Meatless Mondays
I’ve recently been turned on to the idea of Meatless Mondays from Chapel Hill mother-daughter food bloggers Pattie and Allie and their blog . I did a little digging and found the official , and from this Monday forward I am planning on going meat-free for all of my Monday meals. From the Meatless Monday website:
“Meatless Monday is an international movement to help people reduce their meat consumption by 15%, in order to improve personal health and the health of the planet. We are a non-profit initiative of The Monday Campaigns, in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The tradition of Meatless Mondays began in WWI, when the FDA encouraged the rationing of meat, wheat and other staples to help the war effort. The campaign was relaunched in 2003 as a public health campaign to help individuals reduce their saturated fat intake.”
I actually used to be a vegetarian (a story I will tell at another time) and I’ve been drastically reducing the amount of meat in my diet for some time now, so the idea of Meatless Mondays is very appealing. I am excited to try some delicious vegetarian and vegan meals (I’ll be sharing recipes), and to help reduce our country’s addiction to cheap, factory-farm meat. I hope you will join me in my Meatless Mondays adventure!
For more information visit the (a program of the ).
Yay Matt!! Thanks for the shout-out and we are so happy to have you join us! Can’t wait to see what you come up with. One day a week to reduce our footprint on this wonderful planet of ours- how cool is that!
Pattie