Bubbles the Vegetarian Wannabe.

I ate a bowl of salad last night for dinner. A BIG bowl. And I finished every leaf. The tuna and peach dressing helped it all go down.

And I plan to do it more often. So uncharacteristic of someone who doesn’t like to eat vegetables, huh?

People usually become vegetarian for 3 reasons:

1. For religious reasons
2. For health reasons
3. Because they love animals

I’m doing it for Reason Number 3. As much as I love my bacon and siew yoke, I do feel bad for the piggy who died cos I want to eat him. I’ve always felt this way but he tastes so good!

And the secondary reason why I’m doing this is for Reason Number 2. My doctor told me to cut out bacon and eat healthily right?

So now I have 2 reasons, hopefully strong enough to make me turn part vegetarian.

Okay there’s no such thing as part vegetarian but it’s a start. Vegetables are just not yummy. Nor filling!

2 hours after the large bowl of salad, I was hungry. So I ate corn flakes and low fat milk (yeah I’ve switched (or trying) to low fat milk too. It tastes yuck!).

I was then fairly full but extremely unfulfilled.

Maybe it just takes a while for the body to make the switch and crave for less meat. I’m going to try introducing Vegetarian Wednesdays into my life. One day per week of no meat can’t be that bad. Oh, animal by products and seafood will be allowed though. Can’t expect me to make such a strict and drastic switch.

Right now I’m thinking: What’s the point of being healthy but feel unsatisfied in life?

But for the last 31 years of my life, I’ve been eating extremely unhealthily. I hardly eat vegetables and can eat 500g of fried crispy bacon per seating. And a large bowl of fried lard when I eat Hokkien mee is a must.

Maybe it is time to take a more moderate stance in my diet now so that I don’t have to completely cut bacon from my diet in the future.

I love bacon. But poor pig.

Yes it’s a tough internal struggle. I’m confused. My body’s confused.

It’s not Wednesday. I’m going for lunch. And eat some meat.

The Vegetarian Wannabe

Those who know me well, know that I’m allergic to vegetables. But over the years, I’ve managed to adapt and now eat either dark green leafy ones (spinach, kangkung, Romaine lettuce) or the beany type (okra, French beans, long beans). However, I’m still selective and refuse to eat white or light green coloured vegetables (beans sprouts, cabbage, lettuce). People often ask me why. It’s because white vegetables look pale and sickly and so unappetizing. And scientific researches has also proven that the light coloured veges have less vitamins than dark coloured one. So why eat pale veges which don’t taste or look good especially when they don’t have any nutritional value. Ha!

Last Friday, after the Chivas whiskey tasting session, I went to King Crab on the LDP with a few friends. As they were slightly late, I wandered to the tanks of live seafood and I saw a cook scooping a few crabs out of a basket and into a bucket. Then it hit me. Oh no! These crabs are going to die for me! Poor crab …..

Nevertheless, I enjoyed the salted egg crabs very much though friends tell me the one in Kepong is better. I don’t like Fatty Crab cos they don’t have variety. As for Coconut Flower in Klang, they’re not as good as before and is no longer worth the long drive there. The only good thing is that they serve thodi. Thodi and Guinness! Yum! Can’t believe some of my Indians friends have not tried this drink before. Not that I’m being racist but thodi is traditionally known to be an Indian drink. And I love it! Makes u high just after a few glasses and gets u all giggly and happy. And the high lasts for an hour and then you’re back to normal. Genius!

Anyway, back to the crab story. I still felt bad for the poor crabs so decided to be vegetarian on Saturday.

Brunch consisted of bread. Then Paul and I met up with his sis and boyfriend at GSC 1U to watch Transformers. After that, we went to Dragon-I for dinner. While the rest ate ‘siew long pau’ which is the restaurant’s specialty, I ate noodles with szechuan vegetables. Didn’t enjoy the dinner much but felt a bit better for part of the pigs and the crabs out where which I’ve saved.

I survived being vegetarian for a day! While I would like to be a complete vegetarian to save more animals, I just can’t do it.

I tried it once a few years ago. I stared the day with cereal, followed by noodles and ended the night with a sandwich. By the end of the night, I could kill a cow myself. I know, that’s a little extreme but here I am, a pure carnivorous creature trying to be vegetarian.