For the Earth Month Challenge I am going Vegetarian. For the first week, I plan to do meatless Monday and Friday, the Friday included because I have been doing it for Lent for the past few weeks so it won’t be difficult. The second week I plan to add Wednesday to that list to make it every other day meatless. Then, for the third week I will do weekdays are meatless, but I can still have some on the weekends and then for the final week I will do an entire week vegetarian. The first week won’t be that hard because it is two days and I am already used to no meat on Fridays. The only challenge for that is remembering that I can’t have meat on Monday. For the second week, I think remembering will still be an issue for Wednesday and thinking more about what I am going to have now that my options have decreased because before I could have anything on the menu, but now I’m limited. Once we get into the third week I think the difficulties increase because I am used to having some sort of meat in at least one if not two meals a day so to have no meat in any of my meals for 5 days in a row, it might be tough. I might be craving meat, but I won’t be able to have any. The final week will obviously be the toughest because I will go an entire week without meat. Some of the challenges I think I’ll face is having to spend think more frequently about what I am going to eat for each meal and figure out where I am going to get it, like if there are enough vegetarian options at Morrill commons or if I’ll have to walk to the RPAC to get something.
Some of the resources I will utilize is Katie and all my other vegetarian friends for ideas on what to eat and motivation when I might be craving a chicken thigh or salmon. I will also utilize morning star because I already eat some of their patties, but I might get tired of them after a few weeks. I will also use some of the websites I researched for places to go on the weekend of the final week for a change in options available to me. I could try going during the week but it might be hard with classes and homework. I might try to use one of the websites and make a meal during the week, possibly Thursday when I have more time.