Posts Tagged ‘vegetarian’

I’m going to a Food Expo today here in BC to check out some of the latest, the good and the ugly. But before I run off, I thought I’d outline some food trends.

My interests and concerns are green/environmentally-friendly/sustainable choices. I’m not a food scientist or an industry insider – just a consumer who wants to make good choices based on reliable information. There are both positive and negative/alarming trends. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve cut my meat and fish consumption by a significant amount since the start of this year.  This didn’t come about as some great seeing the light or by a desire to feel smug.  I just got sick of eating meat.  But I do hope that my contribution – or lack of it – to the meat-eating universe is doing the earth and oceans some good. Read the rest of this entry »

For most of my adult life, I’ve been baffled as to why people parade tofu as meat.  I wondered how many careers have been devoted to designing recognised and loved meat items made of tofu. You don’t have to look too hard around a supermarket to find tofu steaks, sausages and even chicken wings. I just found a picture online of a tofu pie shaped like a pig’s head – that one gets the prize for creativity. Read the rest of this entry »