Esther Knits and Cooks

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Today is the first day of Jered and my quest to be vegetarian for a year. Jered decided that he wanted to give up  meat about a month ago, and so we’ve slowly been eating the meat in our freezer trying to get rid of it. A month later, we are almost completely done with everything that we had (we have a few pizzas with pepperoni on them which we plan to make for guests whenever we have them over!). Last night we went out for sushi because Jered is also giving up fish. I’ve decided not to give up fish- but I don’t eat it that often so I don’t think it’s such a big deal.  It will be interesting cooking as a vegetarian since we will have to carefully look at labels to make sure there aren’t any chicken-y or beef-y ingredients! We aren’t giving up dairy (thank God!), so that makes this much more manageable. I think for dinner tonight I’m going to make a pasta dish with some white beans and spinach.

Next week we’re heading out to Kansas City for my sister in law’s college graduation. It will be nice to get out of town for a few days and leave all the work behind! I am looking forward to a little mini-break- things have been super hectic lately. I should probably get up off my lazy butt and exercise before going to school, but I just don’t think it’s going to happen this morning. Oscar (our dog) had a seizure at three am, so we were up for about half an  hour in the middle of the night, just enough to throw me off. I’m hoping the rest of the day will be pretty low-key…I’ll keep my fingers crossed!