Calling it...

I'm calling it, as in, really calling it...

I've decided to announce this so I'll really get hell from all my ardent fans should I at any point in time renegade on my online promise.

Do I really want to do this, me thinks...Anyway, here goes it.

I have decided to well, not exactly turn vegan, but certainly turn more attention to less meaty side of the food chain from, hmm, let's see, next week onwards? Oh what the heck, let's make it tomorrow.

It's not that I'm exactly the carnivore as in I do eat substantial amounts of the vegetable-y varieties in every meal (except breakfast of course!), but I will have to admit that an absent pig/cow/chicken/duck does make me ostensibly less enthusiastic about my food.

While I'm not exactly turning my back firmly on my friends - pig, cow, goat, etc, it can only serve as a side and not the main dish. And while I have control over what I cook for myself and what I order when I eat out, I have no control over what is cooked when I get invited for dinner, so in such extenuating circumstances, it won't be my fault if I partake gratefully on my above mentioned friends.

But, as much as possible, I shall use mostly vegetables, roots, fruit and herbs in my cooking, and meat only to add flavour and taste or as a granish.

I shall continue to eat, erh, animal-related products like eggs and cheese and stuff, just not the red bloody stuff. And, fish is not included in this exercise!

For three months.

To make everything legit, I shall write a dialy (NO!), weekly or so account of how I fare throughout the period, in my Sort-Of-Vegan diet, and I promise to be very very honest. Just to make sure nobody else has unrealistic expectations of me, let me make it clear that I have very low expectations of myself and expect to fall off the wagon almost ALL THE TIME!

(I'm wondering whether to set a forfeit for myself or am I just mindlessly shooting myself, no, shooting a cannon ball, through my foot.)

Ah well, wish me luck somebody, lots of luck.