Friday, March 6, 2009  Going Easy on the Meat  I'm going to
start this blog by saying that I'm not lecturing - I'm just
writing about a new style of eating that interests me.  I'm
certainly not a vegetarian, I mean I just posted about a chili
cook off!  But, since reading Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's
Dilemma I've decided to become more conscious of where my food
is coming from.  I don't want to buy my meat at my local grocery
store anymore but grass fed beef and free range organic chickens
can be pricey.    This is where the brilliant Mark Bittman and
his book Food Matters comes in.  His solution?  Duh, eat less
meat.  This way you can afford to buy those more expensive but
humanely raised cuts of meat and you can feel less guilty when
you do buy meat that isn't quite organic because you're eating
so much less of it.  Mark Bittman's way of eating just makes so
much sense.  I've realized that I certainly don't need to eat
meat before dinner and a lot of the time I don't need to eat
meat at all.  Meat should