Eating Well

I was just thinking today about how good it makes me feel to eat well - meaning eating foods that are good for me. I had my spinach salad with cherry tomatoes, sunflower seeds, craisins and chick peas with a little oil and vinegar dressing. It was so delicious! Earlier I had a spicy lentil chili at a local grocery store that was hot and delicious and nutritious - the perfect thing for a cold rainy day. The less meat I eat the more averse I become to the smell of cooking meat. Just read on vegan.com that a performer left the stage because the smell of the meat cooking at a food stand was making him sick. This just happened to me this weekend. My husband ordered some meat and the smell of it was making me nauseous - we were in the car and I had to open the window and stick my head out. I didn't want to make him feel bad, but it was turning my stomach. For my husband's birthday, I bought him pumpkin moon pies from our local vegan restaurant - he loves those things. They weren't cheap, but worth the price. It is so heartening to see so many more choices in the grocery store where I live. Sometimes I just need a frozen thing for lunch at work and I have so many choices now - vegan and healthy ingredient entrees. It's so interesting to watch the Food Network or that guy on the Travel Channel. There is so much meat cooking and promoting on the Food Network. I think his name is Anthony on the Travel Channel was celebrating a restaurant getting around the ban on fois gras - like the good guys won. Man gets the chance to once again torture a duck to suit his culinary pleasure. It makes me want to fatten his liver with a tube. I just don't get it! I want to see him forcefeed the duck on the show to demonstrate the whole process - you'll never see that on tv - too bad - people should know where their food is coming from, eh? Oh well, enough late night rambling. Bon Appetit!