211 Six Months!

Today is a significant day for me. It marks six months of meat-free living! It all started with these two photos about battery hens:

...and then Bea Elliott stumbled across my blog and we began to chat and she introduced me to what I already knew, but in a lot more depth. What followed was a week long trial of cooking vegetarian dinners to see what delightful (and not so delightful) meals I could muster up in the kitchen. I've learnt a lot about vegetarian cooking since then and my skills in the kitchen have certainly improved. This was probably my favorite from that initial week, veggie lasagne:

This week of experimentation turned into a complete overhaul of my diet! I must admit that while there were times I seriously craved a piece of beef jerky (I loved that stuff) or a big bacon and egg breakfast, I have on the whole not missed meat at all.

So I'd like to especially thanks Bea for her support and invaluable information. I guess you could say she gave me the much needed nudge to do what I had often contemplated but lacked the information to realise. I could not have achieved this without you. Also another massive thanks for posting this amazing story and image on your blog for me:

It really made my day!!!!!!!!! :) Altough I'd often thought about giving up meat before hand I never thought I'd ever actually be able to do it! I view it as quite an achievement for me and honestly haven't felt this healthy and illness-free in a long time! Cheers!