Barffie The Whine Connoisseur

I started on a little diet thing called “Meatless Mondays” a few days ago… as introduced to me by a vegetarian friend of mine, just a starter attempt on the real V thing. That said, I don’t think I can fully go vegetarian, but I certainly could cut down on the meat intake. Why? I guess it’s good for my health, probably?

I’ve never been much of a carnivore, being quite a salad-head and all… but salads give me the “I AM ON A DIET” vibe sometimes and I’ll avoid eating them, when the vibe is strong. I have the same kind of aversion towards fish soup rice, so when I feel some major craving coming on, those are probably not my noms of choice.

My mum will be happy to hear that I am cutting down on my meat intake, she has been nagging me for years and I’ll always brush her off with a “hurhurhur”.

This also stemmed from a sudden realisation that sometimes meat tastes just plain yucky. I had a bad plate of char siew rice the other time and things just went downhill from there. There are still some pork dishes that doesn’t leave that horrible after-taste in my mouth, like bak chor, which is fine… but now I generally avoid ordering pork dishes, except for the good ol’ Tonkatsu, of course.

The other day I was just thinking to myself, why does that sesame oil chicken taste so bad? I hated the texture. But just days before, I had fried chicken, and was totally enjoying it, finger licks and stuff.

Did I mention something about health? Oh right. I just wanted to cut down the meat intake, and eat more vegetables in general. Hard to go wrong with that logic, isn’t it? But yes, I got to lay off the deep fried stuff.

*slaps self for eating french fries just now*

So well, let’s see how it goes. I am totally ok not eating meat for a day, but I will probably shrivel and die if I tried going carbless, again.