By now we have at least all heard the alliteration phrase, Meatless Mondays, at least once!?! Are you a fan of meatless days in your menu plan? The backbone of Meatless Monday is that we should choose one day to go meatless—-preferably Monday so that you remember to eat no meat with this fun alliterative phrase. Easy!?! Hard!?!
It depends on who you ask.
If you are asking me (Litsa), I’d say EASY!
I completed a forty day meatless fast for Greek Orthodox Easter this past season. It was not hard at all to refrain from eating only vegetable based dishes. I even discovered additional vegetable-based cooking that I hadn’t attempted prior to this year. Favorite recipes were added to my file of files for vegetable dishes to serve throughout the year.
Eating meat daily is over-rated! The meals that my mother prepares all summer long are mostly vegetarian. When she asks me which Mediterranean dishes I want to eat for specific vacation days/weeks, my response is simply, “No Meat!” I can even remember hearing my parents discuss eating meat once every ten days growing up (and we owned a restaurant)!?!
Meat is pricey!
Last week when I shopped for one pound of hamburger meat, I may have vowed never to eat meat again! I had sticker shock! $4.99 for a pound of 80/20 hamburger meat for spaghetti. We only ate one plate each. I picked out the big chunks of beef and my daughter did too! Luckily we were able to share the spaghetti with a friend’s family so that we were not wasting this pricey beef that only one of us really wanted—-my husband.
Pasta is the perfect dish to go meatless with this summer!
What are your thoughts? Are you ready to embrace Meatless Mondays? If you need some inspiration, checkout my recipe index in the vegetable dish section!
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