Hi. My name is Maureen, and I’m a Reducetarian
My older daughter was home for three weeks over the holiday. She’s a vegan, and so we adapted our menus to accommodate.
It was an interesting experience – difficult because I have food allergies and sensitivities that make it difficult for me to eat only vegan. But I love vegetables, and I prefer meals that focus on wonderful vegetables, so we found a way to manage, more or less.
I’ve been looking for vegetarian recipes I can eat, and now can add vegan recipes. And I’m much more inspired – the food is so good, and so healthy, and I’m quite happy to eat less and less meat.
Now I discover there’s a name for that – Reducetarian – for people who don’t want to or can’t go all-out vegetarian or vegan, but want to reduce their meat consumption, for environmental, ethical or health reasons. And because it tastes so good.
When my children were small I learned about burping babies, and french-braiding wildly curly hair, and putting really straight hair into buns, and sewing costumes (a half-tutu was my piece de resistance).
Now we’ve moved on to being challenged to eat vegan, to understand LGBTQ issues (Quiltbag), to have a much broader view of feminism (for my kid’s generation, it’s about equality for all). And it’s fascinating. Bring it on!
Maureen