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For no other reason than to improve the quality of the foods that I eat, I am going to give something a try this week from Monday - Friday. This week, I'm going vegetarian! Now, this has nothing at all to do with tortured animals or the evils of the meat industry; rather, it is solely an attempt on my part to increase the portion of my diet made up of fruits and vegetables. I'm certainly not giving up meat entirely, just for five days this week to see how it goes. I may have to exclude Friday night from this plan as I have a rehearsal dinner for a wedding that night, but we'll see.

I don't think it should actually be that hard to give up meat. Today, for example, I had a remarkably delicious Szechuan Beef dish with meatless beef! Yes, that's right, it was beef without the meat. A Vegi-Beef, if you will. Sounds disgusting, right? Well, it wasn't. My experience with soy meats in the past has been pretty good. In fact, the first time I had soy beef was in a taco. I was at a vegetarian's house, and when the tacos came out I was surprised to see that they contained meat. Even tasting it, I thought it was meat. It wasn't until I made an inquiry that I learned it was not, in fact, ground beef, but was instead a soy product.

This experiment should be interesting.