Veganism for a day.

If you are Michelle Williams, life is an audition even when it is called by another name. Michelle is making her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles in Cabaret.  She got the job only after Emma Stone dropped out, a good substitute.
So, when Maria said, "on Sunday, I am going vegan for one day," I was shocked, shocked!
Not really, I have been playing the vegan card for a while.
You can't persuade anyone to become vegan, for a couple of good reasons: it's a losing battle, and two, it's far from certain that a diet with no animal products is best for everyone.
As the the economy gets tighter on our pocket-book, you can however, easily adopt a part-time vegan diet. In the process, you will improve your health.
It was the situation of Matt Bittman, a NYT columnist and author of Vegan After 6. He suggest a flexible vegan diet that suits your lifestyle. "The emphasis is on changing the proportions on what's in your diet.Then everything else kind of follows that," noted Bittman.
So if you want to have a sort of personal food policy that is going to improve your health, reduce your carbon footprint, probably make you feel better' this is the way to think about it.
There is a difference to adding a little cream to your coffee and having two cheeseburgers and a shake.
Science says, that we should be eating more foods from the plant kingdom and less processed food and fewer animal products.
Now,  you don't have to do the one day diet. A good adaptation of the Mediterranean diet, or a diet that stresses vegetables rather than animal products are worthy substitutes. Remember, we were once hunters and gathers!
Plant-based meals are more than vegetables, of course. I have a pantry filled with nuts, grains, legumes, pastas, oils and vinegars. In the coming weeks, I am set to produce a number of dishes that don't ruffle a single animal's feather, hide or fin!!!
So off to the front burner for a Vegetable Wellington, Quinoa Salad, Chick peas and Date Tagine, Cranberry Lattice Pie and Vegetable Chile...please feel free to substitute.