One of my favourite meals as of late is tabouleh and flatbread with hummus and eggplant falafel. I find myself craving it almost everyday.
Add pita bread with za'atar, a tiny bit of olive oil. and we can go on a date. in a lebanese restaurant.
lately, i'm trying to have a healthier diet. i've gained some weight for like 6-8 months, and i'm not blaming it on USA food traditions, but having access to bacon cheese burgers this easy (I live close to JG Melon......
), or having pizza as a common food hasn't helped a lot. so for a couple of months or so, i "green juice diet" once in a while, buy different type of oil/fat (butter has been banned in my apartment for some time - and let me tell you for me it's hard not to be able to have a toast with butter, or jam with butter, or cheese with butter, or even stop cooking with butter). and so far, it's been going well. i haven't lost the weight much, but at least i feel less guilty when i sin... and i guess it's better for my health in general. Anyway, I've been raised with food mostly bought locally, on markets, good butchers and cheese shops etc. So it's good to go back to this. Buy organic, be careful etc.
couple of days ago, i watched with my bf a video about vegans and extreme vegans (these nuts that burn themselves like cows), and the doc shown, too obviously, these filthy videos of abattoirs, the way animals were treated etc. I was a vegetarian when I was a teenager, for 3-4 yrs, so it is something I've always felt close, animal suffering, animal bad treatment. And, still now, when I eat a burger or chicken, or go buy some turkey, I cannot stop thinking for 30sec about the dead animal on my plate. But to be fair, I'm not a huge meat-eater.
Anyway......... OMG, it's taking forever.
You see my man is a researcher, and at the end he said something I've never thought about really - i won't repeat what he said -, but how do vegans deal with medication ? What do you do ? How can you avoid this whole process of research ? Since everything starts with mice, or monkeys ... How far do your vegan lifestyle goes ? To be sincere that was NEVER dealt in this documentary - Everything was about cosmetics, food, fashion, and ... corrida. And I'm pretty curious about that. Is "vegan" a real lifestyle ? Can it even be ? Do you really think about animals, environment (I hope you do - this country is way way behind Europe when it comes to environment !), or do you think more about you, your lifestyle, your body ? Let's be quite honest, do a little search on instagram and when you type in "#healthylifestyle", "#vegan" etc. you'll find food imagery, sure, but a lot of selfies, too, of people showing their stomach, etc. ............