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May 5, 2009

I’m loving Quorn Naked Chik’n Cutlets. I broil them with olive oil, salt, and pepper and then add a sauce or eat cold atop a salad. Today for lunch I’m eating slices of Chik’n in a riot of sauteed local spring veggies (broccoli rabe, asparagus, and spinach — not local, actually) with a muffaletta tapenade-inspired sauce. The texture of Chik’n is a bit odd. It reminds me of Chicken McNuggets — a good thing, believe it or not, because they were my favorite fast food treat as a child.  Except I can actually pronounce everything that went into these. By the way, this whole eating-meat-no-more-than-twice-a-month-and-only-if-I-know-where-it-came-from is going just swimmingly.  It’s kept me from eating foods I really shouldn’t, like KFC at the Derby party.  Normally I would have thought to myself, “Well, just one.  It’s a special occasion!” and then I would have plowed through two drumsticks and felt gross. And a study has found that reducing consumption of high-emission foods, particularly red meat and dairy products, is a better bet for reducing your “foodprint” than eating local. So there. Or something. I did, of course, enjoy every bit of the lamb, etc., on Friday night. All the better for its rarity!

I’m loving Quorn Naked Chik’n Cutlets. I broil them with olive oil, salt, and pepper and then add a sauce or eat cold atop a salad. Today for lunch I’m eating slices of Chik’n in a riot of sauteed local spring veggies (broccoli rabe, asparagus, and spinach — not local, actually) with a muffaletta tapenade-inspired sauce.

The texture of Chik’n is a bit odd. It reminds me of Chicken McNuggets — a good thing, believe it or not, because they were my favorite fast food treat as a child.  Except I can actually pronounce everything that went into these.

By the way, this whole eating-meat-no-more-than-twice-a-month-and-only-if-I-know-where-it-came-from is going just swimmingly.  It’s kept me from eating foods I really shouldn’t, like KFC at the Derby party.  Normally I would have thought to myself, “Well, just one.  It’s a special occasion!” and then I would have plowed through two drumsticks and felt gross.

And a study has found that reducing consumption of high-emission foods, particularly red meat and dairy products, is a better bet for reducing your “foodprint” than eating local. So there. Or something.

I did, of course, enjoy every bit of the lamb, etc., on Friday night. All the better for its rarity!

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