First post. Holla.

This blog is intended to be an outlet for whatever I feel like writing about... whether it's my kiddos, rainbows and unicorns, the ridiculously long line at Starbucks yesterday, or whatever other musings this frazzled mom has going on in her ginormous noggin! It really is huge. No shame.

Tomorrow I'm starting a week-long vegan diet. Therefore, I thought today would be a good day to start writing and documenting. I don't know that I plan on being a vegan forever, but it's definitely something that I'm giving some serious thought to. Whatever becomes of it, I've decided to do it for a week... just to do it, to see how I feel after a week, if I feel any changes...  ya know. 'Cause I want to! ;)

I'm kind of a picky eater, especially about meat. I am not a huge fan of chicken. I hate big thick juicy chicken breasts; they just disgust me. The only chicken I really care for is my mom's very thin chicken cutlets, and she cooks them extra for me. Ha. Thanks, Mom. Anyway, lately I've just been becoming more and more disgusted (and a little OCD) about what I eat, especially in the way of meat. I don't know why. It wasn't a conscious decision... until now. Meat has been grossing me out more and more, I find fast food to be disgusting (mainly any meat), and I've been paying more and more attention to the crap that goes into the everyday snacks that I thought were healthy for my kids. So I decided that we'd start eating healthier and paying more attention to what we eat. I thought challenging myself to eat nothing but fruits and veggies for a week would be good to try.

Last night, I decided to watch Food, Inc. I'd heard about it a while back and here and there, but I didn't really want to watch it then because I didn't want to be grossed out by all the food I wanted to eat. Now that I already am, though... thought I'd give it a go.

So gross. Disgusting. It really just reaffirmed the way I've been feeling and made me want to take this challenge even more seriously. To see the way the animals are treated, learn about all of the disgusting things that goes into making the vast majority of food we eat every day, how the food industry tries so hard to keep us in the dark... It really was pretty eye-opening. Did you know that the average hamburger is made of about 1000 cows? ONE hamburger... ONE THOUSAND cows. *shudder* My disgust for meat will hopefully make this week (and possibly after?!) a bit easier. It's the little things that you don't really think about that are going to be harder... milk, eggs, butter, even vitamin D3! Those ingredients that go into so much are the bigger challenge.

Here goes nothing. As long as I can have my Starbucks (albeit with soy milk now), I have faith.