Day 1 as a Vegetarian is completed.
This morning I woke up and had a glass of orange juice. While at a Brunch get-together in the park I had a bagel with cream cheese, strawberries, and a garden salad. Later on, after doing some yard work, I had one of my favorite Ellie Kreiger pasta salads for lunch, it has whole wheat pasta, walnuts, red onions, feta cheese, garlic, and spinach in it... it's delish!! Recipe here: Whole Wheat Pasta Salad with Feta & Walnuts.
Now, Drumroll please! {drumroll} For my first day of Vegetarian eating, I made Eggplant Parmesan for dinner with steamed artichokes and Penne Pasta. It was great!
I also spent some time in my day being an activist. I began by looking up Alice Waters after a friend's recommendation. I was very impressed with Alice, and her foundation, The Chez Panisse Foundation. The foundation promotes School Lunch Reform and Gardening & Nutrition Curriculums in schools. I would love to do something like this in my own community, so I decided to research further.
I went back to Jaime Oliver's Food Revolution website to look if he had any tips on how to start something in my own community. I was led to LunchBoxAdvocates.Org where I was able to write to our local government officials to request that action be done about this Food & Obesity epidemic. So, I became an activist today... I wrote to Senator Chuck Schumer and Senator Kristen Gilibrand, as well as President Barack Obama. I then posted on my Facebook, Twitter, and sent emails for my friends and family to do the same. I feel very accomplished that I began my own revolution today.
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