always get the urge to try them on and then am depressed the rest of the day because I’m too big!

Well, this wasn’t a very green blog but I try! Everyone have a green day!

This is yet another reason for my recent switch to flexitarianism. I know I seem to be stuck on this subject, but you have to admit, this is a big one. I just don’t think people were meant to eat meat, nor do I think we were meant to drink cows milk or any milk that isn’t human based. Besides, if we were meant to drink cows milk then why do women lactate? I read an article once, can’t remember where (sorry) that men can produce milk if the need arises, so if we can get human milk then why are we drinking from cows?

Today, I went out to lunch with my sister-n-law. It was tough stuff trying to find something meatless on the menu. I honestly didn’t mind, I would have gone to a greasey burger fast food place if that’s what she wanted. I ordered shrimp. GASP! Meat, gross! Well, I did say I was flexitarian! Besides, atleast it wasn’t a slab of beef wrapped in bacon. But anyway, I had all veggies for a side so I didn’t do too bad. And OMG, tonight for dinner I will be devouring yet another piece of meat. I am having fish, but this time it will be the side dish and for the main dish I am having pasta with veggies. Hungry yet?

I think everyone should try a flexitarian diet. I mean, even cutting out one or two of your meat meals a week can make a huge difference. It’s good for your health and good for the environment. Give it a try, it’s really not that bad.

It’s tough stuff keeping up with all that I have!

Well, I now have a label. I don’t really like having labels but when it comes to who I am now, I feel like I need a label for people to understand. Okay, so I mentioned before that I am partial vegetarian, and well, alot of people disagreed with that so I did a little research to prove to them that I can be a partial vegetarian and still eat meat if I wanted. Well, I came up with this:

Flexitarianism is a semi-vegetarian diet involving the practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons.

Thank you, wikipedia!

So now, I am considering myself flexitarian. Yesterday for dinner I had a french dip baked sandwich. I was horribly disappointed, it wasn’t very good. What a way to celebrate my birthday, with unhealthy and not very tastey fast food. So far, I don’t really miss meat because the few times I have eaten it, I haven’t really enjoyed it all that much. Today for lunch I had a vegetarian sandwich. It was fake bologna and and veggie cheese. It was pretty good and I plan to go out and look for other flavors of fake deli meat.

Trying to think of ways to keep this interesting, I want readers! I’d also like to have a few regulars, what would you like to see? So, I meant to write yesterday but got busy, I guess I can’t always be online. Anyway, I guess an every other day blog isn’t so bad. I am continuing work on gray2green.com and hopefully soon it will be ready to go online.

I am working to become semi-vegetarian. I just can’t give up meat 100%. I’ve eaten maybe 2 pepperoni’s in the past week, does that count as meat? That’s one of my ways of being green, eating green. I have two packs of tofu in my fridge waiting to be eaten, and tons of fresh fruit and veggies. It’s not that hard to be vegetarian, but you have to watch out for the unsupportive types. You know who you are! I am doing this for health reasons, I believe that meat is unhealthy and if eaten then it should be done in moderation. Just like you believe in ‘god(s)’, I believe in being a partial vegetarian. I don’t give you a hard time so you should leave me be to do this. I’ve stopped drinking milk and now use rice drink in my cereal and coffee. Yet another belief of mine, milk was not meant for human consumption. As much as it’s going to drive family crazy, pretty soon I’m going to give my son soy milk and we will no longer buy cow milk.

Do things for your own reasons, not because some one else tells you to.

Here I am totally and completely new at this whole blogging thing. I guess you could say, I am green. Yeah, that was lame. I don’t know much about blogging so this will be a learning experience for me, and hopefully an amusing one too. Anyway, let’s get started.

This is, I guess you could say, my green blog to go along with my webpage, gray2green.com . I have so many reasons for why I want to go green. For the health and safety of my children is probably the biggest reason. After my children come my own health, and then of course the future of our planet. I am most definitely a light shade of green but am slowly working my way to being a comfortable dark green. Speaking of comfort, that is my whole thing, I want to be comfortably green and help others reach their own personal green comfort level.