{"id":1170,"date":"2019-12-01T13:47:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T21:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2019-12-01T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T22:44:23","slug":"my-almost-year-of-eating-almost-meatlessly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"My (almost) year of eating (almost) meatlessly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On January 1, 2019, I stopped eating meat. It has been far easier than I expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For one thing, I still eat dairy products, eggs, and fish, although I may work on reducing my intake from those groups. For another thing, we are living in a Golden Age of Fake Meat. If, like me, you&#8217;re the kind of meatless eater who still craves meatlike foods from time to time, they are more available, and better, than they&#8217;ve ever been. I&#8217;ve enjoyed umami-rich, burgerlicious meals with Impossible and Beyond burgers, in addition to eating black-bean burgers and other vegetarian meat alternatives. I&#8217;ve even learned to cook Smart Bacon in a way that almost kinda makes it taste like bacon, or at least act like bacon in a sandwich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One exception to the meat-free life occurred early and accidentally, when, after working out, I picked up my semi-regular post-gym deli sandwich, brought it home, and ate it, only to realize later that, um, it was a turkey sandwich. (Since that slip-up, I&#8217;ve found a new deli regular; it leans heavily on cheese, avocado, aioli, and Mama Lil&#8217;s peppers.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other exception was deliberate, and just this past week: sublime roast turkey at my friends&#8217; Thanksgiving dinner. I will probably always make an exception for holiday turkey, if I know and respect the source. It&#8217;s just a whole thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 1, 2019, I stopped eating meat. It has been far easier than I expected. For one thing, I still eat dairy products, eggs, and fish, although I may work on reducing my intake from those groups. For another thing, we are living in a Golden Age of Fake Meat. If, like me, you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}