Veggie night

[ciroccoj]

We are very concerned about the environment. We are very concerned about our health. We feel that part of how we can help both the planet and our bodies is to go as veggie as we can, as often as we can. It's difficult, but we try whenever possible to minimize meat, and find tasty, healthy meat-free alternatives. It's even better if we can use vegetables and fruits that are locally grown.

Tonight we ate vegetarian for dinner. We had broccoli, corn on the cob, apple pie, pumpkin pie, and blueberry pie.

We feel very virtuous now.




ETA: Oh for the love of...

::deep breath:: OK, just in case anybody was in doubt as to the tone of the above, that was a joke. Yes, we understand that a meal that consists of three kinds of pie is not actually virtuous. We don't eat like this all the time. We just hadn't had pie in a very long time, and wanted to celebrate me not studying for the Bar all the time any more. We started joking with the kids that it was health food, and thought we'd share the joke on lj as well. Sorry for the confusion.

Comments

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

Three kinds of pie for dinner, and you get to feel VIRTUOUS?!?!?

I call that a major WIN.

Major, MAJOR win :D :D :D

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

The kids thought it was pretty funny too :D :D

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

BTW, the ETA above re. clarifying that three pies do not a virtuous meal make was not directed at you. I just got an e-mail telling me that this kind of meal wasn't actually healthy.

::sigh:: Damn, I wish the internets came with sarcasm-detection.

[officerjudy.livejournal.com]

Oh, for Chrissakes.

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*

We have a song at my house for when we eat brownies for breakfast. The other morning when I made this post (http://linaelyn.livejournal.com/1482029.html) it was another case of lack-of-sarcasm-detection, but that one was totally my fault for attempting sarcasm in a post by someone who said they were having a very very very bad day. Wrong place, wrong time for attempted internet humor.

[daf9.livejournal.com]

I'm a carnivore. I don't much like pie... ;(

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

!!

Did not know such a thing was possible. Not liking pie. Whoa.

Then again, my mom didn't like chocolate, and I don't like ice cream, so I suppose it is possible.

We actually have a jar of mincemeat and had joked about having protein in our meal using that in a pie, but then we got into this granola-ness and the joke kinda took off from there ;)

[daf9.livejournal.com]

Must run in my family. I have a niece who doesn't like pie ... or cake.

I'm a big fan of broccoli and corn on the cob though.

[daf9.livejournal.com]

Well duh ... to be healthy you would have had to include chocolate pie. I would have thought that wuz obvious!

[lizzie-omalley.livejournal.com]

mmmmmmmmmmmmm pie! Especially pumpkin pie. But to be truely viruous, you would have had to eaten that meal a few days ago on pi day.;D Maybe next year.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

The joy and beauty of home schooling. This prompted a crash course into names used for numbers (dozen = 12, dime = 10, etc), the concept of "area", formulas for figuring out the area of rectangles, triangles, and circles... which led to the concept of Pi.

We have pencilled in quiche, apple, pumpkin and blueberry pie for March 14, 2009. The boys are very excited :) :) :)

Wow....

[culturevulture7.livejournal.com]

Now that's a dinner I can get behind!! There's not a thing in it that I don't love :-)

Plus pie. Can't go wrong with pie!

I see you made some - made lots!

[navhelowife.livejournal.com]

mmm. I love me some pie. Pie for breakfast is especially virtuous. I actually like pie in the morning better than pie at night.
And your dinner sounds wonderful to me....