Comments for Vegetarian World Domination

Comment on Lushness by Rob

Rob — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:07:55 +0000

Valenzano winery Jersey Devil Forte. I give it an 8.5 And you can delete this comment once you update the post.

Comment on On cold medicines and the FDA by Ginny

Ginny — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:52:51 +0000

Thanks for your comment and yes, my son is doing fine now. We do use some homeopathic remedies- humidity, honey, teas with lemon, some store bought herbal mixtures, chest rub (Vicks), zinc lozenges, etc. However some days the kids need something stronger so that they are not coughing so much that they can’t think in school. I wish I had the ability to just keep them home until the coughs ran their courses, but they’d miss weeks of school with how such things seem to hang on around here. Most of the children they go to school with hack and cough their way through the winter months since few of them have the control not to cough on each other and it just goes round and round the classes.

What really bothers me most about the changes is the fact that it basically removes an option for parents instead of educating them about how to use it.

Comment on So, Okay, I finished NANOWRIMO! by Ginny

Ginny — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:37:12 +0000

Paul, sorry I've been so long in replying to all of your comments. It's been a busy couple of weeks. I'm glad you asksed about this story as I inadvertantly missed reposting the link to it when I did a recent reorganization on my fiction blog. I have rectified that. The Hidden Properties of Fruitcake (1) (2) is a medium length short story that I wrote for the holidays last December.

Comment on So, Okay, I finished NANOWRIMO! by Paul

Paul — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:28:54 +0000

Is “the Hidden Properties of Fruitcake” a novel? Whatever it is i want to read it! Please point me that way if you have a moment!

Comment on On cold medicines and the FDA by Paul

Paul — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:26:05 +0000

Surprised your post got no comments after all the trouble you went to (by the way that news link is still good right now).

I hope your sons cough is better. Something my family used when I was a kid which may be exempt (I’m not in the US so may not know) are homeopathic remedies. Of course this is a whole other area, but I thought it might be worthwhile for me to just mention it if this is bothering you.

Comment on Summer Vacation by Paul

Paul — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:29:42 +0000

HAH! So you are Paul’s wife! I had NO IDEA! This is funny!, well you definitely deserve to go on the blogroll right next to him now! Do tell him I have added you, seems the degrees of separation are less than I imagined! (Paul was my only NaNo buddy and it is largely thanks to “racing” him that I made it to the finish!).

Comment on On Approaching Change by porter

porter — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:10:41 +0000

Thanks. I wouldn’t say that our goal is to go completely veggie but you never know. We are a fairly adventurous family when it comes to food, and at this point I am looking for healthy alternatives and more variety.

Comment on On My Extended Family’s Transitioning Diet by Ginny

Ginny — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:12:02 +0000

Sure, come on in from the garden, wash off the muds and have a seat.

Comment on On Approaching Change by Ginny

Ginny — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:45:20 +0000

Porter,

Hello and welcome.

I guess there are a lot of us facing changes like this every August-September, huh?

Best advice I can give about transitioning to eating vegetarian is to not worry about a timeline (especially when dealing with kids- they will mostly adapt at their own pace no matter what you do). Every small step in the direction of meatless and more variety is good for your health and the planet. My husband and I took a good two years to go completely veggie. I imagine it would have taken longer if we had kid’s appetites to deal with during the change-over.

The thing that omnivores don’t usually realize about eating veggie is that it actually tends to expand your variety since you’re not mentally tied to the three big meat choices (chicken, beef or fish) when it comes to protein sources. Also, once you start looking at meatless recipes you will find yourself adding different foods that are part of them. We recently started using tahini in a few things because I bought some for one recipe my daughter was making and then we had a whole mess of it left over. Now I know how to make my own hummus. It’s pretty cool how that worked out.

Good luck to you on both of your transitions,
Virginia Diaz

Comment on On Approaching Change by porter

porter — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:05:39 +0000

I googled vegetarian blogs and found yours among the long list! Your list sounds like what my list would sound like if I had in fact written one! My sitation is slightly different, my kids are just starting school and I will finally have two mornings a week to myself (after five years of being ‘on’ all day long). One of my daughters will be going to school every morning and my youngest will be in preschool two mornings. I am very excited to have this little bit of time yet anxious at the same time…lots I should, could, and want to do. I now need to go and get acquainted with your blog because I am looking a ways to incorporate a vegetarian lifestyle into our very non vegetarian family….make sense? We are taking baby steps here, my goal is to make one to two vegetarian meals per week as well as learn some of the benefits and thoughts behind living a vegetarian lifestyle.