October = Vegetarian Month :)

Hey blog readers,

Today is World Vegetarian Day, and the first day of Vegetarian Awareness Month!
There's a bunch more information about it RIGHT HERE.

So, I've been posting about this stuff a lot lately.  Mostly this was in THIS BLOG POST RIGHT HERE as well as a few other blog posts surrounding it.
But I feel like animals are alive and all life is important, so this should be taken seriously no matter how you choose to live.
I've been really enjoying Meatless Mondays (CHECK IT OUT BY CLICKING HERE), but I feel like I should do more for October since it's extra special to vegetarians.

I've decided that I'm going to be a vegetarian for all of October.  And since I'd like Meatless Mondays to continue to be special, I've decided that I'm going to eat vegan every Monday in October.  Not only will this help out some cute little animals, but it will give me ideas for future Meatless Monday meals.

I don't think this will be too hard, because I don't eat very much meat as it is.  But we'll see, I guess.  I'm going to try to keep it more balanced this time, because if you read my vegan story then you know that my first go-around at this wasn't too healthy.

Here's what I ate for dinner:

 

This is my vegan dinner, because it is Monday of course.  I made gnocchi with red sauce and mushrooms (and parsley so I can pretend I'm classy haha) with some corn and peas and diet coke.  This is just a rearrangement of stuff I had canned/frozen at the bachelorette pad, but it was very yummy from a hungry college student's perspective. :)
Today I celebrated World Vegetarian Day by having a vegan taco (refried beans instead of meat, no cheese, no sour cream; still very yummy) and I tried vegan cupcakes (they were fantastic).

While I was eating dinner, I got thinking about how everything I was eating (excluding the diet coke) was just a clever arrangement of different kinds of plants.  Just goes to show how awesome human beings are. :D

Anyone who reads this is invited to participate in Vegetarian Awareness Month with me!! :)

Have a great Meatless Monday! :]
<3/Laura