Archive for December, 2008
Day 16: The Fruitening
Day number 16. Only 4 1/2 more to go. It wouldn’t be so bad, but I end up eating the same thing day in and day out. The monotony is a lot harder to deal with than anything else. Smoothie for breakfast, fresh fruit for lunch, avocado for dinner with dried fruits and nuts with [...]
Day 15: The Fruitening
I was looking up more info on Fruitarians now that I’m in the home stretch and it looks like I’m in the same company as Leonardo DaVinci. Here’s the only “famous” fruitarian that I could find. Actually, more accurately, I should be associated with Steve Jobs and Gandhi since they were both fruitarian for a [...]
Day 13/14: The Fruitening
Yesterday was the day I had been looking forward to for weeks. Not only did we have amazing vegan tacos provided by Asà Soy Tacos!, but we were also invited to an excellent vegan potluck. The main issue I generally have with potlucks is that most people don’t like to cook. You will go to [...]
Day 12: The Fruitening
Today was one of my planned “break-fruit” days when I knew I would be cheating. We went out for a holiday lunch at a new restaurant in downtown Los Angeles called Provecho. First off, it was fancy Mexican. I don’t do fancy Mexican. And I really don’t do nuevo-Mexican. In my opinion, Mexican should be [...]
Day 11: The Fruitening
I’ve made it half-way and to celebrate I went out and had a veggie burger! Just kidding. I’m still sticking to it. Smoothie for breakfast, Larabar for a snack, fresh fruit for lunch, avocado for dinner w/tomato juice and some dried fruit. There’s certainly not a lot of variety in my routine. I found a [...]
Blast From The Past: Vegetarian Times Archived on Google
Google has archived over 20 years of Vegetarian Times magazines ranging from 1981 to 2004. In a partnership with publisher Active Interest Media, you can now view and search through complete online copies of the magazine. This is an amazing resource for anyone doing research on the history of vegetarianism, or even if you’re just [...]
Day 10: The Fruitening
Ten days into this fruitarian diet I think I’m finally starting to get used to it. When I got home tonight, it was the first evening that I didn’t really crave something salty and actually wanted another fruit smoothie. I ended up having some dried fruit that was around and a handful of nuts and [...]
Day 9: The Fruitening
I’m pretty unsure about a lot of the claims of this diet, but the one I do believe is that you feel better when you wake up in the morning. I don’t know if it’s just eating a healthier breakfast, or eating breakfast as soon as I wake up versus waiting until about 9 AM [...]
Meat Alternatives Website
Eric over at Vegan.com tipped me off to the Meatalternatives.org website. It seems to be an all encompassing list of all the meat alternatives/substitutes available in over 30 countries. I have no idea how long this resource has been around, but the website looks straight outta ’98.
New Vegan Soul Food Cookbook
I haven’t yet bought this cookbook, but I’m pretty sure it was written specifically for me. It’s definitely on the short list of after Christmas purchases that I will be making. Other than Thai food, I can’t think of anything I like better veganized than soul food. Not only do you get “The Vegan Soulfood [...]
Day 8: The Fruitening
I didn’t have a chance to write yesterday since I was too busy eating my weight in Tofu Pesto Sandwiches and Dee’s Nuts Donuts. It was absolutely fantastic. Around midnight my stomach was absolutely wrecked, but it was completely worth it. Today I felt great. I started the day with another smoothie. Even when I’m [...]
The Fruitening: Day 6
Tonight at the grocery store when I was picking up avocados for dinner I was really tempted to cheat with something warm, or at least salty. We were out running errands and the only thing that was close by was a Jamba Juice. The last thing I was interested in on a cold winter night [...]
Day 5: The Fruitening
Now that I’m into this for 5 days I’m really not feeling “the benefits” outlined on The Fruitarian Foundation’s website. Their first claim is: More mental power, more mental clarity with new and total different ideas, more creativity and happiness, more energy, rejuvenation, increase of auto confidence, auto esteem, and freedom from the affective dependencies [...]
Day 4: The Fruitening
I’ve been vegan for 16 years so I’m pretty used to the “you’re crazy” comments I get when explaining my diet, but it’s been interesting having to deal with the newness of all the “you’re absolutely batshit crazy” comments I’m getting about my three weeks of fruitarianism. It’s a lot of explaining why which is [...]
Day 3: The Fruitening
After yesterday, I didn’t think there was any possible way I was going to be able to last 3 weeks on this diet and an even bigger tragedy would have been if I was put off of avocados for life. I’m glad to report that I’m feeling much better today. This morning I was running [...]
Day 2: The Fruitening
I’ve decided that if I’m going to survive for three weeks on a fruitarian diet, I’m going to have to find a great smoothie recipe that I can use on a daily basis otherwise it’s not going to happen. Today for lunch I tried this recipe off of the Fruitarian Universal Network website: CUCUMBER SALAD [...]
Misguided Philanthropy
spcaLA just sent out their newsletter for the holiday season and one of the items you can purchase that benefits the organization this Christmas is the Coach Sabrina Patent Leather Large Satchel. Does anyone else find it strange that you’re killing cows to help save shelter animals?
ALF Targets Wrong Vehicles?
There have been a couple of mentions of the latest attacks on UCLA vivisectors by the ALF in The LA Times this past week. UCLA researcher Goran Lacan has been singled out by the ALF because of his horrific procedure of implanting invasive electrodes into monkey’s brains. They placed an incendiary device beneath an automobile [...]