1. First tell your friends about it or get your family involved. This way it’s more fun.

2. It’s alot easier than you think. Going meatless is not about sacrifice but about creative meal eating.

Foods to Try:

• Pizza (easy choice – pile on delish but healthy veggies, such as spinach broc cauliflower mushrooms tomatoes and exotic cheeses)
• Pinto Bean Burrito’s
• Chickpeas in Yellow Rice (and green beans)
• Black Bean Burgers (homemade is best, but store bought is fine too)
• Whole Wheat Bow Tie Pasta (with your face sauce)
• Sweet Potato and Spinach Lasagna (yummo!)
• Mexican Kidney Beans and Rice Enchiladas (so good)
• Any recipe from the Fat Free Vegan Kitchen blog
• For dessert – try to get a hold of some fresh seasonal fruits, then sprinkle or dip in chocolate (kids will love it)
• Champagne (celebrate with a glass of the bubbly stuff)

Veg out today and feel free to try something totally new, maybe that scrumptious vegetarian recipe you found last month on Recipe Zaar that you didn’t get a chance to make. Try it tonite.

AND NOW, A RANT

Why do some people get all bent out of shape when the mere mention of not eating meat is addressed? The reactions don’t add up. I don’t get it. If you visit that link and scroll down to the bottom to the comments area you will notice two asshats signed into the site specifically to leave those two lame ass comments. One mentions he is happy the UPS man arrived with his Omaha steaks and the other idjit took the time for this lovely commentary,

Eliminating meat from one’s OWN diet is a *choice* adults are entitled to make. There is no such entitlement allowing some to make that choice for others, and CERTAINLY no right to force others to comply. God didn’t give humans our twelve pointy teeth for leaves, and I for one intend to keep using them for their natural purpose as long as I have them.

I see this time and time again on various sites and blogs. People (who probably normally don’t even comment otherwise), FEEL THIS ABSOLUTE NEED to shout out that they don’t want to be forced to not eat meat, and in the process show supremely ignorant they truly are.

No one is forcing anyone to do anything. I read that article and nowhere is the writer forcing and or demanding that people go vegetarian. It is a choice, like any other. And one that cant be forced. I didn’t become a vegetarian, because someone FORCED me to. I did it of my own free will.

If you see an article or site or blog that is of a vegetarian nature and you don’t want to stop eating meat, why are you there? Why do you bother leaving dumb, inappropriate and completely unnecessary comments on said articles. Go to meat.com instead

Is it because you know that killing millions of animals every year, excuse the fuck out of me, correction BILLIONS of animals every year for your precious Omaha steaks has given you a guilty conscience? Yeah, i think that explains the anger and BS that comes out of asshats like the two in the article above.

RANT OVER

Visit the official Meat Out website for a brief history of the day, more recipes ideas and to see how others from around the globe celebrate.

Happy Meat Out Day! (and happy spring)

image via Nature Muffin

25th Annual Meat Out, 2 Asshats and A Rant is from groovy vegetarian