Hi, Carol!

I like your blog post because it's very informative--lots of resources to read and decide for yourself how to move ahead towards a more plant-based diet.

I was a regular Anglo-Saxon meat-and-potatoes type until about 15 years ago. I slowly modified my diet little by little (meat once a day to meatless when I had a meatless option to full commitment to no meat).

I am really more "flexitarian" now because I will eat meat that's pasture-raised and grass-fed humanely. Or if someone prepares a meal of meat for me as a gift, or if I would have to throw out meat rather than eat it (i.e., when I get sandwiches and I didn't know they were made with bacon I'd rather eat the bacon than let the pig's meat go in the garbage in vain.) But also, I do not want to be labeled as anything. Plus I think that we can do much better by asking people to "lean in" to eating less meat or more sustainable meat rather than expecting that people should just go vegetarian or vegan.

One of my very favorite simple living cookbooks is by Helen Nearing: Simple Food for the Good Life: Random Acts of Cooking and Pithy Quotations. I love this woman because she really is not that into cooking, but she says that people find her food delicious; probably because the food is so good--not necessarily the cook!

Thanks for sharing.